Comments on: "More Heterogeneous " Curriculum at DHS Causes a Stir http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/05/01/more-homogenous-curriculum-at-dhs-causes-stir/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Mon, 15 Sep 2014 01:05:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: joedecatur http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/05/01/more-homogenous-curriculum-at-dhs-causes-stir/#comment-696 Sat, 03 May 2008 22:07:45 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-696 I don’t necessarily fault Ms. McKain-Fernandez for all this. I think it is coming from above. For several years, I was very supportive of the new administration and even supported the reconfiguration. However, my cynicism is growing, and I even sometimes wonder if there aren’t some central administrators at CSD who are more interested in padding their resumes than in running a school system effectively. I would hate to think so…. but I can’t figure out any other logical way to explain this near frantic pace of change that snaps up every new unproven fad and fashion. I still desperately want to believe in our administration and desperately want my child and all Decatur children to get a decent education, so I hope that they prove me wrong.

I don’t mind trying a couple of new things in a systematic manner, but we are at the point where there is so much nouveau that we will never know what is working and what is not working. There are too many variables. There are so many unproven changes at work that the good is bound to cancel out the bad and we end up with nothing but a bunch of very confused children.

I’m frankly starting to feel like Decatur kids are little more than “lab rats” to be used for the latest experiments. Too, bad the folks conducting them aren’t even engaging in good scientific practice.

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