Comments on: Texas Charter Schools, Part One: Failing and Cheating http://homeschooling.thesouthernbaptistacademy.org/texas-charter-schools-part-one-failing-and-cheating.html Providing Southern Baptist Families with News from the Frontlines of the Exodus Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:54:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Lee http://homeschooling.thesouthernbaptistacademy.org/texas-charter-schools-part-one-failing-and-cheating.html/comment-page-1#comment-556 Lee Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:09:20 +0000 http://www.thesouthernbaptistacademy.org/blog/texas-charter-schools-part-one-failing-and-cheating.html#comment-556 I taught for a year in a Texas Charter school. It was quite an experience. I learned an awful lot of skills related to "teaching to the test", had my absolute fill of participating in benchmark tests and asssorted other programs and assessments designed to get the test scores up. They did just about everything but focus on improving the teaching in the classroom. Our school was probably one of the more successful examples of a charter school in Texas, with a mission of reaching out primarily to drop-outs and students who, for various reasons, were not eligible to enroll in public schools. With the facilities we had, the equipment we were given, the curriculum materials, and the overcrowding of the classrooms to squeeze every dollar out of the state, I'm amazed that we accomplished anything at all. BTW, I enjoy this blog, and I've linked it on my blogroll at http://kingdomeducation.wordpress.com Come and visit! I taught for a year in a Texas Charter school. It was quite an experience. I learned an awful lot of skills related to “teaching to the test”, had my absolute fill of participating in benchmark tests and asssorted other programs and assessments designed to get the test scores up. They did just about everything but focus on improving the teaching in the classroom.

Our school was probably one of the more successful examples of a charter school in Texas, with a mission of reaching out primarily to drop-outs and students who, for various reasons, were not eligible to enroll in public schools. With the facilities we had, the equipment we were given, the curriculum materials, and the overcrowding of the classrooms to squeeze every dollar out of the state, I’m amazed that we accomplished anything at all.

BTW, I enjoy this blog, and I’ve linked it on my blogroll at http://kingdomeducation.wordpress.com
Come and visit!

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