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70% are " proficient". That may be ok, what is proficient? Who determines it? Guess what, if you test a group half of their scores will be below the average for the group!
When American Federation of Teachers President Rhonda “Randi” Weingarten proposed a “bar exam” of sorts for teacher prospects, it was hailed as a step forward in improving teacher quality, EAGnews.org reported.
But some of Weingarten’s underlings don’t know what all the fuss is about. She either didn’t run the idea past her deputies, or they didn’t approve and she trotted it out anyway.
Norwalk Federation of Teachers President Bruce Mellion said if teachers would be subjected to such a test, they better get a pay raise.
"What we're doing is testing, testing, testing, testing. At some point we need to...
Gee, if kids cannot read at grade level, perhaps they are not proficient?
Should parents have a reasonable expectation that the tax dollars they flow into the education system might just produce results? Or is that a bridge to far for unions and liberals?
Nametabs has done us a favor -- in a couple of sentences, he/she has exposed the real problem...liberals and liberal thinking.