Posted by swamphawk22 on 9/1/2011 4:04:00 AM (view original):
As you might imagine it is hard to find something like this.
As I am looking I am finding great information that supports my belief that the American Education system is in decay and needs to be released from the left's clutches.
If you want to have an intelligent debate about the problems in the modern classroom, you need to do some research to diagnose the actual proper before prescribing a cure. As opposed trolling around to find "unsupported" facts and opinions that fit a dumbassed theory that you formed while watching Beck.
You can start with the recent scandals that have taken place in Atlanta and several school districts over widespread cheating.
Here is a link from a newspaper that discusses the scandal.
What can we infer from the scandal? First, schools are under serious pressure to perform well on standardized tests because they are seen as a benchmark for the performance of teachers and schools. Because financial incentives are tied to test scores, it's not that surprising that some districts decided to cheat given the resources available to them.
Last year, my wife was transferred to an inner city school from a suburban school. She did this so she could spend more time at home with our children. She was very proud of her work with those kids, many of whom came from dysfunctional homes. Several had learning or behavioural issues. Want to guess what happened to her test scores? She didn't become a ****** teacher even her scores fell, although that's what no-nothing, finger-wagging halfwits on Fox would argue.
Nor did she concentrate on "touchy feely" stuff because her kids were being tested on math, language arts and social studies (civics). She did a good job under the circumstances and her principal recognized her for that.
It will be interesting to see what happens to those kids. Some might wind up repeating the problems that have plagued their parents in terms of substance abuse. But she's got hopes for a few of them. That probably wasn't any different for the teachers who worked with their parents.
My sense, though, is you are very comfortable in the easy answers provided by a 10-minute segment on Beck that recycle myths, stereotypes and villians of convenience. The answers are always easy when you don't have a clue.