Central Falls to fire every high school teacher
2008-2009: Test scores remain a problem at Central Falls High School as only 3 percent of 11th graders are proficient in math in 2008 and 7 percent in 2009.
Central Falls High School must be an interesting place to go to school. "Teachers" are not required to teach. Students are not required to learn. Factor in that the "teachers" are being paid a salary of 3.5 times the amount the average citizen earns in Central Falls, and you can begin to see the anger at the "teachers" and the school.
Of course, after the students graduate (does it count as graduation if you flunk all your courses all the time, but manage to show up for class most of the time) they may have difficulty getting any job that requires an education. But what does that have to do with schools?
But there was room for hope by the "teachers" union. From 2008 to 2009 the math proficiency scores improved from 3% to 7% of all the students attending the school.
If there actually was an increase in the math proficiency scores of 4% per year, and if this rate of increase stays steady, it will only take 12 years for 50% of the students to be able to master basic math proficiency by the time they graduate. Of course the 4% increase could be one time fluke. In which case, it could take hundreds of years to raise the proficiency scores to above 10% of the students. Let's not even think about the students that subjected to this kind of inadequate education.
Based on the test scores, and the "teachers" unwillingness to work with the administration to solve this problem, the school can now go out and hire baby sitters for $1 or $2 per hour and get at least the same test scores. And the students won't be any worse off than they would have been with the "teachers".
One of the comments below the story really says it all:
ReplyDelete"The reason the school is failing is because, the number of hispanic students are increasing. in 2000 CF high school had 47% hispanic and about 30% ESL. In 2009 there are almost 70% hispanic and almost 45% ESL. Many of the children are from families of illegals and were already poorly educated and have poor educational values. This is not the fault of the teachers."
Let teachers impose discipline again, let them eject troublemakers, and half the educational deficit would go away right there.
And no more "English as a Second Language". Learn our language, THEN come to our country. Don't come here and then expect us to let you play catch-up in school.
Or better yet, eject all the illegal aliens. At which point most of BOTH problems would go away.