Using that calculation, Truman has a 52percentt graduation rate, bad enough.
It's not that the other performances in "Graduation" are bad — in fact, they're blandly and professionally good — but they're repressed performances that, in their narrowness, evoke, above all, Mungiu's own proudly earnest illusion of reality.
Second, if a student maxes out his credit cards and misses payments, he will have a bad credit score upon graduation.
Founded in 2011 by five tastemakers nearing graduation, Ain't-Bad Magazine was conceived out of necessity.
Couple that with the fact that graduates are raking up over $37,000 in student loan debt (from a new study by Scholarships.com), students who find themselves in a bad-fit job after graduation have a difficult getting on the right path.
After all, one could feel pretty superficial (not to mention untherapized) for caring so much about the bad outfits at a college graduation.
Certain forms of online education have also picked up a bad reputation due to low graduation rates, high fees, and readily available student loans that trap many students in a cycle of poverty, a far cry for their dreams of economic-security-through-diploma.
To cut off that aid for students after their high school graduation is just bad policy, especially when they're already on a path to become U.S. citizens.
The data offers one bit of bad news as well: The graduation rate gap between economically disadvantaged students and all other students stayed the same or increased in more states than it decreased in the 2013-2014 year.
"Step-Up Day" isn't bad, in a world of kindergarten graduation gowns and Dora the Explorer graduation cards.
