Posted on 02/14/2006 11:45:18 AM PST by george76
Butthead: Uh, so what grade what that put us in?
The move, effective this semester, was part of a package of changes the district announced in October to help better prepare high school students to pass the Washington Assessment of Student Learning and graduate.
Actually, I think it's only about half.
72.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.....
8^)
I stand corrupted.
I think it also has to do with the fact that they don't get any training from their Dads because--one for thing--they have no dads. I must say that it applies to the middle-class as well. When I was a kid I learned from my dad how to use an ax. He had had to learn to use an ax in otder to cut firewood. I didn't but used it to help clear brush on a lease. I remember an occasion where he was talking to someone while I was working. the fellow commented that he was impressed I could use an ax, because his son, a civil engineer, handled an ax "like a girl." Of course this puffed me up a bit--and made my dad grin.
Good for your dad. Sounds like mine. He was born and raised "country." He could do a heck of a lot of different things. Work on a car, build, electric, plumbing, you name it, he could do some of it. The old jack of all trades types. A welder by profession. Damn, I miss that man. He has been gone 31 years now.
Ever see a movie on the French revolution? You know mobs with pitchforks and such. :)
Washington Assessment of Student Learning ...
"WASL"
Hey Tanker...it is "POTENTIALLY DELAYED" because "lost" or "unearned" credits can be made up through summer school etc.
I work with Special Ed. students (Learning Disabled) for credit recovery.
Now..before anyone FLAMES me for working in education or the "state of education" today..I AGREE WITH MOST OF WHaT YOU ARE SAYING...ACK!
I also am a VERY GOOD at what I do...so be HAPPY..I am one of the GOOD ONES!
:-)
Public schools and liberals...a deadly mix. Thank God for the Catholic school system.
There is one simple solution to this problem.
Pour more money into public education, for obviously we are not spending enough and if the voters of Washing"ton" would be willing, guarantee ALL teachers in the public sector tenure. /sarcasm
There are a lot of high-school (and younger) kids - most of them minorities - wandering around downtown Seattle during the middle of the afternoon. It is very depressing - they talk filthy, dress like gangstas, and have cultivated a thoroughly self-defeating approach to life. All they care about is sex and talking trash and hip-hop and rap. It makes you wonder what MLK died for. So these stats don't surprise me at all. And I really don't think that most of these kids are stupid; I think they are totally screwed by the images that the media put before them.
Oh dear. Do you have any idea what this does to a kid's self esteem?
They have to pass the equivalent of only five year long classes, some of which are probably even electives.
Perhaps we should back charge them for the cost of their education?
There is too much blaming of the "educational system", and not enough responsibility placed on the student to achieve.
They may not get "left behind" but they may end up spending the 10 years in the trunk.
The report cards won't say a thing. Teachers are scared to fail anyone.
I wonder if the school districts planned ahead to absorb the returning students. This could be very interesting if they didn't: 1) test students partway through the year/s, knowing that if they didn't, they would be gobsmacked; 2) plan ahead for the hold-backs to have classrooms and teachers.
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