Please tell me how public school teachers can teach nothing but the Leap Test all year long and have such dismal results. You would think with such test concentration that nearly all the kids would pass the test and be able to function at grade level. Where is our money going? One third of our state's kids will be going to summer school and trying again or, worse yet, they will be moving on to a new grade without being proficient in their last grade. Somebody needs to kill Goliath! Most of the kids can't even write anymore. No requirement to write in cursive. No requirement to put coherent sentences together. The standard is so low that homeschooled sixth graders can easily pass the GEE!
I wish someone would fund a scientific study of the difference in brain synapses of kids who are constantly engrossed in commercial-broken television programming, video games and movies compared with those of healthy individuals who are not entangled with media! There must be a difference! Of course finding enough kids to participate in a random sample who are not glutted with media and simple minded public school classes would be hard to find.
EXODUS EXODUS EXODUS I still say. If you love them, get them out of public school. If you're not walking the halls daily of your child's public school then you have no idea what you're child is facing. The pressures to conform to evil are huge and the education is worse than second rate. It is pitiful. Children today would be better off with grandma than in public school. Internet and educational video school is much better and more coherent than public school. So let the Leaps begin - again and again and again on its roller coaster, parent placating ride. LIES, the central purpose and profession of state and federal boards of education.
