Why Couldn't I Have These Type of Finals?

[HellRaiserandBeerDrinker]

From This is True


<<TESTING, 1-2-3: High schools in Palm Beach County, Fla., have instituted
a new standardized final exam for history classes. Students are only
required to get 23 percent of the multiple-choice answers correct to
pass; to get an "A" they only need to get 50 percent correct. The test,
designed by the district, was mandated to ensure students have
developed "mastery" about the history of women, Africans,
African-Americans and the Holocaust. One principal points out that even
random answers should net the students a 25 percent score, and by
making "educated guesses" they could improve from there. (Palm Beach
Post) ...We don't have to worry about the students doing that, though,
since they haven't been educated. >>


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Can you say presidential ballots?

 

[joe678]

has to be in florida...

 

[Pr0Hawk]

uhhhh.....isnt 23% failing?

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

There was a thing on Oprah (this was discussed on another forum) where a teacher caught 28 of her students plagerising (sp?). Turned it in to the principal and all that stuff. The parents complained to the school board and they let it slide :disgust:

 

[Martin]

dumbasses...

 

[PsychoAndy]

Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
There was a thing on Oprah (this was discussed on another forum) where a teacher caught 28 of her students plagerising (sp?). Turned it in to the principal and all that stuff. The parents complained to the school board and they let it slide :disgust:

That would be somewhere in the Midwest or the Bible Belt. I think it might've been Oklahoma. The parents complained, school board let it slide, and she resigned because of the idiocy. I don't blame her.

As far as that test, i'm very surprised that the county that spends the most money per student in Florida has resorted to that kind of crappy testing. My school's history program is pretty good IMO, it's the english department that sucks, especially the AP teachers.