Public schools are notorious for failing to deliver quality education and then splicing and dicing the statistics until they come up with one positive way of expressing the data.
And so the faculty and staff of Erwin Middle School received a plaque and breakfast for being the first recipient of the Graduation Initiative Compass Award. It is a variation of the old theme: Create a program to raise awareness, say “teams†thirty times, and present an award. In October, Erwin High was labeled by a Johns Hopkins study as a Dropout Factory. Only 53% of freshmen stomach the diversity training, revisionist history, Marxist dogma, and anger management to graduate. Not to worry that the program has not been in place long enough to gauge its impact. What matters is that it feeeeels good.
