SFist: School Daze

Dave, school teacher

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:32:05 -0800

I'm not from the area but I wonder how will children pass the californian final test equal for everyone if they have individual learning programms?

rita

Tue, 30 May 2006 16:08:48 -0800

thanks for the clarification, Kwillets! Corrected in the text. And that's cool that your kid liked Mckinley, Kwillets -- it really does seem to me that the SF public schools get an unfair rap and it's great to hear people who are having positive experiences with them. (Aren't these over-API-fixated parents the same people in high school who were like, "the SAT is just a number, man"?) Ask me this question again in however many years when I'm outside the SFUSD building protesting my child's lottery number and school assignment, though! The whole school thing seems very tough.

KWillets

Tue, 30 May 2006 12:46:57 -0800

It was Mckinley that was beneath Ms. Child-Pusher, not Alvarado. I can say my kid had a problem transferring from Mckinley to one of those API strato-schools: She was too far ahead, and had read all the reading books already. The "problem" was that Mckinley lets kids have individual learning programs, which means that some kids can lag behind, while others can read ahead as far as they want. The kid likes to read, and they let her. For various reasons (such as size) the program at the new school didn't allow that, so now my offspring will be mentally scarred for life (not really, but she was complaining the first few months -- she also has well-developed complaining skills).