Reply #46: i dont have a vested interest but that my children are in the system. and

[seabeyond]

it is a matter of agreeing, yet disagreeing with all that you are saying.

over the last more than decade, i have seen various "new things" given a go trying to figure out how to satisfied the critics and about all i am finding is they are blocks put in front of both the student and the admn/teachers.

here in texas because of the hype that our kids are not learning, we have 4 X 4. four years of english, history, science and math. both my kids will have to do it. both kids are in the AP courses and get top grades. both kids have academics beyond what we did in our day. and neither kid needs to go thru a 4X4 that we insist of all students which in many ways i see as simply wrong.

they will do it though. as they continue to jump thru the loops of all the people demanding "new experiments" on them to resolve the issue of the number of students that refuse to learn and refuse to graduate from high school. the number of students that no matter what schools, adm, teachers, govt do will continue to refuse to learn or complete their education. at the expense of the children that will perform all these tricks so they can take the advantages in education and their future for the dissatisfaction of the naysayers pointing the finger where it does not belong.

if we continue to look at a made up problem, we will NEVER find a solution regardless of what we implement. not only is it a waste of time and money, but the hurt it does is amazing, which again, the blame will shift to the teachers i am sure.