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Originally Posted by kennyc
And now this:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/201...aims_defe.html
".....The finger-pointing continued Wednesday, one day after 316 of 541 of the state’s school budgets were defeated. The 58.4 percent total was the highest failure rate since the New Jersey School Boards Association began keeping track in 1976......" |
I live in Philadelphia. I have co-workers here who drive in from Jersey.
They say the teachers are over paid and are not even trying to improve.
I think this is them saying to the teachers, improve our student's learning, then you will get paid.
I do not fully agree, but I think this is a tactic by them to open the teacher's eyes.
Think there is a school district in Europe, if your school has subpar grades/scores, the school gets shut down. I think they are trying this approach as a kind of reform.
Though I do not put full blame on teachers, Parent's need to step up (my parent's always pushed me, and also get me things like a microscope as kid, and books whenever I said I wanted to read something and I thank them for that, it got me into the best school in the city/state for high school, and have benefited from it). But also college's that are teaching these new teachers. I have about 15 people I know from high school who are now teachers. 6 different colleges between them, but all of them were taught they have to teach for standardized testing and nothing else. That is what is killing this country eductation system. We are so tied up with standardized testing, they are not teaching the same things I learned, which really was not that long ago.