Detroit parents want teachers, officials jailed over low test scores

[chanel]

Detroit -- Impassioned parents demanded jail time for educators and district officials Saturday following the release of test scores that showed fourth- and eighth-graders had the worst math scores in the nation.

City students took the National Assessment of Educational Progress test this year, and 69 percent of fourth-graders scored below the basic level in math and 77 percent of eighth-graders scored below basic.

The Detroit scores on the progress test were the lowest in its 40-year history. The sample of students included 900 of Detroit's 6,000 fourth-graders and 1,000 of the district's 6,000 eighth-graders.

Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of the Detroit Parent Network, called for jailing and civil lawsuits against anyone in the city's educational system that is not doing his or her share to help properly educate children.

"Somebody needs to go to jail," she said in a tearful address to 500 parents gathered Saturday for the organization's annual breakfast forum. "Somebody needs to pay for this. Somebody needs to go to jail, and it shouldn't be the kids."

Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb told the crowd the test scores weren't the result of children who were incompetent or parents who didn't care. He blamed the scores on the district not doing its job.

Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores | detnews.com | The Detroit News

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[RetiredGySgt]

Detroit -- Impassioned parents demanded jail time for educators and district officials Saturday following the release of test scores that showed fourth- and eighth-graders had the worst math scores in the nation.

City students took the National Assessment of Educational Progress test this year, and 69 percent of fourth-graders scored below the basic level in math and 77 percent of eighth-graders scored below basic.

The Detroit scores on the progress test were the lowest in its 40-year history. The sample of students included 900 of Detroit's 6,000 fourth-graders and 1,000 of the district's 6,000 eighth-graders.

Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of the Detroit Parent Network, called for jailing and civil lawsuits against anyone in the city's educational system that is not doing his or her share to help properly educate children.

"Somebody needs to go to jail," she said in a tearful address to 500 parents gathered Saturday for the organization's annual breakfast forum. "Somebody needs to pay for this. Somebody needs to go to jail, and it shouldn't be the kids."

Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb told the crowd the test scores weren't the result of children who were incompetent or parents who didn't care. He blamed the scores on the district not doing its job.

Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores | detnews.com | The Detroit News

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There is no legal reason to jail anyone for it. However perhaps some firings would do. As for the board, they are elected. If the Parents do not like how the system in their city is working perhaps they could get off their fat asses and find and elect people they think can get the job done?

Further how about a study to find out how many of the failing students parents bothered to do a damn thing about their kids scores? Now there might be someone to jail for child neglect.

 

[Annie]

Considering that nearly the only children left in Detroit are likely living in poverty, there are multiple strikes going here. Detroit is failing and is nearly an abandoned city. Jobs? Nope. What sort of teachers are left there? Obviously not highly qualified.

I don't know what the school budget is like or class sizes. In general children from lower income homes are not likely to have 'enriched' backgrounds that include regular visits to the library, museums, other cultural experiences. Parents are less likely to be supportive of homework and involved with schools. Question then becomes, can the schools help foster of love of learning and a sense of possibility for future learning? Field trips help, but require busing and other costs involved. Is the money there?

 

[xotoxi]

Detroit -- Impassioned parents demanded jail time for educators and district officials Saturday following the release of test scores that showed fourth- and eighth-graders had the worst math scores in the nation.

City students took the National Assessment of Educational Progress test this year, and 69 percent of fourth-graders scored below the basic level in math and 77 percent of eighth-graders scored below basic.

The Detroit scores on the progress test were the lowest in its 40-year history. The sample of students included 900 of Detroit's 6,000 fourth-graders and 1,000 of the district's 6,000 eighth-graders.

Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of the Detroit Parent Network, called for jailing and civil lawsuits against anyone in the city's educational system that is not doing his or her share to help properly educate children.

"Somebody needs to go to jail," she said in a tearful address to 500 parents gathered Saturday for the organization's annual breakfast forum. "Somebody needs to pay for this. Somebody needs to go to jail, and it shouldn't be the kids."

Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb told the crowd the test scores weren't the result of children who were incompetent or parents who didn't care. He blamed the scores on the district not doing its job.

Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores | detnews.com | The Detroit News

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What would the charge be?

