re: ACT test scores for U.S. students drop to a 30-year low -- HEY! TEACHERS UNIONS???

That graph doesn’t match the title of the OP. The graph just shows the number of students who took the test by the year.

quote:

---

My wife is in year 29 as a public school teacher

---

quote:

---

Most top schools don't require the ACT/SAT any more so lots of kids would have chosen not to take it.

---

may not be required, but a good score can help with admission AND many scholarship dollars are tied to those test scores

I’d say that most top students still take the test (for scholarship money)

Smart kids do well
Good kids perform higher.

All the others you cannot help. I'm sorry, but it begins and starts at home. Most to not have the basic competency skills to understand an ACT.

For those that do not know the ACT is not like taking a 9th grade test and having half of America scoring a 50% on.

The way the ACT is set up is by completing a building block of skills. Like when a kid takes the Math portion of the ACT. The test is 40 questions. The tester will get so many algebra, geometry, Algebra II and then Pre-Cal. In many cases these kids could have bombed geometry and have not attempted or currently in Algebra II. Many never see Pre-Cal.

quote:

---

In Louisiana, schools shut down because the teachers unions demanded it.
———-
There was maybe one or two schools with teachers unions in New Orleans in March of 2020 yet all the non-teacher union schools in New Orleans shut down.

---

Just for clarity in the conversation, the Randi Weingarten Teachers Union school shutdown agenda references failure to reopen for the 2020-21 school year. Yes, everyone shutdown in March 2020. But when private/parochial schools reopened, unionized facilities did not.

quote:

---

Schools in Louisiana shut down in March of 2020. We were back in person for the 20-21 school year.

---

Assuming "we" references schools being fully reopened statewide (FIP), your statement is incorrect. In 2020-21, LA slowly ramped from ~10% FIP to around 60% FIP by year's end. It wasn't until the 2021-22 school year that the LA public system returned to attendance normalcy.

quote:

---

I don’t know what every district across the state did but schools in Orleans Parish were back in person at the start of the 2020-2021 school year.

---

You'd know better than I. But the LDOE reported Orleans was 39% FIP, 49% Virtual, and 12% Hybrid.

quote:

---

to be honest, I was in survival mode from 2020 until summer 2022. I didn’t pay much attention to teachers unions

---

It's now 2023.
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

quote:

---

But when private/parochial schools reopened, unionized facilities did not.

---

When they reopened when? the following school year? I’m almost certain that the schools in surrounding parishes here were in person at the start of the following school year.

When I say in person, kids could attend in person. They had the option to but we had to have a virtual option too for parents who were nuts. Teachers unions cannot be held responsible for parents who chose to keep their kids at home instead of sending them to school when they had the option to send them to school.

quote:

---

But the LDOE reported Orleans was 39% FIP, 49% Virtual, and 12% Hybrid.

---

was this schools or students?

quote:

---

Students

---

That was up to their parents, not the unions.

quote:

---

Not only were unions pushing shuttering schools then, they did it again last year.

---

I don’t think the union got their demands in that instance though.