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Palm Beach school officials' change of heart
I didn't think it could happen, but pressure from parents succeeded in modifying the Palm Beach County School District's new policy of testing students every three weeks to make sure they had learned all their lessons.
Now it's up to each principal to decide how often to administer the computerized tests. An amazing new movement of parents can take credit for this accomplishment, but I see from their Facebook page they see this as just the beginning of an uprising against the drastic changes the district made to schools this year, including departmentalization, in which elementary school kids have to change classes like they are in middle or high school.
I was skeptical that parents could succeed against the district's entrenched bureaucracy, but clearly board members and the administration heard the outcry and responded. Power to the parents!
Gretchen Day-Bryant has a son in high school and a daughter in middle school. She’s lived to tell about the struggles of juggling little kids and work...
Joy Oglesby has an infant daughter and a sister 13 years her junior, whom she babies to the now-adult...
Cindy Kent Fort Lauderdale mother of three. Her kids span in ages from teenager to 20s...
Rafael Olmeda and his wife welcomed their first son in Feb. 2009, and he's helping raise two teenage stepdaughters...
Lois Solomon lives in Boca Raton with her husband and three daughters...
Anne Vasquez is the Online Editor in charge of overseeing SunSentinel.com. She is the mother of a 5-year-old boy and a newborn daughter.
Georgia East is the parent of a five-year-old girl, who came into the world weighing 1 pound, 13 ounces...
Brittany Wallman is the mother of Creed, 13, and Lily, 6, and is married...
Chris Tiedje is the Social Media Coordinator, and father of two boys and a girl all under the age of seven.
Comments
Way to go Lawn Mower Parents!
Posted by: get real | October 15, 2009 7:53 AM
Yeah, way to go! Screw education in America! By all means...let's keep our children brain-dead at all times!!
We all bitch and moan about how our schools aren't doing enough to better educate our children. And then, when they do make a few radical changes to better gauge the effectiveness of their teaching methods, we bitch and protest their testing practices! No wonder so many other countries are kicking America's collective butt in school education quality.
It is certainly inevitable that, in the near future, America will be suffering from a new kind of epidemic...it's called "CBDD" (Chronic Brain Death Disorder).
Just keep doing what you've always done, folks, and you'll keep getting what you've always gotten!
Wake up, America...before it's TOO LATE!!
Posted by: Robin | October 16, 2009 2:02 PM