Only 5% of Rochester City School Grads Prepared for College

What if a business had a 95% failure rate? Do you think customers should be forced to subsidize it? Should it continue putting out its product.

Even if we want to be charitable and argue that the 95% number is unfair as not everyone is really college material ... the Rochester City School District has a graduation rate of approx. 50%. That's not 50% with Regents diplomas, that's just 50% they were able to push through the doors. Can you image how many of those diplomas are essentially fraudulent for practical purposes?

The RCSD's motto? "Every child is a work of art. Create a masterpiece."

State: Only 5% of RCSD Grads Prepared for College - Rochester, News, Weather, Sports, and Events - 13WHAM.com: "Rochester, N.Y. – A state study shows less than half of students who graduate from high school are ready for college. The state education department data, first reported in the New York Times, shows that 41 percent of students who got diplomas in 2009 were prepared for college. In Rochester, the picture was bleak, with only 5 percent of students prepared for college. That’s the lowest rate of the state’s cities."

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