Jackson Jambalaya

oh no! jackson public schools cheated on standardized tests. the world is coming to an end! better hire consultants to address the problem

I wonder how the admiration payroll and funding per pupil relates to those districts that didn't get busted? I bet I have an idea.

We all knew MS public schools were too quick to the brag regarding student improvement. At least "district investigators" are now being transparent about investigation and sanctions.

Only Parental Choice and Voucher Accounts per student can fix public schools that cheat because they cannot teach. Ironic that "teach" and "cheat" are same letters, rearranged.

And I wanted so much to believe that the overall test scores in the state had gone up just like we had been told. NOTTT!

"A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste" Frederick D Patterson

The public education system is wasting them by the millions.

Perhaps JPS would be in a better situation if Gov. Bryant didn't stop the takeover by the State.

I wonder how the leftist Kellogg Foundation feels about its investment in Jackson Public Schools at this point. At least the money wasted is Kellogg's & not the taxpayers'.

So are parents paying teachers? Or are administrators making teachers change grades?

Even with all of the cheating we are still on the bottom. We can always count on Mississippi.

As compared to the rest of the State, JPS staff are too stupid to cheat AND get away with it. It's more of a shame for the students that are being cheated out of a decent education that in a lifetime won't or can't be fixed.

Surprised it took MDE this long to drop the hammer on some of the JPS schools. JPS has a long history of deficiencies and people in administrative positions who should not be. MDE needs to keep looking.

Listen to any chat between two teens at a grocery store to know they are half literate. Nevertheless, praise for teens who have a job after school and weekends, most teens at groceries are polite and hard working.

Welp, there goes the "Mississippi Miracle."

Tater will have to re-shoot his commercials.

This is such a sad thing. Calling them scholars without teaching them does not make it so.

How ironical. The Governor is using the school improvement in one of his campaign ads.

Calling them "scholars" is analogous to "everyone gets a trophy." The dumbing down of minority kids while the administrators pat themselves on the back.

^^^8:05

"How ironical. The Governor is using the school improvement in one of his campaign ads."

That doesn't top his prior use of New Summit School in an earlier ad about 'public' school efficiency.

You'll remember THAT school as the one run by Nancy New. It's now been shuttered.

It drives me crazy. Leaders at JPS refer to the students as scholars. Other school districts with actual scholars refer to them as students. I can’t stand the interviews on local news when these districts are interviewed. I’ve been teaching at Madison county school district fir 7 yrs now and we kinda make jokes about it. I was at Clinton before that for 4 years and the parents that were new to Clinton schools many were former JPS and they were only concerned about if their child was recognized by cake in class on birthday. One mom even asked me why her kid was assigned homework on his birthday and even made to take a test. The student was behind academically as he transferred from forest hill. JPS is an entirely different world compared to other local districts

This is the tip of the iceberg folks. The entire system is fraught with corruption like this, but shhhhhhh... don't say anything.

Teachers are feverishly conditioned (intimidated and threatened) by all administrators (K-12 and colleges) to keep their mouths shut - and it is statewide. Why the feds have not investigated the whole of the MDE and IHL is a mystery. Billions of taxpayer dollars are being lost into a vacuum of waste that the idiot local media then swallows as progress. Biggest scam in history.

A perfect opportunity for JPS to thin the administrative layers, terminate underperforming teachers, reappropriate budgets, and close-down unneeded schools. Who has the CAJONES to do it?

@ 7:08

teachers who teach state test level subjects and grades are well aware of what they are signing up for. It is a performance based system no matter how you slice it. I am married to a school teacher and I can't say one time she was ever called into an office and threatened to "keep her mouth shut".

To all the quotes about the Governor using education in his ads........

Riddle me this losers, is a "BIG" surprise every county listed is a blue/black Dim-O-Krat controlled county?????? What is your left wing excuse for that?

Referring to 9/6, 7:30 PM. I agree about the afterschool and weekend workers. I would like to especially commend a checker ay Kroger I-55 named Brandon. He is unfailing pleasant and efficient.

I assume these are the students Sweet Tater claimed as Best In The Nation in his campaign lie oops ad is what I should have said.

Any individual school in an area is unacceptable.

But any area with multiple schools, then there may be something bigger, more organized causing the problem.

Sep 6 8:05…. best comment winner for this post. Most accurate and succinct. Just sayin.

EVERY SINGILE ONE should be immediately fired.

Don’t hate on the JPS teachers.

Hate on the higher ups that live outside of Jackson (some of the non Jackson higher ups are cool), and don’t seem to give a crap about fixing Jackson Public Schools and therefore the City of Jackson. Heck, the superintendent lives on a gated street in NE Jackson. Wonder if he will stick around Jackson whenever he leaves?

Moral of the story, JPS is in the illuminate and a big problem are adults that don’t have any skin in the game.

Also, when are they going to do something about this? This article is almost ten years old and it’s still going on. Why the heck pay money to all these folks to raise ACT scores when everyone gets an automatic 50 and 60 is passing.

https://www.wlbt.com/story/25226021/investigation-minimum-grade-of-50-at-jps/?outputType=amp

From 8:07pm
"Why the heck pay money to all these folks to raise ACT scores when everyone gets an automatic 50 and 60 is passing?."

Hey @9:09am - I'm sure your wife is well aware of the above fact, and she doesn't have to be "told" to keep her mouth shut. It is fiercely implied. She knows it - and does in fact keep her mouth shut or she'll lose her job.

If you guys don't talk about it, you probably don't talk about anything else meaningful at all. Many thousands of MS teachers are self-imprisoned in a cage without bars chasing PERS with their golden handcuffs of silence.

Jackson has 50 school sites in the district. There are 4 accused of improper testing practices. So that means 46 did good.

@ 12:32 PM

It means 4 got caught.

"Many thousands of MS teachers are self-imprisoned in a cage without bars chasing PERS with their golden handcuffs of silence. "

I love this place - come for the news, stay for the poetry ;-)

12:32 Jackson has 7 schools, not 4, on the list. 7 out the 12 listed approximates 60% of SCHOOLS listed. However, rest assured the percentage of testers from those 7 schools were 90+ % of the 934 invalidated.

Whatever else the legacy of Govenor Bryant might be, he will never escape the reality of being the ONE who refused to put JPS under immediate supervision of the Department of Education.

Why? He was chicken shit and didn't want to be called a racist.