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Half of Florida high school students fail reading test
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| May 18, 2012
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Posted on 05/19/2012 8:57:48 AM PDT by yoe
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"Asking more from our students and teachers than we ever have"......AND STILL FAILING AFTER BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPENT.....ON WHAT? Unions? Teacher's Unions? Government Unions? With no accountability from these organizations what else do you expect of such waste....young minds wasted and taxpayer waste.
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posted on
05/19/2012 8:57:53 AM PDT
by
yoe
To: yoe
Because they’re scr**ing around on a computer and instead of reading a damn book and writing about it.
To: yoe
Just another cog in THE BIG DEMOCRAT MONEY-MAKING MACHINE!
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posted on
05/19/2012 9:03:30 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: yoe
As a wise man once told me when school integration started, "We won't bring them up, they will take us down."
He was right.
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posted on
05/19/2012 9:09:41 AM PDT
by
FrankR
To: FrankR
He was indeed wise. Equality of condition necessarily means the lowest common denominator.
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posted on
05/19/2012 9:15:46 AM PDT
by
mrsmel
(One Who Can See)
To: mrsmel
The Union says it about the Children
If that is the Case
The Union can not educate our Children and School vouchers should be given to the parents.
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posted on
05/19/2012 9:27:45 AM PDT
by
scooby321
(h tones)
To: yoe
“We are asking more from our students and teachers than we ever have, and I am proud of their hard work”
No, you’re not.
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posted on
05/19/2012 9:30:48 AM PDT
by
Tublecane
To: yoe
I wonder if Trayvon passed...
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posted on
05/19/2012 9:36:24 AM PDT
by
Mpatl
To: scooby321
I have reservations about vouchers. I can see the government using them as a means to get their tentacles into the curriculum and regulation of discipline of private schools. Government never does anything which doesn’t feed itself. Their “good intentions” never fail to become the thin tip of the wedge into government interference.
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posted on
05/19/2012 9:37:55 AM PDT
by
mrsmel
(One Who Can See)
Keep FR Running
Let's get to Yellow!
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posted on
05/19/2012 9:39:33 AM PDT
by
RedMDer
(https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
To: FrankR
Black Americans can be taught to read and write just as effectively as White Americans.
Communist run teachers unions operating unmolested by the GOP bluebloods at the state and federal level and a lack of prosecutions by the criminal justice system is the reason the public schools are where they are today.
Public schools must be eliminated.
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posted on
05/19/2012 9:39:43 AM PDT
by
Rome2000
(WILLARD ROMNEY -- MORMON MELCHIDEZEK BISHOP -HIS FAMILY HAS AVOIDED MILITARY SERVICE FOR GENERATIONS)
To: FrankR
The Democrat's perfect campaign motto: “We won't bring us up, we will take them down.”
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posted on
05/19/2012 9:44:10 AM PDT
by
Reeses
To: yoe
This is just more proof that socialism(government or government schools) doesn’t work.
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posted on
05/19/2012 9:50:28 AM PDT
by
rurgan
(Sunset all laws at 4 years.China is destroying U.S. ability to manufacture,makes everything)
To: Rome2000
Whether or not they “can” be taught is not the point...
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posted on
05/19/2012 9:53:20 AM PDT
by
FrankR
To: Reeses
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posted on
05/19/2012 9:54:10 AM PDT
by
FrankR
To: yoe
Correct me if I am wrong.
But wasn't the state wide standardized tests design to identify problems such as this? If so, then the tests have done EXACTLY what they were designed to do.
In the Panhandle of the state our failure rates were much MUCH lower no where near 50%.
One final question, since the tests were a controlled item it would be possible to link the failed tests to a student, a school, and probably teachers. Has any one read any in depth analysis of the test results? Like where the failures were concentrated, how bad the failures were (a near miss could be attributed to a bad hair day, a major failure is something else), and finally the socio-economic-racial identity of the failing students?
I guess no one wants to ask them selves the really hard questions like they just asked the students. it is so much easier and easier to change the rules than to improve the final product
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posted on
05/19/2012 10:02:29 AM PDT
by
Nip
(TANSTAAFL and BOHICA)
To: Sacajaweau
You can read a book on the computer. Computers are the future, better they learn young.
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posted on
05/19/2012 10:12:22 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: yoe
The results came days after the Florida State Board of Education voted to lower the standards needed to pass the writing part of the test Lowering the standards...yep, that will help them learn! The dumbing-down of America continues. Soon it will be acceptable to be illiterate and still get into college for four more years of government assisted "education." Then we will have a country of unemployable college grads with useless degrees, no jobs, government loans that can't be paid back, and lots of condoms. Wait...looks like we are well on that track.
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posted on
05/19/2012 10:19:47 AM PDT
by
CitizenM
(Obama - The architect of the decline of the U.S.)
To: yoe
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole with their common aim of legal plunder constitute socialism. - Bastiat 1801-1850
CAPS mine
Now, are any parents suing the individual members of the teachers union for non-performance/failure?
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posted on
05/19/2012 10:24:25 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: Rome2000
Public schools must be eliminated.
ditto that.
Public schools = government schools = government running things = socialism , which doesn't work. Amazing how many Americans support the government schools even though they are failing.
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posted on
05/19/2012 11:03:48 AM PDT
by
rurgan
(Sunset all laws at 4 years.China is destroying U.S. ability to manufacture,makes everything)
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