The Journal reports that Mesa Del Sol wants to build
their own schools; link sub req
rather that send their kids to an elementary, middle and high
school about which the Journal reports;About 60 percent of the ninth-graders at Albuquerque High aren’t proficient in reading and 65 percent aren’t proficient in math, according to the state.
The figures are worse for sixth-graders at Washington Middle — where 82 percent aren’t proficient in reading and 93 percent aren’t proficient in math.
At Lowell Elementary, 61 percent of third-graders aren’t proficient in reading and 78 percent aren’t in math.
You really can't argue with the sense of their decision.
Friday, July 04, 2008
Mesa del Sol Seeks Own K-8 School
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that's got to be a blow to the teachers in Washington Middle, or are they the ones wanting to go forward with this?
Old trick of any district admin is to blame the teachers, then then the ecenomical status, then the race, then the parents, then the administration at school (in that order).
I know many of the teachers at Washington Middle, and they are good, caring people that devote a lot of themselves to these kids.
However, I know APS. I know how APS looks down on minority/poverty schools and doesn't get the "perks" that schools like La Cueva get.
I hope this doesn't become a witchhunt on the teachers there...many of them are great people and great educators!
--An APS Instructor
I intended no slight on any teacher at any of these schools.
I seriously doubt that the blame falls reasonably on their shoulders.
That said, if you had the choice of sending your own child to a school where the majority of students are "failing", or a school where a majority are "succeeding"; the choice is a no-brainer.
Sorry to misdirect Ched,
I meant that APS and the public in general will try to fault the teachers.
APS taskes no blame for schools failure's. APS simply transfers, ignores, promotes, or fires school staff in "failing" schools, whatever will cover their fat butts and take the heat off of them.
Many "failure " schools have good staff and sometimes good admin. Unfortunately, sometimes they have little or no district support, or they have problems from previous admins that take years to correct, or in the case of Middlw and High schools, sometimes they have to "fix" poor education obtained in the schools before them.
AKA..there's no simple answer.
However, I think "divorcing" from APS might be a good start!
As a UNM Grad student in Education, I have to wonder is this is not a way to rationalize seperating the richer kids coming in from out of town, to seperate them from the large hispanic populace in the Albuquerque High cluster.
Almost all schools in APS are "failing", but then, I think most districts are "failing" in the USA, according to testing.
In many places in the USA, communities often create their own schools for many reasons, but more often than naught, they creat new schools to seperate their kids from "the others".
I like the program the new school is initiating, and maybe with good community involvement, it will be a par excellence school. But I can help susoect the motivitation is as simple as "We want to initiate this new program".
And kudos to them for basically saying "What the hell does APS have to do with our decision?".
Thanks for providing the blog.
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