florida elementary school pulls all black students from class and chastises them for test scores

[Voice of Reason]

No need to chastise elementary school kids you need to chastise the parents.


Or come up with a tutoring program where the parents get paid for enrolling their kids.


They have to use their imagination.

 

[Paradoxx]

This fukking state

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

This the type of action that will hopefully cause a reaction.

We are too complacent.

 

[UncleTomFord15]

It was done by 2 black teachers supposedly. More likely than not they are tired of constantly seeing black kids fail year after year and gave them a real personal talk with no bullshyt involved. One of the kids told their parents, parents caught feelings and now it's a "problem".

Assuming what I said is correct, the teachers did nothing wrong. More black kids need serious talks constantly so they don't end up a bum and failure when they get older.

 

[MajesticLion]

Attacking their self-esteem was the point of the exercise. is this was about any meaningful change, you talk to them and their parents both.



McDonald's as a reward

 

[Scientific Playa]

After perusing the WP article I'm with the Black teachers on this one. It's the beginning of the school year and they are being proactive with our youth before testing begins. The tough love may have been a little too tough but I understand their motivation. The article's writer verged off on state and national politics so it gets some demerits from this reader. No comment on comments from a couple of Black parents interviewed by Fox News affiliate.
Black teachers just can't win. If they stay quiet and pc they lose, if they try old school Black community improve our race tactics they lose.

Black students for talk on test scores, parents say

By Timothy Bella


Black students at a Florida elementary school were singled out and pulled from class for an assembly about how it was a “problem” that they had performed poorly on their standardized tests, school district officials said Wednesday. The incident drew outrage from parents and prompted an investigation by the school district.


Only Black fourth- and fifth-grade students at Bunnell Elementary School in Flagler County, Fla., were taken out of class on Friday for the assembly on how to improve their grades — even students who had passing grades. Students were selected to attend based on their race, Flagler Schools spokesman Jason Wheeler told The Washington Post on Wednesday.
Black teachers showed the students a typo-laden PowerPoint presentation titled, “AA Presentation,” which noted how Black students had underperformed on standardized tests for the past three years. On the slide titled “The Problem,” the school district identified Black students as “AA,” or African Americans, in its assessment of their low overall scores, according to the presentation obtained by The Post.


The incident has drawn backlash from parents who were not alerted about an event that had “segregated” their 9- and 10-year-olds. Some say their children were told in the assembly that they could end up dead or in jail if they did not do well on their upcoming tests.
“It told my child that she was not good enough,” Jacinda Arrington told WOFL, a Fox affiliate in Orlando. “The color of your skin means that you are not good enough, when, in fact, she’s one of the smartest kids in her class.”
Another parent, Alexis Smith, told WFTV, an ABC affiliate in Orlando, that her son was panicking after the assembly. She said he asked her, “So I’m going to die, I’m going to get shot, I’m going to go to jail if I don’t do right?”

The school district is investigating how Black students were the only group that attended an event aimed at encouraging improvement in test scores. As an incentive, the students were promised meals from McDonald’s, Flagler interim superintendent LaShakia Moore said in a statement Tuesday.

“While the desire to help this particular subgroup of students is to be commended, how this was done does not meet the expectations we desire among Flagler Schools,” said Moore, who is Black.
Moore added that after speaking with Donelle Evensen, Bunnell Elementary’s new principal, “it is clear there was no malice intended in planning this student outreach.” But, she said, “sometimes, when you try to think ‘outside the box,’ you forget why the box is there.”

On Wednesday, Moore posted a video apologizing to parents.
Evensen did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday morning. County School Board Chair Cheryl Massaro told The Post that while the event wasn’t intended to hurt the Black students or their parents, the School Board did not know about the plans for an assembly and would have advised against having only Black students in attendance.

“We know it was wrong, and it shouldn’t have happened. It wasn’t a great idea,” Massaro said. “It’s sad that it was segregated by race because that’s not fair. But that’s what happened.”
Wheeler said that no information has been given about what exactly was said in the assembly, specifically the claims from parents that students could end up dead or imprisoned if they didn’t perform better.

The event and the backlash to it come as Florida has dramatically changed its standards on how race and history are taught in the classroom.

