SC drop out Mills

This report is from the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation written by Brian J. Gottlob. This study was released by the Friedman Foundation and the SC Policy Council.
Research has documented a crisis in the in South Carolina's graduation rate. State officials report a graduation rate of about 70%, researchers from South Carolina and else where place the rate at just above 50% and among Minorities it is less than 50%.
South Carolina has the worst drop out rate in the nation.
The drop out number in 2006 was 30,000 students. After spending years in school, 30,000 did not graduate and this is more costly to the state of SC than it would have been if they had stayed in school.
South Carolina has 340,000 working age drop out and it is costing the state of SC $98,000,000 per year for the rest of their lives.
These estimates are just from 3 sources, lost revenue from taxes and fee's, increased Medicaid cost, and incarceration cost.
Each new class of drop outs produces public cost of $98 million per year.
Total cost of 4.9 Billion dollars over a life time of 50 years. End of quote.

I do not know how it is possible for a Monopoly to fail so miserably, it seems to me that if I owned the only store in town that sold screw drivers, then if anyone bought a screw driver they would have to buy it from me and how could I lose money? The Greenville school board wants to be the king of all decisions made for our children. They love the power they have over other people's lives and the idiots in the legislature just keep coasting along not making the necessary changes and letting the school board throw away millions of the tax payer’s money each year and the school keeps yelling WE NEED MORE MONEY. This is one of the myths that the people who are failing in their jobs use as an excuse for their failures.
South Carolina needs to have competition among the schools, similar to the way Florida started doing and it is working there.
Competition among the schools will produce more students who will be able to graduate than ever before.
The status quo is churning and turning out people with no hopes of a prosperous future and who can expect nothing more than a mediocre future by just scratching out a living or living off public assistance.


PS: CONGRATULATIONS TO DURAN FREE FOR GRADUATING WITH TOP HONORS (CUM LAUDE) AT USC UPSTATE!!! (OUR NEW NURSE!!!)

Thank you Dr. Barton, President of Greenville Technical College, for giving a young woman a chance to have a future in this ever turbulent life!!!