Comments on: Half Of Escambia 9th, 10th Graders Fail Reading FCAT

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:58:22 +0000

I’m am trying to find some information if someone can help. My neice is a straight A student in 9th grade. She was going to take Honors English next year. She got her English teacher’s recommendation to take Honors English as well. Well, she got a 2 on the reading portion of the fcat. Now, they want her to take a lower grade English next year and a summer school course. The high school won’t help at all or answer any questions regarding it. Is there anything she can do to remedy this problem?

By: fromanoutsidersview

fromanoutsidersview — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:53:34 +0000

Moving there from out of state and having 1 full school year I can tell you our experience with our children. Spent half of the year trying to get them acclimated to taking a test with so much weight and the other half cramming so they wouldn’t fail. That summer we moved out of state simply because of the school systems. Now that we are in a very good state for public education my children have struggled all year trying to get caught up on what the rest of the country was learning. AND the word FCAT literally brings anexity almost immediately. With the limited interaction we had with FL teachers it seemed like thats all they were allowed to focus on. If FCAT goes away we would return in an instant otherwise we will wait till our kids graduate. And just to add my children were honor roll students their whole school lives until FL.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:44:20 +0000

fault, their, a lot, that’s, a lot, wear, are, their, passing, test,

David considering some things which would’ve been counted off on the test, not even considering punctuation

By: sorry

sorry — Mon, 21 May 2012 03:17:09 +0000

MY opinion, some of ya are right, its not always the teachers fought. But I have five children that went through Northview High and we stayed up all night if we had to, to help our children. but we didn’t give our children cell phones they had to do there school work. Because I know alot of children stay on the phone 24-7. Now thats the parents fought. I know alot of negative words will come of this, but like they say, if the shoe fits were it. But there is teachers that do not do there work, and I think if the schools are not pass then give the text to the teachers to see if they can pass it, if they can’t then escambia county has a problem. And yes it does happen, there is child that just don’t care. I hope the students at Northview High will do better next year.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:26:24 +0000

REGARDING:
“environment, culture, parental involvement, and economic status are ”

On average: better home environment, more cultured or more likely simply a culture which values education and individual effort, more loving parents or at least present parents who don‘t teach harmful attitudes, possibly even married to each other, better economic status due to culture of work ethic and eschewing substance abuse.

Results are the same no matter how we try to explain it away.

Assume bad test, still better is better. They won, we lost.

David contemplating the shame

By: TBrown

TBrown — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:42:51 +0000

It’s a major mistake to think that the students in Santa Rosa county are smarter than the students in Escambia county simply based on the FCAT results. There are more factors that come into play– environment, culture, parental involvement, and economic status are just a few.

By: Opinion

Opinion — Sun, 20 May 2012 01:13:23 +0000

Our problem is not the FCAT. Our problem is children that Aren’t brought up to put forth the initiative to pass the FCAT from first grade all the way to 10th I never had a problem passing the tests.

By: bigbill1961

bigbill1961 — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:40:14 +0000

At least they’ll still qualify as spell checkers for the PNJ.

All kidding aside, I can’t wait for the day that Florida resumes teaching in-depth subject matter, instead of teaching to simply pass standardized tests. This is doing our children a huge disservice.

By: Michelle Ware

Michelle Ware — Sat, 19 May 2012 21:32:00 +0000

Ok people FCAT is not what our kids need! In my opinion the whole education system needs to be redone and looked at in a different light….children are not getting what they need with the current system. Something needs to change!

By: Oversight

Oversight — Sat, 19 May 2012 21:30:42 +0000

Terry wrote, “Something is wrong when honor students in high school have to take remedial classes in college their first semester there.”

With your observation, then it should be apparent that there is no honor in honor classes. To allow someone to earn a passing grade when one is not deserved just dumbs down the system.