 

[mal]

There is no legal reason to jail anyone for it. However perhaps some firings would do.

The only way to get Fired as a Teacher in the Public System is to Beat 'em or Fuck 'em...

And even then the NEA has been Known to Act like the Catholic Church did during the Priest Scandals of Recent Decades.



peace...

 

[chanel]

Of course there will be nothing to charge them with. That's how dumb these parents are. But there have been many allegations of corruption by the business administrators The money has not been getting to the kids. My guess is next year, the test will be dumbed down so everyone passes.

What kind of parent doesn't know their kid can't read?.

 

[mal]

Detroit -- Impassioned parents demanded jail time for educators and district officials Saturday following the release of test scores that showed fourth- and eighth-graders had the worst math scores in the nation.

City students took the National Assessment of Educational Progress test this year, and 69 percent of fourth-graders scored below the basic level in math and 77 percent of eighth-graders scored below basic.

The Detroit scores on the progress test were the lowest in its 40-year history. The sample of students included 900 of Detroit's 6,000 fourth-graders and 1,000 of the district's 6,000 eighth-graders.

Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of the Detroit Parent Network, called for jailing and civil lawsuits against anyone in the city's educational system that is not doing his or her share to help properly educate children.

"Somebody needs to go to jail," she said in a tearful address to 500 parents gathered Saturday for the organization's annual breakfast forum. "Somebody needs to pay for this. Somebody needs to go to jail, and it shouldn't be the kids."

Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb told the crowd the test scores weren't the result of children who were incompetent or parents who didn't care. He blamed the scores on the district not doing its job.

Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores | detnews.com | The Detroit News

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What would the charge be?

Generational Slavery?...



peace...

 

[Zoom-boing]

Of course there will be nothing to charge them with. That's how dumb these parents are. But there have been many allegations of corruption by the business administrators The money has not been getting to the kids. My guess is next year, the test will be dumbed down so everyone passes.

What kind of parent doesn't know their kid can't read?.

The kind that doesn't give a shit and expects everyone else to do their job for them.

 

[Smartt33]

Detroit -- Impassioned parents demanded jail time for educators and district officials Saturday following the release of test scores that showed fourth- and eighth-graders had the worst math scores in the nation.

City students took the National Assessment of Educational Progress test this year, and 69 percent of fourth-graders scored below the basic level in math and 77 percent of eighth-graders scored below basic.

The Detroit scores on the progress test were the lowest in its 40-year history. The sample of students included 900 of Detroit's 6,000 fourth-graders and 1,000 of the district's 6,000 eighth-graders.

Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of the Detroit Parent Network, called for jailing and civil lawsuits against anyone in the city's educational system that is not doing his or her share to help properly educate children.

"Somebody needs to go to jail," she said in a tearful address to 500 parents gathered Saturday for the organization's annual breakfast forum. "Somebody needs to pay for this. Somebody needs to go to jail, and it shouldn't be the kids."

Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb told the crowd the test scores weren't the result of children who were incompetent or parents who didn't care. He blamed the scores on the district not doing its job.

Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores | detnews.com | The Detroit News

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I believe that if a near majority fail a test, there is a good chance that the test is the problem, or certainly a big part of it. I also believe that teaching to the test robs the students of a real education.
Just a thought or two.

 

[midcan5]

My wife teaches Math and her students do very well in all tests; they even return to ask for advice and more help. But parents need to be a part of the process, and if you are an obnoxious dummy chances are your brats will be too.

See # 163 etc in the following thread.

http://www.usmessageboard.com/educa...liberals-in-the-classroom-11.html#post1781636

 

[xsited1]

Detroit -- Impassioned parents demanded jail time for educators and district officials Saturday following the release of test scores that showed fourth- and eighth-graders had the worst math scores in the nation.

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I'm amazed that there are parents of public school children in Detroit who care about the education (or lack thereof) their kids are receiving.

 

[Charles Stucker]

I'm amazed that there are parents of public school children in Detroit who care about the education (or lack thereof) their kids are receiving.

