The four frauds of school grades, part 1: Comparing magnet and charter schools to each other -- not zoned default schools
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Here is a link to the Florida DoE's 38-page technical manual for calculating a school grade. Take a look and see how long you can keep your eyes open. Within this guide, we see the first two frauds that define the Florida school grading system. It's farcical to think that anyone in the public, at all, has any idea what makes his or her community's schools an A or F. I once heard someone say: "complexity is fraud." I certainly agree with that when it comes to representing human interactions through tortured numbers for the purposes of easy branding and collective punishment.
The four frauds of school grades, part 1: Comparing magnet and charter schools to each other -- not zoned default schools
The four frauds of school grades, part 1…
The four frauds of school grades, part 1: Comparing magnet and charter schools to each other -- not zoned default schools
Here is a link to the Florida DoE's 38-page technical manual for calculating a school grade. Take a look and see how long you can keep your eyes open. Within this guide, we see the first two frauds that define the Florida school grading system. It's farcical to think that anyone in the public, at all, has any idea what makes his or her community's schools an A or F. I once heard someone say: "complexity is fraud." I certainly agree with that when it comes to representing human interactions through tortured numbers for the purposes of easy branding and collective punishment.