Posted By: steve d.  on Sunday, April 13, 2008

Ah yes, 'tis sad but true.  This growing number of under educated folks will not be employable.  They will drive, vote, borrow money, demand health care, demand solvent social security, and raise their many children to live the same life style.  Plus most will probably never pay their share of Federal Income Tax.  At the fall of the Roman Empire, something like 50% of the Roman citizens were unemployable and on the public dole.  Is our great society headed for a Roman like fall?  As long as we-the-people reward such irresponsible behavior, I believe this is the logical and unfortunate consequance.  

Posted By: Carl Wisnesky  on Sunday, April 13, 2008

Totally agree with the cartoon and with Steve d's comment.  This is the reason why the 3 presidential candidates all favor a move toward Socialism aka The Nanny State that will take care of all the uneducated by taking away (in the form of taxes) earnings from the middle class and up to redistribute the funds to the lower uneducated class in the form of rent, food, clothing, and healthcare subsidies.  Also, because the uneducated and unmotivated are out producing us in births, they, unfortunately, will be electing our country's leaders from now on and they will elect those politicians that promise to "give" them the most in handouts. Time to find a new country in which to live.  As Steve d. stated, we are paralleling the fall of the Roman Empire.

Posted By: JimB  on Sunday, April 13, 2008

It is already upon us. Look at the quality of our presidential candidates! Also the Politicians that we elect indicate that the Nanny state is what they are all about! As long as they get the Big bucks for helping us along the path to self destruction!    

Posted By: CPMJohn  on Sunday, April 13, 2008

Hmmm, all White Anglo males?

Posted By: ClarindaW  on Sunday, April 13, 2008

I thought using three white students was great! I will be able to use this for discussion in my classroom without having to deal with race comments. After all - this is really fitting for all races so why get side-tracked!

Posted By: Charles Bryan  on Sunday, April 13, 2008

That might look bad, but if the brats had to really study and actually learn something the drop out rate would probably be about seventy percent

Posted By: Karen C. Swim  on Monday, April 14, 2008

Am I being censored?  I got a little box with a red X in it instead of your cartoon.  The ones at the bottom of home page of Cagle news were there, but not yours.

Posted By: Debillo  on Tuesday, April 15, 2008

In the first paragraph, doesn't the author mean to say that MORE than half of high schoolers drop out? He said fewer than half. The sentence does not make sense.



Obviously, proofreading is not a strong suit here, or this sentence needs to be reworded.

Posted By: roscoe  on Friday, April 18, 2008

Dumb Dumber Dumbest

Posted By: Nolan B,  on Friday, July 25, 2008

Charles Bryan: I am a rising junior in high school and would like to ask you what exactly we high school age teens do all day if it's not writing essay after essay and taking test after test. Do you think that the majority of us who do not and will not drop out of high school do not have to learn anything difficult? I challenge you to ask yourself: A) if all schools are the same, B)If all students (or as you so lovingly refer to them 'brats') are the same, and C) if you don't actually still use the knowle