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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: American Spirit who wrote (420965)7/1/2003 10:38:02 AM
From: Ann Corrigan  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
>>GW forced teachers to teach the test answers in advance to students to skew the results
upward and make it look like the 48th state in education looked like one of the best.<<
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This happens throughout the nation whenever education standards are raised. The teachers then complain that they are teaching to the test, which is really humorous, since it is the only time the students actually learn anything. Whenever they are pressured by "educators" & parents to apply themselves & it results in the students acquiring concrete knowledge, it is definitely progress & should not be scoffed at by the public. Otherwise, students in public school learn mostly how to avoid learning while applying most of their effort to athletics. A miniscule number of them will ever make their living with a professional team. That's why academics should be the 1st priority. Sports should be secondary and that was GW's point in Texas schools. Besides, all students have a certain curriculum each semester that ultimately results in being tested on certain facts. All school academic pursuits are or should be based on measurable standards. That's why teacher testing should be simultaneous with student testing for each classroom. We can then pinpoint instinctive teachers who get varifiable results each yr. Try to sell that concept to the Teachers Unions--as much chance as a snowball's chance of surviving in hell.
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