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August 2008 ISSUE
We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and CID/HOA board of directors and report the facts!
All's well that ends well - OC is Not Stand and Deliver County
August
6,
2008
Stand and Deliver, starring James Edward Olmos is based on a
true story set in East LA in an environment that
values a quick fix over education and learning. Jaime
A. Escalante is a new teacher at James A. Garfield
High School in Los Angeles County, California
determined to buck the system, Escalante challenges
his students to a higher level of achievement.
Despite concerns and skepticism of other teachers, who
feel that "you cannot teach advanced
math to illiterates", Escalante nonetheless
develops a program setting higher expectations where
students take AP Calculus by their senior year.
After taking the AP Calculus exam, Escalante's
students are overwhelmed when they find out they have
all passed, a feat done by few in the state. Later
that summer the Educational Testing Service (ETS)
calls into question the validity of their scores when
it is discovered that similarities between errors is
too high for pure chance. Outraged by the
implications of cheating, Escalante feels that the
racial and economic status of the students has caused
the ETS to doubt their intelligence. But in order to
prove to the ETS, and to the nation that the scores
were not a fluke, the students agree to retake the
test. In this case, the students are given only
one day to prepare. The students all pass the
test. No celebrity attorney, no lawsuit, no media
coverage.
The
Orange County version of Stand and Deliver is
quite different. In this case, not only is
cheating by certain students confirmed, but cheating
allegation can perhaps be substantiated based on
cheating studies: ETS threw out 385
students' AP exams last month after school officials
discovered numerous testing irregularities. A
total of 690 exams were invalidated.
As a result of the ETS' actions, a coalition of
affected parents and students, backed by a certain
celebrity attorney, sue ETS arguing that the
environment was conducive to cheating - never mind
that at all times, each and every student had a choice
to make: Cheat, stand and deliver, or walk out,
for instance.
The coalition recently lost
the case against the ETS but the Trabuco High
School principal has now been demoted, and students
are back retaking the AP Tests.
All is well that ends well, or is this much ado about
nothing?
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