It was recently discovered that some of the LHS counselors told students that they could get credit for taking the same required class twice and it would count as taking "both" of the half credits required in that area.... a specific example.... taking Health 1 twice and pretending that it counts as Health 1 and Health 2. (Since a prominent citizen's son is one of the vicitims who just found out that the Health class he has been taking all trimester long will not count (as he was told by his counselor apparently) he now has basically forfeited the opportunity that he could have had during this trimester to take something he needed or wanted, he now, as a senior must give up something he had planned.
I blame the grown ups for that one... but he will be the one that pays.
I have heard rumors (and I repeat, these are second hand rumors, not first hand, albeit from reliable sources) that credit has been given to kids who needed things to graduate by secretaries and counselors who did not want the kids to be banned from graduating. The hitch is that no class was apparently taken...and in other cases apparently grades were changed on transcripts without the teacher's knowledge.
It seems to me that we need several audits:
1. An audit of courses and transcripts for the issues listed above.
2. A special ed audit.
3. A forensic audit of all the books... (unless the audit we just did meets that level of investigation).
4. A testing audit.
And we need some surveys:
1. A survey about administration (from the teacher and staff perspective).
2. A survey about teaching and effectiveness (from the kids perspective).
3. A survey about the morale and climate of each building.
4. A survey of the community needs relative to the district.
Welcome Mr. Interim, we really need you, we just hope we got it right!
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