Miami Herald Reports Preliminary Results Indicate Only 27% Pass FCAT
No need to scratch your head on this one when you force teachers to teach for a test, then change the test and scoring methods halfway through an academic year.- Naked Conch - Posted by Matt Gardi - May 15, 2012
The Miami Herald is reporting today that preliminary results indicate that only 27% of fourth graders earned a passing score compared with 81% last year. (Read about it here.) That indicates something is wrong, but not with the children. Rather it indicates once again that we should scrap this quarter billion dollar boondoggle pushed on us by educational wizards in Tallahassee.
We need to redirect this misallocation of funds going to the State Department of Education, and get it back down into the classroom to our aides and teachers, and let the teachers teach. The magnitude of the wasted resources, and damage caused to our children by these lost years of FCAT folly is incomprehensible. We need to get back to the basics and redesign the educational system from the ground up starting at the local level, where each locality is unique and faces different challenges.
It's time.
Towards that end as well, please enjoy the video below provided to me by Rick Roach, the School Board member who failed the FCAT. (You can read about it here, as it continues to maintain it's ranking as the most read post on Naked Conch!)
Watch this video to see what the FCAT is doing to some of our most talented kids!
Thanks again to Rick Roach for his efforts!
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