First the Atlanta Public School testing scandal, and this. But should anyone be surprised that
The morning of Sept. 30, 2009, half a dozen such students — Chantel Cox among them — showed up in Milton Mack’s classroom at Carver. None was assigned to Mack’s special education classes. All, Mack would later tell investigators assigned to an internal inquiry by the school district, said they had been pulled out of their 11th-grade homerooms while their peers took the high school writing test.
“The students were upset and trying to walk out,” Mack told investigators. “They said they were told they weren’t juniors [but] they were told by somebody that they were juniors until that morning.”
Shortly, according to Mack’s account, principal Rodney Ray arrived to try to calm the students. Ray didn’t say so, but Mack told investigators he assumed the principal had pulled out the students so they wouldn’t hurt the school’s overall test score.
The article goes on to mention how several other homeschoolers are fudging the numbers. In one school, students no student is awarded less than a 70%... everyone passes. In another school, only 10% are allowed to fail, so the entire school is graded on a curve.
With accreditation already on the line, I don't Atlanta public schools have a very bright future. It makes me wonder if Atlanta parents would be better off pulling their kids out of school and homeschooling them. I know when I started homeschooling, I told myself, "Well, I can't do any worse than the schools are doing." I guess I was right... actually, I know I was right. I will be graduating a son this fall, who has already been accepted to a couple of colleges, with scholarships. Had he stayed in school, he would surely in the same place of other public schooled black-male family members, struggling to just finish.
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