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Enough said here! Add whatever items to the list that you feel apply. The stability that is the strength of the United States (and world stability) has been rocked these last few weeks. Two of the issues on the list are hardly being addressed (Katrina and Finding the WMD or Weapons of Mass Destruction). The rise of Japan, a principal economic rival of the United States, was based on educating its people. The United States has never succeeded in doing that at the same, high level. African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native-Americans have been left behind. Caucasians, too, have been left behind in rural and impoverished communities around our nation. There are actually more Caucasians who have not finished high school than African-Americans.

Adults who have not finished high school can look back at the mistakes they have made that prevented them from earning a diploma (high school or GED). Many of these youth played football in the kingdom of football in Texas and in school programs in other states. Many played basketball in our inner cities in Detroit, Philadelphia, and New York and in programs like that around the country. Young baseball players have seen their hopes and dreams fade as their final baseball season winds down and graduation does not happen. These youth gave so much to their schools, attained popularity and fame, but achieved no diploma. Hip hop, with its rhymes and beats, has left lots of people behind who thought they would achieve the lifestyle of the rich and famous and had to learn those important critical words I did not graduate when asked the question “What school did you graduate from?”

The annual dropout is either 1.1 or 1.2 million (depending on what you read) and with the economic disaster that has struck us this figure may reach 2 million or more, making America’s future even worse. What separates most of the 40 million who have never finished school from a better life, job, and higher education is a diploma. A small amount of money, time to study and not much time for many, and a step forward are needed to get the GED.

I do not see any sense of urgency from Barack Obama or John McCain. Perhaps the educational crisis facing Americans in this great economic downturn has filtered through yet. The final debate has ended and nothing new has been presented by both candidates. America’s GED HOTLINE is here to help you and your community. The point that Barack Obama made about “Joe the Plumber” about looking back five years and not having lower taxes is okay, but millions of people have to look back five years back and see that they could have been better off working somewhere else or for the same company with a job that pays more but requires a diploma. There are also lots of small business owners that have a wife that is working who needs that better job and that diploma could go a long way to help out.

I just found out something about the GED in Puerto Rico by receiving an email from someone in Puerto Rico. Prior to 2004 in Puerto Rico, testers who failed the GED received this information and this went on for years. The recommendation was for the test taker to take over each part where the score was 45 or less. This recommendation is not what I tell people and I can see why so many more people ended up failing the GED in Puerto Rico because of it. I just told the young woman who took and failed the GED in 2000 that my recommendation to her would have been for her to take the entire test over and not just the three parts where she got 45 or less. She needed 25 more points and we teachers of GED know that the likelihood of earning an average of 8.5 in the three subjects is usually not what occurs. People tend to go up a point or two or three (if they do go up) and that is why test takers need better instruction, counseling, and assessments in order to pass. Puerto Rico’s GED disaster is clearly the result of its GED administration and its future has been damaged greatly by this fact alone. I have been writing about the fact that it requires people to pass the English part before issuing a diploma and I want this to end.

A Haitian just contacted me today who wants to take the GED in the Dominican Republic. Yes there is an office in Santo Domingo where that woman can take the GED in English and she needs GED help.

Administrators are hurting people in America and all over America. A Haitian also called me this morning and he has been studying English for only two years and nobody in Connecticut, the state where he resides and pays taxes, took the GED in French in that state last year. Rural areas of states like Arkansas must respond quickly to open GED testing sites as more youth dropout of school in that are far from their homes. The GED problem is not going to go away as long as administrators everywhere do not do the right thing.

WITH CHRISTMAS COMING I THINK OF ALL THOSE AMERICANS WHO KNOW ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS CAROL OR BROADWAY THEATER GOERS WHO HAVE SEEN LES MISERABLES AND ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE STUDIED AMERICAN HISTORY IN SCHOOL AND NOT APPLIED THE INFORMATION INTO A PLAN TO MAKE AMERICA A MUCH GREATER NATION. GIVE SOMEONE A GED PROGRAM FOR CHRISTMAS.

MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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