Is it possible to create a culture of failure?
My school is currently being asked to discover why the Freshman failure rate is so high. 1/3 of the Freshmen failed a class during their first semester in high school, and statistically speaking 30% of Freshmen who fail a course in their first high school year do not graduate. That is frightening!
In my department alone 1/4 of the Freshmen failed their first high school English class. Because of this, these students will either have to take an online equivalent (though they really aren’t), take a credit retrieval course after school, or repeat the failed course the next year (taking away an elective and doubling up on a subject with which they struggle). Read the rest of this entry »
