Florida’s schools suck. But since we weren’t sure just how badly the Florida public school system was, the FCAT was devised to tell us just how much our children isn’t learning, to paraphrase president Bush.
Year after year the inevitable happened: the FCAT came and went and told us that Florida’s schools suck.
So the test was made easier. Year after year. But Florida still sucked. No matter how loudly we cheered “No Child Left Behind” test scores still were, well, sucking.
It even didn’t help that most schools now extensively prep the students, specifically coaching them for the exact conditions of the test, dropping such unnecessary curriculum dead-weight like “evolution,” which we all know is a myth anyway, to coach students how to pass the test.
Yet Florida still sucked.
But NOW we have the answer!
When Evans High School students bend their heads to take the 2008 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, dozens of community members will bow their heads, too — in prayer.
A group of about 40 churchgoers hopes that God’s power will do what studying has not for the strugglingPine Hills school: raise its state-issued letter grade above the F it received the past two years.
“Once you’ve done all you can do, you put it in the Lord’s hands,” said the Rev. Michael Kimbrough, pastor of Rising Sun Baptist Church in Pine Hills, who is organizing the prayer chain.
Prayer is among the increasingly creative ways that schools and the community are encouraging Central Florida students to excel on the annual FCAT, which begins Tuesday with the writing portion of the test. Orlando Sentinel
If the school still gets an F, I assume it will be nuked. Because, you know, we tried everything. Even praying!
