nkw1004 t1_j6kadk8 wrote on January 30, 2023 at 10:46 PM

New Britain only having ~50% of their high schoolers graduate in 2010 is wild

alyinct t1_j6kljny wrote on January 31, 2023 at 12:02 AM

New London here. Looks like our numbers used to be just as bad. Explains why my kindergartner’s school is so adamant about the kids coming to school even if they’re sick.

HealthyDirection659 t1_j6l93o3 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 2:56 AM

New Britain also has the lowest education spending per pupil in the state at around 13k per year.

wakinupdrunk t1_j6levvq wrote on January 31, 2023 at 3:42 AM

It's bad there, man. I don't mean necessarily that the kids are bad or anything like that, but I don't think I've ever been in a more bleak building in my life.

I briefly did some tutoring there in college and shadowed a couple teachers. It feels more like a prison than a school in almost all aspects of it.

QueenOfQuok t1_j6mpp18 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 12:49 PM

DID YOU KNOW that a great number of mid-20th-century high schools were designed by prison architects

theskyissooblue t1_j6n00m0 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 2:15 PM

The city is night and day different these days. Great work by the mayor for cleaning up the city and plenty of new developments downtown

Synapse82 t1_j6lizmg wrote on January 31, 2023 at 4:16 AM

> New Britain only having ~50% of their high schoolers graduate in 2010 is wild

Rules have changed, now you graduate no matter what, so data is skewed. Grads barely know their full name let alone write it.