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re: High school graduation rates
Posted on 10/10/23 at 8:07 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Posted on 10/10/23 at 8:07 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
If you have breath, you pass HS now. Graduation rates up while ACT score goes down. Schools frown on teachers who fail kids and fire them. Just pass the along and be positive. The way of the world.
This post was edited on 10/11/23 at 7:15 pm
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Posted on 11/23/23 at 10:23 am to purplepanther
I’ve been a high school teacher for more than 25 years. I work in a good school and our graduates do better than any other school in the State in college. A house in our district costs over 500k.
We graduate a few kids every year who read and do math at a first or second grade level.
Couple of reasons but mainly if you fail a kid their parents hire a lawyer and that lawyer makes the life of every teacher and administrator miserable.
If a teacher fails to many students they get fired (a teacher can get fired in my State easily). So the rest of us learn to play the game.
I get to go to a meeting next week about why the 10% of students who are black have lower scores on standardized tests than even our white special Ed kids. Good times.
We graduate a few kids every year who read and do math at a first or second grade level.
Couple of reasons but mainly if you fail a kid their parents hire a lawyer and that lawyer makes the life of every teacher and administrator miserable.
If a teacher fails to many students they get fired (a teacher can get fired in my State easily). So the rest of us learn to play the game.
I get to go to a meeting next week about why the 10% of students who are black have lower scores on standardized tests than even our white special Ed kids. Good times.
Posted on 11/23/23 at 3:15 pm to purplepanther
My high school had academic diplomas and participation diplomas. The latter just meant that you had been in school for 12 years and they were ready for you to leave.
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