Is Your Public School Failing? Order Teachers To Pass More Students!

J.J. Jackson* | December 18, 2007

Last month, Principal Bennett Lieberman sent off a stern memo to teachers.

“If you are not passing more than 65 percent of your students in a class, then you are not designing your expectations to meet their abilities, and you are setting your students up for failure, which, in turn, limits your success as a professional.”

Was he ordering teachers to dumb down their classes?

The memo continued:

“Most of our students come from the lowest third percentile in academic achievement, have difficult home lives, and struggle with life in general. They DO NOT have a similar upbringing nor a similar school experience to our experiences growing up.”

This is just so typical of a liberal mindset that I can’t let it go without comment. Things not the way you want them to be? That’s ok because you can just make a decree and make everything the way you want it right?

Wrong.

So whether or not they can read, right or do arithmetic at their grade level is not important? What is important is that you design your curriculum to their “abilities” and pass them unprepared into the real world?

I’m tired of the whining. I’m tired of the excuse making. If you can’t pass algebra, trig, write a sentence with some sense of competence and find the United States on a map, you should not graduate to the next grade until you can. From What Mr. Lieberman is suggesting however the tactic he prefers is that if 50% of the students in your school can’t find France on a map well then they simply shouldn’t be required to find France on a map as part of their studies!

Of course we could solve 99% of these issues if we would just do away with the “public” schools.

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