Quote of the Day: “Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups.” Thomas Sowell
A good (but kinda sad) article today by Jeff Outhit regarding the grad rates for high school students in the Region. They fell in 2019 a percentage point to 84% from 85% in 2018. The rates are also below the overall Ontario rates of 87%. But I had a couple of questions after reading the article. First of all, he mentions the WRDSB (public) and the WCDSB (Catholic) rates of graduation, but does this also include all of the private schools in the area. I don’t believe it does. Why didn’t Outhit reach out the various schools and get their grad rates? I think that would be an interesting comparison. Also, why are we just now getting the rates for 2019? Shouldn’t these rates be available right after summer school and not 19 months later? If huge corporations can post their profit and loss statements to the world in a few weeks after each quarter, why does it take a school board over a year and a half to publish graduation rates? Silly.
I’m sure I’m not the only one sick of all of TheRecord reporters (like Josh Brown today) whining about working from home and not from their offices down on King Street East in Kitchener. Get a life…