Finally. The public knows the truth. CCSD socially promotes kids through our schools who are unable to read. CCSD CAN'T teach our kids how to read. I know. It's the lack of parental involvement. But guess what? CCSD didn't teach them how to read either.
Now what are we going to do about it? According to our Superintendent Dr. McGinley, CCSD has already taken care of these concerns with MAP testing and "coherent curriculum." Unfortunately, she must have missed the article where a CCSD teacher admitted many teachers can't even interpret the MAP scores. Who's in charge of MAP testing? Dr. Rose, the Director of Assessment and Accountability, was the rocket scientist behind implementing a test to help teachers determine what students needed help on in preparation for the PACT testing. Is your head spinning like mine is? Why hasn't Dr. Rose trained the teachers to interpret the scores? Why didn't CCSD just put that money towards REDUCING CLASS SIZE?
And the article in today's paper on the incredible strides the principal at Alice Birney is taking to teach middle school students to read proves coherent curriculum clearly does not exist in Charleston County. In other words, Dr. McGinley's little piece in yesterday's paper just doesn't make sense.
And wasn't McGinley the Chief Academic Officer when we socially promoted all special education students at Burke Middle? The Post and Courier stated our former superintendent "instituted the A-Plus program" at Burke middle, yet wasn't our CURRENT Superintendent the true master behind that joke of a plan? The joke of a plan that couldn't even properly ensure students received services required by federal law?
I wonder how Darby's rally is going at Morris Brown tonight. Yeah, public schools just need more money, Darby. It takes BIG BUCKS to teach kids how to read.
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I'm not buying this "lack of parental involvement is the problem" excuse.
Sure, parental involvement helps. Sure, well-educated parents can more easily spot deficiencies in their kids' education than poorly educated parents can.
But if we could rely on parents to make sure their kids learned what they need to know, we'd have no need for public education. What a savings!!!
My mother was a 4th grade teacher in Georgetown County. She taught any number of children whose parents were functionally illiterate. I'm sure my mother had faults as a teacher, but I am 100% sure that she never said:
"Why are you holding me responsible? I'm just the college-educated person who's being paid to educate these children! If they don't learn, it's the fault of their illiterate parents!"
Clisby
I too am tired of hearing excuses like, "If their parents were involved these kids wouldn't fail." And since when did failing to teach a child to read become an opportunity for the system to then say it's because of the student's "learning disability"? It's a learning deficiency and guess who was deficient in seeing to it the child learned before pass him on to the next grade? It's not a learning disability, it's the incompetence of the people running this local school system.
You two posters have obviously never been in a classroom. I have talked to teachers that have taught in classes where they had to come in, make sure the children were fed, clothed and had enough sleep...then they started to teach. Have enough children like that and guess how long you spend teaching in a day. This doesn't count the time you spend teaching them to hold a book, not smack the kid next to them for "looking at me"and have some sort of manners.
It is not like this in all schools, but it is in many in Charleston County. I have seen it.
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