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My daughters actually go to one of the best schools in the county (for all it’s worth). The school has continuously scored high on national testing, and had the highest test scores in the county on the writing assessment test for the last few years.
My daughter took her SATs on Saturday. I got up at six in the morning (on a Saturday!) to get her there by 7:45. However, all of that will be useless if we lose accreditation. This also affects my 15 year old, and if it doesn’t now, will affect my 7 and 9 year old.
My home will be worthless. My children won’t be able to get scholarships. Other counties are not willing to take the children of this county in (and really, I can’t blame them).
The problems are due to the school board.
SACS found: “ Today’s announcement that Clayton County Schools are run so badly that they became the first system to ever lose their accreditation is a disaster. With the loss of accreditation, their students cannot receive HOPE scholarships, they may not be able to transfer their credits, and their college future is threatened. Those responsible for educating our children failed.”
The board members, who are accused of misappropriating funds, abuse of power, bid tampering and much more, refuse to step down. Obviously they care more about their egos than the children and families of this county.
If something doesn't happen soon, this will be me.
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I work in a school up in NYC that is being closed, despite our bringing our scores up (although not quite as high as required) It's being closed mostly because the current trend favors small schools, and four or five of those can be put into our building. We turned the school from one that parents would fight to keep their kids out of into one that parents were fighting to get their kids into and it still is not enough to prevent the transition.
I fear for all our kids, black, white, brown, yellow, purple polka-dotted, since the educational system in this country (which was not, admittedly designed to truly educate folks, but to turn out a fairly docile, homogenous-in-thought work force, seems to now succumb to every stupid fad or trend. And the situation is not helped by local officials who put self-interest before the welfare of the kids involved.
God help us all in the future, for we will surely need it the way we are heading.
Can you speak with your elected officials about what to do about college situations?
sad to hear the news. Good luck to you!
We are having a meeting tonight. I'm expecting people to be very loud and angry.
(and that's not a "good" wow)
Good news is that accredidation has not been yanked. It will be if changes aren't made, but there's still room and time for those changes. We'll be praying that those changes are made, and in time.