The Clayton County School System has lost its accreditation:
The Clayton County school system will lose its accreditation in the next school year, the National Accreditation Commission decided today.
The commission, meeting in Chicago, voted unanimously to revoke the 52,800-student district’s accreditation on Sept. 1.
The only chance the district has to hold on to accreditation is to meet nine mandates by September, but that is highly unlikely, said Mark Elgart, president and chief executive officer of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
“I do believe unless outside significant intervention is provided and support is provided, the system does not have the ability to meet nine requirements,” said Elgart, whose Southern Association is a member of the accreditation group.
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Aubie,
Fair point…but, in Georgia, the libbie-Dems are notorious for being born corrupt, raised corrupt, and live a life of corrupt-thinking.
“Corrupt-thinking” being “How can I make this process work to my benefit without doing too much work?”
John,
So with Math123, can I leave my kids in the Gwinnett public schools? Or does it represent a dumbing-down of the overall system?
Harry,
It is a “dumbing-down” of the system for gifted and advance kids. And it makes the system to hard for vocational bound students.
I am not sure how Gwinnett is rolling out this re-cycled failed math program. You should to talk to a math teachers at your son and or daughter’s school and ask them about math 123. I have left my youngest daughter in private school because in Cherokee I was told by numerous people in charge “my hands are tied and we think it will not take long before it fails here like everywhere else.”
The goal of NCLB is to equalize test scores of students instead of promoting choices and opportunities for students that best fits their educational needs.
I had heard from a friend on the Cobb BOE board that the whole district is considering what Marietta is doing and declaring the distinct Charter to get out of math 123 because of all the issues. We need more board members with integrity like Tom Smith and my friend and that is why I am promoting the idea.
I lead a protest last year when Kath Cox spoke in Cherokee and my oldest son class was grandfathered into the old system and he is in 8th grade. The sad part is I have talk to numerous board members, principals, math teachers, academic leaders for Technical colleges and Universities all tell me math 123 is a failure waiting to happen and that is why Georgia’s math program manager Claire Pierce has offered her resignation many times!
It is frustrating as a parent that everybody knows the NCLB is a failure destroying our schools yet few will stand up and say enough is enough. The politicians are politically scared to tell parents that every child was not meant to go to college. Yet we do need mechanics, policemen, beauticians…..Also that a school can only provide opportunity. The school cannot be a replacement for a dysfunctional home.
Parents must foster the attitude in their children that going to school is a privilege not a right!
Dragonfire,
Thank you for the information.
The reason I did the research is I took my oldest son out of private school because I found out about the nationally rank program in Cherokee that allowed my son to take algebra 1 in 7th grade. My friend’s daughter was accepted at MIT with recommendation from professors at KSU because as a junior in high school she was taking classes at the University.
I was outraged when not only did Kathy Cox eliminate this program she wanted not to honor the high school credits he had earned. If that was not enough she lied to the parents in Cherokee county telling us our children in the gifted program were behind national averages.
I knew this was illogical because my son took the SAT in 7th grade and his score was in the top 25% of gifted children across the country and his score was not the best in his class.
I than found out from the board and our superintendent that Kathy Cox was using State wide numbers with numerous different gifted programs while knowing the real results in Cherokee.
The truth was Cherokee math program for gifted students was ranked 12th in the nation. And I heard Cobb and North Fulton was using a similar program with excellent results as well.
I than ask Kathy why not expand the concept of using higher education to supplement children in the 11th and 12th grade for all subjects college bound or vocational since it is the only concept that is working?
She gave me a guilt driven politically correct answer that I was boxing students’ future and every child needs all the skills to go to college. She than gave me the equalization of student NCLB propaganda speech.
This is what motivated me to research the topic. I just hope and pray people but aside their political differences and help solve this problem.
Please let your voice be heard and tell Sonny, Casey, Cox, local reps, school board and federal lawmakers put the politics aside and fix the problem. AND STOP MATH 123 and NCLB before it does even more damage!
Here’s the Georgia Dept of Ed comments
Here’s a comment I made to their public intake e-mail:
You must be aware that the public perception of your new curriculum (popularly referred to as Math123) is very poor. Kathy Cox has done a terrible job of convincing parents that this is in fact not a dumbing down of public school math. It doesn’t do any good for members of the state board of education to state that every child can learn equally well. It’s imply not true, and trying to mix the different levels of ability will serve only to dumb down the entire group. We cannot afford to not compete on the world economy.
We really wonder if any of you are even listening to our concerns.
Harry
THANK YOU!
I normally don’t read anything but the headline. Why did Clayton lose his front page posting privileges?
Demonbeck deserves a chuckle…which I am giving him for the length of time I type this.
I live in Clayton County and have to deal with this–the brazen arrogance of all nine of these members in the way they have conducted themselves throughout this process is so predictable and expected.
I have to had put up with the caterwauling and race-baiting of Norreese Haynes and thrilled he’s gone–but I promise you that his clone is waiting in the wings ready to be voted in by the people who put people like him in to begin with.
If I were a junior in a Clayton Co. school, I’d be asking my governor how my school taxes could get me enrolled in an accredited school so that I graduate with an accredited diploma.
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