|
|
WHY NOT?
|
Count
|
%
|
| Poor teachers |
4 |
3.4% |
| Lowering the scores for the villages |
1 |
.7% |
| Graduates are idiots |
1 |
1.2% |
| No basics/basic test skills aren't there |
17 |
13.2% |
| Lack of discipline/not strict enough
|
3 |
2.4% |
| Not enough time
|
3 |
2.1% |
| Too many people in classrooms
|
1 |
.6% |
| I higher high school graduates |
2 |
1.2% |
| Don't teach intensely enought |
1 |
.7% |
| The district says test scores are low |
1 |
.5% |
| Classes are too broken up, not enough consistency
|
1 |
.7% |
| Teach the kids
|
1 |
.9% |
| Test scores are too low/scores are not that good/bad
scores
|
17 |
13.7% |
| Wife is a math teacher
|
1 |
.7% |
| Scoring system too low
|
1 |
.6% |
| Teachers
|
1 |
.9% |
| Teachers need to teach academics not feelings
|
1 |
1.0% |
| Skip over kids that have special needs
|
1 |
.7% |
| It's how the teachers prepare
|
1 |
.7% |
| Elementary students have no foundation
|
1 |
.7% |
| Too many kids that don't pass
|
3 |
2.6% |
| Not challenging, feedback from brother-not enough learning
|
2 |
1.3% |
| Exit exam legitimate test to determine a student's ability
|
1 |
1.1% |
| No because then they must test a junior for senior test
|
1 |
.5% |
| Lower their standards because of ethnicity
|
1 |
.5% |
| Don't think it does, core of reading, writing, and math
|
2 |
1.2% |
| Not caring for students
|
2 |
1.2% |
| They don't teach the curriculum
|
1 |
.7% |
| Hearing the news, raise the education
|
1 |
.6% |
| Education is lacking, not prepared
|
1 |
.6% |
| Teachers lack in basic teaching
|
1 |
.6% |
| Kids are having a hard time passing
|
1 |
.6% |
| They don't push the education
|
1 |
.7% |
| Don't take enough time with the kids
|
1 |
1.2% |
| Because kids are failing |
1 |
.7% |
| Elementary schools
|
1 |
1.2% |
| Reports on TV say kids aren't smart
|
1 |
.8% |
| Not teaching phonics well enough
|
2 |
1.8% |
| Not teaching what is on the exam
|
3 |
2.7% |
| Too much television
|
1 |
.5% |
| Improvements needed on reading
|
1 |
.7% |
| Teaching too much extra-curricular things
|
2 |
1.7% |
| From talking to high school students
|
1 |
.8% |
| Too many easy courses, kids struggle in college
|
1 |
.8% |
| Elmendorf test scores are lower than national average
|
1 |
1.1% |
| Not enough communication |
1 |
.7% |
| Math requirements
|
1 |
.7% |
| Not enough science
|
1 |
.5% |
| Low standards
|
1 |
.6% |
| Money is not being spent to educate
|
1 |
1.0% |
| Too busy pushing kids on to the next year
|
1 |
.7% |
| Teachers don't spend enough time with students
|
1 |
.5% |
| Kids working at Burger King can't count change
|
1 |
.5% |
| Daughter got A's in calculus, barely passed math portion
|
1 |
.5% |
| The battle back and forth about it
|
1 |
1.0% |
| Too much is expected from the school district
|
1 |
.6% |
| Keep changing requirements
|
1 |
.5% |
| Too much administration
|
1 |
.5% |
| Personal experience
|
1 |
1.2% |
| I deal with children who don't know enough
|
1 |
.8% |
| Idiot parents and students
|
1 |
1.0% |
| Sights are too high on technology
|
2 |
1.3% |
| Kids don't have proper attitude
|
1 |
.9% |
| They could do better
|
1 |
.8% |
| Children can't read
|
3 |
2.2% |
| Not prepared
|
1 |
.6% |
| More kids can't read, write, or do math
|
1 |
.7% |
| Don't agree with testing |
1 |
.9% |
| Don't know
|
10 |
8.1% |
