The Politics of GA Education
Maybe that discussion title is too broad--but I guess if you're the person who starts it, you get to name it.
Item #1: Michael, I'm not surprised Roy jumped back into the race, and I must say that while I thought the grass was greener down in Bonaire, I've come to realize that it is not. Roy isn't my first choice. I have a friend who has thrown his hat into the race--Austin Scott. I don't know where he stands with education right now, but his mother and his sister are both teachers. I do know that he was one of the only Republicans to side with Roy on changing the flag and received quite a bit of flack for doing so. I don't have a front-runner right now.
Item #2: I asked my good friend Gerald Boyd (who used to work at GA DOE) to estimate how much the CRCT test for Social Studies cost the state this year. You know, the one that Kathy Cox nullified because only around 20% of the students who took it passed it. Gerald says it was in the neighborhood of $500,000. My daughter was a sixth grader this year. The state did not send a score report for any student in Social Studies, so she spent a morning taking a test that truly didn't count. She isn't stupid--a couple of days before the test, she was complaining about having to take CRCTs in Social Studies and Science. Her words: "Mom, those tests don't count anyway, so why do I have to take them?" I've never talked about standardized testing with my daughter before. This is what she perceives from school. And throwing out a test just verifies this.
Why aren't more people yelling about these tests? Why are tax payers complaining about how their money is being wasted?
Julie
Item #1: Michael, I'm not surprised Roy jumped back into the race, and I must say that while I thought the grass was greener down in Bonaire, I've come to realize that it is not. Roy isn't my first choice. I have a friend who has thrown his hat into the race--Austin Scott. I don't know where he stands with education right now, but his mother and his sister are both teachers. I do know that he was one of the only Republicans to side with Roy on changing the flag and received quite a bit of flack for doing so. I don't have a front-runner right now.
Item #2: I asked my good friend Gerald Boyd (who used to work at GA DOE) to estimate how much the CRCT test for Social Studies cost the state this year. You know, the one that Kathy Cox nullified because only around 20% of the students who took it passed it. Gerald says it was in the neighborhood of $500,000. My daughter was a sixth grader this year. The state did not send a score report for any student in Social Studies, so she spent a morning taking a test that truly didn't count. She isn't stupid--a couple of days before the test, she was complaining about having to take CRCTs in Social Studies and Science. Her words: "Mom, those tests don't count anyway, so why do I have to take them?" I've never talked about standardized testing with my daughter before. This is what she perceives from school. And throwing out a test just verifies this.
Why aren't more people yelling about these tests? Why are tax payers complaining about how their money is being wasted?
Julie
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Goble on
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Julie, thanks for bouncing this into a discussion - you might even change the title to "the politics of GA education" so people understand the local nature of your discussion thread. The trick here is having titles that entice people to engage in specific discussions! Now interested folks interested in this thread can choose to follow the thread by clicking the FOLLOW button in the bottom right hand corner! Am I an annoying moderator yet? :)
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Permalink Reply by Julie Henderson Rucker on
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I meant to say, "why aren't tax payers complaining...?" Sorry!
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Permalink Reply by Sandy Greene on
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Test scores or not, my middle schoolers know very well that the Social Studies and Science tests "don't count". The state choosing to not give scores for the SS test only justifies the thought that the tests don't count and reinforce a situation that leads to a justified student (and teacher) attitude about these tests that often manifests itself in rebellion. What's the point - is a comment I hear on a regular basis.
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