More On Moore

The Carpetbagger Report has a good response to the Lorrie Moore op-ed, and actually found the statistics. Steve M., the guest poster, makes a few excellent points I missed:

So, yes, one out of every nine boys drops out, which is appalling in what’s supposed to be the greatest country in the world — but if “only” one out every eleven girls drops out, it’s not as if we have that problem all sorted out, is it?

and:

...yes, the black dropout rate is noticeably higher than the white dropout rate, but the Hispanic dropout rate is twice as high as the black rate. Doesn’t that mean we should have all abandoned our support of Clinton and Obama and rallied behind Bill Richardson?

(And isn't the highest drop-out demographic pregnant teens? Are we allowed to vote for Clinton if she gets knocked up?) And finally:

We can parse this all day, but as I read it, blacks have crumbs, women have a somewhat larger supply of crumbs, and white men still run most of everything. So why pit blacks and women against each other?

Why indeed.