A few days ago a woman named Casey Anthony was acquitted of 1st degree murder charges in a Florida courtroom. Her attorney, Jose Baez, a former high school dropout, was the lead attorney in her acquittal. This is a quote from the HuffPost Crime: Anthony has been found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter, [...]
I am sad to report a huge teacher and principal scandal in Atlanta, Georgia during the last decade. The educational scandal in Atlanta is all the more hurtful because Atlanta had been acclaimed during this last decade for its amazing test score improvements. This cheating took place in the grade schools and high schools. It [...]
Are you a high school dropout? Do you want to be on a new MTV reality show? Keep reading. MTV’s New Reality Dropout Show Apparently, MTV is considering a high school dropout reality show. Since I don’t watch MTV I decided to look up some of their most popular programs. They are: Teen Mom 16 [...]
I’m currently writing an ebook named How to Pass the GED test (I’ll be selling it on this website in less than a month.) And in that process I found a disturbing statistic from 2009. 1 out of 100 High School Dropouts Pass the GED Test Don’t take my word for it, read what the [...]
Last Sunday, driving home an hour after church on Milwaukee Avenue, I found myself in the middle of a traffic jam. It was the Schurz High School graduation for 2011 at Addison and Milwaukee Avenue on Chicago’s northwest side, in my neighborhood. Congratulations to Schurz High School Graduates of 2011 I wish Schurz’s new high school [...]
When World War II came, nobody complained when high school dropouts volunteered and went to war. In a Crisis, Nobody Cares about your Degree It’s Memorial Day this Monday. I’ll be driving from Mount Pulaski, IL to Chicago, IL that day. But I since I write about high school dropouts and the GED, I remembered [...]
“Is GED embarrassing?” What an interesting question. Why did you ask it? My child wants to get a GED and I feel embarrassed Are you the parent of a high school dropout? Perhaps all the other teenagers you know earned a high school degree. Do you feel embarrassed because your teenager wants to get a GED? [...]
Today this blog had its 10,000th visitor. Most likely, it was a high school dropout looking for help in passing the GED. My first visitors came March 30, 2010. Actually, there were 3 visitors that day. These days, it’s not uncommon to have 100 unique visitors to this web page every day. 7000 Dropouts a [...]
Is your son thinking of dropping out of high school? Perhaps I can help. I’m the parent of two successful kids that graduated from high school, finished college recently, and are delightful young people. Having said that, even my kids gave me some scares in high school. So I know what it’s like to be [...]
GED Attitudes on the Internet I answered a question about this on Yahoo. One young lady wrote: I’m wondering why people who have a GED are looked down on because they don’t have a high school diploma. People with a GED can do just as good (and sometimes better) than people with a high school [...]
