Houston Gets Tough

Sad commentary but when so much school funding is based on test scores alone, it is not surprising these schools officials chose to sacrifice their morality for money.

Our own school district places a GREAT deal of pressure on testing results for just this reason. $$$$$ Teachers are REQUIRED to spend one full week just on prep for STAR testing. Much of that time is teaching the FORMAT of the test and things like how to eliminate 2 of the 4 choices on a multiple choice test which results in the student then having a 50/50 chance of "guessing" the correct answer instead of 1 in 4. Now I'm just guessing here but I don't think that strategy is going to be of much help to these kids in the future.

 

1) You're an ignorant troll completely uninterested in an actual discussion, but you clearly crave attention, so you keep coming back here.

2) regarding your sacriligious deification of Pope Benedict, whose religious practices you have no understanding of whatsoever, I can only respond with a quote:

"The needs of the poor must take priority over the desires of the rich, the rights of workers over the maximazation of profits, and the preservation of the environment over undcontrolled expansion, production to meet social needs over production for military purposes....

"The poor people and poor nations... will judge those people who take these goods away from them, amassing to themselves the imperialistic monopoly of economic and political supremecy at the expense of others."

So, in short, quit pretending to know anything about education, and quit pretending to be religious when it's clear from everyone of your posts all you worship is power.

Assuming you're not a sociological experiment or a sock-puppet.

 

Bite a fart.

You can't even read English. Anyway, tell you what: You respond to the passage I quoted, I'll respond to your initial post. Here it is again for your convenience.:

"The needs of the poor must take priority over the desires of the rich, the rights of workers over the maximazation of profits, and the preservation of the environment over undcontrolled expansion, production to meet social needs over production for military purposes....

"The poor people and poor nations... will judge those people who take these goods away from them, amassing to themselves the imperialistic monopoly of economic and political supremecy at the expense of others."

Mel? Whatever. Anyway, you're the one with the obvious obsession with beating children.

Only that the fact that you keep posting things from CNN leads people to conclude you're some lefty's sockpuppet.

 

No offense but I agree with the good Dr. You dont want to hear anything we have to say about this article. You have your mind made up already so there is no point in even engaging in a dialogue with you about anything.