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Test scores are in and as most teachers expected they are bad. I don't know about the rest of you about "raising the bar", but I'm not really confident that many kids can jump any higher than they have already jumped. We did the best we could to prepare them, but the test was way too long. I'm not sure that having a long test is actually a good measure of what they know. I suppose our state sup and the legislature will now try to figure out how they can get rid of all of us who cannot teach kids well enough so that they can score high. Gee, I think that means a lot of us will not have a job.
Victoria Thanks for the heads up. I am not the least bit curious this year to see test scores. I had a "low" class last year and everything we learned was a struggle to learn it. So regardless of what those scores tell me, I am not personally invested in them. I told myself back when they took it that I couldn't do anything about the test or the scores, and...See More
Jul 25, 2008
Smith You said the scores are bad. Are you referring to all of the schools are just were you work? I am really anxious just to see how my students did, but also nervous b/c as you said the gov't is sure to try to get rid of teachers who students are performing low. The school I work at put a lot of teachers on like a "probation" telling them that their s...See More
Jul 31, 2008


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