Ok. so first we get MCAS results today, it made my stomach DROP. Meg is warning in math and needs improvement in ELA.
If you read last nites post about the math homework........i've called her teacher to discuss possibly some tutoring.
This morning i go to the bank. I notice they give me too much money back so i pulled back in. The MAROON says oh i couldnt tell if that was a one or a seven so i just assumed. the look on my face.........i said in the kindest most gentle way i could being a MIFFED as i was....... NEXT TIME ASK ME TO CONFIRM IT PLEASE, and the look i got was like yah right bitch. Then she takes 15 min to reverse the transaction and then puts in tube and walks away, no apology, no NOTHING.
Not only is this pissing me off but EVERY WEEK i put the amount on the bottom that i get back, YOU COULDNT FIGURE THAT OUT YOU IDIOT. Debating whether to call main branch (but dont want reprocussions b/c it's my money) or just change banks. I havent been happy with them for a while now.
And LASTLY......my tires are still NOT BALANCED. Not only did sullivan tire plymouth screw up on my lugnuts they didnt balance right so now i have to find someone new to do it. I will not trust them to fix or even tell me if it's wrong. Since they didnt offer ANY recorse for the huge mistake they made.
SIGH SIGH SIGH
Showing posts with label MCAS SUCKS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MCAS SUCKS. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
From the DOE Website
This is regarding drop out rates in Massachusetts
Department Initiatives to Reduce Dropouts
Even if the dropout rate had held steady or significantly declined, we would still be concerned about this issue. The implications of these data are clear: Too many students are dropping out of high school. NO KIDDING.SERIOUSLY
We cannot achieve our goal of college and career readiness for all students if over 11,000 of them each year leave school before graduating. I JUST LEARNED THERE WAS A GOAL TO ALL THIS SO OUR KIDS ARE JUST A NUMBER FOR THIS STATE
We view all of our policies and programs, from full-day kindergarten to academic support to school redesign to educational proficiency plans, as working together to help reduce the dropout rate. That being said, in the coming months, the Department will take a number of important steps aimed specifically at addressing the dropout crisis.
Department Initiatives to Reduce Dropouts
Even if the dropout rate had held steady or significantly declined, we would still be concerned about this issue. The implications of these data are clear: Too many students are dropping out of high school. NO KIDDING.SERIOUSLY
We cannot achieve our goal of college and career readiness for all students if over 11,000 of them each year leave school before graduating. I JUST LEARNED THERE WAS A GOAL TO ALL THIS SO OUR KIDS ARE JUST A NUMBER FOR THIS STATE
We view all of our policies and programs, from full-day kindergarten to academic support to school redesign to educational proficiency plans, as working together to help reduce the dropout rate. That being said, in the coming months, the Department will take a number of important steps aimed specifically at addressing the dropout crisis.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
How Proud Am I?
We were discussing the titanic outside before the bus today. Em's reading a book on it in school.
She was telling me they are doing debates on it, argument type things.
Should they leave the artifacts (cups, plates things from ship) or should they recover them?
I provided her my feedback on that. I told her that i beleive that some things should be pulled from their spots and put on display. I think that the artifacts from titanic are ok to pull up, but the ship (though not possible) is something that should be left to it's resting spot.
So i asked her what she was doing it on, leave or pull stuff? She said, "Mom, i decided to do it on opposition and boycotting MCAS."
MY FACE DROPPED!!!!!! I was like ARE YOU SERIOUS?????
She goes mom is that ok that i am doing it on that. I said ABSOLUTELY, you go girl.
She said mom it puts so much pressure on kids i think someone needs to know that it's not right.
After this report is written, i will be sending a copy to Deval Patrick and the buffoons at the state house or whatever it is where he lives. It might not do any good, but here's a 5th grader that SERIOUSLY contemplated NOT taking the tests last week.
If she wasnt afraid of getting in trouble, she was going to boycott the tests.
I was like WAY TO GO EM I am SO PROUD OF YOU!
She was telling me they are doing debates on it, argument type things.
Should they leave the artifacts (cups, plates things from ship) or should they recover them?
I provided her my feedback on that. I told her that i beleive that some things should be pulled from their spots and put on display. I think that the artifacts from titanic are ok to pull up, but the ship (though not possible) is something that should be left to it's resting spot.
So i asked her what she was doing it on, leave or pull stuff? She said, "Mom, i decided to do it on opposition and boycotting MCAS."
MY FACE DROPPED!!!!!! I was like ARE YOU SERIOUS?????
She goes mom is that ok that i am doing it on that. I said ABSOLUTELY, you go girl.
She said mom it puts so much pressure on kids i think someone needs to know that it's not right.
After this report is written, i will be sending a copy to Deval Patrick and the buffoons at the state house or whatever it is where he lives. It might not do any good, but here's a 5th grader that SERIOUSLY contemplated NOT taking the tests last week.
If she wasnt afraid of getting in trouble, she was going to boycott the tests.
I was like WAY TO GO EM I am SO PROUD OF YOU!
