Joey Wise
09/29/2025 – District Adminstration
Our country is facing a host of challenges, but if we care to solve any of them, every single student needs to graduate from high school. No exceptions. No almosts or good-enoughs. No excuses.
Every young person must be prepared to contribute, to succeed and to thrive. Ethnicity, color, economic background, learning difference, special needs…none should be excepted or written off as an acceptable loss.
We will suffer gravely if we can’t graduate every student within the next decade. I don’t mean that only the students will suffer. The nation will suffer and our potential for growth will grind to a halt. We might already be there.
What is sad to me, a retired superintendent, is that we know how to fix this problem. It’s not too late to change course, but do we have the will to do what it takes to make sure every student graduates from high school?….Read Dr. Joey Wise’s article in District Administration here.