Monday, June 30, 2008
About the CP Schools
There was a nicely nuanced article in The News Tribune over the weekend about CP schools and the city.
There are some interesting reflections, including some deeply disturbing ones, shared by readers of that original story.
Here's an example:
Recently I moved our family to Yelm. We lived on McChord and next year we faced having to send my daughter to Woodbrook Middle School. There was no way in hell I wanted my daughter to be forced down that rabbit hole of mediocrity. This past year my daughter participated in her elementary school's science fair and I couldn't believe what I saw. Science projects full of mistakes and spelling errors were celebrated by teachers as achievement. That experience sealed the deal for me. We decided to buy a home, move off base, and into a school district with a track record of decent test scores and real achievement. We hated to leave the McChord community but we had to escape what I and many others consider to be one of the worst school districts in the state.
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There are some interesting reflections, including some deeply disturbing ones, shared by readers of that original story.
Here's an example:
Recently I moved our family to Yelm. We lived on McChord and next year we faced having to send my daughter to Woodbrook Middle School. There was no way in hell I wanted my daughter to be forced down that rabbit hole of mediocrity. This past year my daughter participated in her elementary school's science fair and I couldn't believe what I saw. Science projects full of mistakes and spelling errors were celebrated by teachers as achievement. That experience sealed the deal for me. We decided to buy a home, move off base, and into a school district with a track record of decent test scores and real achievement. We hated to leave the McChord community but we had to escape what I and many others consider to be one of the worst school districts in the state.
