Texas Education

In this blog post Challenge Our Young Minds, Dinora makes a good argument about the bill that will stop teachers from passing every student. Currently, some school districts don’t permit teachers to give a failing grade. This means teachers can’t give a grade less than a 70. I agree with Dinora, the bill needs to be passed. It is ridiculous that some students can just float by in high school because their teacher can’t give them a failing grade. We need to raise the bar in Texas education no lower it. In the article Major challenges Facing Texas Education Today, there are several statistics proving that Texas needs help with our education. One of the statistics states that Texas is ranked 49 in verbal SAT scores. Obviously we need to do something about our education. I like this statement Dinora makes, “More than ever our country needs enlightened, challenged minds. Given our economic disasters, environmental issues, and energy shortages we cannot afford to allow our future generation to become status quo.” I couldn’t agree more with that statement. I’m pleased to know that legislators are doing something about this horrible no failing policy.