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| This is not where the teacher needs help and standing there with her is counter-productive. You could hire her for 30 days for the salary that teacher's getting. |
Why? Because they didn't meet their AYP quota ...not enough students were "proficient".
Which sounds like a system in need of some help until you realize what's going on. Over the five states that are part of this consortium, only 33% of the high school students are proficient. I find it hard to believe that all of those teachers across New England are all crappy teachers. Only 33% of 11th grade students, year after year, are able to reach proficiency while the same students as 8th graders ... somehow 75% or more scored proficient.
Did they suddenly get stupid? Maybe ... but doubtful that this would be a region-wide trend. Are the teachers lousy at this school or that one? Again, it's a region-wide trend. Also, the same students are doing much better on the reading and grammar tests.
If I gave a test that, year after year, only 30% could pass, what would your response be?
Could it be that the math tests are testing material the kids haven't taken yet? Welcome to the Common Core. Welcome to Pearson.
Get ready to fight for your public school, since the unspoken goal of all this testing is to find an excuse to shut down public schools and allow all that public money to shore up for-profit charters and to go to the very greedy pockets of the education industry's dank side: consultants.
And that consultant I told you about at the beginning? She's getting nearly $20,000.00 to come in 16 days and to tell experienced faculty how to teach.
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Nice job if you can get it. I think the qualification is, though, that you have to have no conscience about ripping off taxpayers and ruining people's lives, while providing little -if any - value.
ReplyDeleteFYI, consultants also pop up to "serve" your local planning departments, as "environmental consultants", and "transportation consultants" and "water experts". They help "coordinate" and "facilitate" meetings, acting as self-appointed liasons between government entities and the public. If you look at the amount of state grant money that goes to these private consultants, you'll be appalled. I wonder how much our state budgets could be reduced if these parasites were cut off?