Discipline
Same frustrations, new school year
September 03, 2008 Filed in:
Public Education
Column: Nicholas Wishek, The Orange County
Register Confidence in public education erodes
over decades of teaching - I don't see things getting better. Also,
I know I will be asked to do things that make no logical sense.
Things that don't help. Things that the ivory-tower types in
Sacramento and Washington, D.C., would know were pretty useless, if
they had actually ever taught in schools similar to mine. Fact.
Despite all the hype about the successes of the No Child Left
Behind program, I do not see any real growth in the academic
performances of my students. Yes, our test scores have gone up,
but, as Mark Twain wrote, "There are three kinds of lies: lies,
damned lies and statistics"…