Reply #23: Here's one that will blow your mind.... [View All]

[AnneD]

our school is diverse (GOP Translation:lots of 1)kids that are black skinned 2)kids that are brown skinned and speak another language and their moms work as maids and dads as what ever they can 3)poor, all colours 4)foreign born and here legally with their graduate student parents 5)white kids whose parents are Docs, Lawyers, Professors, Businessmen.)

They changed the rules about how a school passes TAKS. It use to be that a certain percent passed and you were acceptable. We had a high number pass and pass with high scores.

They then changed it so that every possible 'sub group' had to pass to be acceptable and every group had to score highly to be recognized. Another words, if we didn't try hard to be a very diverse school-it would be easier for us to be recognized. We have probably the most sub groups in all the district.

It has been an up hill battle to keep our diversity that we love and still do the TAKS thing.

Well, we just got our TAKS preliminary score back.


WE MISSED RECOGNIZED BY ONE STUDENT IN ONE OF OUR MANY GROUPS.....ONE STUDENT!!!!!!

And with this pay for performance shit-that means we get bump kiss when it comes to any decent bonus. Talk about demoralizing. It will be a short time before some students are 'excluded' or denied enrollment.

ONE STUDENT....ONE STUDENT.