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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This report came out over a month ago and was challenged at the time as misleading. https://bluevirginia.us/2022/05/va-senate-dems-rip-youngkin-education-report-as-a-joke-dog-whistle-talking-points-outright-lie-supported-by-cherry-picked-data-and-warped-perspective[/quote] Didn’t it bother you at all that the content in your link is lacking in, uh, content? The data is cherry picked, how? Misleading how? Inaccurate how?[/quote] On the national assessment, the term "proficient" is used to indicate a score that is above grade level. The term "basic" is used to refer to a score that indicates grade level. Youngkin and his ed dept deliberately conflated the two terms to make it look like virginia students are not at grade level. The national exam scores do in fact match the SOL scores once you realize that "basic" means grade level and "proficient" means above grade level.[/quote] This is one example. Also citing "the number of homeschooled students jumped 56 percent in the 2020-2021 school year. That same year, the report says, 3,748 public-school students transferred to private schools in Virginia." as if that's indicative of some sort of trend because of educational performance of the public school education system, rather than acknowledging it's entirely driven by the realities of an evolving unprecedented-in-our-time global pandemic, and our underfunded schools not being able to realistically support in-person learning during that period of time, and so many parents with the means to temporarily pursue other options choosing to do so. Would be interesting to see how the number of 2022-23 homeschooled students compares to the number from 2020-21... if it has dropped (as I'm sure it has), does that mean our schools are now suddenly beacons of competence and that the concept of homeschooling is on the decline? Or is it just a correction of the equally anomalous 2020-21 blip that had nothing at all to do with long-term trends?[/quote] As the PP in the post above yours, and also a parent that switched to private last year, it had nothing to do with sol scores. I think our public is horrible, but it's mainly BECAUSE of the focus on testing, so Youngkin's implication that more focus on tests is needed is just more of the same thing that makes our public schools so bad to begin with. I'm also a teacher who knows exactly why our schools are so bad, and no tests are going to improve the problem. We need smaller class sizes, better administrators, and less bureaucracy. We need to test less and teach more (testing actually takes up so much time that we lose instructional time). We also need better curriculum - the current VA curriculum is a random bunch of nonsense that no one needs to know and none of the kids will remember anyway. The math instruction is atrocious, and the reading instruction is non-existent. We'll come back to public when we can't afford private any more, and not a minute sooner.[/quote] I’m curious. I also teach in VA. What parts of the curriculum are a “random bunch of nonsense”?[/quote] Mostly social studies, but the math curriculum also contains a lot of unimportant - nonexistent, in fact - items that aren't even math much less useful knowledge. When I was a teacher I knew the match curriculum was pretty bad, but I never gave much thought to the rest until I sent my own child to private school and saw the difference. While kids in public learn things like what some Indian tribe ate for breakfast, or a bunch of names and dates of minor events and people (which they will forget as soon as the SOL is over), in private my kid actually gained an understanding of world history, the different types of governments and economies, and he can't remember the dates of everything that happened but he understands the narrative of history and the cause and effect of major conflicts and revolutions around the world. He also went from AP math in public to barely passing in private, because while he knew all the algorithms and formulas, he had no real understanding of how mathematics works and how to go about problem-solving if he didn't have a ready formula to apply.[/quote]
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