A friend sent me this link yesterday that I would really like to share with all of you. It is from school board member, John Creighton’s blog that I really enjoy but don’t faithfully watch.
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“Here’s another reality. We will invest more money in some students than we do in others and yet their academic performance will never match that of many of their classmates.”
Thanks, this is a good read. Once again feel free to post your comments.
Annette
http://johncreighton.typepad.com/johns_school_board_notes/2008/06/whats-fair.html
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kwillmann
// Jun 11, 2008 at 1:13 pm
John is a great advocate to have on the school board. In 28 years of teaching he is the first board member who came to our lunch room and listened to what we had to say.
His children analogy is right on but a tough sell in an admosphere where the most vocal and active parents are organized to get what they can for their kids–and who can blame them. The Poudre approach is designed to help alleviate that and to serve students who are school dependent for their advocacy. Not a bad idea school competing to bring in tough to educate kids in order to get more funding. It sure beats what is happending now—school trying to import their test scores (by competing for the best performing students) instead of improving them.
I do have one argument with John, while the bell curve is a natural state, it is not the given outcome. Our task as teachers as John suggests is to prepare all kids to be productive citizens–good teacher do just that. “A bell curve is nature lots of kids succeeding is nurture.”
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