sounds like small town politics to me. the mayor on the school board too.

looks like the towns people love to complain but don't want to get involved, just B_ _ _ _h

yea she should be fired. and the rest need to shut up

Where else, but Maine.

On 9/30/09 at 12:42 PM, mtaylor wrote: Where else, but Maine.

Well, actually Texas...Yup, the home state of the genius that brought NCLB and looney educational rules to your door had numerous districts nailed for faking or altering their test scores. The best scheme was to have students who were idiots actually skip their junior year. They would be advanced two grade levels at the end of their sophomore year...making them seniors, and not required to take achievement tests which had the effect of boosting scores by having less idiots take the test. YEE-HAW

hey drinky, they even had a better scheme in Maine when it came to graduating. All they had to report was that the kid planned on going for a GED or to go on later and that was good enough to say a graduate. Yup they used this scheme to show about a 12 % dropout rate but when the scheme was exposed well guess were the dropout number went North at 25% plus. Also when ever there is a report that they are doing poorly they come out and say this or that was left out. Then there was the migrant issue in the washington county area, there might have been 5-10 kids that where real migrants but we had a few thousand yet by the way they talk up here they hate them but love to get cash for the unseen.

Taxpayer money and educators' time is being completely WASTED on MEA testing. Our kids aren't learning the fundamentals and can barely write. Yet, we persist in NCLB with meaningless testing that is not an accurate measure of anything other than the patience and tenacity of educators trying to comply to a law that is an exercise in futility. Ask any teacher.

Biddeford has become Whacko-land. It MUST be, to have Joanne Twomey for mahyor! I left a phone message on her answering maching a few years ago, when she was in the Legislature, politely asking her to stop changing parties (remember??). She called me back 5 days later AT MIDNIGHT, when my family was in bed, and was completely beside herself.............saying she had been thinking about my message and playing it over and over for four days, and was "just sick" from thinking that people are not understanding her properly!! She then literally ranted for 15 minutes as I tried to get off the phone. When she called "all Republicans in Augusta" stupid "F*3@ers", I knew it was time to let her go. She wanted to keep going on. She's nuts, God bless her.

And now it seems that the whole city is following suit. Nuts.

Oh, and corrupt.

Just like the Dept. of Education.

Mrs. Bean seems a bit edgy. I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too.

The only thing that tests are good for is to show the smart just how stupid they are.

The only way to get an accurate assessment of what a child is learning is to hand them a #2 pencil the day the test is to be taken and give it to them.

NCLB has ushered in the era of test "preparathons" and done little more than that. Just wait until teacher salaries are tied into testing scores - that ought to be interesting.

So now someone is going to die...is this right?

Send her to Penquis, furnishing alcohol to minors is acceptable there, leaking answers to tests is far less serious, dontcha know?