[Rhodes22-list] Slim's issues

[Steve Alm]

Thanks, Jim, I'll stand corrected on that.  I can sympathize with teachers
up in arms having to prove themselves.  It happens over and over.  I was a
music teacher and nobody gets that more than the arts teachers.  We're
always the first on the chopping block.  I got really sick of it.

I'm the first to admit the schools are in deep doo-doo, but I want it fixed,
not dismantled. 

Slim

On 10/5/04 4:14 PM, "Jim White" <jdwhite at utpa.edu> wrote:

> At 03:52 PM 10/05/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> Slim wrote:
>> It's pretty hard to comment on the schools in SC, IL or Texas when all my
>> experience has been in MN, but I'll take a crack at it.  First, Texas.  All
>> I know about Texas schools is what I read from Texan, Molly Ivins who blames
>> Gov. GWB for all that mediocrity that Jim refers to.  He dumbed down the
>> tests in order to raise the percentage of passing scores, making Texas look
>> better against other states.  He has the same idiotic plan for the rest of
>> the country.
> 
> Actually, and strictly historically speaking, the tests in Texas (and
> teacher competency assessment as well) were first initiated by Ross Perot
> as the TAAS test (Texas Assessment of Academic Skills) back in the 1990's,
> it was a pretty watered down test, and many teachers were up in arms about
> having to prove their own competency. Under GWB that test evolved into the
> TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) test, a much more difficult
> test. This test was conceived under Bushs' governorship, but implemented
> under our current (and much less effective) governor: Rick Perry.
> 
> Just for the record.
> jw
> 
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