Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Letter of the Day: Criticizing methodology will not fix what’s broken in I-SS

I am responding to your recent article titled “I-SS has room to improve.”

It is obvious that the I-SS management system was behind this poorly disguised attempt to mislead the public on the true state of our educational improvements over the past two years — to the extent of discrediting the method used in grading school achievement progress levels.

Our illustrious top administrator even attempts to blame the system’s failures on poor performance of less gifted students or an unfair grading methodology.

The truth is that the areas requiring greater emphasis are not being aggressively addressed where weaknesses are apparent and common to many school districts across the nation.

The most effective way to improve the educational achievement level is to get out of the office and coffee shop and make an in-depth comprehensive evaluation of the current failures and refashion the teaching policies to directly confront those areas which contribute to and promote the status quo. Placing the blame on others can never improve a broken system.

Eugene Bost
Statesville

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