We are completely redoing our graduation project at our school.
Starting next year: students will do their resume in 9th grade
English(and keep up with it all 4 years; 30 hours of volunteer
work will be completed with they take C&E; Research paper done
when they take 11th grade English; Product and Board will be
done when they take 12th grade English. This spread
the "wealth" and responsibility among many staff members and it
also then becomes truly a graduation project - not a senior
project. Also, every staff member at our school serves as an
advisor to at least 4 students.

On 11/04/09, Bill T 6 NC wrote:
>
> My county has us prepping the students for the senior project
> starting in 6th grade. At least, that was the line last
> school year. We haven't heard much this year.
>
> I, too, am pondering retirement, and for much of the same
> reasons. The educrats in raleigh won't let us teach, keep
> presenting new "hoops" for ourselves and our students to jump
> through,keep throwing up new obstacles to student learning
> and teacher autonomy, continue inventing new ways to make
> our jobs harder than they already are and all,
supposedly,
> in the name of "accountability, closing the gap, raising the
> bar...." I have lost count of all the latest buzz words and
> panaceas....
>
> As some have already mentioned here, much of this isn't for
> the kids, but is done to validate high paying jobs at central
> office and DPI. "Education reform" has, long ago, put the
> true needs of our students on the back burner and begun to
> reduce our job to that of manager and statistician.
>
> The only thing that is going to halt this runaway train is if
> enough parents get righteous (gracious knows that NO ONE
> listens to us) and lay siege to the palaces of
bureaucracy
> that our educational system has become yoked to

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