“For just as the police officers felt compelled to game the system to meet the demands of CompStat, so educators are now gaming the system to meet the demands of NCLB. Some states have dumbed down their tests; some have rigged the scores to produce greater numbers of “proficient” students. Some districts have narrowed their curriculum and have replaced instruction with intensive test-prep. Some schools of choice exclude low-performing students. All in the service of making the numbers, making AYP, looking good rather than doing well.
Anyone who thinks that these methods will produce first-class education for our nation’s children is either a fool or is fooling himself.”

Since 2000 when Bush implemented the NCLB federal law, with its initial intention of ensuring that all children would be proficient by the year 2014, and the pivotal year fast approaching, I would like to know how many years will it take to reverse the damage and educational negligence to all the children in the nation who were not given the opportunity of being exposed to a rich curriculum across the subjects, where the arts and music should never have been replaced because of these incessant test-prep sessions, and where our most vulnerable special needs students are treated as “orphans or step-children” because their “inclusion” into the stats would affect the AYP?

I find it very disturbing that these business-type superintendents, where their goal is to keep the stats high at the cost of a true education, has only brought around a generation of test-prep children who will find themselves searching for a true education for many years to come.

Nothing only do they plant such inflammatory stories, but the facts are so incorrect that I wonder why the journalists still have a job with the NY Post.

Here’s a reporter’s informing about Mr. Rosenfeld’s accumulated unused sick days.

Rubber Room Exposé Wins Praise from Bloomberg
http://gothamist.com/2010/02/01/bloomberg_thanks_ny_post_for_rubber.php

“With his perfect attendance, he has accumulated 435 unused sick days. When he retires, he is paid for half.”

The Gothamist’s statement that Mr. Rosenfeld accumulated so many ununsed sick days is blatantly untrue because the teacher’s contract, Article 16A17, clearly contradicts their misleading information.

Here’s where these rogue reporters are unethically misinforming the public into thinking that teachers are scamming the system. What I’ve seen since the Mayor has been in office is nothing but propaganda and distortion of the truth.

It is time for the public to take action and not read any newspaper that sensationalizes and distorts the truth.