Wow. Doug Mann writes about the district's justification of the basic standards test:
>As far as the district is concerned, only the >progress of those 13 fifth graders continuously >enrolled since the third grade really matters. Um, yeah. So Doug, let me get this right: you use the standards test to measure the quality of instruction in MPS, but when (because of no fault of the district's own) a school does poorly because a majority of students DID NOT receive that same instruction and yet took the test, it is all the district's fault and they can't teach kids. That makes no sense. Doug, you can't teach kids that aren't there. Sounds to me like your message for your candidacy is blame, blame, blame with little plans for improvement or intelligent public policy. Patrick Peterson 2-4 ===== -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Patrick Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEL:612.379.4722 AIM:a11235patrick MSN:patrickepeterson -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
