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December 7, 2005
I said Brrrrr
I would like to say "Brrr".
We have finally entered the "holy shit, it's nipply out here" season. K-Mart can start playing *&^$# Christmas music the day after Thanksgiving if it wants to, but it aint winter until we walk out and all our appendages wish they were testicles.
School is going well. So far I am running an A in my classes, and I might actually get my first ever 4.0 GPA.
I was in an education hearing today and I heard how they were considering basing teachers initial salary on their SAT scores. I wouldn't be allowed to go food shopping by myself if our ability is society were based on our SAT scores. What is it with this society and tests? Do teachers need a way of having some empiral data to measure their students success, absolutely, but this notion that a test can provide the end-all-be-all to teacher improvement is nonsense. Do you know that the DOE doesn't even store the statistics collected from these tests? Did you know that the Chair department of Education for the city of New York doesn't provide a breakdown of the answers for these tests? The DOE doesn't provide a strict breakdown of test scores. For example, no one knows if a majority of a class all got one problem wrong. What if they got the same 10 questions wrong, and now these kids are suffering because their teacher stunk and it'll take the school a yearafter those kids graduate to figure it out.
I don't know if I want to be a teacher or someone who manages how this system works. Either way, there are things that have to change, and I think I'm inline to kick some ass.
Posted by lysa at December 7, 2005 1:44 PM
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SAT scores? I'm a mentally handicapped donkey then.
Posted by: B at December 8, 2005 11:07 PM