I've dealt with them. I have also worked with dropouts that were more intelligent than their "So-called" educated bosses.
Posted on 08/13/2016 5:10:50 AM PDT by detective
This belongs in the you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff category:
In Florida (you knew it was Florida, didn’t you?), some third-graders — including honor students — are being forced to retake third grade because their parents decided to opt them out of the state’s mandated standardized reading test this past spring.
An undetermined number of third-graders who refused to take the Florida Standards Assessment in reading have been barred from moving to fourth grade in some counties. A lawsuit filed by parents against state education officials as well as school boards in seven Florida counties says counties are interpreting the state’s third-grade retention law so differently that the process has become unfair. Test participation, therefore, is more important than student class academic achievement.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The legacy of Jeb! bush.............
“What I find particularly disgusting is that teachers aren’t UP IN ARMS opposed to Common Core and mandated testing.”
Although many I know are sick to death of it all, I’m not sure what they can do to fight it - what power do they have?
My niece’s solution for her family was to give up her teaching position at a local elementary, and she is now home schooling, starting this year.
Proud of her!
“No Child Left Behind” actually = “I anoint myself the pied piper”
I’m sorry; I was referring to basics like English and Math. We are graduating college students born in the US who can’t speak/write English better than a four year-old (and I’m not exaggerating).
Also, lefty organizations like the NEA like socialist solutions.
Even English can be a farce. I know, I played it. I could have aced it even if it wasn’t a farce, but I made it a farce.
Yes. All smiley faces...and no frowny faces on the report cards.
And as for Math — what about this new “Common Core” stuff where one is supposed to come up with progressive approximations — ON PAPER, not just IN THE HEAD?
Standardized tests are still required of home school students. There has to be some measure.
My original comment “School at home” was a reply to the over-weaning parents whose children can do no wrong and that, therefore, the public school or the teacher is at fault for this that or the other perceived slight to their child.
Many helicopter parents are just as destructive to public education in their own legal ways as are the parents who never intervene in their student’s educational situations.
This all had to do with a THIRD Grade student’s problem due to his/her parent’s decision to not sign a form the year before.
Please see my post number 30. Thnx.
(I know. We homeschooled all our children.)
Makes one want to revolt.
Jeb created this testing garbage when he was Governor. I told everybody then, it would lead to teaching the test, but everybody was so gungho about it I was wasting my breath.
My daughter was in middle school at the time, but now is 29 and has her own in school.
The school where she lives has rejected Common Core and as a result has lost federal funding, but they will not cave!.......
I've dealt with them. I have also worked with dropouts that were more intelligent than their "So-called" educated bosses.
“Kids work all year, get good grades and because they don’t take a stupid test at the end of the year, they’re held back?”
Not a new concept. Sounds a lot like the NY State Regents tests from the ‘60s. (I don’t know if they still have them.) You could be an A student all year, but if you flunked the Regents test for any subject the one-and-only day it was given statewide, you flunked that subject. That’s the reason I took Algebra I twice; I was sick the day of the exam.
Yes, standardized test would have a place if they were created to a useful standard. I am an educator and I detest what our schools have become. Part of the problem is that conservatives and Constitutionalist, like myself, have given up on the system and left it to the liberal progressives and communist. There are a few “right-wing” educators left in our schools but we are so few it is hard to make changes. Parents must help effect change in the system by refusing to send their children to these broken institutions. Also, we need more “right-wingers”,like myself, to enter education and help force the change.
Get the Feds out of education all together…let each district decided what it wants..or state
Those working for the feds have to think up something to justify there $100,000
jobs
What argument can there be for not taking a test? Anyone? What’s the harm in taking a test?
Technically it is. The school districts can do as they please all over the country, but they lose federal dollars if they go their own way...........
Follow the [federal] money. The Florida school system is incompetent and seriously corrupt administratively and academically. I speak from first hand experience. Virtually no part of it is any way to judge a child's true level of learning.
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