Audits of the Canutillo Independent School District have recently revealed that district employees may have manipulated the grade level of some high school students in order to obtain better results relating to federal accountability standards.
Texas mandates testing of 10th graders to see how schools are performing. By holding potentially low scoring students back in the 9th grade or promoting them to the 11th grade testing can be avoided.
The district has announced that some administrators will be demoted, receive pay cuts, and be placed back in classroom teaching positions.
Stop!
- What will they teach? Ethics? Creative problem solving? What is the board doing to the children?
- Did the district have teaching positions open already? Will these administrators use seniority to bump out new teachers?
- Have these employees had the interests of the students at heart, or were they only worried about their careers?
It is bad enough that administrators make more money than teachers. It is worse that school districts regularly take their best teachers out of the classroom and place them in administrative jobs.
I don’t know any of the individuals involved. Nor do I know what they have or have not done. If they have done something wrong why are they still employed?
Does the board care about the students?
We deserve better
Brutus
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Disgusting. That’s the only word I can think of to describe this situation. In most universities and our military academies, students are expelled for cheating. They are sent away in disgrace. These people in Canutillo should lose their jobs, plain and simple.
The lesson here for our kids is that there is no severe consequence for cheating. Is this our idea of how we prepare kids to be productive citizens with character, by showing them first-hand that liars, cheats and frauds can remain employed in the same organization and supposedly continuing to serve the same people they previously defrauded?
Many of our local educators, primarily at the administrator level, are right up there with our nation’s financial institutions when it comes to knowing no shame. These are the last people to whom we should entrust our future generation.
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deer meen bloger.
l ernd my A in inglish far end skware. that meens that yu be a lier. lm posativ l gots brite futur az pubic skuul inglich teecher!
stop beeng meeny!
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