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[quote=Anonymous]NP. The English score at Whitman is 21%, far below the state average of 44%, and the Algebra I test score is 37%, barely better than the state average of 36%.

All in all, the students at Whitman just did badly at the tests and the results reflect the teaching quality there.

As a teacher myself (not high school level), I would say that most teachers would tell their students to try their best at any kind of tests. 
Why in the world would they want their students to do badly? May be there is one grumpy teacher that is unhappy with the system, but most people are not, and they probably all know that the scores would be used for (official) rankings of their school too. If this came from the principal to boycott the system, then the students/teachers at Whitman just didn't stand up for the right thing and this is much worse -  the principal should be fired - I find this scenario highly unlikely.

The overall school score for Whitman also goes down consistently: 2013 (10) -&gt; 2014(9) -&gt; 2015(8)-&gt;2016(4). It is possible that they just have a bad crop of students last year, but the school should take this more seriously.  One more bad year and there will simply be no excuse, and people will move to different school clusters and only the worse students will stay and the down trend will be very hard to reverse.

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