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Graduation rates mean shit-all. Remember the Ballou High School scandal?

The low test scores are a tragic and objective measure that city leadership does not address with enough urgency.

To call them factories of crime or whatever is a dogwhistle.

Looks like a photo from a Encore tech table.

It’s almost like graduation requirements and standards aren’t the same across all places.

Strong words coming from the person who represents a state that incarcerates more people per 100k than any democracy on earth

Ive always wondered if there are any examples in dc of an aggressive homeless person stepping to the wrong pedestrian and getting their ass whooped. Not ideal but i feel like its had to happen

lol spot the lie though

Yes obviously when there’s a reasonable expectation of violence or if a person is a threat to themselves or others, 911 is always a good call. However the bigger point is that complaining on Reddit might be cathartic but it doesn’t actually solve any problems. If a person — homeless or housed — is behaving erratically and showing signs of a mental health crisis, do something that might actually get them help. Otherwise it’s just idle bitching that further stigmatizes mental illness and homelessness without making anyone’s life better.

$88/hr was the figure I saw. So more than I make as a consultant.

Dude is from Alabama, they're ranked #46 in education.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/alabama

is it really a dogwhistle? the public schools do suck. i lived next to one with a math proficiency rate of 3% and a reading proficiency rate of 5%. as far as being inmate factories, i don't think it's entirely fair to blame the schools when there are so many other problems (like entrenched poverty), but they definitely aren't helping very much

it is kind of nasty for an outsider to point this out though

This is such a lazy, ill-informed take.

If you are standing at the top of the metro station, travelling down, it was the escalator all the way to the right that was out of service for repairs. If you were standing in the station, travelling up, it would the escalator all the way to the left. I don't need any kind of explanations of the station or escalators, thank you though, I'm just taking a shot at obtaining pictures of that specific escalator, during that time.

In that case, DC should have a considerably higher graduation rate given wide parts of Alabama are rural and poorer….

No, but it is arguably Maryland’s center of political gravity and many of the politicians in Annapolis are representing parts of Baltimore or its suburbs. I think the argument is that DC and it’s suburbs would pull influence away from the Bmore politicos.

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¿Por Qué No Los Dos?

Yes I think so.

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No but it’s part of it

Don't local activists talk about the "school to prison pipeline" in DC all the time?

That’s what happens when you compare apples to oranges. A city vs. a whole state

Does he have very long hair? This guy's physical and behavioral description sound familiar to me. I'm up by 7th and Florida.

This article is about drivers of personal vehicles in the city, who we must all feel very sorry for because they MUST drive and have no other choice.

This is the lede of the article:

> Peak bloom may be over, but it’s not too late to have a headache driving in the nation’s capital while gazing at falling cherry blossom petals!