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Tiger90

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  1. Hisd can put any spin the want on this situation but the dropout rate is sixty percent within the city for Hispanics. SamHouston was I would imagine ninety five percent and so what else do you do? If a kid does not want to go to school what is the answer?

    But they were axed for minimum academic standards which I am going to guess is talking about TAKS.

    TAKS is based on percentage of pass/fail, not the number of dropouts. If 500 students take the test and 250 of them fail, then it is a 50% passing percentage. It doesn't matter if 300 students dropped out that didn't take the test.

    If that is true, then the district's TAKS rating is probably better off with the dropouts. I would bet that a large percentage of the dropouts would not have passed anyway. It would increase their failure rate if those students stayed in school and failed the tests.

    Drop outs can be part of the equation.  In this instance however, it all has to be based on preliminary test score projections.  The state is not releasing any official rankings until August 1st.  The state one minutes says the students are all the same but when the TAKS is put into play they break everything down demographically.  A school can actually meet the exempliary status overall but have the school rank as academically unacceptable if a subgroup is deemed too low.

    One thing I will never understand is if we as a society can recognize that some folks are born with superior physical talents (ie. sports players) over others why can't we accept the fact that some people just do not have the same mental talents?  These standardize tests pretty much assume we all learn the same or can learn the same when that is just not true.

  2. A few weeks ago there were some folks talking about how if some schools wanted to keep their coaches etc they needed to not make them have to get more certifications/teaching fields and have them focus more on coaching.  The reality is sports are secondary to a school's purpose.  This school could have won state in every major sport this year, but in the end it is the academics that are most important.

  3. Former South Oak Cliff math teacher Winford Ashmore said Arthur had a history of trouble in math. He showed us his 2002 grade book for freshman math in which Arthur was making weekly failing grades: 45, 25 and 24.

    In the Spring of 2003, school records show Arthur failed math again with a 64. But those records also show that in January of 2005 — two years later — Principal Moten signed off on changing that failing grade to a passing grade of 72.

    I do not condone cheating in any way but this is wrong.  This teacher has opened himself up.  A kid's record is not up to the public to scrutinize.  It is not right for anyone to post a 14-15 year old kid's grades to the public.  Forget the grade changing situation and picture your kid's teacher showing the world his/her grades without your consent.

  4. Come on bucman, a Winnie boy is the AD at Kountze.  And yes he is the trainer.

    ......who has never coached a sport.  He was basically given the spot when Sutherland departed with 3-4 years tops of teaching experience.  After that announcement a mass exodus of the coaching staff occured.  They lost a lot of quality experience at that point who were building a program.

    Kountze has some solid athletes but the mentality is the team is losers according to many of the student body and community folk.  I spent many years there and talent walks the hallways but will not try out for the team.  Get some of those big FFA kids out of the shop and on the field. 

  5. im curious UNLV, what choice would've made sense to you?

    Someone with the shock value to get community support. The key to Lamar

    football succeeding is winning and community support. I wanted a bigger stadium over VIP

    , I still prefer both. A bigger stadium means more fans in the stands. If Lamar football had

    never stopped, the Woodard choice would be ok. However this is a restart of a failed program.

    A chance to make a new impression on SETX. A chance to forget the last 30 years.

    There must be a big bang to get the program going. Foot to the floor spinning your wheels, a

    full can of lighter fluid on your charcoal, a nuke, something big to start the program. Afterward,

    then you start throttling down to something more realistic and at Lamar's level. Woodard can takeover

    after the big bang. He will then have the experience at this level and acceptance by the community

    the way Roc was accepted. We need the big bang start, something that will have all of SETX talking.

    Woodard will only have people saying Who and Why.   :'(

    Been basically saying this all along.

  6. Can't really be down on LM's administration.  Why should they care about other programs?  They are looking out for themselves as any school would.  It is the coaches who are looking to leave. 

    I have always felt Nederland was a less talented team than many in the area but were very disciplined and fundamentally sound.  You have not seen a lot of mistakes.  If Neumann does leave Nederland must find a strong leader or some lean years could be in store.

  7. Dale that was not funny! You got me all fired up and then slamed me. >:(

    Yeah, I have to agree.  You're in a position where you have placed yourself as "the" guy for LU athletics information.  I along with most who visit this part of the board have developed a certain amount of trust for your posts.  We get all sorts of posters who say all sorts of nonsensical things but I would have expected more here.  April 1st is still 2 weeks away.banhim.gif

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