Rudy Crew’s Crapola

It's obvious to anyone watching the M-Dade School Board meetings that the system is more corrupt than ever. The majority of the Board refuses to demand accountability from the administration for no-bid contracts, investigating the practice of increasing existing contracts without proper authority, decreasing graduation rates and student achievement and filthy conditions in some schools, to name just a few.

Board Member Dr. Marta Perez understands the depth to which the district has sunk, and her courage under the fire of the arrogant and dismissive attitudes and comments from some of her colleagues and the Superintendent is an example for every reformer to follow.

New Times, please continue to expose the dirty linen and maybe the authorities who can actually do something will eventually wake up. As far as the Miami Herald is concerned, you only have to look at the "partnership" it has with the district to understand why no real investigative reporting is done.

RC is a joke. He and the entire public ed system need to be overhauled and built from the ground up once again.

Talk about horrible education! I remember when Rudy Crew was put as superintendent of our schools. All I heard from there on was FCAT FCAT FCAT!

This is what they use to grade our public schools. What is so good about the FCAT? It takes out the fundamentals of learning, and we are left with only a mere part of what we should know.

In fact even when I was a senior and had passed my FCAT two years prior, I was still hearing about the FCAT! I was in AP classes and honors and they still made us practice how to do FCAT excercises! Instead of focusing in the importance of a good education we are all absorbed in a test which only measures things in mere importance. The reason that we are not teaching the children correctly is because we are so intereasted in some score on some test which does not even teach the important parts of studying.

Not to mention that they do not teach you how to write correctly. For those unfortunate students who do not recieve AP classes, their education is reduced to only the FCAT. For college on personal experience I have learned that in fact the way to write on the FCAT is completly different to how you are supposed to write in college, and not to mention in the real world.

All I learned up until AP english was how to write five paragraphs. That was it. Five paragraphs is all I ever wrote. Never mention creative writing, there was no room for that. No room for growth of the imagination, only math and writing, and reading. Yet why if we only train the students to pass the FCAT, are all the students doing so poorly in their test?

My brother was one of the children who did not pass the reading portion of the FCAT in third grade, and he was held back! Why are the children suffering for the mistakes of their elders? Many students even drop out of high school due to the fact that they can not manage to pass the FCAT. Many students that come older to the US from other countries are faced with difficulties in language, and difficulties in the FCAT which MUST be taken in english. This sets a lot of room for failure, with low qualifying teachers which non the less is due to the poor salary, and poor discipline of students.

Regular classes are the worse. I could never learn anything, because the teacher was to busy having conflicts with other poorly behaved students who could not conduct themselves in proper fashion!

Never the less I pray that some how things will have a better outlook since in fact our education system has done poorly to educate the new students coming in. I do not believe it is only at school, a good education starts at home with good enforcement, and good communication about the reality of life, and how important it is to be an enlightened person.

But if the work is only half done, and our teachers are upset, because of their paychecks....we have nothing buy a sad cycle, and a poorly educated generation which will only lead to more headaches, and a bleak future.

Talk about horrible education! I remember when Rudy Crew was put as superintendent of our schools. All I heard from there on was FCAT FCAT FCAT!

This is what they use to grade our public schools. What is so good about the FCAT? It takes out the fundamentals of learning, and we are left with only a mere part of what we should know.

In fact even when I was a senior and had passed my FCAT two years prior, I was still hearing about the FCAT! I was in AP classes and honors and they still made us practice how to do FCAT excercises! Instead of focusing in the importance of a good education we are all absorbed in a test which only measures things in mere importance. The reason that we are not teaching the children correctly is because we are so intereasted in some score on some test which does not even teach the important parts of studying.

Not to mention that they do not teach you how to write correctly. For those unfortunate students who do not recieve AP classes, their education is reduced to only the FCAT. For college on personal experience I have learned that in fact the way to write on the FCAT is completly different to how you are supposed to write in college, and not to mention in the real world.

All I learned up until AP english was how to write five paragraphs. That was it. Five paragraphs is all I ever wrote. Never mention creative writing, there was no room for that. No room for growth of the imagination, only math and writing, and reading. Yet why if we only train the students to pass the FCAT, are all the students doing so poorly in their test?

My brother was one of the children who did not pass the reading portion of the FCAT in third grade, and he was held back! Why are the children suffering for the mistakes of their elders? Many students even drop out of high school due to the fact that they can not manage to pass the FCAT. Many students that come older to the US from other countries are faced with difficulties in language, and difficulties in the FCAT which MUST be taken in english. This sets a lot of room for failure, with low qualifying teachers which non the less is due to the poor salary, and poor discipline of students.

Regular classes are the worse. I could never learn anything, because the teacher was to busy having conflicts with other poorly behaved students who could not conduct themselves in proper fashion!

Never the less I pray that some how things will have a better outlook since in fact our education system has done poorly to educate the new students coming in. I do not believe it is only at school, a good education starts at home with good enforcement, and good communication about the reality of life, and how important it is to be an enlightened person.

But if the work is only half done, and our teachers are upset, because of their paychecks....we have nothing buy a sad cycle, and a poorly educated generation which will only lead to more headaches, and a bleak future.

Talk about horrible education! I remember when Rudy Crew was put as superintendent of our schools. All I heard from there on was FCAT FCAT FCAT!

This is what they use to grade our public schools. What is so good about the FCAT? It takes out the fundamentals of learning, and we are left with only a mere part of what we should know.

In fact even when I was a senior and had passed my FCAT two years prior, I was still hearing about the FCAT! I was in AP classes and honors and they still made us practice how to do FCAT excercises! Instead of focusing in the importance of a good education we are all absorbed in a test which only measures things in mere importance. The reason that we are not teaching the children correctly is because we are so intereasted in some score on some test which does not even teach the important parts of studying.

Not to mention that they do not teach you how to write correctly. For those unfortunate students who do not recieve AP classes, their education is reduced to only the FCAT. For college on personal experience I have learned that in fact the way to write on the FCAT is completly different to how you are supposed to write in college, and not to mention in the real world.

All I learned up until AP english was how to write five paragraphs. That was it. Five paragraphs is all I ever wrote. Never mention creative writing, there was no room for that. No room for growth of the imagination, only math and writing, and reading. Yet why if we only train the students to pass the FCAT, are all the students doing so poorly in their test?

My brother was one of the children who did not pass the reading portion of the FCAT in third grade, and he was held back! Why are the children suffering for the mistakes of their elders? Many students even drop out of high school due to the fact that they can not manage to pass the FCAT. Many students that come older to the US from other countries are faced with difficulties in language, and difficulties in the FCAT which MUST be taken in english. This sets a lot of room for failure, with low qualifying teachers which non the less is due to the poor salary, and poor discipline of students.

Regular classes are the worse. I could never learn anything, because the teacher was to busy having conflicts with other poorly behaved students who could not conduct themselves in proper fashion!

Never the less I pray that some how things will have a better outlook since in fact our education system has done poorly to educate the new students coming in. I do not believe it is only at school, a good education starts at home with good enforcement, and good communication about the reality of life, and how important it is to be an enlightened person.

But if the work is only half done, and our teachers are upset, because of their paychecks....we have nothing buy a sad cycle, and a poorly educated generation which will only lead to more headaches, and a bleak future.