New Hampshire Public School Drop Out Rates Soar Under Governor Hassan - Granite Grok

New Hampshire Public School Drop Out Rates Soar Under Governor Hassan

State of EducationA national organization that examines public school drop out rates has just graded New Hampshire.  We got an 86% (UL-Secret hand shake required).  That might sound good until you recall that Governor Maggie Hassan’s predecessor claimed the rate had dropped below 1%.  This means that under Maggie Hassan, Drop out rates have skyrocketed. (Why aren’t they reporting that?)

How?  Why? What happened?

One of the problems with Democrats plying language to create perception is that if you do not let everyone in on the scam, or someone from outside comes along and does not have the sense to propogate your deception further , the perception you worked so hard to foster can get away from you.  Put another way, the Lynch administration lied and now Democrat Maggie Hassan looks like a stooge.

I think we have established that Democrats lie.  Governor John Lynch was no different (Gay Marriage, parental Notification, broad-based taxes, Drop out rates).

In the case of drop out rates under Lynch, it was a manufactured lie, constructed with a linguistic flourish that changed the definitions of what a drop out was.

 At any point up to or after age 18, the student may exit the education system into any number of alternative which will not reflect negatively on the success of John Lynch or his program to achieve zero drop-outs by 2012.

The term ‘drop out’ has been changed at the state level for reporting purposes, excluding any number of ‘drop-outs’ from the data reported to national entities.  The new term is “Early Exit Non-Graduates.”  Early exit non graduates can exit into any of a number of alternatives and not be counted as drop outs.  While there has been a decrease, this is still the primary method by which drop out rates are being reduced in New Hampshire.

And by an administrative calculation designed to arrive at the most favorable number possible.  This is like renaming trees as something else to claim you have less of them.  Lynch is not the first or last politician to do that, nor is it a scheme limited to politics, but as a political exercise it has consequences for those who Kirk-walk behind you.

Maggie Hassan ‘inherited’ an advertised drop out rate under 1%.  It was advertised as a selling point for New Hampshire Democrats who were happy to hang from these imaginary coattails.  Now an outside group has come along to look at the data in all states, through a common lens, and they’ve produced a very different result from the Lynch Administration’s Leni Riefenstahl-esqe rainbows and unicorns fantasy drama “How The Lynch Saved Drop Outs.”

Upper and middle class kids graduate at a rate of about 91%.  Lesser income classifications are closer to 73%.  The average, according to the research group is 86%, a whopping 1300% decline under Governor Maggie Hassan.

It is doubly troubling for the class warfare, Government fixes all Democrats, that those students most in need are the ones most likely to walk away from their monopoly government education without getting a piece of paper from the state that says being an early-exit non graduate is the same thing as commencing in a gown on a stage so a public employee can hand you an increasingly meaningless piece of paper.

It’s all a scam, but in this instance it is one that another Democrat Governor has inherited from her Democrat predecessor, and any minute now we’ll be seeing the headlines splashed all over the states unbiased braodsheets.  Governor Lynch’s Drop out Rate under 1%, Governor Hassan’s Drop out rate soars to 14%…

…And, no we wont.

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