Exit exam results demonstrate California's two-tier school system

Sac Bee ^ | 10/02/02 | Dan Walters

[Still Thinking]

touche!

[willingtodie]

I wouldn't be too concerned about the disparity. I'm sure that in no time, the teachers unions and educational establishment will have those affluent schools performing just as poorly as the lower income districts.

Ain't it the truth.

[jude24]

Republicans should seize upon this opportunity.

It's time for a new approach: the Democrat-controlled school boards are inherantly racist because they're more concerned about their union cronies than the children in their districts.

Just gotta turn the debate around so that we are no longer always on the defensive.

[Amerigomag]

The only thing this author got correct were the test scores which he probably would have fudged if he thought he could get away with it.

The balance of the article is a pile.

The California state public education system has been subjected to the liberal, educational myths for so long that the system is now detrimental to willing, capable students who are exposed to it.

The system is so bad that many local districts have been, for several years now, creating enclaves of tradition education in definance of state mandates, to prevent a local tax payer revolt.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

What is now virtually the entire middle-school student body in CA suffered the abuse of the "whole language" scam during the years when they were supposed to be learning reading the "old-fashioned" (i.e., effective) way. Instead, they are noticeably crippled for life

Whole language is why I pulled my kid from the government school system after the second grade. He still struggles with reading but has improved to the point that he is "above" average as far as the state, is concern but lousy as far as I am concerned. He is now in the upper grades of high school.

His younger brother who has been home-schooled from the begining is preforming post high school level in science and math in the sixth grade. He is above grade level in every area of state testing but one. Cultural studies, as if we care.

[sparkydragon]

I actually think that cultural studies are a good idea.

Wait! Wait! Don't flame! I have good reason!

Cultural Studies, taught as the should be, should show what cultures are in existence in the United States today, and how they think so that you might be better prepared to argue your point of view. That way, one can appeal to the self interest of a different culture rather than trying to convince them to vote in your self interest, which some on FR have a tendency to do.
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[sparkydragon]

ping