APS' Executive Director of Communication Monica Armenta
would have interest holders believe 81% of students showed up
to school yesterday. She explained it was "on paper" attendance;
whatever the hell that is.
A reliable source informs; APS' computer attendance system
defaults to "present". If a student is absent and the teacher
doesn't tell the computer the student is absent, the computer
assumes the student is present. Apparently, substitute teachers
cannot log into the computer that records attendance, so
students who are absent on days when there is a sub, are
recorded as present.
That allegation alone casts serious doubts on APS overall
attendance claims.
And finally, on Tuesday, even teachers who wanted to take roll
were not able to; the computer informed them that attendance
could not be taken because "the computer" did not recognize
Tuesday as a school day. No one in the leadership of the APS
thought to reprogram their computer regarding the existence of
the makeup day. Since teachers could not report absences, the
computer recorded students as present and voila!;
81% attendance "on paper" on the "stupidest makeup day ever".
The media will report APS' claim of 81% attendance "on paper".
they will not report that it is all a bunch of hooey created by
Armenta to "... create beliefs or leave impressions that are untrue
or misleading..."
Her ass is covered.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
APS' "computer glitch"
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I support this claim. APS did something so that I could not take attendance on Tuesday in my school. All students are defaulted to "present" in the ICUE system if the teacher or secretary does not change absent students to "Absent" on that day.
I only had about 10% turnout on Tuesday. Other teachers had almost no students show up.
As usual, students were running around and not even going to classes on this last day.
For Monica to make that statement is a blatant lie and misleading!
APS was so quick to shut down ICUE yesterday to cover their butts it left some teachers with headaches trying to input grades on the last day of school!
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