Rhetoric

I was reading the attached article when I read this quote from our Mayor:


Villaraigosa said dropout rates are one of the factors he will look at with his partnership schools. "We are going to track the dropout rates and focus on what it takes to keep kids in school. Our goal is to graduate every student and see them go on to college."

Yeah, and my goal is to win the lottery.
We here at TCI have yet to understand why the Mayor would want the albatross of LAUSD hanging anywhere on him. But since he decided to embark on this challenge of reform, his goals aren't quite realistic.

Every child going to college is unrealistic and impractical. If it were to happen, how much would it cost to go to USC? The better option for the District & Mayor to consider is implementing teaching these students a trade. What happened to schools teaching auto-mechanics and wood shop? The reason these subjects were taught, it was understood that not every student would go on to college and in order to be able to take care of yourself, students would have to have some type of skill.

Auto-mechanics and wood shop would be a good start. But it is 2008, what about culinary, computer graphics, cosmetology, child development, and office technology classes. I hope what the Mayor was thinking, trade schools and community colleges.