High School
It had to come from an educrat
With the Top 10 % Rule, obviously more people are paying attention to how schools rank the students. MySA.com: KENS 5: Education Catherine takes mostly AP courses, and under the district’s system those courses earn more points than regular classes. But for three years of soccer, she earned no points at all. North East adopted [...]
Spring football camps
Spring high school football camps have started here in Texas. As far as I can tell, if you expect to play in the fall, you better be at the camps in the spring. They even “ask” promising eighth graders to join the spring camps so that they will have a head start on the fall. [...]
Enough said
MySA.com: Metro | State: The classification system that long has arranged Texas high school football programs by enrollment size for the purpose of competitive parity may be on the verge of its most radical alteration ever. University Interscholastic League athletic director Dr. Charles Breithaupt said his organization’s legislative council will be presented in June with [...]
How it all starts
High School Students Upset Over Holocaust Assignment | WOAI.COM: San Antonio News: Students and teachers said the students tagged as Jews were forced to stand against the wall as those portraying Germans passed by in the hallway. The Jewish students were also the last to eat lunch and had to pick up everyone’s garbage, the [...]
Preventing increases in the rate of deaths among high school students
Given the obscure definitions used by the Texas Education Agency to calculate the high school dropout rate, I can understand why the legislature might feel the need to explicitly define who is a dropout. But I have to wonder about the following requirement: 80(R) HB 3621 – Introduced version – Bill Text: (e) Each school [...]
Dual Credit Student Ineligible for UIL?
Here’s another bill to file under “you’ve got to wonder…” 80(R) HB 208 – Introduced version – Bill Text: Sec.?33.087.??ELIGIBILITY OF STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN JOINT CREDIT OR CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT PROGRAMS. A student otherwise eligible to participate in an extracurricular activity or a University Interscholastic League competition is not ineligible because the student is enrolled in [...]
Will 4 by 4 Solve Ysleta’s Problems?
El Paso Times – 90% of YISD students need remedial college math: Students in the 12th grade will take the Accuplacer test and administrators hope to improve on past performances.According to Ysleta records, more than 90 percent of the students taking the Accuplacer would need to take remedial classes in math before enrolling in college [...]
4 by 4, a Solution in Search of a Problem
Looks like high school students are going to have to take more math and science in order to graduate. Now I’m not saying this is a bad thing, I just want to know why did the legislature require it? Having not really paid attention to House Bill 1 at the time, I’m assuming it has [...]
A Flexible 4 by 4
MySA.com: Metro | State: AUSTIN — High school students will face a tougher curriculum beginning next year, but likely won’t have to take the highest level of math and science to meet the new fourth-year requirements. A blow to full employment for Physics and Pre-Cal teachers, a blow against watering down their class content. MySA.com: [...]
Another case of Zero Tolerance run amuck?
Warren HS Senior’s ‘Wave’ Gets Her Kicked Out Of Graduation Ceremony: A Warren High School senior was not allowed to walk across the stage to receive her high school diploma recently because she violated Northside Independent School District policy when she waved and pumped her fists in the air at the crowd. What I want [...]