Class of 2022 Had Lowest ACT Scores in Over 30 Years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t it just a signal of what learning was lost during the first 2 years of COVID?

I feel like this year (beginning last spring) everyone snapped back to life as it was preCOVID but our kids really have experienced real learning loss. (And social loss too but that’s another post). Schools need to do more than revert to previous curriculum, but it’s hard for them to pivot (and it’s not on the teachers, they teach the curriculums they are give. It’s the curriculums that need to have a plan for learning catch up. IMO everyone working in the Department of Education (a huge building which must have a huge number of people working there) should be focused on this issue.

+1000

Our school district has not acknowledged learning loss at all. It is just continue with the curriculum, pretend kids didn’t miss a year of progress in virtual and a messed up year of Covid absences/quarantines, etc. Kids have expressed feeling behind and no higher ups care at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least people should discuss the appropriateness of "college for all" when 42% of test takers met NONE of the college readiness benchmarks. We need alternatives that send kids into the world with the capacity to work. If not attending college, they need basic reading and math, along with a vocational skill. But because we are hung up on equity, we would rather pretend that somehow ALL of the kids will become lawyers, and instead graduate illiterates.

Where do you get the idea that the U.S. has "college for all"? In 2020, 43% of high school graduates enrolled in 4-year colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least people should discuss the appropriateness of "college for all" when 42% of test takers met NONE of the college readiness benchmarks. We need alternatives that send kids into the world with the capacity to work. If not attending college, they need basic reading and math, along with a vocational skill. But because we are hung up on equity, we would rather pretend that somehow ALL of the kids will become lawyers, and instead graduate illiterates.

Where do you get the idea that the U.S. has "college for all"? In 2020, 43% of high school graduates enrolled in 4-year colleges.

Yeah but how many of them actually graduated. It is pretty clear by 10th grade who is capable of success in college. I don't understand why we don't realize this and stop pushing college for everyone when the writing is on the wall by 10th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least people should discuss the appropriateness of "college for all" when 42% of test takers met NONE of the college readiness benchmarks. We need alternatives that send kids into the world with the capacity to work. If not attending college, they need basic reading and math, along with a vocational skill. But because we are hung up on equity, we would rather pretend that somehow ALL of the kids will become lawyers, and instead graduate illiterates.

Where do you get the idea that the U.S. has "college for all"? In 2020, 43% of high school graduates enrolled in 4-year colleges.

No, public schools promote "college for all" and do little to provide vocational education for the rest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many public school districts are now giving standardized tests during school. When I took the SATs, you have to sign up for it, pay and then take it at the crack of dawn on a Saturday. Who took the test? Students headed to college. Who didn't take the test? Students not going to college. These days, college is pushed on every student, even if they aren't prepared for it. That's where those scores come from.

Good point. In fact, in my state, in order to receive a high school diploma you must take the SAT your junior year. It is part of the state's mandated curriculum.

So silly! Not everyone wants or needs to go to college. I'm all for education but we need to also do a better job supporting other paths.

[Anonymous]

Get ready to see more of this. The Panndemic was incredibly damaging and us parents were screaming at that from day 1. Didd schools listen? Of course not. You reap what you sow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t it just a signal of what learning was lost during the first 2 years of COVID?

I feel like this year (beginning last spring) everyone snapped back to life as it was preCOVID but our kids really have experienced real learning loss. (And social loss too but that’s another post). Schools need to do more than revert to previous curriculum, but it’s hard for them to pivot (and it’s not on the teachers, they teach the curriculums they are give. It’s the curriculums that need to have a plan for learning catch up. IMO everyone working in the Department of Education (a huge building which must have a huge number of people working there) should be focused on this issue.

+1000

Our school district has not acknowledged learning loss at all. It is just continue with the curriculum, pretend kids didn’t miss a year of progress in virtual and a messed up year of Covid absences/quarantines, etc. Kids have expressed feeling behind and no higher ups care at all.

Lots of pretending and ignoring date and silence going on…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many public school districts are now giving standardized tests during school. When I took the SATs, you have to sign up for it, pay and then take it at the crack of dawn on a Saturday. Who took the test? Students headed to college. Who didn't take the test? Students not going to college. These days, college is pushed on every student, even if they aren't prepared for it. That's where those scores come from.

Good point. In fact, in my state, in order to receive a high school diploma you must take the SAT your junior year. It is part of the state's mandated curriculum.

So silly! Not everyone wants or needs to go to college. I'm all for education but we need to also do a better job supporting other paths.

I don’t think that’s why they give it. Universal SAT or ACT is a reasonably good way of getting uniform, objective data on high schools.