Posted on 10/24/2006 7:39:58 AM PDT by Cagey
Wow...that's scary.
Welcome to the U.S.S.A. sheesh.
The test results per pupil should be private. As long as there were no names listed with the test scores, I don't have a problem with them being published. The kids have a right to know how the school did compared to the national average. Maybe, it's just be enough to shame some of these kids into trying harder instead of being fat, dumb and happy about their non-acheivement.
More likely censored to be more sensitive to school officials.
Maybe to protect the administrators job....not the self esteem of the students.
The school administration is right. School is not the real world, and student newspapers are published under the oversight of school administrations. In this case, one wonders what purpose the principal thought he was achieving by suppressing publicly available data, however, in too many cases, liberal students have tried to highjack school newspapers to promote their agendas vs. the school administration.
The students should be appreciative.Afterall Principal Orr is just preparing the kids for college.sarc
Commies.
I really don't have a big problem with this. Categorizing student performance seems to be something that would not produce anything positive. I'll tell you what I am in favor of doing:
Not worrying about "what the school administration was doing to address the divide". Provide a safe, quality environment for education, and don't pass kids just to get them out of your face.
In a way I can understand the administration's actions, but I really think it may be an over-reaction on their part. If your school's scores really suck, why shouldn't the students there know it, AND PERHAPS STUDY MORE? Looks as though they need to learn how to make lemonaid out of lemons, instead of putting their head in the sand and saying "go away!" Typical b.s. on the part of the school's administration.
Here's the charts, right on the very public Florida Dept. of Education site, that were so harmful to the widdle children:
http://schoolgrades.fldoe.org/pdf/0506/schlGrds_06_master_final_ADApdf.pdf
Thanks for linking that.
I suspect the principal's real motives were to prevent a race riot, which would inevitably happen as soon as a student of one race called a student of another "stupid".
And you know they would.
The bottom line for school administrators is not "justice", it is "maintaining good order and discipline", which I might add is the same justification used in the UCMJ for soldiers.
As far as the "rights" of students go, in truth, minors do not have full civil rights, they only have an extrapolation of their parents' rights. That is, if their parents wish to confine them in an institution, the children have no right to assert habeus corpus before a judge.
In the case of a school, which operates "in loco parentis", or "in place of a parent", in many ways, *its* prerogatives generally outweigh the students' rights. This changes when a parent enters the fight to assert the parents' rights, and the only thing left that the school can do it to say "either they do it our way, or they go to another school."
However, because these cases have been heard continually around the country, there have been many bad judicial decisions based on a flawed understanding of the law, usually forcing schools to respect some contrived "right" a student has to do something disruptive or potentially so.
It was really hard to find, not. It was the first link when I did a search for "Florida Department of Education" so it's not as if parents couldn't have found it just as easily. Our school mails the state's "School Report Card" to each students' parents. It shows how our district schools rate against similar schools in the area and across the state, and gives our grades broken down into socio-economic and other groupings.
The Feds will be sending down Armstrong Williams free of charge for counseling. He will be paid by Big Brother to tell them all how well their school is doing in providing an education.
Just like the old USSR.
I see the self esteem problem: the students are required to call their principal 'doctor'.
There is another option, an external to the school website. There they would be perfectly free to cover stories the princpal would rather they did not, have postings etc. All beyond the legal reach of the school.
Some schools have tried to suppress this in the past. The result has been lawsuits which the schools universally lose. However unofficial retribution is harder to prove so not declaring who maintains the website on the masthead is always a good idea.
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