I was skeptical of her article. For example, she complained that even though more people graduated, test scores were very low.

Maybe, but how low were they last year and a few years before that?

She also said that the school didn't seem to have done a good job of preparing students for college.

Maybe, but who says everyone has to go to college to be successful, productive, or happy? And isn't she setting the bar kind of high here? A school won't go from most of the kids dropping out to most of them going to college in only a couple years, regardless of other changes. It's as though she was saying that if a failing school didn't go from failing to a model of upper-middle class values overnight, it was still not good enough. And that this is necessarily a good thing.



Last edited by Val; 06/02/11 10:21 AM.