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thanks for starting to respond more seriously, but I just don't understand and would like your further clarification. You call them pre-prison but what does th

thanks for starting to respond more seriously, but I just don't understand and would like your further clarification. You call them pre-prison but what does the "few dozen" of them going on to college mean? Prisons don't produce college diplomas, so what is that figure? I am totally confused. Please direct your attention to the cited figure of a few dozen of each of these schools going on to college. That is not anywhere near 0.

linkmotif 9y ago
So college in the US is overwhelmingly just more of high school. Also 50% of people who go to college drop out. Being college bound doesn't mean anything. Especially if you are a URM and even more so from a place like one of these schools. People are anxious to give these people a chance and some opportunity to succeed, which I think is great but doesn't mean they are prepared for college. At least not what college used to be. College really is just more high school, or what high school used to be. There are remedial algebra and English courses in college. People I know with college degrees don't know the difference between their and there and definitely can't articulate thoughts in writing. That's the situation in the US in 2017. Unless you graduate from a top college, college just means to went to high school twice. Even top schools are full of basically illiterate people who are just wealthy. Ask them to write something and you'll get a bunch of gibberish. I'm not exaggerating. It's pretty sad.