Miami schools all achieve passing grade.

[CXT2000]

Not that everyone is negative, but Miami is notorious for passing kids who are failing to make their schools look better. For example, I went to Miami Beach Senior High when Dr.Sidner was a principal, she did wonderful things and it's sad that she passed away. In my graduating class, I won't say the year, but the graduation rate was 20%. The administration and teachers bumped that to 70%! there were kids getting their diplomas and they skipped school 90% of the time or failed 2 classes but the teachers would give them a passing grade (my friend went from 40% to 60%) and he skipped most of the time. I keep in touch with teachers from MBSH and I have friends who have become teachers in other schools and they tell me how they inflate kids grades and are ENCOURAGED to do so by administration.

[AnnRyan]

I've come to suspect that most of the people hanging around this forum actually live up in Broward... apparently there's so little to do up there, they feel compelled to comment on our board instead of their own.

[LIFL]

This is actually amazing for an urban district.

[WisdomJ]

Originally Posted by djesus007

Not that everyone is negative, but Miami is notorious for passing kids who are failing to make their schools look better. For example, I went to Miami Beach Senior High when Dr.Sidner was a principal, she did wonderful things and it's sad that she passed away. In my graduating class, I won't say the year, but the graduation rate was 20%. The administration and teachers bumped that to 70%! there were kids getting their diplomas and they skipped school 90% of the time or failed 2 classes but the teachers would give them a passing grade (my friend went from 40% to 60%) and he skipped most of the time. I keep in touch with teachers from MBSH and I have friends who have become teachers in other schools and they tell me how they inflate kids grades and are ENCOURAGED to do so by administration.

Dude, that's everywhere, not unique to Florida. My mom was a high school English teacher.

[BNBR]

Originally Posted by Bobdreamz

The Miami forum has always been negative even when faced with good news.
I started a thread about crime dropping over 5% in a year and received 1 response!
Some of the forumers here think Miami is equivalent to Hell on Earth so nothing positive ever happens here according to them.

I love Miami, I just wouldn't be keen on raising a family there if I had the option of Broward or Palm Beach also. So when they start bragging about their schools... we ALL know that Miami has terrible schools... It just smells "fishy". Yes, I'll agree that overall it's good news, but with all the focus on tests and moving students around to fake scores, I just don't necessarily believe it.

To be fair, Broward does the same. Kind of like Magnet Schools. They put the kids in the same "school" but completely segregate them. Boosts scores...

The reality is you don't send kids to a "school district" - you move into a neighborhood for a specific school. So countywide results are somewhat misleading and useless.

[BNBR]

Originally Posted by AnnRyan

I've come to suspect that most of the people hanging around this forum actually live up in Broward... apparently there's so little to do up there, they feel compelled to comment on our board instead of their own.

I actually think "South Florida" should be a single forum.