Tag: Schools

The next epidemic could be home grown

Measles is wildly contagious, can linger in air for hours, and kills 1/1000 it infects. It also kinda resets your immune system so you can get sick from everything you’ve been sick from again, like you are a toddler in preschool

Interestingly, in a 1990 SC case that denied religious freedoms to Native Americans and privileged the rights of the gov’t, *Scalia,* the darling of conservatives, says religious beliefs don’t give ppl the right to reject “compulsory vaccination laws.”

The rest of the world stares in disbelief.

https://www.unicef.org/health/childhood-diseases

Meanwhile Russia persuades Americans to become anti-vaxers.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2022-02-25/heres-what-putins-disinformation-war-looks-like-on-the-internet

Putin’s Long War Against American Science
by William J. Broad


A decade of health disinformation promoted by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sown wide confusion, hurt major institutions and encouraged the spread of deadly illnesses.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/9357/

Only 1 of 2 students graduate high school in US cities

Only 1 of 2 students graduate high school in US cities: study
Only about one-half (52 percent) of students in the principal school systems of the 50 largest cities complete high school with a diploma.”

Based on 2003-2004 data, the report said that across the country the graduation average for public school students is 69.9 percent, with the best success rate in suburbs — 74.9 percent — and rural districts — 73.2 percent.

Asian-Americans score the highest graduation rate, at 80 percent, with whites at 76.2 percent and Hispanics at 57.8 percent. Women graduate at a much higher rate than men, 73.6 percent to 66.0 percent.

In the country’s city schools, the study found that in urban areas generally, just 60.4 percent graduate, and in the principal school districts of the top 50 cities, barely half graduate. Detroit, Michigan’s main school district scored a graduation rate of 24.9 percent. New York, the country’s largest city, has a graduation rate for its main school district of 45.2 percent, and Los Angeles, the second largest, of 45.3 percent.