Now, now, even the most apathetic parents are more than willing to scapegoat someone else for shirking responsibility. It's not their fault for being drunken, crack addicted, abusive uncaring pieces of human refuse. No it's the fault of the teachers they hamstring by refusing to allow them to maintain discipline in the class.

Besides this is too good an opportunity to pass up - if someone goes to jail it's a lot easier to get a settlement from them in civil court.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Detroit -- Impassioned parents demanded jail time for educators and district officials Saturday following the release of test scores that showed fourth- and eighth-graders had the worst math scores in the nation.

City students took the National Assessment of Educational Progress test this year, and 69 percent of fourth-graders scored below the basic level in math and 77 percent of eighth-graders scored below basic.

The Detroit scores on the progress test were the lowest in its 40-year history. The sample of students included 900 of Detroit's 6,000 fourth-graders and 1,000 of the district's 6,000 eighth-graders.

Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of the Detroit Parent Network, called for jailing and civil lawsuits against anyone in the city's educational system that is not doing his or her share to help properly educate children.

"Somebody needs to go to jail," she said in a tearful address to 500 parents gathered Saturday for the organization's annual breakfast forum. "Somebody needs to pay for this. Somebody needs to go to jail, and it shouldn't be the kids."

Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb told the crowd the test scores weren't the result of children who were incompetent or parents who didn't care. He blamed the scores on the district not doing its job.

Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores | detnews.com | The Detroit News

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There is no legal reason to jail anyone for it. However perhaps some firings would do. As for the board, they are elected. If the Parents do not like how the system in their city is working perhaps they could get off their fat asses and find and elect people they think can get the job done?

Further how about a study to find out how many of the failing students parents bothered to do a damn thing about their kids scores? Now there might be someone to jail for child neglect.

You can't do anything about the curriculum, the progressive teaching methods in vogue, or even removing your child from objectionable classes!

"But the school board says otherwise, and its attorneys say that if the curriculum is adopted, the parents will have no legal right to remove their children from class when the lessons are being taught."
Gay Curriculum Proposal Riles Elementary School Parents - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com



It seems that the courts have decided that parents have no rights once you have entered your children in the government schools, and these schools kill the desire to learn, and result in lower achievement, especially for minority students.

"Comparative studies of student
achievement have consistently shown that students from the U.S. do poorly, especially in
science and mathematics, when compared with students from other industrialized
nations. It is, to be sure, not surprising if students from schools which stress hard work,
practice, memorization and mastery of content do better on standardized tests. Data from
comparative studies have already provided ammunition for those who consider
progressive education a seriously flawed philosophy of education that should be exposed
and rejected."

http://www.macalester.edu/~reedy/Samos07-ULTIssima-3[1].pdf


I'm up for pitchforks and torches, myself.

 

[manifold]

Nothing about this story surprises me.

Not one thing.

 

[rightwinger]

they should jail the parents for swimming in a defective gene pool

 

[chanel]

There is plenty of blame to go around but I at least applaud these parents for being concerned. In NJ, the state tests are given one of three scores; AP - advanced proficient P- proficient and PP- partially proficient Unless you are an educator, you might not know that PP means FAILURE in the interest of PC BS, the.parents and the kids are kept in the dark - most likely on purpose.Its a scam.

 

[random3434]

I think every parent should home school, that would solve everything, don't you think?

It would make the parents responsible for their child's education, no tax dollars would be spent on education, and we could use that money to fund more weapons and studies on global warming!

Its' a win-win.


Unless anyone else has some better ideas?

 

[HUGGY]

Detroit parents want teachers, officials jailed over low test scores


It appears Detroits poor education system is at least two or three generations deep.

 

[mal]

Detroit parents want teachers, officials jailed over low test scores


It appears Detroits poor education system is at least two or three generations deep.

And by Design...

The Perpetual Problem with the Perpetual Promise to Fix it by those who have the Power while they Blame others for the Failures.

Garunteed Power.



peace..

 

[manifold]

I think every parent should home school, that would solve everything, don't you think?

It would make the parents responsible for their child's education, no tax dollars would be spent on education, and we could use that money to fund more weapons and studies on global warming!

Its' a win-win.


Unless anyone else has some better ideas?

I already told you my idea.

And I still think it's a good one.