To the editor: I frequented primary, college and high school in the unified school district of Los Angeles (“The new test score labels are looking for positivity, abandoning the term” standard not encountered “for” below the base “,»March 4).
The old category of “standard not encountered” is now replaced by “basic” and “below the base” to transmit an appropriate sense of emergency and improve the morale of students.
Perhaps the State Board of Education should be less concerned with labels and how to really improve the scores of dismal and mathematics.
Ann C. Hayman, Westwood
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To the editor: Unlike the tiny gains welcomed, the real story was 67.2% of Lausd students did not competent in mathematics; 57% were not prodigious in English; And 76% were not in science. All below the numbers of states still devices.
Does the State Board of Education are concerned about mass failure? No, it's worried about parents' morale. “If at first you do not succeed, try, try again”, is a extinct maxim, replaced by: “Do not worry, you are well; This is our fault anyway.
The obsession with the use of euphemisms in the two lower categories – has now changed “almost encountered standard” and “standard not encountered” to the deceptive and marginally opaque and “minimum” “development” – is a bad service for all those involved, in particular colored students who constitute the overwhelming majority in the non -lavish categories.
Mitch Paradise, Los Angeles
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As a retired teacher, let me suggest a set of better morale stimulation labels for tests:
- Best since the start of time.
- Better than all have ever seen them.
- Just very beautiful (for the weakest directors)
- Simply wonderful.
With these labels, the state could strengthen a false reality so that no one is forced to recognize any need for improvement. Objective reached!
And Hennessy, Arcadia
