We are on the verge of being asked to commitment of a lot
of money to build a NEW MARSHALL, WOTRING WING and all. There’ll be a vote and
you will have to give the city permission to put it on their card. Will your taxes
go up? Don’t ask me, I’m too poor to care.
Whether they will or not, you make sure you probably want
to make sure your money is being well spent. You are going to be told that a
new building that pretty much everyone agrees is going to be too small, will
bring up those MCAS scores. I am sure it will help, but I don’t know if it will
be enough because just because you got NEW shoes doesn’t mean you can run fast.
NO,
you have to be in good condition. WELL TRAINED.
According to the DOE statistics for 2011, MARSHALL had a
score of 0 in the ADVANCED category for SCIENCE/ ENG. TECH part. That’s right,
NO ONE. The average score for the STATE
was 17. Okay, only the EIGHTH GRADE took that part of the test but
still. That category is the current HOT topic. MASS. leads the nation in this
kind of stuff and it looks like MARSHALL is leading NO ONE.
Even in the other two categories of the MCAS which
everyone takes, no higher than 4 was scored and that was only twice (thank
goodness for the sixth grade). Do I think that not that many smart kids go
there? No, I mean my daughter goes there.
Let’s look at the other end of the spectrum in that
SCIENCE category, WARNING/FAILING. MARSHALL had a score of 59. Now that’s more
than 4 times the STATE average of 13. Now I’m not good with raw data, formulas,
statistics and such but I would not hesitate to guess that’s not good.
What I do know from personal experience is that you can
only learn what’s taught. Who’s in charge of CURRICULUM? There may be some SIX
YEAR master plan out there but believe me, you will be asked to pay in a little
more than ONE.
Now some people will argue that you get what you pay for
and that’s mostly right,
UNLESS…..
you are stuck with what you got, and then you need to
remember how you got it.
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