Parents' Rights Now!

YES, PARENTS DO HAVE RIGHTS! Teacher Resigns, Lowering Standards IS Immoral!

June 01, 2022 Suzanne Gallagher Season 2 Episode 133
Parents' Rights Now!
YES, PARENTS DO HAVE RIGHTS! Teacher Resigns, Lowering Standards IS Immoral!
Show Notes

OPRF to implement race-based grading system in 2022-23 school year
School board members discussed the plan called “Transformative Education Professional Development & Grading” at a meeting on May 26, presented by Assistant Superintendent for Student Learning Laurie Fiorenza.

In an effort to equalize test scores among racial groups, OPRF will order its teachers to exclude from their grading assessments variables it says disproportionally hurt the grades of black students. They can no longer be docked for missing class, misbehaving in school or failing to turn in their assignments, according to the plan.

“Traditional grading practices perpetuate inequities and intensify the opportunity gap,” reads a slide in the PowerPoint deck outlining its rationale and goals.

It calls for what OPRF leaders describe as “competency-based grading, eliminating zeros from the grade book…encouraging and rewarding growth over time.”

Teachers are being instructed how to measure student  “growth” while keeping the school leaders' political ideology in mind.


ENGLISH TEACHER RESIGNS AT LYINS TOWNSHIP HS
Effective June 2nd, 2022, I, Tom Stukel, resign from my English teaching position of 17 years at Lyons Township High School because I cannot, in good moral standing, teach students well based on current administrative policies. I care too much about education and too much about students to abide by these policies. Based on my 24 years of experience as a high school teacher, it is my opinion that it is immoral to teach the way LT teachers are being asked to work.
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Parents! I write this to you, not the administration. I care about your students. I care that they get the quality education that they deserve and you expect. Parents! Be aware and be proactive to what is happening at your school and your student's' classrooms. Quality change will not come from the administration, the board, or even the teachers. The teachers here at LT are wonderful, caring people, but they don't have a strong enough communal voice to fight against lame policy.
Parents! It is up to you to make the change you want for your student. Parents! Demand that the policies that are harming your children's education change."

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