Jackson Jambalaya

Way to jump on a story from JJ a WEEK ago, and BFP two weeks ago. CL, go back to sleep.

Understand your point 4:15 PM but those kind of collective legs is what it is going to take to root the corruption out of the MDE. The MDE has been protected for far too long by the likes of Cecil Brown, Bobby Moak (D-Annandale), David Blount, McCoy's waterboy Brandon Jones and their yap-dog Nancy Loome. These edu-ripoff artists need to be shutdown and exposure it what it will take. The CL is way late but in this case late is preferable to never.

African American school districts should educate pupils in their particular history. Afro-centric secondary education has never been attempted in Mississippi. The Deep South needs more trade and cultural exchange with Africa especially with our historically black colleges.

Instead of allowing the Chinese, Indians, & others to manage the continent we should engage African republics with the educated diaspora here in this hemisphere.

You can't quantify everything.

There is a basic flaw involved in that student performance is not just a matter of how well the teacher teaches a subject matter.

Some students, despite a poor teacher , can grasp the subject matter on their own. Making good grades is effortless for some students and they are not being challenged to reach their potential.

For other students,getting them to master one small task is a great achievement.

I'm fine with testing teachers in their knowledge of their subjects and in their knowledge of educational tools.

But, to tie a teachers success to student grades without accessing the abilities of the students they teach,without evaluating the conditions in which they teach, without evaluating the materials available to them to use, is absurd.

Where did we get the silly notion that EVERY student is capable of meeting the requirements of graduation?

Where did we get the silly notion that every child can be taught the same body of subject matter? Or that if little Johnny fails, it's the teacher's and administration's fault and not that little Johnny either didn't try, or his parents didn't respect education or educators or that little Johnny was not a bright bulb?

We use to understand, when education was left to educators and politicians and parents didn't run the schools, that you teach a child according to their abilities to learn. Some students who could never memorize multiplication tables could learn to miter a board or could sing like an angel or throw a ball.

Education is about finding a child's abilities and encouraging those abilities. It's NOT about getting them to regurgitate a set of facts society has deemed important.

And, worse, regurgitation rather than comprehension is how we now test.

So we are graduating students who can't think analytically and who can't express themselves in writing and whose reading comprehension is poor . Those skills require term papers and discussion tests where quantification is the subjective evaluation of the teacher.

Some of you don't know or care about education. You only care about the personalities and politics.

If your education was better, you'd know personality and politics is a poor basis upon which to make decisions.

May 17, 2013 at 8:15 AM = blah, blah, blah, blah

"Education is about finding a child's abilities and encouraging those abilities. It's NOT about getting them to regurgitate a set of facts society has deemed important."

Is this from your "If I'm Elected Class President" speech in the gym?