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Old 07-26-2007, 01:50 AM   #47
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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon View Post
I call bullshit.

There's a whole class of kids that are dealt out of the system before they can even apply for Pell Grants.

Their elementary schools don't prepare them for junior high, they're unprepared for high school, if they finish high school (in the OKC public schools, 50% drop out), they're unprepared for college.

At which point there did they decide they didn't want a college education?
You can go to community college with a GED. And they have remedial classes to boot. If you can't progress beyond that, maybe you don't belong in college?
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