Audit rips Georgia schools' curriculum

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | March 11, 2002 | JAMES SALZER

[thegreatbeast]

The teachers unions try hard to kill standard testing here in MA. They fabricated all sorts of rationales as to why it should be abandoned even covertly encouraging the students to boycott the test. The inescapable fact, though, is that unless you have standardized testing the teachers aren't obliged to anything really. They hate being held accountable.

[moyden]

Denty said she only had about a week in her sixth-grade science class to cover alternative energy sources, a major topic that takes more than memorization.

Oh, brother.

[Intimidator]

Ah, the second public school bashing thread of the day. yawn

[Stand Watch Listen]

Here are links to various education threads (also containing numerous helpful links)

FReegards

Public School Isn't Like I Remember It
Too Good Reports; Published: February 28, 2002;
Author: Phyllis Schlafly

What Is Lacking In Our Educational System
Source: Too Good Reports; Published: February 28, 2002;
Author:| Ben Cerruti

The charade of education reform
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: February 2, 2002;
Author: Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld

American public schools: Working just as designed
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: January 21, 2002;
Author: Vox Day

High Schools Fail Thanks To Grade Inflation And Social Promotion
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: December 5, 2001
Author: Vin Suprynowicz

WHY AMERICANS CAN’T READ
Source: Accuracy in Media; Published: December 4, 2001
Author: Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid

The Failing Teacher and the Teachers' Code of Silence
Source: CNSNews.com; Published: December 3, 2001
Author: Glenn Sacks

Time for outrage! Linda Bowles reports latest results in America's public schools
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: November 27, 2001
Author: Linda Bowles

Illiterate in Boston: Samuel Blumenfeld explains U.S.'s ongoing reading problem
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: July 20, 2001
Author:Samuel Blumenfeld

NEA - Let our children go!
Source: WorldNet Daily; Published: June 23. 2001
Author: Linda Harvey

COOKING THE BOOKS AT EDUCATION
Source: Accuracy In Media; Published: June 5, 2001;
Author: Cliff Kincaid

Why Do Schools Play Games With Students' Minds ?
Source: The Detroit News; Published: April 1, 2001
Author: Thomas Sowell

The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?
Source: http://home.talkcity.com/LibraryDr/patt/homeschl.htm
Author: John Taylor Gatto

Dumbing down teachers
Source: USNews.com; Published: February 21, 2001
Author: John Leo

Free Republic links to education related articles (thread#8)
Source: Free Republic; Published: 3-20-2001
Author: Various

Are children deliberately 'dumbed down' in school? {YES!!!}
Source: World Net Daily; Published: May 13, 2001
Author: Geoff Metcalf {Interview}

New Book Explores America's Education Catastrophe
Source: Christian Citizen USA; Published: April 2000
Author: William H. Wild

Deliberately dumbing us down (Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: December 2,1999
Author: Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Could they really have done it on purpose?
Source: THE LIBERTARIAN; Published: 07/28/2000
Author: Vin Suprynowicz

From the Littleton Crisis to Government Control Littleton Crisis to Government Control

The UN Plan for Your Mental Health The UN Plan for Your Mental Health

[Cincinatus' Wife]

They hate being held accountable.

Bump!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

yawn

Only two! We must be slipping.

[Intimidator]

Lets talk about nuking somebody, its much more interesting than talking about school.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

...she only had about a week in her sixth-grade science class to cover alternative energy sources..

Isn't that a real gem? Those schools of education are keeping the LIBERAL group think on target.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump for the LINKS!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Lets talk about nuking somebody, its much more interesting than talking about school.

I know, so much light being shed on all that worthless LIBERAL pap being dished out
in public schools is enough to make any LIBERAL Democrat want to change the subject.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

State School Superintendent Linda Schrenko has been asked to make recommendations at this week's monthly meeting.
Schrenko headed the Department of Education when the curriculum standards were last revised in 1997.

Does this make the least bit of sense to anyone?

[Stand Watch Listen]

It is awkwardly phrased. Evidently she was first elected in 1994, then reelected in 1998. Thus, she was Head of the (Georgia) Department of Education "when the curriculum standards were last revised in 1997. "

http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/schrenko/schrenko.asp

Mrs. Linda C. Schrenko State Superintendent of Schools Georgia Department of Education 2066 Twin Towers East Atlanta, Georgia 30334-5001 Tel. (404) 656-2800 E-mail: state.superintendent@doe.k12.ga.us

Mrs. Linda C. Schrenko is a Georgia native and lifetime educator. Prior to being elected as State Superintendent of Schools, she served in Georgia public schools as a teacher, counselor, and administrator. She was elected Superintendent of Georgia's Public Schools in 1994 and re-elected to office in 1998. As State School Superintendent, she serves as the Executive Director for the Georgia Department of Education. In that capacity, she is the state's top appointed official over Georgia's K-12 public schools and the Chief Executive Officer of the Georgia Board of Education.

[shaggy eel]

FYI

[Intimidator]

ROFLMAO, you think I'm a liberal Democrat. I'm a bible believing, deer hunting, NRA member, I just get tired of all the public school bashing thats all.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhha!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

....I just get tired of all the public school bashing thats all.

Bashing? Why not take some time from your preaching and shooting long enough to recognize the need for criticizing the public school system?

[summer]

Thanks for the ping, shaggy eel. Amelia, FYI.

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

"It would make it very difficult for us to home school our daughter," Lisa Reiss, a home schooling parent from Manchester, Connecticut, said. "We don't set a curriculum for the whole school year. We teach to mastery and once she has mastered a concept, we revise our curriculum every quarter or so. For us to have to submit a curriculum in the beginning of September would be very difficult."

Guys, The above from another article at Cybercast News Service {CNS} I caught at WND this evening.

THIS is a REAL problem to those running the public schools. In public schools. so much time is alloted for each section of a subject, and whether or not the children have "mastered" that section, the teacher is FORCED to move on to the next section. No matter that some students get the section down pat quickly and become bored, while the majority of the students seldom begin to understand, they move "forward". This lady is doing it RIGHT, and the educational commune-ity would, if at all possible, destroy that. The other part aboout this particular bill is that the state is insisting that parents register the children of the state to be counted. Beside the small{?} item of beginning to demand that {for now} "teachers must have at least a high school education or equivalency. Those running and making up the public educational commune-ity are NOT nice people, as much as we would wish it so.
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CW, I posted the above on the Connecticut Homeschooling bill post just a few minutes ago. Seems to fit here as well. Peace and love, George.

[Re-electNobody]

Linda Schrenko is a pain in the neck to Roy Barnes, so she is useful. She is also running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination to take on Roy this fall, but I doubt if she wins the primary.