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Las Vegas: Improving Graduation

In a town where dropouts earn $50,000 per year parking cars, Las Vegas schools have devised unique programs to keep students on the diploma track.

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Its astonishing to learn of

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on May 30, 2007 - 21:19.

Its astonishing to learn of this fact, that in Las Vegas, without an education you can very quickly get a job that earns vast amounts of money which requires no higher thinking or understanding and no real vocational value.
I commend what this school and district are doing to combat this phenomenon and hope that politicians and other educators look up and take note that schools/education are not simply designed to create workers for the job market. It would appear that, especially in Las Vegas, they do not require an education to get a high paying, but low status job. If this continues and the concept that education is purely for jobs remains unchallenged, what would be the use of education at all?

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