The Roanoke Slant

Roanoke Times, 9/17/06, Pg 1: Teacher turnover spikes to almost 20%.
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Roanoke Times, 9/28/06, Pg 1: LARGE HEADLINES: Making the grade, three more Roanoke (elementary & middle) schools earn state accreditation.
"I attribute that achievement to the dedication and hard work of the entire division staff, teachers, parents and of course the students themselves said Marvin Thompson, Superintendent.
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Buried in the fine print: "Meanwhile, the city’s two high schools, which were both fully accredited last year, missed accreditation this year."
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Which RT Editors packaged and slanted this well written and researched article and what's their agenda?

Talk about your misuse of MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Talk about major slant via print-size and placement of selected parts of a story!
What does Super. Thompson attribute this major train-wreck to?
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I could not find in these articles or prior articles a summary or discussion of the real issues involved in these failures. At what point will the school board, and the administrator’s address the teaching-learning environment in the classrooms and take the necessary steps to return the classrooms to the teaching-learning environment that’s required for each student to learn?
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The best Teachers in the world with the best experience and best lesson-plans cannot teach in chaos. It’s not surprising that teachers are leaving. Except for prison guards, there is no other profession that tolerates and accepts the level of disrespect and harassment and chaos as does teaching.
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Perhaps Mr. Thompson and his division staff should have a meeting and view the Morgan Freeman movie "Lean on Me" as a starting point for establishing action plans and procedures and processes to achieve a teaching-learning environment in every classroom every period of every day.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechleanonme2.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/04/its-measurement-stupid.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/06/graduation-rates.html
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