Cooking the Books -- Public School Style...
I put this under politics because it's not an education story to me. There's a bigger political implication in this weeks education outrage..
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See the public schools have been cooking the education books LONG before "no child left behind". They cooked test scores since I've been watching politics. Which is why I ask my lefty buds again --- When you malign free market capitalists for not having any morals, ethics or professionalism that can counteract their greed --- what is it that makes Public Service Employees any more reliable, ethical or efficient? We KNOW that there are PLENTY of constrainsts on business to counter a pure profit motive. What countermeasures are there to just plain apathy and fraud in the PUBLIC sector? Not only was the cheating widespread -- but there's plenty of evidence to suggest that teachers were BULLIED and HUMILIATED into joining in the fun.. http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/1503...-investigation Quote:
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Just terrible, I can't imagine anyone using the public schools in this day and age. Maybe if you lived out in the sticks and they had good teachers, but my kids, if I had any, would never see the inside of a public school in an urban area.
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Maybe we should cut some more tax money from public education and give more tax cuts to corporations, that fixes everything. :p
And maybe hand out vouchers so the rich can take the edge off their private school tuitions because our public schools can't possibly need the money. :D Carl |
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Here are some numbers. Why are we not seeing better results given that expenditures per pupil have tripled since the early 1960s in terms of constant dollars? Why do our students post such dismal scores on standardized tests compared to other countries? Immigrant Asian children do rather well on these tests even with language, culture, and economic handicaps vis-a-vis other minorities and even Caucasians. http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66 The system has changed from teaching children how to think to teaching children what to think. Where the ideal is to engender curiosity and a yearning for knowledge, our system attempts the exact opposite. |
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Fortunately the schools here are among the nation's best. Maybe all the &^%$ experts have gotten out of the way and let the teachers teach.
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Sure giving tenure to teachers is a very big problem and also the pay and benefits are now insane. "The system has changed from teaching children how to think to teaching children what to think. Where the ideal is to engender curiosity and a yearning for knowledge, our system attempts the exact opposite" This is not my experience at all. I find that teachers today are much much better than teachers in the 60's. Can you offer more insight for the opinion? |
People have emotional ties to the teachers they remember and through that to all teachers, and there's some great ones. But the NEA works for themselves.
Here in Cleveland they don't suspend bad kids anymore because it brings down the per-pupil money they get from the state for those days. Pete |
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