Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Try to read this sentence and pretend you've never learned anything about science or social studies:
Penicillin was discovered sixty-three years after the end of the US Civil War.

Knowing the significance of penicillin or the date the US Civil war ended is not going to do you much good if you can neither decode the words of that sentence nor do the math to draw a logical conclusion from it. Everything elementary school kids are taught about history, biology, civics, and the arts will be taught again, in greater depth, in middle and high school. Fat lot of good it will do them if they haven't been grounded in reading and math. It's called "putting the cart in front of the horse"....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Try to read this sentence and pretend you've never learned anything about science or social studies:
Penicillin was discovered sixty-three years after the end of the US Civil War.

Knowing the significance of penicillin or the date the US Civil war ended is not going to do you much good if you can neither decode the words of that sentence nor do the math to draw a logical conclusion from it. Everything elementary school kids are taught about history, biology, civics, and the arts will be taught again, in greater depth, in middle and high school. Fat lot of good it will do them if they haven't been grounded in reading and math. It's called "putting the cart in front of the horse"....

Anonymous wrote:

Try to read this sentence and pretend you've never learned anything about science or social studies:
Penicillin was discovered sixty-three years after the end of the US Civil War.

Anonymous wrote:Hate to say it to the parents of these seriously undereducated kids at Garfield, but with scores like these:

MATH: 52.29% below basic 42.20% basic 4.59% proficient 0.92% advanced
READING: 42.20% below basic 47.71% basic 9.17% proficient 0.92% advanced

These kids could stand to skip science and enrichment for a while and learn some reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic.

Too bad not to have science education. But without the ability to read or add, these kids are going to be cut off from the world for the rest of their lives.

Sorry not to be politically correct, but wasn't Garfield rated THE WORST of all DC elementary schools on DC-CAS recently? Time to teach to the test a little, and this lady sounds like the one to do it.

Anonymous wrote:Hate to say it to the parents of these seriously undereducated kids at Garfield, but with scores like these:

MATH: 52.29% below basic 42.20% basic 4.59% proficient 0.92% advanced
READING: 42.20% below basic 47.71% basic 9.17% proficient 0.92% advanced

These kids could stand to skip science and enrichment for a while and learn some reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic.

Too bad not to have science education. But without the ability to read or add, these kids are going to be cut off from the world for the rest of their lives.

Sorry not to be politically correct, but wasn't Garfield rated THE WORST of all DC elementary schools on DC-CAS recently? Time to teach to the test a little, and this lady sounds like the one to do it.

Anonymous wrote:Hate to say it to the parents of these seriously undereducated kids at Garfield, but with scores like these:

MATH: 52.29% below basic 42.20% basic 4.59% proficient 0.92% advanced
READING: 42.20% below basic 47.71% basic 9.17% proficient 0.92% advanced

These kids could stand to skip science and enrichment for a while and learn some reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic.

Too bad not to have science education. But without the ability to read or add, these kids are going to be cut off from the world for the rest of their lives.

Sorry not to be politically correct, but wasn't Garfield rated THE WORST of all DC elementary schools on DC-CAS recently? Time to teach to the test a little, and this lady sounds like the one to do it.

Anonymous wrote:
Do you think this is a reason to hire her as principal in DCPS?

Anonymous wrote:Falsifying grades is not on, but I can't be the only one who doesn't see a problem with letting elementary school kids skip science, music and social studies until they can actually read and add. It might lead to less frustration when they get to high school....

Anonymous wrote:There's a difference between a backround investigation and reference checks. I just believe that DCPS has not grasped that concept.