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The Summerville News, J anuary 2, 1992
SRR IV VIR ANOWS,
Dropout Rankings
1989-90
1. 8r00k5..... 11.9
2. Hogansville, 11.7
3. Murray..... 10.9
4. Dawson .... 10.8
5.C00k....... 10.7
6. G0rd0n..... 10.6
7. 8art0w..... 10.0
Lumpkin ... 10.0
8. Gilmer ...... 9.7
9. Spalding..... 9.6
10. Jackson ..... 9.5
(16) Chattooga... 8.8
Crawford.... 8.8
Cri5p....... 88
BN Dropout Numbers
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1988-89 14
1989-90 “ 8
1990-91 97 Q
Rate Rises
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8.8 {)ercent in 1989-90.
n January, 1991,
Superintendent Hayes thought
that the programs initiated by
Tom Keating, an Atlanta
education consultant, had been
partly the cause of a decrease
in the dropout rate. He also
said then that more personal
attention by teachers had
helged, as had a better system
wide method of tracking
students.
“SAFE SLIDE”
He had ex})ected Keating's
so-called ‘“Safe Slide” summer
program in 1990 to improve
the system’s dropout rate in
1990-91. The rate increased in
stead of deelining.
- Chattooga has also install
ed a night school for students
to help them get back on track
toward graduation.
“It seems like everything
we try, it %oes well for awhile
and well, I don't know what
happens to it . .. " Superinten
dent Hayes said. ‘I don’t know
the answer to the problem.”
Workshops, seminars and
meetings he has attended on
the subject seem to sugfest
that the changing nature of the
family is resgonsxble, at least in
pa;é:, for the decline, Hayes
said.
Instead of families having
two parents, many now have
only one resident parent, who
must work to support the
children, he said. Even when a
home has two resident Earents,
both often have to work to sur
vive economically, he added.
INVOLVEMENT
There will be increased em
phasis statewide as well as in
Northwest
I Georgia
Dropout Rates
Grades 8-12 K-12
Cat005a...... 7.2 2.6
Chattooga.... 9.8 3.3
Chickamauga. 1.3 0.6
Dade......... 6.3 2.6
Da1t0n....... 48 1.7
F10yd........ 49 138
Gordon ...... 8.7 3.2
nome ........ 9.1 3.9
Tri0n......... 1.9 07
Wa1ker....... 89 2.9
Whitfield..... 5.3 1.9
School Dropout Statistics
812 Kl 2 [Bl2 K-12| 812 K-12
1985-86 53 2.1
1986-87 m Rbiod
1988-89 56 22
1989-90 55 2.0
199091 |9B 33| 19 07| 51 18
1990-91
1. 8r00k5..... 15.3
2.C00k....... 14.0
3. Murray..... 13.2
4. Jackson .... 10.3
5. Spalding ... 10.2
6. 8art0w...... 9.9
7. Chattooga ... 9.8
Mclntosh.... 9.8
M0nr0e...... 9.8
8. Newton...... 9.6
9. Rome City ... 9.1
10. Walker ...... 8.9
Chattooga County on trying to
obtain more parental invo%ve
ment with the schools, the
superintendent said. For some
time, parents seem to have got
ten the idea that they weren’t
welcome in the schools, he add
ed, “‘and that's the furtherest
thing from the truth. Both
have to work together.”
Why is the county system’s
enrollment falling steadily?
“We have a population
that's becoming more senior
citizen and peop%e who are hav
ing children are not staying in
the county,” Hayes speculated.
The county is becoming more
of a retirement community
rather than a place of young
families, he adged. 4
Hayes said he. would per
sonally like to offer a General
Education Development
(GED) prgg;am in the ninth
grade, coordinated with a voca
tional program. It is a ‘‘fact”
of life that many teen-agers
must quit school to work, he
said, and the schools need to
provide a means for them to
obtain an education. However,
he has not met with success in
gett:in§l state officials who con
trol the GED program in
terested in that approach,
Hayes said.
“I'm oEen for any sugges
tions,” the superintendent
said.
HIGHEST
Brooks County on the
Florida line in South Georgia
posted the highest dropout
rate in Georgia during the
1990-91 school year. It was
15.3 Eercent. Brooks also had
the highest rate in 1989-90
with a gercentage of 11.9.
Gordon and Bartow coun
ties were in the top 10 in
1989-90. Bartow remained in
the top 10 during the past
school term, and the Walker
County and Rome city systems
broke into the top 10 as well.
MURRAY
Murrzg County in central
North eor%ia posted a
dropout rate of 13.2 percent in
1990-91. It was 10.9 percent in
1989-90. Murray County has
had the third hi?hest dropout
rate in Georgia for the second
consecutive school year. Mur
ray is also the home of one of
the state’s most highly lauded
and praised stay in school
programs.
hattooga tied Mclntosh
and Monroe counties for
seventh place on the list.
Monroe is in Central Georgia
while Mclntosh is on the
Ge%{;&l coast.
ile the Hogansville city
system was second on the list
in 1989-90, Cook County was
second in 1990-91. Cook is
located adg;acent to Brooks
County in South Georgia.
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