Posted on 08/26/2019 5:21:09 AM PDT by Moonman62
An elementary school with the most astounding student success rates in all of Florida sits in one of the state’s most unusual locations: a condominium clubhouse in Miramar.
The A-rated Somerset Academy Miramar South, which is next to a swimming pool in the Bahia Miramar residential community, is a school most people don’t even know exists, and many parents think their kids actually attend a different school.
The school was the only one in the state where 100 percent of students passed state English and math exams last spring. The test results also showed about 70 percent of students in third through fifth grades scored the top level possible on the Florida Standards Assessment, far exceeding all other public schools in Florida.
About 93 percent of the school’s 220 students are listed as minorities, mostly Hispanic and black, with a third coming from low-income families. It’s the kind of success that usually serves as a national model for student achievement.
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And now that they are in the news, the school will be shuttered, the administrators arrested and the teachers names besmirched.
and it will all be lead and applauded by the teachers union...
According to the article, the school board is trying to cause them trouble.
The charter school has 75 kindergarteners every hear, but every grade after that has one-third of that number. It would seem they are culling the heard to the best prospects.
The charter school is in a decrepit old condominium clubhouse — no ultra-modern, ultra-posh, ultra-expensive facilities. That doesn’t jibe with the education establishment always saying Performance = f($).
many parents think their kids actually attend a different school...
Something’s gotta be wrong with that line.
Many parents aren’t exactly sure where their elementary school aged kids are really at during the day?
And agreed, it will be shut down for not knowing its place.
You are quite right. No good deed shall go unpunished.
It seems that anything that works well is perceived as a threat by the government and they step in to stop it. Right down to lemonade stands.
Test scores mean nothing.Im not buying this fairytale.
The success of a school is inversely proportional to the number of “Eddikashun” degrees held by the faculty.
Your local college professor of physics/math/engineering (that’s professor of a real subject, not this cr*p being purveyed to lure unqualified students to the place) would not be allowed to instruct at a publik skool. (And I’d bet that prof would know more about history/economics/government than the typical “Eddikashun” degree holder.
The charter school has 75 kindergarteners every hear, but every grade after that has one-third of that number. It would seem they are culling the heard to the best prospects.
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The article addresses that with what I think is a reasonable explanation.
many parents think their kids actually attend a different school...
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It’s a technicality.
There are three schools within a block of each other operated by the same charter company. It’s almost like a campus with different buildings.
It’s possible, but after so many stories of wonderful results followed by revelations of academic corruption one is wise to be skeptical.
OK.
I haven’t read enough of the article and am too lazy to do so, so I won’t refute you :)
When "education" became a multi-billion dollar scam, run by educational bureaucrats at the state and federal level, in partnership with the teacher's union, designed to extract every last possible dollar from their communities, in the name of "education" but with performance being far down the priority scale.
The highest priority? Political power.
The second highest priority? Union power and money.
The third highest priority? Teacher pay and perks.
The fourth highest priority? Indoctrinating students in leftist dogma.
The first letter should be a T instead of a W. Then, instead of When.
As Catholic school systems showed for generations, good curriculum, sound learning environment, and diligent teachers matter the most for elementary school performance. For high school and its more complicated coursework and potentially troublesome students, smarter and better-educated teachers are needed. On the whole, higher teacher pay and swank buildings are of marginal benefit.
One is warranted skepticism with reports such as this one. How many times in the recent past have great scores been posted, especially from minority students, only to find that teachers or administrators have altered the results for personal gain?
I want to believe that the instruction in this school is highly productive, but I have initial reservations.
If,it is 93% minority, it sounds like they are discriminating against white students.
The shrinkage from K is not unique among private and charter schools and is not always cherry-picking.
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