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New test results show what
many feared: NC students
aren’t doing well during pandemic

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Posted By: cThree, 3/3/2021 8:23:27 AM

The first round of statewide school test results from this school year are in, and they show that North Carolina students aren’t doing as well as they did before the coronavirus pandemic. Test results that will be shared at Wednesday’s State Board of Education meeting show that the majority of high school students did not pass state end-of-course exams given in the fall. The passing rates are also sharply lower on most of those exams than the prior fall, but the state Department of Public Instruction is cautioning against comparing the results.

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It's not just North Carolina, of course.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: voxpopuli 3/3/2021 8:32:12 AM (No. 713388)
Unsupervised kids get to do whatever they want.. with their friends., In AND out of their homes.. what could go wrong?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Jethro bo 3/3/2021 8:36:23 AM (No. 713394)
Teachers' unions, Democrats and ChiComs are celebrating. The dumber they are, the easier to manipulate. All is going accounting to plan.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bpl40 3/3/2021 8:39:55 AM (No. 713401)
You need 'tests' and 'results' for that? It is self evident. Physical schools were invented because the alternative doesn't work. My daughter-in-law is a certified school teacher who has stayed home for the kids (can't tell you how grateful I am for that ). She has set up a complete private room exactly as a kindergarten class room for her six year old daughter and in cooperation with the teacher supervises her actively. Yet she frets that the year has not gone successfully as a learning experience. I shudder to think what might be happening in other families.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: udanja99 3/3/2021 9:42:34 AM (No. 713499)
File this under “No shiite, Sherlock”. I would bet my next social security check that this isn’t happening in red states where schools are open. NC at this point is purple.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Norway 3/3/2021 9:50:09 AM (No. 713516)
O...M...G....What....A....Surprise. (yawn)
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Talk2 3/3/2021 10:00:07 AM (No. 713540)
OMG! Tell me it isn't so, please. I'd never have guessed this was happening across the country. Yeah, like I'd never have known this if some useful idiot journalist(?) with a keyboard hadn't had to sweat buckets over this insightful journalistic endeavor.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: ladydawgfan 3/3/2021 11:27:19 AM (No. 713668)
This is my shocked face.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 3/3/2021 11:33:56 AM (No. 713686)
It was a certainty. My niece took over home schooling her boys in NC last year.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: franq 3/3/2021 12:01:57 PM (No. 713731)
I guess that is why Guilford County passed a $300 million school bond issue in November. Insanity.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Bur Oak 3/3/2021 12:04:25 PM (No. 713736)
NC Governor Roy Cooper (D) is to blame.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: edgar 3/3/2021 12:27:51 PM (No. 713759)
My wife teaches high school in NC. The bar has been lowered so far by the state and school admins on expectations of students that there is no way they can learn. Yet, they are being passed anyhow. Why work hard or at all when you can do nothing and pass?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: TXknitter 3/3/2021 12:39:31 PM (No. 713775)
I’m sure the bar being so low for both grade promotion and high school graduation is heartbreaking for the good teachers. I read through the textbooks for my rural TX grand nieces and want to cry. The lack of rigor doesn’t seem to bother many parents.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: RuckusTom 3/3/2021 7:17:39 PM (No. 714121)
School is lame. Playing video games all day long with your buddies is fun.
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