Oct 12 2008
Sanders-Clyde Scandal Continues to Unfold
When Charleston County school officials monitored Sanders-Clyde Elementary School’s testing process this year, they deprived students of snacks and breaks and created a stressful and uncomfortable atmosphere, according to teachers’ firsthand accounts of the situation.
School district leaders say that’s an inaccurate description of what happened, and they denied doing anything that would negatively affect the school’s testing process.
Teachers’ descriptions of the monitoring somewhat mirror former Principal MiShawna Moore’s account of what took place. Both predicted test scores would drop, and they did, dramatically.
I remember in elementary school having to take those awful IOWA tests every other year. They lasted all day or half of the day, but I do know that we were not given any breaks or snacks in between other than our regular lunch period. This is a weak excuse, one of many others, coming from the staff at Sanders-Clyde.
I’m not going to convict Principal Moore here. The details are still too vague to be able to adequately determine exactly what happened with these test scores, but all circumstantial evidence points to something very fishy going on at this school. You have a school with piss poor test performance year after year. Then suddenly one year scores shoot through the roof and the school is dubbed a huge success, and then the next year they are back to piss poor again.
The was one excuse, however, that I was quite surprised hadn’t surfaced as I was reading the article and then I got to the bottom……
“Many Sanders-Clyde staff members are left wondering if the distractions were intentional,” the packet read. “Is it possible that individuals had personal agendas that included proving that the poor African-American child on Charleston’s East Side could not have possibly produced the improvements documented over the past five years?”
That’s right! It’s racism!!! Mua-ha-ha-ha-ha!!! A big evil RACIST conspiracy by the school district to keep the black man down!
