1. The mandate of any school system, public or private, is to
EDUCATE our children.
2. The level of education MUST be such that our children
have what is necessary to compete in the REAL world.
3. It is NOT the job of ANY school system, public or private,
to "adjust the truth" concerning student performance to
meet some local curve chosen using rather dubious assumptions.
The standard is the REAL world.
3. After the students graduate, they will automatically be judged:
- in the community,
- in their search for higher education,
- in their school of higher education - if they can get in,
- in their competition for employment,
- in their performance on their job
by a curve that represents not just their community, but the
entire country and also the best of many other countries.
4. It's just not ethical to cheat students, their parents and their
community out of a realistic assessment of their preparedness
for adult life.
5. FYI, the REAL curve is often bimodal.
The result of cheating students out of a real assessment of their
preparedness for life is to fill the world with dependent fools. The
just desert for those who cheat them and for those who abet in this
process is to later be governed by the fools they've created.
Regards
Bob...
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"I don't mind if you don't like my manners.
I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad.
I grieve over them long winter evenings."
-- Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart)
From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Based on my ten years of experience teaching in inner city Chicago
high schools, I'd say it's a realistic policy. Percentages alone mean
nothing. The curriculum should be based on real needs, and the
success ratio has to come close to resembling a bell curve. The
alternative is little or no success for any student. It's a fact of
life. Doesn't make me puke.
Paul
On Sep 24, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Scott Loveless wrote:
OK, so this isn't photo related at all. Try not to puke.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm
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