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No, just bunch of stupid NIggers and Mexicans.

In Your Dreams wrote:

>    ( no excuse for this, for all the wealth Texas has to its name.. )
>   ( take a bow Ron Paige, Rick Perry, and the 'Edjumucation' president )
>
>    June 30, 2004, 4:57AM
>
>    Texas graduation rate worst in nation, again
>
>    By JASON SPENCER
>    2004 Houston Chronicle
>
>    For the second straight year, Texas has the lowest percentage of high
>    school graduates in the nation, according to a U.S. Census Bureau
>    study released Tuesday. Texas high school graduates
>
>    Seventy-seven percent of Texans age 25 and older had a high school
>    degree in 2003, the same percentage as a decade earlier, when Texas
>    ranked 39th in the country. So while other states have seen their
>    graduation rates improve -- a record 85 percent of Americans have high
>    school degrees -- Texas is treading water.
>
>    The results could be harmful to the state's economy as less educated
>    people enter the work force, the state demographer said.
>
>    "The downside is Texas could be less competitive," said Steve Murdock
>    at the Texas State Data Center at the University of Texas-San Antonio.
>    "It could be poorer because we know educational attainment is the best
>    predictor of income."
>
>    In 2002, the average high school dropout earned less than $19,000,
>    compared with more than $27,000 for the typical graduate, according to
>    the study.
>
>    Texas' graduation rate is worst among Hispanics, the state's
>    fastest-growing population. Barely half of Texas' 4.3 million
>    Hispanics age 25 and older have a high school degree, according to the
>    report.
>
>    Omar Garza, a 27-year-old shoveling asphalt Tuesday with a road repair
>    crew on Texas Avenue, said he regrets dropping out of Rosenberg's
>    Lamar High School. He earns $8 an hour.
>
>    "I needed one more semester to graduate," said Garza, who left Mexico
>    for Texas as a teen. "I would like to finish. I don't want to do this
>    all my life."
>
>    Garza said he quit school partly because he didn't want to take
>    classes in English as a second language. National high school
>    graduates
>
>    "I also met a girl, and you know how it is," he said. "We fell in love
>    and started having kids."
>
>    In the Houston Independent School District, where 57 percent of the
>    211,000 students are Hispanic, administrators believe that as many as
>    40 percent of the city's students never graduate. In May, HISD called
>    together 350 residents with various backgrounds to offer solutions to
>    the problem. A task force is reviewing those suggestions.
>
>    Immigrant students present a particularly difficult challenge for
>    Texas schools, said Debbie Graves Ratcliffe, spokeswoman for the Texas
>    Education Agency. Even so, Texas' graduation rate has increased every
>    year for the past decade, she said.
>
>    Other states with large immigrant populations also found themselves
>    near the bottom of the list. California ranked 42nd, New York came in
>    at 36th and Florida was 35th.
>
>    The numbers are skewed, Ratcliffe said, by those who come to the state
>    as adults with no education.
>
>    "We have large immigration from Mexico and Central America and that's
>    influencing those numbers," she said.
>
>    That influx, however, doesn't entirely account for the gap between
>    Texas' Hispanics and Anglos, 91 percent of whom graduated high school,
>    said Marma "Cuca" Robledo Montecel, director of the Intercultural
>    Development Research Association in San Antonio. The nonprofit
>    research organization founded in 1973 monitors Texas' dropout
>    prevention efforts.
>
>    "Nationally 85 percent of young people under 18 who are Hispanic are
>    born in the U.S.," Montecel said. "The issue of dropouts is an issue
>    of how well schools in the state are able to educate Latino students
>    rather than a question of immigration. It is in our schools. That's
>    where we need to focus."
>
>    Socorro Herrera, who teaches at one of two Community Family Centers
>    that help primarily Hispanics, said many of her students are Spanish
>    speakers.
>
>    Herrera said she sees three reasons why students enter GED programs at
>    the southeast Houston center on Avenue E.
>
>    "First, there is the language barrier and they want to learn English.
>    Then there are students who just cannot pass the graduation tests.
>    Third, they have personal problems like pregnancies or other matters,"
>    Herrera said.
>
>    Loucious Windom, 21, said he got his GED through the Houston Community
>    College a year ago after realizing he wants to become a teacher. He
>    had dropped out of Benji's Academy Charter School in Houston.
>
>    "I had it in my mind that I'd never have a chance to catch back up. I
>    was the oldest kid in my school," Windom said. He now works in the
>    children's museum cafe, earning $6.75 an hour. "I just got tired of
>    sitting at home. I wanted to be a teacher and I knew I had to have
>    some kind of diploma and I made my mind up to get it."
>
>    Chronicle reporter Jo Ann Zuqiga contributed to this story.
>    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/topstory/2654323
>      _________________________________________________________________
>
> George W. Bush consistently failed in everything at which his father
> excelled. He got poor grades at the same schools where his father did
> well, and was a disaster in the same industry (oil) where his father made
> his fortune. His father was a varsity athlete; George W. had to settle for
> the cheerleading squad. His father was a fighter pilot in World War II;
> George W. was a desultory member of the Texas Air National Guard.
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