Governor Stumped by FCAT Question (Orlando Sentinel)

[iamjoy]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-bk-jebbush070604,0,6520380.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Sounds like Luana Marques

is smarter than the governor. At least she got the sense of humor part right.



"If the point is, I haven't been in school for the last 30 years, that's true. But if I'm going to be graduating from high school and I can't pass a 10th-grade aptitude test, then I'm fooling myself," Bush said. "The fact that a 51-year-old man can't answer a question, is really not relevant. You're still going to have to take the FCAT and you're still going to have to pass it in order to get a high school degree."

Marques said later that she had asked the governor the math question only as a joke but she does believe the governor and others who call for the use of the test should be able to pass it.

"I think I offended him," Marques said of the governor. "I don't think he had much of a sense of humor."

[2Design]

2. yes those who think these test are a good thing should be able to pass

them or get rid of them....they do not measure knowledge anyway

[peekaloo]

3. haha.....I love it when the fodder units tweak Jebthro

read in a central Florida paper recently that students were being transferred back and forth during FCAT testing time so as not to corrupt their school's standing for the gravy train.

Thanks for fucking, er, Cheney-ing up Florida's schools douchebag!

[yellowcanine]

4. "I don't know, 125, 90 and whatever remains on 180?"!!!!!!!

What a dumb shit. 125 + 90 = 215, which is already more than 180. Actually I doubt that there was a question asking what the angles of a 3-4-5 right triangle were. In any case, Bush's answer is absurd because two angles of a triangle can't total more than 180 degrees as that is the sum of all three angles of any triangle.

[Spangle]

5. To much presure on the kids!

I'm in Florida and a parent of a student required to take the 3rd grade FCAT to pass to the 4th. A lot of presure was put on those kids. I refuse to add more to it. They teach TO the test. They send tons of FCAT school work home, plus homework. (For parents to TEACH) I backed off totaly. Limited homework to a reasonable amount and tossed the FCAT paperwork. The teacher was pissed and demanded a meeting. She got it. With the Principle and the school pysc. Long to short, she lost, I won. The psyc told me to keep up the good work. The teachers use the threat of not passing the FCAT to get the parents to do the teaching at home while they teach the FCAT test. I had no problem with the theory that if a child can not pass the FCAT that they should be held back.. THAT IS THE POINT OF THE TEST! However, I refuse to take full responsiblity. That is why teachers are hired. Testing students is to ensure that teachers are doing their job and not just passing on trouble students that they do not wish to work with!

Without the FCAT stress from home, my child passed the FCAT just fine. While a neighbor kid went to school sick to his stomach from the presure. There was no need for that kind of presure!

[jab105]

6. The BBBS kid I have got a 2 in math...and a 4 in reading...

I don't know how she's going to get out of high school with the math like that since she has a mom who works at a dollar store, who doesn't even get home till 8pm...I'm trying to work with her some on it...but its a lot of pressure on the kids, she was very sad about it...

[Gyre]

7. Cement skateboard anyone?

Dat punk-assed kid's goin to be swimmin w/da fishes fo makin Jebbie defend his sorry self in public.O8) Way to pants the man!:)

Gyre

[unome2]

8. High-Stakes Tests Define America

Teachers and parents have all the power. If teachers simply refused to administer high-stakes tests, or if parents refused to submit their children to the ordeal, they would vanish into oblivion.

Yet an entire nation continues to sell its own children into corporate servitude.

A nation that shits on its own children isn't fit to be called civilized.