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?
How about, apply a consistent standard to all - regardless of ethnicity. Anything else would be racist, right?
That means they "think" the way they have been brainwashed to think. It's part of the Goals 2000 Socialist training program.
The Goals 2000 program has the elimination of all diplomas. The children are taught to think in a certain way, trained for a specific job, and school records will become resumes. Businesses will have to go to the school to find employees.
It's all part of the cradle to grave agenda, and ultimate mind control of the masses. "Give me the children, and I'll have them for life." --Stalin.
Changing society through the minds of the children comes first, academics are suppose to come after every child has gone through K-12 of the entire brainwash program (but they will work on getting the child from birth. Right now, there's a bill moving through the system to get children 3 yrs. to mandatorily enter the school controled pre-school programs).
So far, homosexuality is just starting to enter the kindergarden class, so it will be awhile before the academics fit in to the NEA program. The program isn't complete yet- parents keep getting in the way. It was suppose to be streamlined by 2000.
It's also important to keep the kids away from the influence of their parents. Before school programs, after school programs, summer programs, day care programs etc. They feed them, have a doctor and psychiatrist for them (if they fail to think in the manner taught at the centers).They care for their sex lives for you, too. Parents must be kept away from the children as much as possible. The Socialist village must be the childs new parent.
Test scores will remain low for quite some time. Goals 2000 isn't ready for academics yet.
All this is why the public schools say the homeschooled children will not be socialy trained to fit into society. What they're really saying is the homeschooled children will not recieve the Socialist training. They're defectors in the new society.
They won't be trained robots like the mass produced public school students. They'll be better educated, moral, and individuals. It's a Socialist disruption. Homeschool kids are escaping the new Socialist indoctrination centers, and the Democrats don't like it.
The number of homeschooling families is on the rise. It's a major threat to those who have their planned society, and all the time and money invested in it.
And isn't that what the job requirement for being a teacher entails? Or do they need government to hold their hand?
While this can be a strong indication of parental apathy; I wouldn't rule out grade inflation and teachers basically lying to the parents at conferences.
Case in point: Last summer my daughter was on a local fastpitch team. There was another girl on that team, a 6th grader, who had just taken a test from the district which she needed to pass to be promoted to the 7th grade.
The girl had not passed the math portion. Her mother was talking to me about this and said she didn't understand what had happened, since Anna had gotten straight A's in math all year. This is not a "minority" school district, but a strong middle to upper-middle class town, yet grade inflation was obviously going on in her daughter's school. These were parents who attended the parent-teacher conferences, who were active in their school with fund-raising. They were not uninvolved parents. But, if the teacher and school lie to you about the child's progress, what then?
I did have the audacity to ask this mother if it wouldn't have been better for everyone if they had been up front in the beginning so that Anna could have gotten some help with math early in the year, instead of having the girl be worrying about not being promoted to the next grade?