"Only three Suffolk schools met federal learning goals during the 2010-2011 school year, ranking the city at the bottom of the pack in Hampton Roads in terms of school achievement. According to reports released on Thursday, 84 percent of Suffolk schools failed to meet federal standards for adequate yearly progress toward the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act. The schools that made AYP were Hillpoint, Northern Shores and Oakland elementary schools. Deputy Superintendent Jacqueline Chavis said school officials are disappointed so many of the schools didn’t meet the federal standards.
“There are some disappointments because we know how hard the schools, the teachers, the students and the parents have worked,” she said. In order for a school to make AYP this year, 86 percent of its students must have shown proficiency on standards of learning tests for reading and 85 percent must have passed the math tests."
Are 15% of our students stupid or uncaring, or is there still something amiss with our teaching methods?
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SPS are becoming the schools of Detroit, Chicago, Newark, Oakland,St. Louis, Kansas City nd Atlanta. I wonder why? Teachers? Adminstrators?
This isn’t surprising…It’s simply that the practice of Liberalism is the avoidance of accountability.
What will our Mayor have to say about this? Want to bet we spend more money to make it all better?
Look at the parents bring these children into the world, and you wonder why we have these problems? Darwin could have written a Thesis on the Devolution in Suffolk.
Suffolk suffers greatly from the: me first, because I always know best school of thought. This insures that we do not fix issues and problems like our schools, we ignore them or have the mighty mayor fluff them over. All you need to do to see it practiced is to go to one city council meeting. We deserve what we are getting, since we voted them into the positions they have.
I have only been here two years, but it is so obvious that problems will not get fixed until we vote in new people, that it hurts. Wake-up my fellow citizens, we have a real crisis if leadership and recognition.
I wish the SNH would stop hiring SPS graduates. It's beginning to show in their reporting. Grads should find real jobs that take creative thinking while preserving precious self-esteem like working for the City of Suffolk. Take City Manager Selena Cuffee-Glenn as an example for your aspiring black females. Look what affirmative action and a little ego messaging can do just a few years after graduation.
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