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There’s an interesting blog post today from Cleve Ricksecker on the “Right Now Downtown” blog titled In Search of a City: Schools That Rock. There, a short summary of the Columbus City Schools (CCS) system is given along with a quick analysis of what the latest round of proficiency scores could mean for the future of young families considering a move into the CCS district.
Some additional commentary on the topic can be found at The Columbus Homes Blog here: Columbus City Schools….Getting Better All The Time?
Does anyone have any stories to share about any specific schools within CCS?
I’m quite late in responding to this stream of feedback but want to second jawjack187 comments regarding the socioeconomic differences and biases, not just in Columbus but nationwide.
Via a nonprofit I work with, I’ve had the chance to hear about teachers’ experiences and one thing that struck me was hearing someone say, “We’re called a ‘bad’ school or ‘bad’ teachers because of our testing score. Most of my kids only get to eat at school. They’re hungry. A few kids have to be driven to and from school by the police because of their home life or neighborhoods.” A friend of mine who teaches in a very poor, rural school district shared that one of his students made solid B’s but failed the senior test three times. She wasn’t able to graduate high school because she panicked on the test.
The conversations continued but as a person who has never thought testing was a good, singular measure of a school’s or teacher’s success, it reinforces that the system is broke, not necessarily the schools.