Posted on 06/14/2015 2:52:22 PM PDT by lowbridge
An outraged mom is pleading with her son’s Brooklyn high school: Please educate my child!
Annette Renaud, PTA president at the Secondary School for Journalism in Park Slope, is furious that her son got grades of 85 to 95 on his class work but failed Regents exams in the same subjects.
“He wasn’t educated,” she said. “He can’t compete with students at Millennium, Brooklyn Tech or Stuyvesant. It’s a joke.”
She says conditions are bad at the school, with one teacher allegedly selling jewelry instead of holding lessons and another frying doughnuts and leaving to do his laundry.
Just 17 percent of last year’s graduates at the 267-student school were deemed college-ready.
Last month, Renaud sent a petition signed by 24 students to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña alleging that Earth-science teacher Joy Finerson-Adu had failed to conduct most of the state-required 1,200 minutes of hands-on labs.
“She does other things, like sell jewelry in the class, but no instruction has taken place,” it reads.
In April, Finerson-Adu allegedly peddled bling on school time, while parent coordinator Susan Stein sold Aerosoles footwear at a “shoe party” for staff.
“They weren’t fund-raisers, but for personal profit,” Renaud said.
Principal Eileen Coppola has offered to let Finerson-Adu’s students retake the class if they fail the Regents this month.
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That so-called “alternate route” into teaching is opposed by the teachers’ unions, because they don’t want the knowledgeable teachers of real subjects to get more money than basketweaving instructors. Most people who really know math/science/technology couldn’t be bothered with teaching, so more often than not the basketweaving teacher is given those classes as well (with no results).
It is pathetic; “honors classes” are the only ones even coming close to the regular classes I attended thirty years ago...
I ran into coaches that were taking the subject competency test in math for the 4th or 5th time! And it wasn’t even a difficult test - it was only at the high school level.
Pathetic. They will be one step ahead of the students. If even that.
Those Regents test must be racist. (do I really need a /s tag)
That’s great, but can you name the 57 States?
I believe it.
I believe it, too.
Pittiful!
I was a tutor at my church. The government teacher running the program didn’t know how to add, subtract, multiply, or divide fractions. She always sent the older students to me.
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