California doing a bang-up job in education

[Dino]

Keep bringing in those illegals! The liberals sure have found a way to ruin American society. They continue to work hard at diluting our language, culture, economy, and public education with their foolish ideals.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/201...se-too-many-students-cant-read/3461512527521/

Ray Downs
Dec. 5, 2017 at 9:45 PM

Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Current and former teachers and students of California's public education system filed a lawsuit against the state Tuesday because too many of its students can't read.

The law firms representing the plaintiffs -- Public Counsel and Morrison & Forster -- said California's State Board of Education, the State Department of Education and State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson have violated the state's constitution "for their collective failure to provide every child in the state access to literacy."

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit include current and former students and teachers at three elementary schools in Los Angeles, Stockton and Inglewood.

At La Salle Elementary in Los Angeles, only eight children out of the 179 students tested were found to be proficient by state standards in 2016-2017, according to Rosenbaum.

The lawsuit calls for better teacher training and more resources.

David Moch, a retired teacher who taught at La Salle Elementary for 18 years until 2014, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. He told the Los Angeles Timesthat he would sometimes use kindergarten reading tools for children as high as the fifth grade. And he said there were no long-term programs implemented to address the problem.

 

[Dawg]

dumbing down future voters for liberalism

 

[as seen on tv]

skeptic that I am, I decode this the following way:

• "better teacher training" = more paid time off
• "more resources" = hire my unemployed friends and relatives

the real problem with drop outs etc are:

• drugs
• gang violence/weapons
• social promotions unrelated to academic achievement
• inability to terminate ineffective teachers

 

[Dino]

skeptic that I am, I decode this the following way:

• "better teacher training" = more paid time off
• "more resources" = hire my unemployed friends and relatives

the real problem with drop outs etc are:

• drugs
• gang violence/weapons
• social promotions unrelated to academic achievement
• inability to terminate ineffective teachers

But you can’t deny that our poorest performing public schools are going to be found in the ‘sanctuary’ areas with the greatest concentration of illegals. There’s no way these schools will be able to keep these kids on the standard curriculum.
All part of the plan unfortunately.

 

[marvin martian]

But you can’t deny that our poorest performing public schools are going to be found in the ‘sanctuary’ areas with the greatest concentration of illegals. There’s no way these schools will be able to keep these kids on the standard curriculum.
All part of the plan unfortunately.

Correct, and the typical reaction to that situation is to change the standard curriculum by dumbing it down until the slowest kids can keep up. That's how the state ended up where it is. If the schools aren't already cheating on the test scores, like that other blue city bastion Atlanta, they soon will be.

 

[as seen on tv]

But you can’t deny that our poorest performing public schools are going to be found in the ‘sanctuary’ areas with the greatest concentration of illegals. There’s no way these schools will be able to keep these kids on the standard curriculum.
All part of the plan unfortunately.

I believe the poorest performing schools in the nation are found in Washington dc.

that school system . . .

• has a dropout rate of 50-60%, depending which school is cited, and the method of calculation
• teachers are paid (on average) more than $100,000 a year, inclusive of salary & benefits.
• the cost per pupil in dc is $23,000 annually. the highest in the nation. higher than some state colleges, and an order of magnitude higher than community colleges.