Posted on 03/17/2023 1:00:33 PM PDT by grundle
Lowering the standard does NOT improve literacy.
The trouble is that the lowering has been going on for decades.
We could wish. There is even a facade of education. They are blatantly in our faces destroying education. It’s more like Dresden Education.
Sounds like a good idea. If the students don't learn, then maybe the whole district needs to be taken apart and rebuilt.
“It destabilizes the school,” she said. “The most senior staff tend to leave with their expertise.”
An expertise in failure? An expertise in watching the clock tick until getting a nice state retirement?
Please don’t paint with that broad brush-this about teachers not providing kids with an education in academics and not maintaining real educational standards. Unless someone is retarded/BIF or otherwise intellectually impaired from birth or from a catastrophic head injury, they are capable of learning along with their peers no matter their race/ethnic group...
I’m Hispanic, a college grad, have never been an affirmative action hire nor has anyone in my family. But most of us graduated before the late 1980’s-when teachers still were required to teach real academics. I prefer blue collar work and own my own little home-based business-I have spent years as a case manager-workers comp/job safety-and have seen/dealt with unqualified affirmative action hires in all kinds of jobs and they are a pain in the ass to say the least...
The teachers from NY who want this-and their union leaders-should be tried and put in prison for depriving kids of a real, usable education-it is just wrong...
Since the late 80’s at least-it is why we kept our cub in private school in spite of her begging for the public one-she got over it and now teaches at a private school...
If you ask the Teachers Union how to fix this problem I’m sure they would answer “Raise teacher salaries”.
Maybe they should just ban the number line. Then all numbers are equal.
The real problem is more blacks and Hispanics aren’t speaking out regarding this travesty...They know dems will keep rewarding them,so why bother getting an education......
I don’t know what state you are from-but I’ve never noticed anyone who is Hispanic not speaking out about education-we/they are just as vocal about it as other Caucasians with ancestors from other European countries-of course, this is a rural area where even Black people are conservative-if you are in a large city, I suppose your mileage may vary on that subject...
In Baltimore Maryland it is 62% black and 6% Hispanic...Even if Hispanic parents voice their objections, where are the black parents???? Annnnd who are they all voting for???
If 6 schools in Baltimore have such low standards,that NO CHILD COULD PASS THE STATE TEST,why are they voting dem expecting a different outcome????
For Hispanic parents it would be like spitting in the wind..Nothing will change.....
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