School's Out for Summer
So school's out for summer for some students in my fair district as of yesterday...July 14. This brings to a close the most farcical part of public education...which means a lot when you consider the abundence of farcical parts of public education, and which means even more when compared to the farcical parts of private education. Private education's motto? "There's nothing better than indoctrination!"What closed as of today that I am speaking of is Summer School. The "I-Demand-A-Recount" portion of every years school year. It's a complete and utter mockery of the public education system.
Consider that in a school year, students are graded on performance within 4 nine-week periods, which means that students on average receive 180 days worth of education a year. Cutting the numbers short, the average student receives 1260 hours of education in your regular school year.
So a student fails to perform to standards. The public education facilities say that you can pass on to your next grade despite a failure to perform the required tasks assigned to you during the standard school year if you attend the prescribed summer school. Let me tell you, as an insider, that this summer school requires 4 hours a day for 4 days a week for 4 weeks.
64 hours versus 1260 hours...You'd almost think that students choosing summer school over actually trying during the regular school year would be primary candidates for political office.
Here are the facts. your child failed to meet the minimum criterium necessary for us to feel your child is ready for the next grade. Assuming your child did not fail more than 2 subjects, he can appeal for a reprieve via summer school to continure on. In summer school, if you are willing to let the teacher walk you through the material, in a greatly filtered form, than you get to pass.
Anyone feel comfortable saying that the guy who passed Medical School by taking summer classes is about to operate on your heart?
Summer School is teachers (including myself) looking for extra money by teaching students who couldn't pass where the majority of students could for the sake of the school district's endeavor to make a bit more money. We have students spending 1/100th of the time spent passing material that everyone else took the entire school year to pass so that they could remain with their fellow students who did pass what they failed...anyone else notice an inherant flaw?
posted by Bodog @ 2:16 AM
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