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Originally Posted by kellychaos
Let's start with the teachers. Wouldn't it be just the ultimate in hypocrisy to bring up the failure of our education system following the results if they didn't do too well. I guess what I'm saying is that perhaps we should stick the thermometer in a few other holes before we start pointing fingers. Also, I can see where perhaps a few topics may be considered biased yet, at the same time, I have to question how topics like math and science can be. Isn't that pretty much straightforward "You know it or you don't." type stuff?
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I'd say blame the teachers, but even students that passed everything else still failed.
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Originally Posted by theapportioner
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On another point, it says that a Hindi girl passed everything required by the state except for this test.
The girl is Haitian, and Hindi to my knowledge isn't an ethnicity, but a language. Nice work.
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My fault. I wasn't paying too much attention as I typed, but I feel I did get the general idea across.
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Originally Posted by theapportioner
In the case of Ms. Charles, who, being from French-speaking Haiti, barely knew a word of English merely four years ago, it could very well be difficult. Don't know what the FCAT is like, but the SAT at least has some tough verbal sections for a person who just learned the language. But I won't speculate further unless I see the exam itself.
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But it's my understanding that this girl had passed everything else, or did I read the article wrong? True, these tests are SUPPOSED to be harder than the rest of the curriculum, but if everything else was passable, why not this?
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