Comments on: The Law of Lousy Outcomes

By: howard

howard — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:57:48 +0000

Concern about some kids in middle school who can hardly read at all reminds me of an old proverb:

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

This proverb describes a situation where permitting some small undesirable situation will eventually result in decline.

Students who are not readers by fourth grade so they can read to learn thereafter in and out of school are at risk to drop out in future years.

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By: Wacky Mommy

Wacky Mommy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:32:55 +0000

I am not happy at the moment. Had a talk this afternoon with my children’s principal and may have told him, “Why did you sign up our school for this program? It wasn’t like anyone was holding a gun to your head.”

Thanks for the post, Buel.

By: Zarwen

Zarwen — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:20:07 +0000

Well, Steve, this is why Rita and I used to describe PPS as having a disease-of-the-week approach: they keep discussing problem after problem but never actually try to fix any of them. My take on this so-called “High School Redesign” is that it is just more of the same. I think the reason they started the whole thing was simply to have an excuse not to fix anything related to the K-8 debacle.

By: Carrie Adams

Carrie Adams — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:41:37 +0000

Since they have difficulty solving problems, the least they can do is stop creating them.