It’s Deeper Than You Think
BPL’s Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski are featured on the Huffington Post addressing a national crisis – school drop outs.
“In his State of the Union Address, President Obama gave special attention to education and particularly to the persistent problem of high school dropouts. This is not the first time that the president has used a major speech to highlight this problem. Back in February 2009, in a speech to the Joint Session of Congress, the president stated that dropping out “is no longer an option.” Sadly, however, it remains an option for many young people. With about 1.3 million young people leaving high school each year without a diploma, surely, as Linda, Willy Loman’s wife, said, “Attention must be paid,” to both the problem and to the young people themselves. . .”