'Education candidates' spout utter falsehoods

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'Education candidates' spout utter falsehoods

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Walter Geiger

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Wednesday, June 30. 2010

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By Larry Fennelly
The Macon Telegraph

Georgia’s current struggle to improve the quality of the state’s educational system is nothing new. Back in the 1960s the state’s political leadership realized that increasing the educational levels of the citizenry would be essential if Georgia were to prosper in the modern world. The number of public colleges was expanded so that most of the populace would have at least a two-year college within commuting distance.

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#1 Anonymous on 06/30/10 at 08:58 AM

I didn't read the whole article here, but I can tell you what will help this whole thing. GET RID OF NCLB. 'no child left behind' law. Most parents dont' know what this law is doing to their children in schools.

Under this law, teachers can't TEACH and students can't LEARN. Students have to pass state tests in order for schools to get MONEY, so schools go to GREAT LENGTHS to make sure they get that money.

Teachers can't teach what THEY want to teach anymore. They have to teach waht the gov't tells them to teach. They teach students HOW to take the tests. The students take PRACTICE tests all during the year. Teachers can only teach what is ON THESE TESTS. They call it 'teaching to the test'. I call it 'teaching the test' which is CHEATING and what they do not want their students to do, but they do it themselves all year long. It's ALL they do. This is not the teachers fault, however, they are mandated by the gov't to do this.

Just look in any of the school books for 'test taking strategies'. This is NOT for the students usual tests they take. This is for the STATE testing. Notice that most school books have an edition for each state. GEORGIA is written on the cover of the books here.

The reason for all this is because the books are specifically written for the kids to PASS these tests so the schools can GET MORE MONEY.

If you search the internet, you can find articles from college leaders stating that public school students are woefully lacking in knowledge, skills, etc to be able to participate sucessfully at college level.
Recently in Texas, a student who was the VALEDICTORIAN had to drop out of college because the material was too hard to learn.

HOMESCHOOL!!Some people don't like it, but public education is BETTER?!?!?!?
There are articles from college leaders stating that homeschoolers are MUCH better prepared for college and some colleges are actively seeking out homeschool graduates.

#2 Sheila Tolley on 06/30/10 at 10:56 AM

I will put on my Michelin man suit before I press the submit button because I expect some "unprocessed mental feedback" from the softies out there. I graduated in 1969. My class was the last total Caucasian graduating class from Pike County High. The integration process had started but was not fully implemented. THIS WAS ONE MORE GOVERNMENT SCREW-UP FROM THE BEGINNING. Let me explain before you lock and load. African-Americans had a rough road in those days. They were treated as secondary citizens. They were educated in less than average schools by less than average teachers. It is not FAIR but it is true. The further you go back in time...the more degrading the chances for African-Americans will be. FIRST OF ALL, slavery is something that NEVER should have happened. PEOPLE are created equal.......but people were not educated equally. You cannot take a person who has been in an establishment that supplied limited education and toss them into an advanced environment without repercussions. It would be like placing me in the cockpit of an airplane and saying, "fly this...you are tall enough to reach the buttons and switches." (Take a seat, I am ready when you are.) The next problem is that I cannot really fly the plane because I have never had the opportunity before and I should not be expected to know how to fly the plane. The proper thing would have been to teach me how to fly the plane then put me in the cockpit. We handled integration the same stupid way. Just throw everyone in the pile together. When people could not "make the grade" the quickest answer was to lower the standards. This was not fair to the future generations that would be competing in a world of advanced education. This is getting too long so I will just submit and answer those who disagree. In summary, blacks and whites should have been totally treated equally. They were not. The situation should have been corrected by bringing blacks into the white school systems in the first grades, not high school. Then everyone would have had the same opportunity to "make the grade" without lowering the bar of education. Like it or not....the results are here now.

#3 Anonymous on 06/30/10 at 01:34 PM

I agree with you 110% !! I wasn't in school back then,so I don't know if what i"m about to write is true.
I saw a movie 'mr. hollands opus' and it showed how students were behaving in school thru the years.
In the years that blacks joined schools, the behavior got MUCH worse. I don't know if this is REALLY what happened then.
Lowering teh standards instead of bringing the blacks up to standards, the educators easy way out of doing their jobs.

#3.1 anonymous too on 06/30/10 at 06:02 PM

Standards were lowered and discipline problems escalated when they let the rednecks start coming to my school.

#3.1.1 Sheila Tolley on 07/01/10 at 12:07 PM

They will not be there long, or often.

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