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[quote=Anonymous]Hello All,

I am currently a teacher at Cardozo EC. Throughout my career, I have taught kindergarten, 7th grade, and high school. There is not one way to do education, however at Cardozo, we have decided that as a way to let students help assist us in letting them know how and what ways they like to learn. Our principal, Arthur Mola, and his XQ Design Leader, William Blake, have decided that we will create 4-5 separate cohorts where students will tell teachers, aides, librarians, and other dedicated staff [i]how[/i] to teach and we meet Fridays for 3 hours, but still, there is no palpable results that demonstrate the effectiveness of this learning program.

It is a novel idea on its face, but it has been no less than a disaster. We are 4 months behind schedule and are still flushing out how to complete the most simplest of tasks from the Day 1 guidebook.

Over $2 million dollars has been sunk into the program but the students have not received any of the benefits. For example there are 6 newly added classes that are supposed to have career pathways to help students to become entrepreneurs. Only two have instructors, and one of the four vacant spots has been filled in by the principal who teaches “Ghetto Economics”. The kids receive no work, have the worst truancy records and instead of trying to help them see the value of school, citizenship, and stewardship, he lectures them on how to “make money on the street”. (Whatever that’s supposed to mean.)

We have tried to explain that this pathway is not one of success because we want our students to master the basics in their studies first that will prepare them for the real world instead of coming out of high school “owning their own business”, which realistically, isn’t possible since we just received our scores back and Cardozo is at 4% proficiency in Math and 6% in Reading.

I have spoken to other schools who participate in the program and while their path to success is not where it would be, they are not as far behind as we are.

[b]If you are a community member of Cardozo, please call the school (202) 673-7385 and ask that standardized learning be re-introduced into the classroom, XQ be either disbanded, or made clearer to the parents, students, and staff, and hopefully we can all create better opportunities for our children so that they have a chance to be better prepared for the real world. [/b]
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