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September 29th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Amen to this observation! The Sun seems incapable of reporting good news in Lowell schools.
September 29th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
As usual, the headline banner is not by the writer, but the editor. It is a reflection of his current campaign against the school administration. Criticism may be valid, but reinterpretation of the articles is a license he should not have.
September 29th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
As an eighth grade English teacher, it frustrates me that
> the media doesn’t question the MCAS numbers more. Driscoll
> is in denial. He mentions that the tenth grade scores are
> improving, but fails to mention that those numbers do not
> include drop-outs. In Lowell, for example, where I teach,
> many of the students who pull down our eighth grade scores
> (and give us the most discipline problems), drop out of
> Lowell High (or the Voke). Many do so in their freshman
> year (although they can’t officially until they’re 16).
> Other students are held back in ninth grade and also don’t
> show up as tenth grade test takers.
>
> I don’t think there has been enough attention to this
> matter. In reality, the tenth grade failing rates should
> include all those students who have dropped out across the
> state, because you can’t pass the MCAS if you’re not in
> school. And if they have dropped out, isn’t that a
> failure? Why doesn’t anyone question Driscoll on this when
> he makes it seem like the tenth graders are doing better
> than all the rest?
>
> If we had that many kids drop out of the middle schools,
> we would have better test scores too! I’m not trying to
> make excuses, but I think the public has the right to know
> the truth. There’s a huge disparity between the freshman
> class and the graduating class every year at Lowell High.
> I believe they lose over 400 students. I know everyone
> is trying their best to keep kids in school, but to say
> tenth graders are doing better than elementary and middle
> school students is also misleading.
September 29th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Nice call, Mimi, great post!
I won’t mention names as to who I’m guessing made the decision to use a totally misleading, attacking headline for the article in such a way…but seriously, this is tiresome. Anyone wonder why the Sun is becoming irrelevant these days?
Keep the reporters, most of them are good (underpaid) people. But I question the economic decision of the owners of the paper to allow such agenda-pushers to be in charge of the paper. A paper is supposed to report the news, not create agendas.
September 29th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Ya think the Sun is gunnin’ for the Superintendent?
September 29th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
I81…No! Ya’ think?
October 3rd, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Not entirely on topic but in Monday’s paper was their annual statement of circulation. The Sun continues to lose readers! They are down to 42,194 paid papers published a day! That includes all the papers that are distributed to other communities so the number of readers in Lowell is even smaller although they don’t break it down.
So I guess my question is if the Sun can’t turn it’s own house around, and they have been in the newspaper business for over a hundred years, then why would anyone listen to them when they suggest ways to run the city?
I remember the days when they used to include the circulation number in the banner above the headline, if memory serves me it was over 96,000 back then and Greater Lowell had fewer residents!