Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:39:50 -0500, Mike Marlow wrote:

What are the percentages of students failing and having to repeat a
grade? That'll tell you more than your personal experiences will.

I don't know the answer to that Larry, because I don't follow it.
But - I know that from the reported pressures on various schools in
the area to meet the new (and increasing) state standards, that more
are not failing, than are.

Mike, 51% passing is more than 49% that aren't :-). All I was trying
to do was to get a quantifiable answer.

Understand that, but like I said - I do not have that answer. Let me turn
this back (for the sake of conversation...) - why do you ask? Do you either
have evidence, or even a suspicion that those numbers may be closer to par,
or even sub par?

The only thing I can speak to is that NY has set standards for graduates.
Minimum scores on state tests, etc. Not LCD stuff - real knowledge. We
used to lead the nation in our graduate knowledge and the state is trying to
get back there after some years of "new age education" that resulted in
producing a bunch of dummies. This is what schools are being individually
measured by. More than that, I probably can't speak to, since like I said -
I don't keep up with this stuff. What I can say is that "move them out"
does not work in this state anymore. LCD has never been a policy and it
certainly is not one now.

So - I'll ask you - can you provide the type of evidence that you have asked
of me, that would show that LCD is even alive in NY, let alone the norm?

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-Mike-