Post by Chris_Wendt on Sept 5, 2014 10:23:04 GMT -5
It is just too early in what promises to be a very long school year vis-à-vis the Common Core and Opting-Out, for me to bore you with the early beating of the drums of discontent, as reported by Newsday, today. So I am not publishing any of it.
There are more important priorities of which we should be mindful, for example:
Taxpayers are going to want more than just a self-serving policy revision which attempted to wallpaper-over the illegal and excessive hoarding of reserves. We are going to be looking for our money...back! Time for the Board of Education to start planning for that.
On the ELA debacle, some people will wonder if the problem is with our vaunted teachers, or, is it with our textbooks not being aligned with the curriculum, or, are that many of our kids so...un-proficient in ELA...that they really should have been left back last year (or, next year)? Or just maybe, the underlying problem is with the curriculum, itself, being a real piece of crap? Or the tests? Or a little of both? For all those who took and flunked the 2014 ELA Assessment, those results will become part of YOUR child's "Permanent Record"! And that record will be stored up in some cloud, in Albany. How does that sit with you?
But, I digress....
Chris Wendt
There are more important priorities of which we should be mindful, for example:
- Five years of over-taxation have resulted in a windfall to the school district of several millions of dollars; taxpayers are going to want to..."Get Your Millions Back, Wantagh"
- Our 2014 ELA Assessment results are crappy, with only 40% of Wantagh's then 3rd-8th graders scoring proficient. You won't even know if YOUR kid was one of the 60% who flunked for another month or two. Then what?
Taxpayers are going to want more than just a self-serving policy revision which attempted to wallpaper-over the illegal and excessive hoarding of reserves. We are going to be looking for our money...back! Time for the Board of Education to start planning for that.
On the ELA debacle, some people will wonder if the problem is with our vaunted teachers, or, is it with our textbooks not being aligned with the curriculum, or, are that many of our kids so...un-proficient in ELA...that they really should have been left back last year (or, next year)? Or just maybe, the underlying problem is with the curriculum, itself, being a real piece of crap? Or the tests? Or a little of both? For all those who took and flunked the 2014 ELA Assessment, those results will become part of YOUR child's "Permanent Record"! And that record will be stored up in some cloud, in Albany. How does that sit with you?
But, I digress....
Chris Wendt