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DesideriScuri -> RE: school cheates to raise performance goals (8/4/2015 1:02:40 AM)
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ORIGINAL: KenDckey
http://www.ijreview.com/2015/08/383184-high-school-seniors-diploma-didnt-deserve-shines-light-failings-educational-system/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Owned&utm_term=conservativedaily&utm_campaign=Culture
Student want to return diploma after she should have failed her and her counselor said
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Grades are being changed to help the school get a better graduation rate, and that the pressure to change the grades of absent or failing students is coming from the school’s principal. One school record shows a chronic absentee student who was averaging a 45 passing with an 85, simply for doing extra credit.
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Many politicians, teachers and parents have been concerned that American high school standards have been on the decline since the implementation of Common Core national standards.
What a hatchet job there! This has nothing to do with Common Core standards. There is zero proof (shown) that this hasn't been going on for years.
This is a question of funding. Almost everything comes down to funding. A few years ago, there was a lot of bickering between the Toledo Public School District and the parents. There was a concern that students were going to skip "head count" days, which determines how many students a school is serving, thereby determining how large a chunk (student population wasn't the only factor) of funding the school got from the State. I don't remember what the todo was about, nor how the parents found out which days were "counting" days, but there was a heavy plea from the school district against it.
In this case, this could be about a principal not feeling secure in his/her job, and wanting better measurables to help maintain principalship, or (as implied by the teacher), it's about the school (and district), and could easily be coming from the Superintendent, too.
There is too much pressure on teachers (and schools, in general) to educate our kids and not enough on parents/family to support our kids' educations. That's the bottom line. Schools are no longer places to get an education, but places to get an education, nourishment, parenting, emotional support, etc. Academic performance is strongly linked to parental support and the home environment. Schools are not equipped (and shouldn't be, imo) to overcome a lack of those two things. Teachers work hard to help their students, but are fighting a battle they don't have any chance to win. School Districts are being held accountable to improve things that aren't within it's power to improve.
So, what do we do? The fallback is throw more money at it and either pray that does something this time, or keeps the furor down to a dull roar. In either case, it's still not the school that's failing the student.
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