Bought and item today for $4 and handed the high school age clerk $10, the owner had to tell her 3 three times how to make change…..bought a PowerBall ticket a few weeks ago and gave the young clerk $10. It took her 5 minutes and counting on her fingers to figure out that if the tickets are $2 each, and I gave her $10, that I should get five tickets back. As a teacher I’m appalled! How can we expect kids to learn algebra, geometry, trig and calculus when most can’t do even the most basic math? It’s not just here in rural schools, I’ve talked to teachers from all over the state and they all say they have the same problem, and not just in math. Education as a whole has to stop worrying about looking good and start worrying about being good! If a student needs to repeat a grade, they should repeat it, not be passed along year after year getting further and further behind. Teachers, administration and the Dept of Education need to realize we’re not preparing students for the real world and we need to look past graduation numbers and look at the % of students needing to take remedial courses. Here in Colorado we have TCAP, our standardized test, 50% of a teacher’s evaluation is based on this test yet there is very little accountability for students. Either we need to make this test a requirement for grade advancement, or get rid of it. Right now thousands of unsatisfactory and partially proficient students graduate every year across the state so is it a truly a representation of a schools performance? We, both parents and the educational community, need to stop worrying how we look and start worrying about the kids! Okay I’m getting off my soap box now
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:09:41 +0000
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