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Schools failing? Just make 75% and up and A right? What do you think of this New Mexico solution to bad schools?

  • While a total of 100 points was possible, the department gave “As” to the top 10 percent of schools in the state. That lowered the “A” mark from a 90 to a 75. Under the PED scale, a school that received a 50 rating got a “C.” “Last year we had 87 percent of our schools failing according to … No Child Left Behind,” she said. “I don’t believe 87 percent of our schools are failing.” Under the new system, 73 of New Mexico’s 831 schools received “As,” but just four of those schools scored a 90 or above. Of the 260 schools that received “Cs,” only 19 of them actually would have received a passing grade when measured under the traditional scale. http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/education/When-is-an-A-not-really-an-A

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    Well, looks like China will be ruling the world in about 100 years time. Say hello to the next generation of American children everyone! Just make sure they have a helmet on before you let them outside.

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This is all because we removed corporal punishment, shaming and prayer from our classrooms. And also because trailer and ghetto troglodytes reproduce at an alarming rate, gradually displacing H. sapiens. We need to implement a program of spaying and neutering before it's to late.

Mark-from-IA

This doesn't say anyting about learning in the schools. No Child Left Behind doesn't work. All it does it tell the teachers to teach to the test and nothing more. This is what happens when the burden of educating our children is put on the state and not on the parents. It's not always the teachers' fault because the student doesn't perform, that begins at home. Unfortunatley, many parents see school as 8 hours of babysitting instead of their children going to get an education and improve themself. The school is doing what many are, lowering it's standards so they don't look bad because the students aren't learning anything, which is not all the teachers fault.

Hardcore Conservative

Let's see. Last year we found out that the Atlanta schools were altering the answers given by students on the standardized test so as to make sure that they got passing grades even when they hadn't in reality. Now we have a whole state that is changing the standards to give itself a passing grade that it hasn't earned. This sounds about par for the course for the public schools. For a number of reasons, these government run monopolies are unable to actually educate students. So, rather than admit that they are failing, they change the rules to cover up their incompetence. This is one of the reasons I so strongly support a voucher system. The public schools need to face serious competition from other schools that will actually educate students. As long as they have a monopoly on education, as long as the tax dollars keep flowing exclusively to them, they have no real incentive to improve the quality of education and they will keep turning out students that can't read their diplomas.

Glenn Blaylock

It's why I would home school. The public schools are not even decent babysitters, forget actually teaching our kids. It's what they want. A stupid public is easier to manipulate and dependent on a big over-reaching government.

fundamentallyflawed

sounds like a 3rd world solution to me.

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