Should this principal be fired?

Question

He sent out a memo stating the following:


"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."

This person flat our states that you must lower standards to push kids through the system. How is a child to strive to be better than what they are now if the teachers lower the standards?

I have never heard of anyone who does better when standards are lowered to where they are today.

This is a big problem today.

If you think this principal is a good one, have you seen the movie Lean on Me? Tell me how this guy is competent after learning about what Joe Clark led his school into.

Answer 1

Yes. Lowering standards may help them get better jobs but that doesn't mean they will be able to work those jobs well.

Answer 2

I have worked under principals and superintendents like that. They want grades to improve, even if the students are not learning. They believe that higher grades reflect positively on themselves; they couldn't give a damn about the kids.

No Child Left Behind is not the source of this problem; the program is based on test scores, not grades. Far too many administrators are using No Child Left Behind as an excuse for their failure to do their jobs.

>It is true that more than 65% of students should be passing; but a teacher can not teach if students refuse to learn. And why should a kid try to learn if the school administration just gives them a passing grade no matter what? Proctor a freshmen level class at a university and see if lowering standards helps kids achieve beyond high school.

> No Child Left Behind does not mean that a school can not hold a student back a grade. That is a prevalent misconception. The only pressure to pass a student (that has not mastered the grade level) to the next grade, that I have seen, came from administration and parents. Never has the state and/or federal government made me pass a failing student, but school administrators have, especially if the student was an athelete.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

educators care too much about their own paychecks. They know that the only way they can get money under "No Child Left Behind" is to have high test scores and students who preform well at their schools. So they are trying to find a way to get around actually improving the lives of their students for their own gain.

Answer 5

Heck if you are not passing more than 65 percent of your students why are you teaching? You certainly are NOT getting the job done!!!!! A teacher's job is to teach...If the student's are not getting it, then the teacher has not done his Job!!!!

The heck with the student's abilities....Grammer school and High school subjects are not rocket science. They all have the ability....

Answer 6

Joe Clark is the kind of principal that we need... This person you are quoting should be fired and banned from working in the educational field in any capacity. He/she is part of the problem not solution

Answer 7

I'm a teacher. This CRAP is the result of Bush's NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND Act. This inability to hold kids back when they need to be held back is what this law has dumped onto instructors. Get it? "Can't leave kids behind"? This is not because of our "crappy" teachers. This country has some of the best teachers in the world with the best educations in pedagogy and praxis.

No Child Left Behind is good for two things: (A) forcing teachers to pass students they don't want to, as you've witnessed; (B) forcing teachers to teach kids according to bubble tests (designed by companies that make lots of money from Bush's idiotic law) and therefore forcing them to cut time spent on equally important subjects not on the tests (social studies, art, phy ed).

Bush knows all about education. He's a smart cookie. Can't you tell?
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It sickens me to see that people have no problem with school in general consisting of taking bubble tests - rarely accurate or useful measures of "intelligence," skill, or aptitude - in a few required areas, two main ones being math and reading, in order to prepare kids to become brain-dead automatons for their corporate employers. Or, to prepare kids to "get a job." I'm sorry. School is not military training for employment. There is more to education, more to learning, and more to life than "getting a job" and raking in money used in turn to buy more brain-killing TV sets.
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"educators care too much about their own paychecks. They know that the only way they can get money under "No Child Left Behind" is to have high test scores and students who preform well at their schools." - LMFAO. You're joking, right. You think teachers make as much as doctors or something? You think people go into teaching in the first place to make money? *The money that schools get, some of which is affected by test grades, goes back into the STUDENTS and the schools*.

Wow. Just ... wow.

Answer 8

Should probably check for gaps in preparation before jumping to any conclusions--persons have various backgrounds that they bring into various classes as well as into various school systems.

Answer 9

Based on the quotation you presented, it sounds to me like he should be fired.

But this is typical liberalism. Lower the bar so everybody can jump over it. Don't make it tough, because some kids might not make it, and that would be fair!

Vote for Rudy!

Answer 10

He should be fire, along with the teachers that failed to teach the students.