Not Looking Good

Vet
With scores this low we would be money ahead to buy every child in the school system a new computer and have an on line school system.
I can’t imagine what some of my old teachers would say if they could walk into one of these classrooms today. In the old days they demanded respect and they told you the first day of school that they expected you to succeed or die trying. If I received a “C” on a daily assignment…that day I was given extra homework on the subject to make sure it didn’t happen again…and she also informed you that she didn’t have any “average” students in her classes. Then she would give you the dreaded LOOK.  

 

Vivian- There are those on the Midd. Journal Message Board under the Middletown Board of Education's blog that would disagree with you as to the condition/performance of the schools. Someone posting as "a teacher", "tutor" and "Smartman" are staunch defenders of the faith over there. Apparently it doesn't matter what the numbers are or how long the schools have been producing the low numbers, according to them, we are all being negative about our "continuing improvement" schools. If you criticize the school system or the admin. or teachers that are a part of it, for poor numbers/performance, you are being negative. The demographics, the excessive number of Section 8 with parents who don't care about their children's education, kids coming to school hungry, the admin. are preventing the teachers from teaching, the pay is too low to attract decent skilled teachers, the public doesn't respect our profession, all reasons are commonly used to explain why the scores are always low. It is a scenario that has repeated itself many times over the years with little improvement. It is sad to see that there is no one in this school system that can or wants to make radical changes to show real improvement. Some just seem to float along toward that tenure and eventually - retirement.