Bears2Canes said:
cowboycwr said:
Bears2Canes said:
CTbruin said:
My reference was to the school and city, not the kid. The school has been on the cusp of being closed for several years due to awful academic performance. Right at the worst in the state
I hope the kid graduates cow u. But based on his schooling, he will not be prepared.
The timing for this thread is truly amazing. The TEA accountability ratings for this past school year dropped about an hour ago and Marlin ISD earned a "B" rating after years and years of failing ratings. This is an incredible achievement.
I don't blame people for not knowing what's been going on in Marlin the past few years, but more need to understand that a truly astonishing turnaround is taking place right now under new leadership. Give them the props they deserve and try to forget the old narrative.
This is not meant as a bash towards any school....
but when you look at the accountability ratings it seems to me that almost every school in the state is getting a bump because there are a lot of categories that are NR (not rated) because they were below 70 and during Covid anything lower than 70 doesn't hurt the school. Which leads me to think that many schools will drop in ratings when they remove that protection causing everyone to freak out when ratings drop a bunch.
A fair concern, but that's not the case with Marlin. They didn't have a single campus receive the "Not Rated" distinction under Senate Bill 1365. Other ISDs designation as "Not Rated" doesn't impact those ISDs without the distinction.
For the record, I have no ties to MISD. I just frequently work with ctx schools and I'm an admirer of what they've pulled off.
I am not talking about the whole campus being not rated. Rather I am talking about when you look at the categories that a campus is rated on and some of those are not rated.
Take Marlin for example. At the elementary level they had 2 out of 5 categories NR. Calculate those numbers with the other three and they would be at a C not a B. Their middle school and would be a D and high school would be a C as well if the NRs were accounted for. Still an improvement for Marlin but not the big jump the school/District is getting credit for.
When SB 1365 removes that NR protection they (and many, many other schools) will see large drops because really they are rated too high this year. This will cause lots of people that don't understand how the scores/ratings are figured out to think that the school or district has taken a step back when that is not true.
