What’s better than your city being kicked out of VH1′s “Save the Music” program? When your city starts boasting it’s program that gears high school students toward college. Wow, what a great idea, encouraging kids to actually DO SOMETHING after high school. Who knew that’s what you should do? Oh that’s right, thousands of other kids who do it every year!
Apparently Cincinnati is a ghetto, the entire city is a ghetto, at least according to the article I read. It stated that only 70% of high school students in this country actually graduate (I need a statistic for Kentucky, you know, where education pays!). However, only 53% of students from low income areas actually graduate. Thus implying that this whole town is full of uneducated poor people. At least that’s what I got.
This program, “Project Grad” (that’s original guys), requires students and their parents to sign a contract that they will fulfill certain requirements. These requirements are pretty grand, it would be awfully tough to do these things, brace yourself it gets pretty rough. (If you’re easily offended stop here, reader discretion is advised).
Students must:
- attend class 93% of the time
- maintain a 2.5 GPA
- pass state exams
- attend 2 sessions on a college campus
- graduate high school in 4 years
Someone is kidding right? Is this a joke? You have to sign a contract that says you will go to class and graduate in 4 years? You are told to maintain a C+ average? For heaven’s sake, you have to pass the state exams to graduate!! I don’t see what Project Grad is going to accomplish, it’s not even a Band-Aid solution, just more smoke and mirrors from the Queen City.