Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Lost in the numbers

Someone please explain this to me. When the school board voted to renew/extend Scales contract, I lost count of the number of times he or one of his cronies mentioned the increasing graduation rate under his watch.

'“Dr. Scales believes in providing a quality education for all children and works diligently toward that goal. Our student scores continue to improve, our dropout rate is going down and we are graduating more students,” Vice Chairman Wilson said in the memo. ' courtesy of chattanoogan.com, 'Wilson Asks New 4-Year Term For Dr. Scales posted June 4, 2008'

Now today on the chattanoogan.com, we here the judges giving a different view. Our (hamilton county) graduation rate is about 10% lower than the state average. So if our current situaiton is so dismal, what was it a year or 2 ago? Look at the chattanoogan.com opinion page for a new post from yours truly asking for an explanation.

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