[Winona Online Democracy]
On Friday, April 20, 2001, at 04:47 , Paul Double wrote:
> Congratulation are in order for the outstanding performance of the
> Cotter
> Teachers in their successful teaching program for their students to
> achieve
> a 99 percent passing rate on the Minnesota Basic Skill Reading Test.
>
> Congratulations are also in order for the progress achieved by WAPS
> Teachers with their improvements of three percent in reading and four
> percent in math.
Line up an applause as another aspect of a real curriculum has been
sacrificed for a meaningless piece of paper with ink arranged in
specific formations meant to resemble something important. (Oh, look at
the pretty stupid looking dots!)
A test examines only particular points and cannot possibly examine
anything to any depth. Using a test to examine for the quality of a
school is like diving into the shallow end of the swimming pool.
Hey- go ahead dive away. There is not a "No Diving" sign so it must be
safe.
> No child ever fails -- only the teacher who failed to provide the
> knowledge
> in the manner and method necessary for retention and success to occur.
The current structure of education is a system of cram it down their
throats and learn, or else we will flunk you. Dispensing information as
if it is a commodity is not how people learn. Explain to me why Henry
Ford's mass production ideals continually get incorporated into
classrooms. It has been proven enough times that mass production for
schools is not the best way to go. Yet, the idea seems to continually be
resurfacing through massive budget cutbacks.
Yes- we can have 53 in a class. (Why Stop there, lets get the tax payers
a really big rebate check so they will be able to forget about a now
worthless education system. Why not 147 in that classroom.) It will not
bother anyone... except the people in that class that really has no
power to say anything about it. After all, anyone who speaks out against
their school most certainly is a *very bad student*and should be thrown
out of school for rejecting a crappy education. (For those who do not
know me that last sentence was sarcasm but feel free to complain about
it if you do not like the incredible reality behind it.)
> Paul B. Double
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David Dittmann
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