If only schools and teachers were allowed to hold students accountable like that nowadays. Now, if a kid hasn't done squat all semester and is failing, teachers are expected to offer extra credit or accept make up work from 3 months ago in order for them to pass...

rwilly wrote:

1. According to Department of Education statistics, in 2007-2008 (the latest year available), full-time public school teachers across the country made an average of $53,230 in “total school-year and summer earned income.” That compares favorably to the $39,690 that private school teachers pulled down.

wheelrite wrote:

I've been following this story closely ever since it broke, and it is appaling. Can't say that I'm too shocked, but business and civic leaders were putting pressure on APS to improve test scores to attract new companies to the area. What is really shocking is the gigantic failure rates among Atlanta students. I have not looked at the entire report, as it involves hundreds of schools, but numbers like 21% passing rate of 3rd graders in math at school "x", or 94% failure rate of 4th grade reading at school "y", etc.

It makes one wonder why people like Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson aren't here protesting the child abuse that this situation has brought forth. These kids are being set up for failure for life over the basics of the 3 R's. It also makes one wonder about the mentality of my city, and why this is "acceptable".

It also makes one wonder if there is a correlation of drop-outs, sky-high homeless, rampant daily smash & grab robberies, youth gangs that are out of control, drive-by shootings, and a revolving door prison system.

But, Al Sharpton will be here next week to protest the law against illegal immigrants.

Makes one wonder about priorities.

jetblasted wrote:

Define "large"!

HockeyDad wrote:

I blame librarians.

ZRX1200 wrote:

We are pissed off we are so far behind. The problem is that most other countries have cut offs and weed outs. Our country is one that thinks that everyone can learn at the same level, no questions asked. The mentally handicapped kid can learn just as well and to the same standard as the honor student can, it is just the teachers fault if they can't! That is "No child left behind"!

Other countries, like China, have cuts in their education system. About 6th grade, they have a weed out of the kids not making it, they go to the factories and work for the rest of their lives making toys and painting your kids toys with lead based paint. Another cut at 9th grade, those go to train to do medial technical jobs like motor pool and taxi driving and other stuff like that that endanger your life a little more. Another cut at 12th grade for the ones to run the factories and manage the people working, and the rest, the cream of the crop, go to college to get good paying jobs.

Whenever you figure out how to solve that system here, you can run the country, until then, just sit back and watch our country go to crap and keep drinking the coolaid they are giving you!

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McBryde wrote:

Hey Wheel ... The corruption from Atlanta Public Schools has spread to Dallas ...

Kathy Augustine, the new superintendent of the DeSoto Independent School District who was linked to cheating at Atlanta Public Schools, reported to work Monday on her first day as chief of the suburban Dallas system.

Augustine, a Harvard University graduate used her credentials on improving test scores at APS to land her $188,000-a-year job.

Augustine’s stay in the executive office could be short lived. Tonight, the Desoto ISD Board of Trustees will decide whether they should terminate her contract. The board also will discuss the Atlanta cheating investigation and allegations about their new superintendent.


In the APS probe, Augustine was accused of "illegally" withholding public documents and "aiding and abetting" former Atlanta superintendent Beverly Hall in "falsifying, misrepresenting or erroneously reporting the evaluation of students" on the 2009 CRCT, according to the investigation released last week. Augustine was also accused of making "false statements" about a testing security breach at Deerwood Academy where a confession on cheating was obtained. Augustine was APS' deputy superintendent of instruction and curriculum, and according to the report, "either knew or should have known that cheating and other misconduct was occurring in schools in the APS system."

jetblasted wrote:

Yep.It's all over the news here.
They paid $14000.00 to a recruiting firm to find a Black Superintendent. Diversity and all...

wheelrite wrote:

Again with all the black sh*t. Was just reading the Sharpton thread too. You got a real problem with black people dude.

FuzzNJ wrote:

Eat me ...

I don't have a problem with any ethnicity,just hypocrits...
The truth is the truth...

deal with it..

wheelrite wrote:

Yeah, if you say so.

How are George Jefferson and the stripper in the Duke case related to Sharpton?

FuzzNJ wrote:

Sharpton is a Race Baiter carpet bagger and doesn't desrve a public forum.

wheelrite wrote: