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RE: IA: Guess on the passing point...
Posted:
Jun 25, 2008 11:00 AM
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These comments struck a chord deep within me and have prompted me to
post my first-ever comment on this list-serv. I wanted to point out that
every major public policy initiative and direction for the past thirty years
has been STUPID and DESTRUCTIVE and has had broad support from both
political parties which control power in this country. Rather than come to
terms with this, the powers that be have decided they should continue along
the same path we have been on since the corporate takeover of America was
finalized with the "Patriot Act".
I was hoping that entering the field of education might allow me to
make a positive contribution to society while allowing me to support my
family financially in an honorable fashion. I fear instead that my
participation simply makes me complicit in the American
Educational-Industrial Complex, which functions in much the same was as the
military-industrial complex, the prison-industrial complex, and the
medical-industrial complex. The central purpose of all these bureaucracies
is to continue maintain the current oligarchy which controls this country.
I am trying to figure out how to earn a living without directly supporting
the status quo, and am unsure of how to start.
Canada or at least Vermont seems more inviting with each passing
sell-out.
Steve
Ruzbacki
Indian Lake,
NY
-----Original Message-----
From: fastjay [mailto:jlabatti@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:33 PM
To: nysmathab@mathforum.org
Subject: Re: IA: Guess on the passing point...
Importance: Low
The state refuses to go back to exams that fairly and consistently test
various important areas in each high school course in mathematics because
doing so would, *gasp*, run counter to their entire modern educational
philosophy.
They would have to acknowledge that forcing educators to take every
single student in every single grade, forcing them into the same classrooms,
and making them take an exam each year that is filled with ambiguous,
multi-step questions on topics which interest the test makers themselves
that particular year is S T U P I D and D E S T R U C T I V E !!!
But rather than come to terms with this, they have decided that they
should continue along the same path that they have been on ever since the
inception of Math A and B. The only difference between this curriculum and
that one is that these courses are typically one year in length and the
material is, supposedly, more uniform.
I was hoping that the state would have the good sense to admit that
what they did to mathematics students and educators in this state for the
past decade was reprehensible and that they would, with this first exam in
IA, demonstrate a committment to once again testing students in a way that
accurately reflects the material that their instructors have been teaching
and emphasizing to them all year long. Anyone who has taught the course
this year and who has had the misfortune of grading this latest abomination
can attest to the sad truth that they haven't learned a single thing, or
rather, they refuse to.
What they are doing in order to make one size fit all and to appease
their own desire to remake education makes my blood boil...
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