DC’s Ballou High: Illiterate Class-Skippers, and 100% Graduate and Somehow Get Into College

Not that I am advocating going to any public school factory for subversion of youth but this is where we are at in one school.

nprEd, Kate McGee: Brian Butcher, a history teacher at Ballou High School, sat in the bleachers of the school’s brand-new football field last June watching 164 seniors receive diplomas. It was a clear, warm night and he was surrounded by screaming family and friends snapping photos and cheering. Story here.