Yet again the P&C has proven itself not a news paper but a cheerleader for the area. Maybe we should call it the Pollyanna & Cheer?
The article reporting the drop in 2011 SAT scores for the Charleston County School District actually was headlined, "Berkeley County Sees Rise in SAT Scores." Clever.
It's the third year in a row that CCSD's scores have dropped. We can identify multitudinous causes for decline. However, it's the trend that should worry the School Board.
For how many years has Superintendent McGinley been responsible, either as academic officer or superintendent? When does the buck stop?
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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Another part of the deception is CCSD's use of a different yardstick to measure graduation rates than what the state or federal agencies use. The conflicting results only confuse the public further. So what does it mean when McGinley says she will raise the graduation rate to 81% and is the current rate really 67.9%? Is a 13% rise over 5 years reasonable? Is it a real number? So if McGinley hitches her contract to this does that mean if she raises the graduation rate by just over 2% per year, she can have a $25,000 bonus like the one she took last year? Will someone please explain what the school district is really happening to the 42.1% that isn't graduating each year? And the superintendent gave herself a bonus for that 'accomplishment' for each of the last three years?!! The P&C has done the same thing with SAT scores as its done with other CCSD statistics. The newspaper has buried the details rather than put them in honest perspective.
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