Accountability

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Educators are leaving the profession each year for various reasons. We may soon have a teacher shortage with the new recommendations for performance pay linked to test scores. So how do we fix this problem? Do we back off of the teachers and school leaders about test scores. Do we allow teachers to sit behind the desk most days while they give their students worksheets. With the change in the standards, it not only changed what you teach but how you must teach in order for students to now be proficient. Do we not say anything to a teacher who gives her students low level assignments that don't meet the expectations of the standards to prevent critiquing their work? At the end of the day, who is being held accountable for the achievement of the students? Educators are putting students at risk of not being able to graduate, not to mention college and career ready. What will happen to a child that comes to middle school struggling in math and has a brand new 6th grade math teacher that is struggling with classroom management and can barely manage the class lets not get into teaching them foundational concepts that are needed to be successful in algebra. Then the child goes on to 7th grade and this teacher sit behind her desk everyday and gives the students low level worksheets. Then the child goes on the 8th grade with a teacher that does everything she can in the 55 min she is given a day to close the even wider gap that is now there to help the students at much as she can. This student takes the GA Milestones and is a beginning learner and should be retained. Who is being held accountable for these students?

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