MINNESOTA SCHOOLS: New lesson in accountability
May 21, 2012 at 6:23 pm in Grand Forks Herald
The Minnesota Department of Education released new ratings today to gauge student achievement in an attempt to accurately portray school performance something the No Child Left Behind law failed to do, officials said. Continue Reading
There will be no advancement in K-12 results until some real change is effected. It’s clear that simply throwing more money at the problem is of no use. First, it has to be recognized that you just can’t put the onus on teachers, who have now had to become police, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and any number of other “-sists” instead of teachers. This includes the participation of parents who, over the last two generations see school as an extention of daycare. Ask teachers what percentage of parents show up to conferences. Generally they’re the parents of the best students. In the old days, bringing home a bad report card meant facing the ire of the old man. Now parents blame the teacher, as little Johnny is guiltless. You have to get rid of this doctrine of self-esteem. Society doen’t care if you feel good about yourself, why should a school? Especially if it means a false evaluation of mastery of the material? The nuns knew peer pressure worked, which is why they were successful. Seat the kids in class according to the last exam. Everyone knew who blew it. Shame is not a bad thing.
The K-12 experience has brought to colleges “students” who are self-absorbed, immature, undisciplined, and with an enormous sense of entitlement. Students who see no relation between mastery of material and a final grade. An A is the default going into a course. Lamentably, uinversity administrators see them all as cash cows, so all areadmitted.
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“This includes the participation of parents who, over the last two generations see school as an extention of daycare”
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
This is just another “new and different” way to bleed the taxpayers in a vain attempt to make up for incompetent parenting.
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