Posted on 05/23/2002 4:02:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Obviously their grades do not reflect knowledge learned. The basics must be put up front while community service,
along with sex ed and environmental studies, should be squeezed out.
Miami-Dade school officials said the county's high poverty rate and large population of students still learning English factored into its high failure rate.
Dump bilingual education and teach English.
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News starting to sink in: Many students won't pass***This week's release of scores for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test brought home the hard fact that principals, teachers and many parents have known for weeks: More children than ever will be forced to repeat fourth-grade this year, unless they slip through loopholes that allow them to be promoted.
Although students won't receive their FCAT scores until later this month, school officials have spent weeks and months breaking the news to parents. They have pored over student records, sent letters and met with families.
At Richmond Heights Elementary in southwest Orlando, Principal June Jones scheduled 83 meetings to talk about students who might have to repeat a grade. Some parents showed up, some didn't.
Some parents had no idea their children were having problems with reading. ***
I homeschool my son (age 14), but I still have him participate in community service. He volunteers at the YMCA. I think it helps him to take responsibility and be accountable to other adults just like he would be on a job. Plus it fills some of his free time with constructive activity.
This is clear proof that someone is playing 'experiments' with OPC (other people's children). Is this education manipulation a lot less harmfull than human cloning?
Anyone care to do a regression analysis which would compare the failure rate on this test to the percentage of improperly filled out (and thus discarded) ballots in these counties during the 2000 election?
What we have lost in this country is a sense of community, neighbor helping neighbor.
These were values our country had from its inception and for many years following (barn raisings being one example that stands out in my mind.) I think voluntary community service helps to restore this to the community and the individual.
Obviously, my kid, being homeschooled is not required to perform community service, but I see definite positive aspects that he is acquiring from community service.
Texas Dem candidate: State write and pub textbooks - schools as labs to improve teaching methods*** Sanchez unveiled the plan while fleshing out his education proposals, which include raising teacher pay to the national average and establishing laboratory schools connected to the state's universities to discover improved teaching methods. He had no price tag for those proposals.***
I believe it's directly linked to the non-education going on in schools. Generations of Floridians and students
graduated from all U.S. public schools are ignorant. They were robbed of their potential.
How about, apply a consistent standard to all - regardless of ethnicity. Anything else would be racist, right?
No! No! No!
''This is a totally different group of kids from last year, and every group looks different,'' said Anne Dilgen, director of student assessment for Broward schools. ``We haven't been able to analyze the changes from this year to last. We need to wait for more drilled-down data.''
They just need time to assess the situation and place blame!
My guess is, that they give some sort of credit for it, i.e. you earn an academic credit by doing it which would be consistent with the "dumbing down" of the educational system.
When the inevitable failure is exposed, the blame will be on FL for not providing enough funding. That's always the government solution: if I fail, it's because I need MORE $$$. Wish I could convince my boss of that. ;-)
It's easier than teaching.
It's twisted, self-serving thinking. The survival of teacher unions is their paramount concern. By failing to educate generations of Americans, not only have many been denied reaching their potential, but the U.S. has been diminished because we've lost part of the bedrock which ensures our liberty.
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