Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Your insides are getting a massage? OK, not a silver lining.
I'm watching this Frontline 'Dropout Nation' and I swear to god, FNL may not have based Tammy Taylor off this dean/counselor, they sure could have. Attitude, mannerisms, dedication, the way she talks to kids. Connie Britton even looks a lot like her. A lot of the other educators have the same skill and rapport with the kids, she's just a ringer for Tammy in so many ways.
Not going to watch Dropout Nation as I live it, but I'm curious. Has the dropout rate changed dramatically? If so from what to what?
Good luck, Consuela!
Kat, I hope things get better for you quickly
ION, thank G-D for ThermaCare patches and a TENS unit at home. Stupid period.
They pointed out that the numbers (in HISD specifically) are incredibly convoluted and opaque. This is more following 4 students and the interventions at this specific school than a numbers show. But here's an article from PBS with links about the Apollo 20 program at [link] It saw gains the first year.
Dropout Nation is part of a big CPB American Graduate initiative, fyi. I don't think there are any drastic changes going on, but part of what I heard last night is that the numbers are really hard to get, because different people count things differently, and districts try to keep the dropout numbers as low as possible.
I hab a code. And I think I won't go to work tomorrow. On the plus side, I did go to the Red Sox game, and it was fun! They had players from the 2004 team there, and we saw them outside, and one threw me a little baseball because I waved at him like a dork instead of screaming like other people were doing. We had a Moment. Good times.
I actually think the dropout rate (in real terms, whatever that means, whether it's kids enrolled in 9th who don't graduate or kids enrolled in 12th who don't) has probably decreased. Legislation now legally keeps kids in school longer (in CA it's until 18 not 16) and there are fewer blue collar jobs. Probably in the past 70 years it's gone down. Just not enough. (College grad rates have also gone up in that time frame, to over 25% which is still mindboggling that a college degree is still a minority).
I'm not in a good headspace today.
I think the definitions are part of the conundrum. OTOH, I heard that the rate of started-but-failed-to-graduate college has gone up in the US in comparison to the rest of the world. On NPR somewhere. Waving hands.
Kat, Hubby had the shockwave lithotripsy many years ago. It went easily, until the hospital we were in closed the recovery wing he was in without checking that there was anyone still in there. But he got a t-shirt out of it!
Yeah, unsurprisingly, dropout rates on the reservation are exponentially worse than the norm.
Kat, you have had a seriously shit month.
OK, this Tammy Taylor-clone totally moved one of her students into her house after he asked.