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Bird added that the socalled basics don’t necessarily equip young people to cope as well as classes that foster communication skills. “Most people fail in life because they can’t get along with others, not because they can’t do math,” she said.
Teacher Lynne Baines told specific stories about cases she has seen during her 12 years with the system and blamed a great part of the problems on the lack of available adult education. “Most students derive their parents standards,” she said, “They don’t get incentive from teachers. ”
Unless parents are edu-. cated enough to help their children with assignments, the children wall generally fail, she said. “I was told when I came here that 50 percent of my seventh grade class would not graduate. I could predict by the second half of the semester as if with a crystal ball which ones.” While Baines says the system “has made great strides in the drop-out rate”, she told of a young woman she knew who was “trapped at the tender age of 26” because she had dropped out of school to marry. When her husband was suddenly killed in an accident, she didn’t have the money to return t« school to get the diploma she so badly needed to find work to support herself and two children.
Baines thinks the case is fairly typical of local high school drop-outs. “Their kids are in school now.” she
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