Looking at race alone, these rates still remain the highest for those who are Hispanic (8% in 2018), Black (6.4%), Pacific Islander (8.1%), and American Indian or Alaskan Native (9.5%). In terms of race, the statistics provided by the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) show that the dropout rates for all people have been decreasing across the board, but they still show that a number of the most marginalised students are dropping out at higher rates. The overwhelming majority of students who leave school often fit one or more of those demographics. It has a lot to do with our society being racist, ableist, xenophobic, homophobic, and classist. If you take some time to investigate the dropout rates for different demographics, it starts to become pretty clear why people see a so-called “lack of schooling” as being ‘bad’ and ‘disqualifying’. (When they complain about losing in the future, remind them of these behaviours.) Strange how they know so little about something as they denounce it while proclaiming that this is the reason a horrible Congressperson shouldn’t have the position she now holds.Īnyway, it seems the hills they plan to die on are elitism and alienation. I’ve seen people say that it’s “not requirement on the GED test to know the branches of government” (despite the fact that 50% of the social studies exam is civics and government ). Rather than actually point out how she’s dangerous and harmful to an overwhelming majority of people across the planet (but especially in the United States), they’ve honed in on something about her life that she shares in common with millions of other people.Īmusingly, many of these people have failed to even look up what content knowledge is required to pass a GED exam. None of them include her level of schooling, which tells us nothing about her (without her contextualising it, and I wouldn’t necessarily trust her considering she’s been caught lying about why she was arrested, and I don’t trust liars ).īut instead of critiquing those things about her, I’ve been inundated with liberals and self-proclaimed “progressives” who have decided to make fun of her for obtaining a GED this summer. She espouses harmful beliefs that are dangerous for an incredible number of people, which the national media seemed to overlook or gloss-over up until this past week when it suddenly became relevant (to them).Īs you can see, she has many things that she can be rightfully criticised for. She’s supported QAnon in the past before she deleted relevant social media accounts to run for Congress. Oh, the other people who knew about her nationally? QAnon researchers. And in her GOP primary, she challenged five-term Republican Representative Scott Tipton and won. Despite being a ‘law and order’ sort of candidate (a type of candidate I despise from any party), she has shown repeatedly that she believes the laws don’t apply to her (which is highly hypocritical but not unsurprising for a white woman). Prior to the elections in November (and the attempted self-coup in January), if people across the US did know about her, it was likely due to the fact that she refused a cease-and-desist order to close her restaurant under Governor Jared Polis’s ‘safer at home’ order. Unfortunately for us, Lauren Boebert is a recently elected Republican member of the US House of Representatives from Colorado’s 3rd district. It’d be nice if they recognised that a lot of this is because of so many structural factors that make the required schooling difficult to obtain for people and not because of any assumed “deficiency” in intelligence, whatever that’s supposed to mean.īut that’s not going to happen this week, as more people wake up to the fact that Lauren Boebert has a job in Congress and completed her GED over the summer. Seriously, it would be nice to go one day this week without feeling so much contempt for the people who know nothing about why people drop out of schools or why people get GEDs instead of regular high school diplomas. I’m seriously exhausted from the number people I’ve had to deal with who were equating “just got a GED” (General Educational Development certificate) or “dropped out of high school” with “not intelligent enough to have a job.”
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