Comments on: MV schools receive 'effective' grade

By: jason

jason — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:21:22 +0000

so why is everyone railing on the teachers? as you just stated the parents in this town suck at life. The system in which the teachers are trying to teach is broken. and yet the only people who get blamed is the teachers.

While I know many teachers who also suck at life and should not be given the opportunity to teach sign language to a blind person, most teachers are great people trying to survive in a broken system. Remember these folks are trying to keep their jobs just like the rest of us.

By: Alumni

Alumni — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:54:26 +0000

When you research the reason and history behind our progressive education system, then you will know why this is happening.

By: JRE

JRE — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:59:07 +0000

As further evidence of the complicated format:

Danville Schools are rated “excellent”
met 16 of 26 indicators
performance index score of 92.3

MVCS are rated “effective”
met 23 of 26 indicators
performance index score of 96.9

By: JRE

JRE — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:04:24 +0000

If you read carefully, you’ll see that the HS met 12 or 12 indicators and had an overall index score of 98.6. Despite that, they are ranked “continuous improvement” due to low income and students with disabilities not meeting the criteria of adequate yearly progress. Yet Dan Emmett had a index score of 96.1 was “excellent”.

These rankings are more complicated than a simple pass/fail and does not translate to an A-F grading scale.

By: miriam st. jean

miriam st. jean — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:46:11 +0000

@jason – what do you do when the parents themselves don’t have high school degrees, don’t care about education, think minimum wage jobs are something to strive for and are just glad to get rid of their kids when they turn 18?

When teachers “teach to the test” (which I find appalling), and the students only receive a rating of “effective” – we know the system is broken. I am afraid for the futures of our young people. Very, very afraid. Be it due to parental apathy, or teachers who just try to find the easiest way to hype the test scores in order to ensure federal funding.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:10:22 +0000

Not once on here has any of the blame been put on the parents of these kids who cant read, write or add.

Comparing private school teaching to public school teaching is like comparing apples to oranges. They are two completely different animals.

At the middle and high school ages teachers are only with kids for an hour a day. To blame the teachers because the kids arent studying and are playing xbox or whatever is placing the blame on the wrong person.

while i will agree that several teachers.. well suck. and they should be replaced. it doesnt mean that we should lump all teachers into the same category.

The problems with are educational system can not and should not be blamed only on one part of the system. Parents are no longer involved with kids, parents are pushing their kids to be the next michael jordan, Arod ect. teachers are trying to teach to a test because that is how the schools get more money.

There is more than one problem with educational system. Until parents start doing their part, we cant expect teachers to be miracle workers for every kid that comes through the educational system.

By: Private School Teacher

Private School Teacher — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:27:37 +0000

I find It hard to belive that Mt. Vernon Schools’ teaching is “effective” when we receive junior high students from there who clearly can’t add or subtract, let alone multiply or divide. The ones we got from there last year couldn’t read. I’m sure that’s not true of all of the students, but some are overlooked. Does “no child left behind” mean that we pass them on to the next level whether they’re ready or not? I believe that sets them up for failure. We have our work cut out for us.

By: Alumni

Alumni — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:45:00 +0000

Good grief! When I was a student in the MTV system, 5 out of 10(50%)was an “F”—-period. This is all administrative voodoo.

By: Miriam St. Jean

Miriam St. Jean — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:56:52 +0000

@ERIK – I missed it – guess I was too disgusted with the rate of “effective” to thoroughly read the entire article.

Sorry.

I’m not impressed whatsoever with the “effective” rating, given that teachers “teach to the test” – because they utilize that teaching method, the rating should have been off the charts. It wasn’t.

Everyone should be concerned.

By: ERIK

ERIK — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:21:42 +0000

The News did publish how ratings are made.