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A Pulaski County Special School District High School is struggling to keep kids in the classroom long enough to graduate.

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itsjustme - 10/4/2012 7:54 AM

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The Leader is where FOX 16 recruits its reporting skills from. It is a joke Yankee. I agree that the coaches use to be the parents, but that isnt the case these days. If Jacksonville ever gets its own school district, I think those numbers will go up some. PCSSD is full of idiots and they dont care about the kids.

ArkansasYankee - 10/4/2012 5:06 AM

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bat is right on the money! I know a sweet lady that I used to work with. Her son quit school because he aleady knew everything. Now, he floats from job to job; quitting some and being fired at others, and because his mother can't support him, he floats from place to place with no real prospects for the future. It makes me wonder how many more like him are out there.

bat102 - 10/4/2012 1:50 AM

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What a wast of our tax payers $$$ these kids know more than the teachers,parents and they don't want to go to school so why break our back and try to make them ,these kids have a I don't care attatiude.

ArkansasYankee - 10/3/2012 10:41 PM

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The Leader? It's a 3rd rate rag, with 3rd rate reporters and editors. Many years ago, we went to a KKK rally in Cabot. I just wanted to see the fools. The editor interviewed me. He completely and totally misquoted me, and fabricated things I supposedly said; for what purpose - I've no idea. The paper made me look like I was there supporting the fools. Trust the Leader if you wish; but I know better through personal experience!

Forreal - 10/3/2012 10:26 PM

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This was in the "Leader online on July 10th, 2012 in an article about the principal. It stated that graduation rates are way up. Only 15 of 166 seniors failed to earn diplomas this year. http://arkansasleader.blogspot.com/2012/07/top-storyprincipal-is-walking-tall-at.html. What am I missing here?

ArkansasYankee - 10/3/2012 10:05 PM

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Jax has a 57% graduation rate. Disgusting. I just checked my old high school up in IL; the last 8 years the graduation rate has been between 80 and 90%. Pretty close to the percentage of white's that go to school there. 86 plus % white, 3 plus % black, 7 plus % Hispanic. Conclusion? ricky; I agree with you 100 %; but it's been a long long time since I've driven by a construction site and seen a white or black carpenter. Seems like they all come from south of the border now.

ArkansasYankee - 10/3/2012 9:50 PM

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How are you going to "make" someone do something they don't want to do? No Child Left Behind was/is a bunch of manure.

ricky wages - 10/3/2012 9:49 PM

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were does it say all kids want to go to collage we need welders,auto mechanics,plumbers an carpenters plus a lot more that don't require a collage education teach the kids how to make a living

arkansashawk - 10/3/2012 8:42 PM

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Remember when the graduation coaches were the parents.

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