Sunday, March 23, 2008
I COMMEND THESE KIDS
City teens lead MCAS reform charge
By George P. Hassett
Somerville teens led an MCAS reform rally last week at the State House urging lawmakers to take a second look at the test, six years after it became a graduation requirement.
Greg Rego, an 18-year old- Somerville resident told a group of 200 Boston-area high school students of his personal struggles with the high-stakes Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test. He said he was never given notice of the test until the day it came and after failing twice by a combined 3 points, dropped out of school.
“I’m just one voice out of all the teenagers in Massachusetts that have to deal with this potentially life-altering test. Maybe some students have no problem with it. For them it’s just an annoying bump in the road that they have to deal with. For others, it’s a make-or-break situation that determines the future of their education,” he said
In the five years after MCAS became a graduation requirement, drop out rates in Massachusetts’s high schools increased 32 percent to 11,145 kids out of school.
“That’s 10,000 young people on the streets with nothing to do,” said Teen Empowerment Director Stanley Pollack as he paced back and forth surrounded by cheering teens. “We can talk about numbers and numbers but this is about real people’s lives!”
State Rep. Carl M. Sciortino filed the bill that would keep the test in schools but eliminate it as a make or break graduation requirement. When he asked the room how many people knew someone who had dropped out, nearly all young hands went up.
The teens walked through State House halls and dropped off cards in Gov. Deval Patrick’s office that read: “Thousands of Massachusetts students suffer the unintended consequences of MCAS:increased drop out rates, stagnant or growing achievement gaps, and schools more focused on testing than on providing a well rounded education.
“Please support MCAS reform and help save our students.”
Sciortino said he expects the bill to come before legislators for a vote by April. So far Patrick has been responsive to the idea of reform, he said. However, in published reports Patrick has said he would like to see passing the test remain a graduation requirement for high school students in the state.
Critics of MCAS have said it unfairly hurts urban students, increases drop-out rates and narrows classroom curriculum only to subjects covered on the test.
Alexis Ramos a junior at Somerville High School, said her classes are shaped by the test.
“And what do you after you take a test? Most kids forget everything because they won’t need to use it again,” she said.
Anna Rodriguez, a SHS sophomore, said MCAS performance should be one factor in the overall evaluation of a student.
“It shouldn’t make or break our future,” she said.
The Massachusetts Teachers Association also called for MCAS reform at the rally on Wednesday, Feb. 13.
But some people like the test just how it is. Former State Sen. Thomas Birmingham, one of the architects of the 1993 Education Reform Bill that spawned the test, has spoken out against reform and the day of the rally the Boston Globe published an opinion piece by Scott Lehigh
By George P. Hassett
Somerville teens led an MCAS reform rally last week at the State House urging lawmakers to take a second look at the test, six years after it became a graduation requirement.
Greg Rego, an 18-year old- Somerville resident told a group of 200 Boston-area high school students of his personal struggles with the high-stakes Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test. He said he was never given notice of the test until the day it came and after failing twice by a combined 3 points, dropped out of school.
“I’m just one voice out of all the teenagers in Massachusetts that have to deal with this potentially life-altering test. Maybe some students have no problem with it. For them it’s just an annoying bump in the road that they have to deal with. For others, it’s a make-or-break situation that determines the future of their education,” he said
In the five years after MCAS became a graduation requirement, drop out rates in Massachusetts’s high schools increased 32 percent to 11,145 kids out of school.
“That’s 10,000 young people on the streets with nothing to do,” said Teen Empowerment Director Stanley Pollack as he paced back and forth surrounded by cheering teens. “We can talk about numbers and numbers but this is about real people’s lives!”
State Rep. Carl M. Sciortino filed the bill that would keep the test in schools but eliminate it as a make or break graduation requirement. When he asked the room how many people knew someone who had dropped out, nearly all young hands went up.
The teens walked through State House halls and dropped off cards in Gov. Deval Patrick’s office that read: “Thousands of Massachusetts students suffer the unintended consequences of MCAS:increased drop out rates, stagnant or growing achievement gaps, and schools more focused on testing than on providing a well rounded education.
“Please support MCAS reform and help save our students.”
Sciortino said he expects the bill to come before legislators for a vote by April. So far Patrick has been responsive to the idea of reform, he said. However, in published reports Patrick has said he would like to see passing the test remain a graduation requirement for high school students in the state.
Critics of MCAS have said it unfairly hurts urban students, increases drop-out rates and narrows classroom curriculum only to subjects covered on the test.
Alexis Ramos a junior at Somerville High School, said her classes are shaped by the test.
“And what do you after you take a test? Most kids forget everything because they won’t need to use it again,” she said.
Anna Rodriguez, a SHS sophomore, said MCAS performance should be one factor in the overall evaluation of a student.
“It shouldn’t make or break our future,” she said.
The Massachusetts Teachers Association also called for MCAS reform at the rally on Wednesday, Feb. 13.
But some people like the test just how it is. Former State Sen. Thomas Birmingham, one of the architects of the 1993 Education Reform Bill that spawned the test, has spoken out against reform and the day of the rally the Boston Globe published an opinion piece by Scott Lehigh
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