When Garrison Keillor tells tales about the fictional Lake Wobegon, he often says that all of the children there are above average. Although it's a funny line, nothing is funny about the report card our school brought home this week.
After clicking through it, I found there is not a single category of testing where our students meet the district or state average. Math, science, social studies, English--nothin'. It's quite discouraging to see the amount of work our teachers put in to teaching our students result in such pitiful scores. I know that testing is certainly not the end all and be all of measuring a school, but I was hoping we could be competent in at least one subject area.
