Posted on 07/23/2012 2:33:00 PM PDT by MichCapCon
Focus on what a student knows or doesn’t know is the only way to really measure the school system. Making adjustments for income or anything else is just building failure into the system.
Someday there will be mandatory lobotomies for anyone who scores over 100 on an IQ test.
This is where America is headed in the age of Obama. Nothing matters anymore except the class warfare and destroying our great country.
So you get extra points if you are stupid and poor?
Sounds like someone who got those kinda points thunk up this idea
Adjusted grades in school doen’t mean adjusted opportunities when school is out.
Their grades may fool a potential employer, but when their grades aren’t matched by performance, they will find themselves out of a job, and the employer stuck paying unemployment for another idiot.
I am beginning to think “Idiocracy” was a documentary, not a comedy
The double standard has become the National Standard, in nearly ALL things. Sex deviates, Minorities, Women, etc. are not asked to attain the same levels of competence in testing that white Christian males do, just to make it APPEAR that there are no differences.
An economic adjustment? Why not let’s just be honest and make it a lazy or non present parent adjustment. That’s what it comes down to.
Teaching kids starts at home with the parents. This is where responsibility begins.
Does this mean that Gross Point High will be spotted three touchdowns whenever they play a Detroit inner city school?
Did it ever occur to these morons that some kids are just stupid. Or, maybe they’re just not willing to put up the effort to get good grades. I mean, why should they when the government can steal the fruit of other peoples’ labor and give it to them. If they don’t need to know anything to survive, then why should they even attempt to succeed?
I teach at public school in a city environment, 95% black.
The prospective student has to write a paper explaining why they want to attend this particular school and detail what they are bringing to the table. To attend, the student has to pass a basic skills exam. They have to have a teacher/administrator interview before acceptance.
A parent/guardian has to take time off work and attend the interview with the kid to get them in.
SURPRISE! We’re ranked in the top 10 schools. Over 90% go to college/military/trade employment.
It’s about the kids knowing that someone cares at home. It’s about knowing that if a teacher calls home about a behavior/grade issue, that’s a whuppin’. Oh and we can “uninvite” kids that don’t keep up the grade/behavior to get rid of the bad apples, should the need arise. (It’s not frequent but far from unheard of.)
Amazing what happens when folk care about their own and negative consequences are enforced.
Hell, even the fights are one on one and weaponless.
I understand, it's a way of saying if the student's are poor the school system can't be held accountable for poor scores on standardized tests.
It takes the focus off of what the student knows and says poorly performing schools are really okay if there students are financially poor.
An inner-city school where the average IQ of the students is 80 will not produce National Merit Scholarship winners at the same rate of a school where the average student IQ is 120.
Totally agree with your comments.
75% illegitimacy rate among blacks.
We expect the schools to fix it?
My daughter teaches 3rd grade in a suburb, only 40% of her students are from an intact family (birth mother and father living together with child). Imagine what it’s like in an inner city school.
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