Well, here is more good news from the Bush/Cheney White House. Get paid while serving in high school. Can't wait to get that car can you?

In 2006, we witnessed the Republican disaster called "No Child Left Behind" and the fall in SAT scores for the first time in modern American history.

Accompanied by the highest drop out rates in the nation at any point in time from coast to coast.

In several of the largest school systems across the country -- from Baltimore to Cleveland to Atlanta and Oakland, Calif. -- half of the students are dropping out. (click here)

NOW, the competition for college is declining.

This is my country? No. This is the Bush/Cheney/McCain Neocon War Machine country where schools are penalized for poor performance forcing a decline in quality and unable to help raise standards. Anyone ever hear of remediation? That is what our schools need. Today, Kindergarten is simply a matter of a waiting long enough to drop out and join the military in desperation. Wow. Did I ever think I'd see the day in the USA?

Military widens door for dropouts (click here)

By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press
ANNVILLE, Pa. — Brittany Vojta survived boot camp. It was high school she couldn't make it through.
So the National Guard ran her through a program it started this year in Pennsylvania for privates who drop out of high school after having joined the military.
In an old barracks at Fort Indiantown Gap, the 18-year-old Cleveland woman and other dropouts spent three intensive weeks in class this summer to help them pass their GEDs — so they would meet the minimal educational requirement to remain in the Guard.
Straining to fill its ranks with the Iraq war in its fifth year, the military is taking on an ever-bigger role providing basic education to new recruits. It's a strategy that is potentially risky for the military as it strives to maintain the quality of its force, but one that's clearly giving dropouts like Vojta a second chance....