Please allow me to repeat this so that it truly sinks in: the Detroit Public Schools posted worst scores on record.
This is nothing, if not frustrating. Unfortunately, however, I have to admit that I was not surprised when I heard this news.
Over the years, I have heard teachers demand that they should receive some of the highest pay and benefits in the nation while insisting that they have absolutely no responsibility for how their students perform.Over the years, I have heard parents talk about their children's school as if it were a daycare center rather than one of the most important places that they will ever enter.
Over the years, I have heard students talk about the Detroit Public Schools as if it were either a social event or simply a place to hide at.
The news that the Detroit Public Schools posted the worst test schools on record is frustrating, but not surprising. The full magnitude of this can be summarized by a quote from Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council on Great City Schools, a Washington, D.C.-based coalition of urban school districts.
There is no jurisdiction of any kind, at any level, at any time in the 30-year history of NAEP that has ever registered such low numbers. They are barely above what one would expect simply by chance, as if the kids simply guessed at the answers.
The news that the Detroit Public Schools posted the worst test schools on record is frustrating, but not surprising. For anyone who is interested in reading more about this story, it is available at Crain's Detroit Business.
