The NCDI has released the latest suspension and crime statistics for the State's LEAs.
Suspensions, dropouts and crime are down, but African American students continue to be suspended at higher rates.
Will someone please look at and report the facts of the matter?
In 2012/2013, West Charlotte had 97.88 short-term suspensions per 100 students. 1,664 students were suspended that year short-term.
West Charlotte is about 1% White, so how do you make an argument that African American students are being suspended at higher rates than Whites at West Charlotte?
Here is the link to the report from the NCDI:
https://eboard.eboardsolutions.com/Meetings/Attachment.aspx?S=10399&AID=35525&MID=1730
This goes hand in hand with the lowering of credits required to graduate and a ten point grading scale.
What are your thoughts on this?
Not sure if that last comment made it or not. I guess this is moderated?
ReplyDeleteOh, I see. It does work. Sorry for the spam...
ReplyDeleteDid you get my email addy from the last post on the Observer Your Schools post?
DeleteYes, but while fishing around, I found this blog and decided to use it instead. I'm using the google account associated with my Shamash Facebook account. For some reason, it is asking me for a phone number and I refuse to give it a valid one for now.
DeleteI guess someone (or maybe Facebook) is checking my validity again.
Of course, it's a made up name, but screw Facebook...
If they want to be the world's Net Nazi's, then I'm more than happy to keep them busy. It's really easy.
As Talking Heads put it in Life During Wartime...
I changed my hairstyle, so many times now,
I don't know what I look like!
LOL... I'm pretty much the moderator.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think?
What alternative is there since the Observer is killing the education blog. As I told Alicia awhile ago in an email, all of a suddent my Facebook page is working on the Observer where it hasn't for two years.
No idea how long that will last.
Also, Wiley, an interesting statistic is the DISPROPORTIONATE amount of "corporal punishment" dished out to both White and American Indian kids, but almost NEVER to any other ethnic group.
ReplyDeleteYet we never hear anyone discuss that little tidbit.
Wonder what that's all about?
It's OK to beat white kids and Indians?
Sounds like some kind of retribution to me.
Wiley, the more I look at this BS, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that they deliberately aggregate some data and ignore other data just to make it difficult to see what's really happening (for the general public, that is). I'm sure they know.
ReplyDeleteThe people who are compiling, studying, and reporting on this data cannot all be idiots or tools (can they?), so I suspect there is some manipulation happening.
The problem is proving it with other than circumstantial evidence and the rather obvious stacking of the cards (which is obvious to me and perhaps a few others, but most people who know how to see through this kind of stuff probably don't care).
Anyway, it's just irritating to me in general how much crap gets dumped on the public with bad data.
It's not just education, but medicine and all sorts of things. Even if the information is out there, people just cannot comprehend it or dare question it.
Some really smart people out there KNOW that most people are ignorant and are playing our "democracy" like a fiddle.
That long "debate" I had with a bunch of teachers on "our public schools are failing" or whatever is kind of scary when I realize how little critical thinking abilities they possess.
No one seemed up to the challenge of any analysis other than swapping insults, which I could do, but would rather not.
I'm not necessarily asking or expecting everyone to agree with me, but, damn, I sure wish a few folks had a clue how to look at all the bogus data being thrown out there.
And to think that these people are the ones trusted to "educate" our next generation.
Of course, it wasn't any better when I was a kid.
But still, education wasn't trying to cure all our social ills either. But it was starting to be that way.
It's the Gruberization of America.
DeleteTake the SCOTUS hearing on Obamacare. Pundits and even some of the justices talked about the "spirit of the law" instead of the facts of the law.
"By the States" literally could mean the states.
Also making excuses for certain issues or actions is now commonplace.
Like with Hillary and her private email server. I watched the former governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm on Lawrence O'donnell's show last night actually defend Clinton using the "well other Secretaries of State did the same thing" argument. O'Donnell almost laughed himself off his chair, even after citing the 2009 law prohibiting the practice. The other two people on the panel sat there in stunned disbelief this woman was defending Clinton in that manner. And these are liberals!
So many excuses as to why kids aren't learning - poverty, where you live in a zipcode and your skin color do such a disservice to these kids. They aren't dumb, they have a brain and know how to use it, but to me, it's the people who fall over each other trying to help kids who need it that actually hurt them.
"So many excuses as to why kids aren't learning - poverty, where you live in a zipcode and your skin color do such a disservice to these kids. They aren't dumb, they have a brain and know how to use it, but to me, it's the people who fall over each other trying to help kids who need it that actually hurt them."
DeleteAgreed. I see something somewhat similar with the "privileged" kids, too. The so-called helicopter parent who tries to do everything for them and protect them from all consequences. In a way, I think the two are related. If you can't have an actual nanny, the nanny state is there for you.
It just cripples the kids in so many ways. I try to make sure my kids can make a few mistakes and see the consequences on their own (as part of how I "educate" them).
Actually, I do realize that some teachers are restricted in their public debate by the fact that they would probably get fired for saying the kinds of things I get away with.
ReplyDeleteStill, they could go underground and take the gloves off. It's easy.
I suspect that teachers know a lot more than they can tell.
But they want to keep their jobs. I can understand that.
I can only imagine how many people this keeps out of public education.
The new changes at the Observer really limit teachers from posting things.
ReplyDeleteThat's why the Ed Blog was a great way to do it.
They can do it here but right now our audience is VERY limited.
I guess if they lose anonymity, they are at a greater risk.
DeleteUnless, of course, they toe the PC line and say what they are supposed to say like the CO's most common guest writers on education, McSpadden and Bumgarner's "fave", Pam.