 

[thenatural]

I'm assuming the black teachers "voluntold" to hold the assembly so the school make this seem like it's a "caring gesture" as a way to cover their ass.

 

[Scientific Playa]

Con't


Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and his administration have faced strong criticism over a new policy that requires teachers to instruct middle-school students that enslaved people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” DeSantis’s administration has also blocked a high school Advanced Placement course on African American studies from being taught and pushed through the “Stop Woke Act” to limit discussions on race in schools and by corporations.

Wheeler told The Post that what happened at the elementary school had “nothing to do with education initiatives from Tallahassee.”

The elementary school is in Bunnell, Fla., about 75 miles north of Orlando. About 19 percent of the public school’s students are Black, and roughly 70 percent of the total enrollment are classified as economically disadvantaged, according to U.S. News & World Report. Evensen was named Bunnell’s principal last month after four years as an assistant principal at the school.
It’s unclear how many Black students were pulled from their classes for the presentation on Friday.
The state grades students on standardized tests between Levels 1 and 5, with 5 being the best score. As part of the presentation, the school said that 32 percent of its Black students scored at Level 3 or above for math and language arts. The school noted that 41 percent should be at Level 3 or above, according to state testing guidelines.

One slide said that Black students could improve their scores if they “commit to earning at least a Level 3 or higher on all standardized assessments” and “concentrate on passing all curriculum based assessments with at least a 75 percent or higher.” High-performing Black students were also called up by teachers and presented as examples to their peers who needed improvement, parents told WESH, an NBC affiliate in Daytona Beach.
Those students who show improvement, and win individual assessment matchups, “will have a meal from McDonald’s,” the school said in its presentation.
An in-school suspension supervisor also attended the assembly with two Black teachers, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Massaro, the School Board chair, said the assembly should have included all of the students who scored below Level 3.

“If we had done this and there was information about it to the parents, then it would have been a cross-section of everyone,” she told The Post. “There are White and Asian students who also don’t score well.”
Moore emphasized Tuesday that the school wants its parents and guardians to “actively participate in their children’s educational successes,” saying it was wrong not to alert families about plans for an assembly targeting Black students.
“Without informing them of this assembly or of the plans to raise these scores, our parents were not properly engaged,” she said in a statement. “… [F]rom this point forward, all of our schools will engage our parents, no matter what group or subgroup their children may be in, in our continued efforts to raise achievement among all students.”

But some parents are still upset, noting that the assembly targeting their Black children should have never happened in the first place.
“No other child needs to ever experience being singled out, being targeted, being discriminated against because of their color,” Francine Howard, whose daughter was in the assembly, told First Coast News.
“It’s 2023, and they segregated our babies,” Arrington said.

 

[chkmeout]

This could have been an intervention to get them to wisen up

Or it could have been a move to embarrass them and get them to drop out

The teachers are black, but it's Florida and DeSantis got some c00ns in his cabinet

You'd expect a caretaker to know that individual meetings would be better, but not every teacher has enough common sense

How do you drop out of elementary?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

By the time the test comes, it was too late

 

[coldcall]

So what's the issue here? They already can't discipline them but now they can't even tell them they're underperforming.

 

[MMS]

overreliance on standardized testing is ruining the learning environment imo

the real issue is class sizes.

 

[Mowgli]

Hopefully it was just the kids who performed poorly.

 

[Paradoxx]

It was done by 2 black teachers supposedly. More likely than not they are tired of constantly seeing black kids fail year after year and gave them a real personal talk with no bullshyt involved. One of the kids told their parents, parents caught feelings and now it's a "problem".

Assuming what I said is correct, the teachers did nothing wrong. More black kids need serious talks constantly so they don't end up a bum and failure when they get older.

If that’s the case, I wish they could have done this instead with the parents. It’s been told since the beginning of humanity, parents are children first teachers.

 

[Uachet]

Nah teachers only

No, parents too. Parents are the ones who make sure their children are doing what they are supposed to do in and out of school. Parents need to make sure their children are doing their homework, studying, and have the tools needed for school. Parents need to make sure their children are non-disruptive and pay attention in class, while also staying on top of their lessons to make sure they are being taught well and understand what they are being taught when home.

I say all the above as a man who raised 2 girls with my wife (Daughter & Youngest Sister),