The Kansas School Board has been accused of lowering the academic standards for students. BUT How can you tell the difference between academic standards for the students, and the standards set for the schools report card on how capable the schools are in effective teaching?
Here are 2 sources for the latest round of the issue (and it doesn't help that the School Board Officials won't even talk to us to explain...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr6qZ28cTko&t=910s
From what I can tell from the article/video interview- the school board is not lowering the standards but rather re-establishing the old higher standards which automatically show that the low proficiency scores of the students have been here all along... --- Either way; this doesn't instill confidence that the current School Board Policies can hold their own for properly raising up the next generation of Adults to manage the country's workforce / Civic Governing body.
Did you also know that 'we the people' elect the School board, but they - (school board)- turn around and choose a School District Commissioner (with no input from the people, and no term limits) which acts as their boss. So, whose voice is the School Board going to listen to?
https://www.ksde.gov/Board (see screenshot taken directly from the webpage)
Let's start a solution-oriented discussion on what needs to be done to fix this: Homeschooling, unschooling, voucher travels with the student, ?? Set your anger aside and lets hear some good ideas...
Seems a good place to gather evidence to push this discussion forward and we have a doosy. Word from a current board member....
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“I sought input everywhere. To draft the formal response I was proposing the board adopt, I wanted to be able to point to an objective standard(s) that exists for preserving a safe learning environment,” she said. “So I completed a review of district policy, relevant state statutes, and the district’s published belief statements on student safety and discipline. I spoke with parents, teachers, and met with the superintendent to understand the measures he’d already put in place to meet the obligations set by policy and the law, and then I summarized everything into one document. I provided the draft to the superintendent and incorporated his feedback before presenting it to the board.
“Formally acknowledging challenges and imperfections exist can be difficult, but by not doing so, we are failing everyone, most of all the children.”
Lansing district failed to report student safety and discipline data as required in board policy ...
https://sentinelksmo.org/lansing-declined-to-act-student-violence/
@jb-mikel If the school officials are not releasing the information, maybe we need a liason committee made of parents. They can get the reports from the schools and compile them for the school districts, then the schools will have no excuse not to have the reports ready on time......??
Kinda thought between 1897 and now, the PTA would already have this "reporting" thing well in-hand.
Oh that's right, the focus is stupid masses, not truly American thinking people. Another creature-created Oversight from the long list, stolen in the (de)Reconstruction of the Republic from the 37th thru 44th+ Congresses.
