re: WAFB investigates students being given grades in an EBR School

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I'm on the fence about standardized testing; on one hand it leaks to schools teaching towards a test and doing everything they can to help the kids pass the test; however, it hurts in other areas which require critical thinking and other skills. But then how can you know if the kids are learning anything without testing? How can you compare schools without testing? How do taxpayers find out if there money is being spent wisely?

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The problem with the whole accountability standards is it the way the scores are complied. It is causing unintended consequences that many people including the ones here don't know about. For example, when I was in school and a student was a discipline problem they were removed from the school. Many of these student drop out once they were 16, and I don't view that as a bad thing because they were not going to succeed, they were only going to inhibit others form succeeding. Now they are not removed from the class and they are encouraged not to drop out. The reason, schools can't afford zeros for those kids accountability scores. Now you have just created a disciplinary problem in schools.

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Just out of curiosity, are you including the schools now in the RSD?

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RSD schools in Baton Rouge are a complete joke. They are actually worse than when they were failing schools under EBRPSS. It has amazed me that no one seems to have a problem with the state coming in taking buildings from local government, causing over crowding in other schools, and in all cases not turning the schools around while using selective enrollment.