Throwing money at the education problem isn’t the answer. Never was. Never will be. When you hire teachers who are lazy and more stupid than the students then don’t expect your schools to rise to acceptable levels. When you shove ridiculous CORE cirriculums at kids, that may be why the kid studied his butt off and still couldn’t solve a simple algebra problem without showing 47 steps on three pages. When you have parents who don’t make sure their kids did their homework and handed it in on time, well, you’re going to have failing schools.
Another reason to home school.
(You can't make stuff like this up!)
ML/NJ
On the bright side, these students are now ready for college! where grades can be even more flexible.
Let’s not forget the fact that cell phones, once banned in NYC schools, are now allowed, thanks to the senile Chancellor, doubtless taking her marching orders from His Honor, Mayor Imbecile. Formerly, cell phones were confiscated before the exams, placed in individual ziploc bags and then stored in the proctor’s desk, to be returned when the student finished the exam and left the room. What kids were doing this year, not reported in the news, was asking to go to the bathroom during the Regents exams, and then looking up answers in the bathroom stalls on their phones. This bit of intel is straight from the trenches; you won’t hear about it in the lamestream media.
How nice! The NY DoE not only cheats the government out of big money, more importantly, it cheats the kids out of an education, except that the only thing kids HAVE been taught is that lying and cheating are acceptable. Worthless HS and College diplomas, useful only as decorative paperweights to keep welfare checks from blowing away. Sickening.
Wasn’t this issue that caused a whole crew of Georgia teachers to get thrown in jail.