Crisis in the Classroom
Mar. 5th, 2004 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amezriI just needed to share this really disturbing topic in today's New York Post. Basically, our kids are dumb and have a pathetic grasp of English grammar.
"NYC school can be more safer by get more stronger office ... I was in a argument in my class in the 7 grade with one of my friends she wanted to fight me but don't care." - A Brooklyn seventh-grader's essay on school violence
That's just... really sad.
Related stories, also from today's Post:
+ Mayor Bloomberg agreed yesterday with exasperated high-school teachers who want to end social promotion and defended his strict new policy of holding back low-performing third-graders.
In one recent assignment, an 11th-grader wrote a garbled, typo-ridden answer to a question about the Progressive Era, with lines like this: "The legislator [sic: legislation] was very successfully [sic: successful] on accomplishing the goal of the pogassies [sic: Progressives].
+ Dedicated Harlem dad Matt McCoy thinks kids should be held back if they don't make the grade.
+ Last year's summer school program was an exercise in social promotion: 77 percent of students were promoted even though most of them badly flunked their English and math exams, a new study from Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's office found.
"NYC school can be more safer by get more stronger office ... I was in a argument in my class in the 7 grade with one of my friends she wanted to fight me but don't care." - A Brooklyn seventh-grader's essay on school violence
That's just... really sad.
Related stories, also from today's Post:
+ Mayor Bloomberg agreed yesterday with exasperated high-school teachers who want to end social promotion and defended his strict new policy of holding back low-performing third-graders.
In one recent assignment, an 11th-grader wrote a garbled, typo-ridden answer to a question about the Progressive Era, with lines like this: "The legislator [sic: legislation] was very successfully [sic: successful] on accomplishing the goal of the pogassies [sic: Progressives].
+ Dedicated Harlem dad Matt McCoy thinks kids should be held back if they don't make the grade.
+ Last year's summer school program was an exercise in social promotion: 77 percent of students were promoted even though most of them badly flunked their English and math exams, a new study from Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's office found.
