Jewell-Sherman’s zero tolerance and over emphasis on test scores is a recipe for disaster. I’ve seen it and experienced it. For the sake of high scores, RPS system will crush the creative students and demonize normal childhood behaviors unless a school is lead and protected by a wise and well educated principal. Reliance on multiple choice test scores is a sign of laziness.

Jewell-Sherman needs to be held acountable for keeping bullying principals in place. And she needs to stop the practice of wasting money on expensive unnecessary child studies and behavorial assessments conducted on students guilty of acting like normal children. A first grader does not have a mental problem because he fidgets at a desk and becomes uninterested in learning while being taught to a test.

We need choices and wise leadership in public education now.