Denver Post reporter jeremy P. Meyer reports that John Hopkins University has just completed a study of the 3,657 students who dropped out of Denver schools in the 2006-07 school year. What were the red flags? Getting Fs (77%) and chronic absence from school (60%) in the ninth grade. 61% missed more than than 20 days of school in the year before they dropped out.
Meyer does not say how much money taxpayers shelled out for the study. It seems like someone could have figured out those red flags before the study. And, what is wrong with Colorado's universities? The Denver Public Schools had to go all the way to Baltimore, Maryland to find a university who could do the study?
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Studies seem to be the lifeline of liberals. They just can't comprehend the idea that basic common sense will give you the answer every time.
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