Wednesday, December 06, 2017

PED Stupid

Susana's Public Education department is being run by idiots.  They have condemned four Albuquerque Schools for having bad test scores.  They have denigrated the teachers who work the hardest in schools whose communities are in chaos and poverty.  Teachers from higher scoring affluent schools wouldn't last a week in these difficult areas because of the daily grind of not only teaching but trying to nurture kids from broken and parent addicted homes.  This bludgeoning by PED is criminal.  And think what it does to the kids that go to those schools.  One more black mark on their lives.

My hat is off to the courageous teachers and administrators who work in these kinds of schools  They are the bravest people in the school system.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I do not understand the rationale for your comment. Many schools that have succeeded meeting the standards have many more poorer families that may or not be legal or illegal and school districts that do not have the resources that APS does. Look at the data on schools that have succeeded with fewer resources. Look at the data...oh sorry that may confuse your argument. Data be damned. It’s not the teachers rather the direction they receive. And I am Hispanic.

Jim Baca said...

Did you read my comments correctly? It appears not. Did I say anything about resources? Illegals? Did I say anything about being confused by data? Or did I just compliment the teachers who work so hard every day?

Anonymous said...

No...what you slighted is the PED. They are trying to hold the educator admin for not doing what other areas are doing with even more disadvantaged students.

Jim Baca said...

The PED. that tried to kill science standards gets little respect from me