Have you read the audit? Did you agree with its findings? What did you find most interesting? What do you think the school district should do now?
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Wake curriculum audit
Wake audit
Submitted by kcr4321 on September 6, 2007 - 3:18pm.
We paid those guys $215k for that? Are you kidding me? It seems they collected the money just to tell Mr. Burns what he wanted to hear.
The only suggestion that I actually agree with is to "Discontinue initiatives that are failing." Why don't we try discontinuing the practice of shuffling around the purple, orange and green kids so we have "economic balance" in the schools. That is a crock and we all know it is a pretty euphemism for racial balancing. How many millions of dollars do we spend busing kids around so that we have the correct balance of purple, orange, and green kids? That is certainly an initiative that has failed over and over for decades.
What happened to the neighborhood school concept? Want to see successful PTA's raising money for the school? Try making it THEIR school and you'll be much more likely to have a successful fundraiser! PTA money funds so many valuable programs. Don't spoil it be insisting that we pool the money for the benefit of all schools. You'll very quickly see your fundraising dollars drop like a boulder. Making sure that the green schools have the same amount of money from parent driven fundraisers as the purple schools is nothing short of socialism.
Now we are going to spend hundred of thousands of dollars more to recruit minority teachers. What happened to "the best person for the job" concept? We should concentrate our efforts on recruiting and training GOOD teachers, whether they are purple, orange, or green.
WCPS utiopia? All kids go to the closest or second closest school. If certain schools end up with more than the magic 40% of purple, green, or orange kids, funnel more money to that school. As it is, we are not improving the test scores, we are merely smearing around the failure. We are not achieving racial harmony, we are making it worse than it otherwise would be.
They key goal seems to be not to provide the best education, but to minimize the test score gaps between the orange and green kids. Hasn't anyone figured out yet that to narrow that gap in the system as it is now, the lower scores won't be raised significantly, but the higher scores will be lowered. Mission accomplished?
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I read the audit...
I read the audit...