I am appalled about the changes in the way student performance is being measured. Evidently the State of Texas has no academic accountability at all! These are definitely NOT improvements and only serve as a “slap in the face” to those students who are turning in assignments on time and working hard to earn their grades.
This new policy will also push students who actually need to re-take an exam due to a failing grade, further back due to waiting in line behind students who may have an A or B on an exam and want to up their grade. This is ludicrous! Do you really think our teachers have time for this nonsense?
Assignments being repeated up until the summative assignment, (unit/major test) for full academic credit…unbelievable! Where is the incentive for our students to do well and excel? You’ve already taken away the ability to exempt out of exams.
What you are teaching our children is that it’s OK not to be accountable for their work or their grades. This is not what happens in real life! My boss would fire me if I consistently missed deadlines and my work wasn’t up to par. This is NOT preparing them for college or life.
This program is not going to ensure that any student learns the necessary material to succeed. It will however, probably get test scores up and earn government money for the district. I thought education was about preparing children for their futures and the future of our nation not about cash generation for the schools. If a little bit of educational discipline, consistency and high expectations was required of our students, rather than the “dumbing down”, low expectation that is being presented in the new “Philosophy” the grades would naturally rise, and the schools would get their money.
I spoke with several of the teachers about this and 100% of them were appalled and outraged at this new “Philosophy”. Were any of the 80+ members who made recommendations from which this policy was developed educators?
Cheri Varney
Buda
