these males are rutting beasts

[cladking]

Very few colleges in the world have a 90% completion rate, especially if you use the four year formula. Just doesn't happen.

Really!?! I wasn't aware of that. I might have been making that last number up a little bit (as well as the first one). I distinctly remember a very high rate of going on to college but the others are more assumed from the discussion. The point was that these inner city kids from Houston who were held to high standards were not only succeeding in high school better than kids in most suburban schools but were continuing to excel in college.

I've known what the problem was since I was in school. It's much much worse now but unless a kid is self motivated now days he won't learn much. They've taken away bith the carrot and the stick and applied smiley faces to everything. Everyone passes, nobody's feeling get hurt and no child is left behind.

Who cares if no child can excell. The handicapper general is in our future.

...so it goes.