The latest standardized testing reveals the ugly truth for Wood County Schools:
Proficiency in Math: From 3rd grade to 11th grade – a steady drop from 47% to 21%.
Going into their senior year, 21% of Wood County students are proficient in math after being in the system for 13 years!
Proficiency in Science:
Average proficiency in science, 4th, 6th, and 10th grades is 41%
Proficiency in Reading/Language Arts:
Going into their senior year, 51% are proficient
In the midst of this deepening crisis of performance in the educational system, the Wood County School Board and Administration made a decision to ask taxpayers for more money. This request began as a real need for a new Williamstown Elementary School for $7.9 million; after state aid. …show more content…
At a time of economic and income stagnation and fewer people in the workforce, officials larded it up with $16 million for roof repair, $10 million for the technical center, and over $6.5 million on an existing Williamstown school. Roof repair is an obvious maintenance item that should be undertaken yearly; not financed by a bond with interest for 15.5 years.
Attached to this bond is a provision that the state (most likely) will shutter the doors on Waverly Elementary School if they favor us with the $10 million. Another neighborhood school will go to seed, as more children join the rowdy ranks of riding school buses to a larger school. History has emphatically shown this creates more problems than solutions; especially with elementary schools.
It’s evident that we need to do a better of educating children. This $41 million will not teach even one child to read, write, or express a thought on paper. Not one child will have a better understanding of math or science, and certainly will not raise the shameful, failing test scores in Wood County.
Where is the accountability public schools have for their fiduciary responsibility in providing a quality education? The overwhelming emphasis has shifted to issues unaffiliated with actual teaching and …show more content…
Obviously, when students are failing badly on standardized tests, grades are no indication of what they learn. It would appear grades are used to placate parents and children, and promote the false premise that all is well.
As these data above reveal, something is dreadfully wrong with our education system. Concentration on educating young people has been cast aside for too many ancillary distractions. Federal and state programs and regulations from accepting federal money, has wreaked havoc in American education. Until we come to an epiphany that accepting their largess is addictive and destructive, we will continue to fail. Approximately 10% of our budget is federal money, causing 80% of our problems in education.
Local school systems cede education to bureaucrats with long infamous records of failure. Until we take control, nothing will change for the better. Despite nearly universal uproar, Common Core, No Child Left Behind, and untold other programs washed common sense out of teaching children. Programs do not teach; teachers teach! Problems with education plague this nation because the same bureaucrats in Washington try reinventing education, and our children
Proficiency in Math: From 3rd grade to 11th grade – a steady drop from 47% to 21%.
Going into their senior year, 21% of Wood County students are proficient in math after being in the system for 13 years!
Proficiency in Science:
Average proficiency in science, 4th, 6th, and 10th grades is 41%
Proficiency in Reading/Language Arts:
Going into their senior year, 51% are proficient
In the midst of this deepening crisis of performance in the educational system, the Wood County School Board and Administration made a decision to ask taxpayers for more money. This request began as a real need for a new Williamstown Elementary School for $7.9 million; after state aid. …show more content…
At a time of economic and income stagnation and fewer people in the workforce, officials larded it up with $16 million for roof repair, $10 million for the technical center, and over $6.5 million on an existing Williamstown school. Roof repair is an obvious maintenance item that should be undertaken yearly; not financed by a bond with interest for 15.5 years.
Attached to this bond is a provision that the state (most likely) will shutter the doors on Waverly Elementary School if they favor us with the $10 million. Another neighborhood school will go to seed, as more children join the rowdy ranks of riding school buses to a larger school. History has emphatically shown this creates more problems than solutions; especially with elementary schools.
It’s evident that we need to do a better of educating children. This $41 million will not teach even one child to read, write, or express a thought on paper. Not one child will have a better understanding of math or science, and certainly will not raise the shameful, failing test scores in Wood County.
Where is the accountability public schools have for their fiduciary responsibility in providing a quality education? The overwhelming emphasis has shifted to issues unaffiliated with actual teaching and …show more content…
Obviously, when students are failing badly on standardized tests, grades are no indication of what they learn. It would appear grades are used to placate parents and children, and promote the false premise that all is well.
As these data above reveal, something is dreadfully wrong with our education system. Concentration on educating young people has been cast aside for too many ancillary distractions. Federal and state programs and regulations from accepting federal money, has wreaked havoc in American education. Until we come to an epiphany that accepting their largess is addictive and destructive, we will continue to fail. Approximately 10% of our budget is federal money, causing 80% of our problems in education.
Local school systems cede education to bureaucrats with long infamous records of failure. Until we take control, nothing will change for the better. Despite nearly universal uproar, Common Core, No Child Left Behind, and untold other programs washed common sense out of teaching children. Programs do not teach; teachers teach! Problems with education plague this nation because the same bureaucrats in Washington try reinventing education, and our children