Comments on: Role Of Private Testing Companies Questioned In Teacher Merit Pay Plan

By: well

well — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:07:28 +0000

Don’t want to pay the teachers so we’llpay someone else to say we need to pay the teachers ?
Thats big business huh.

By: sassey

sassey — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:48:22 +0000

There they go again making a job for someone that is their friend That is uncalled for .a teacher canot drill a hole in the students heads and pour it in .no 2 people are the same and never will be. first they started the f cat that cost alot of money. the kids are test to death now. when we went to school we didn”t have all of this going own and laot of us have good jobs and are doing very well.they don”t care about the students it is just a money think I think we could do without some of the higher up people out of office. we have some very good teachers they don”t deserve to be tested by a private company .Get rid to F CAT AND THIS TEACHERS PAY MERIT Then they could give teachers and other employees a cost of living raise. and put some supplies into the schools

By: art

art — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:14:48 +0000

and at a time when we have to tighten the old budget and do some necessary “cutting” during these hard times. hard times for whom? our legislators or their lobbyist friends? ii have about had a gut full of all this nonsense.

By: art

art — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:06:04 +0000

oh, isnt that something? my my my, the testing companies stand to gain from this latest legislation…not our children. not our teachers. we never saw that one coming did we?

By: tbpcola

tbpcola — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:46:29 +0000

FCAT is a joke — it is a series of tests that determines a child’s academic path solely based on how he or she performed on the day of the particular test. Evaluation of students’ ability and academic progress needs to be a multi-step process: an initial evaluation to establish a starting point; a mid-term test used to measure progress up to that point; and then a final exam to determine a student’s overall development since the beginning. I agree that there are flaws in any resign method, but FCAT has never been the solution.