Posted on 10/03/2004 7:21:47 PM PDT by republicanvoices
This year's MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) results have arrived and educators have much to cheer about since scores have improved, especially in failing schools. But, of course, this achievement burns in the bellies of members of teacher's unions.
The MCAS and other student assessment tests given across the country are part of President Bush's plans for reforming public education through the No Child Left Behind Act. Public schools finally are held accountable for their students' performance and will have to improve how they educate as well as hire quality teachers.
Massachusetts teachers are upset about this plan and one of them has told her pupils, "I'll be proud of you if you fail the MCAS" and that she will spend no time preparing them for the exam to show her opposition to it. She also stated that she is a member of a group that promotes students' absence on the day of the MCAS. After all, fewer students mean less work for lazy teachers. In the good old days, such behavior would have been accepted. Thanks to Republican reform, this teacher should be in the unemployment office in due time!
Emil Levitin is 11 years old, President and Editor in Chief of www.republicanvoices.org and is a diehard conservative Republican.
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