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Old 04-10-2008, 08:08 PM
 
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Originally Posted by Mid-West Family View Post
No matter what part of the country you live in the only way there seems to be to rank or grade schools is the standardized test. I can tell you as a teacher some teachers cheat! They don't want it to look like they are not teaching. It's more important that the school is in the area of town you like. Then check out the schools. A school is only as good as it's teachers. Also remember the higher the real estate the better the schools are preceived to be.
Are you sure you are a teacher?
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Old 04-10-2008, 08:52 PM
 
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Well then you will be happy to know that the TAKS in High school is going away. It will be replaced by "end of course tests".

Legislature votes to end TAKS in high school (http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/05/27/27testing.html - broken link)
Yeah....after reading in the Houston Press about how with the science part of the TAKS in place that kids in AP/honors biology or chemistry or whatnot aren't doing any lab work until after the test is given in February or whenever - I definitely say good riddance.

"No child left behind" my ass.
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Old 11-07-2008, 05:55 PM
 
Location: Houston
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that is excellent
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Old 11-07-2008, 06:14 PM
 
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Yes, a teacher friend explained some of the test questions and they are terrible. WWI story - how did it get started? He explained that it was NATO alliance that promised to protect our friends and if war started, we will help our neighbors which will lead US involvement in Europe. The correct TASK test answer is just because, "the president got shot". True but that's like reading one bar line in the bar code.
Bike4Life, "NATO?"

NATO didn't exist until 1949. World War I began after Archduke Ferdinand of Austria got shot.
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Old 11-07-2008, 07:14 PM
 
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Klein High in the tier 1 yet again.
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Old 11-07-2008, 07:48 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Okay so what does it mean when school doesn't make this list - I have a hard time believing that some of the schools on this list are better than Pearland or the Woodlands and I see neither on this list.
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Old 11-07-2008, 09:13 PM
 
Location: San Antonio-Westover Hills
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Are you sure you are a teacher?

No kidding...and we wonder why kids are failing...
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Old 11-07-2008, 10:17 PM
 
Location: from houstoner to bostoner to new yorker to new jerseyite ;)
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Okay so what does it mean when school doesn't make this list - I have a hard time believing that some of the schools on this list are better than Pearland or the Woodlands and I see neither on this list.
It doesn't mean anything. I saw a school or two on this list that I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. Rankings shouldn't be used as absolutes, just as rough guides. Let them be only one tool in your kit. I thought I saw schools in Conroe and Montgomery ISD's on the list anyhow...
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Old 11-07-2008, 11:47 PM
 
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Why can't I see Woodlands on the list?
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Old 11-08-2008, 07:53 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Cracks me up that people gravitate to schools "on the list" As long as the district has good teachers, the rest is up to the kids AND their parents to ensure they do a good job of learning as they should. Too many parents leave the learning solely up to the school and play no role other than either dropping the kids off, running them ragged after school with "activities" and putting them to bed and starting over the next day (oh and griping at the teachers if they have to get called in to discuss their perfect child's underperformance at school). We have a role to help kids achieve and do their best but when nobody is checking on their homework, extra studies etc. it doesn't matter what kind of list the school is or is not on. Yes there were several on that list that I wouldn't want to send children to ....... and not all for academic reasons but a host of other issues.
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