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originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: eisegesis
So Mississippi has given up on trying to improve its terrible school performance and has opted to just blame the parents instead?
Education Week’s Quality Counts report puts Mississippi 51st among the states and Washington, D.C., in K-12 student achievement. That is actually down a notch from last year. Only Mississippi and D.C. were graded “F” in student achievement. Massachusetts and Maryland, the two top states, each earned a “B” grade from the education newspaper.
Mississippi also ranked among the lowest 10 states in providing young people a chance for success in life, financing schools and improving teaching. The state ranked somewhat higher on how well K-12 connects to preschool, college and kindergarten, and ranked 10th for standards.
Mississippi’s best ranking, as has been the case for several years, was in the area of standards, where the state got an “A” and ranked 10th.
The state got a “D” for school finance, ranking 46th. The state spends 3.6 percent of its taxable resources, about the national average, on education, but because Mississippi is poor, that comes out to spending that’s significantly below average, even once regional cost differences are cancelled out. Plus, property-rich districts spend more on students than property-poor districts, making spending unequal across the state’s 151 districts.
So Mississippi has given up on trying to improve its terrible school performance and has opted to just blame the parents instead?
originally posted by: CranialSponge
It's much easier to just stick a bunch of band-aids on a gaping wound and point fingers.
Fix the education system? Why oh why would they change something that's fully working as intended?
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: eisegesis
I hope they intend to grade "on the curve". A single parent working 2 jobs to support 4 kids, all with homework and expectant teachers, shouldn't be graded on the same criteria as a one child couple, with one stay at home parent, for example.
originally posted by: CranialSponge
But for gawd's sakes, don't blame the failing education system, its failing policies, and its failing curriculum.
... because that would be too difficult to deal with.
Do you currently have kids in public school?
originally posted by: CranialSponge
One of the biggest differences I've noticed between the Canadian and US public school systems is that Canada has a fairly standardized curriculum set for all schools across the country, no matter what public school you go to or where you live. There is no discrepency between poor areas, middle class areas, and wealthy areas. All kids in the country get the same quality of education no matter what background they come from..
originally posted by: dreamingawake
Exactly who judges them the ones who want to lay blame on someone other than who is really responsible for their failing schools?