Standardized Testing Case Study

The principal’s final verdict was so crushing that it left a lump in my throat. My childhood years of trouble making never caught up to me; I never thought it would. Every year, I would end up in one incident or another, but the result was simply a slap on the wrist. This time, there was no escaping punishment. I was to have in-school suspension for three days.

Dwight Lopez and Betty Crome, were students at the Central High School and McGuffey Junior High Schoo. The students were suspended for apparently engaging

Lago Vista Independent School Distict. Gebser and her teacher had a sexual relationship that lasted for almost 2 years. The two were caught in the middle of having relations. The teacher was arrested by the local police department and his license were revoked by the state. Gebser never notified administrators or staff about the relationship between her and the teacher. Her parents tried to file a case on the school district for damages and monetary payment. The court ruled in favor of the school district. This case was very interesting and unique in many ways. I support the decision of the court on no to reward the victim monetary payment. Gebser never tried to notify anyone about the situation, it was more so enjoyment for her. This school district was very proactive and moved very quickly after finding out the

Another theme presented in multiple articles was a rise in cheating. Source number one, “Do Standardized Tests Show an Accurate View of Students’ Abilities”, believes that because the push to do well on standardized tests is such a priority, “some institutions consider cheating” (Concordia University). Source number two, “Is the Use of Standardized Test Improving Education in America,” disagrees, explaining that cheating by administrators and students is not an issue, and not a reason to terminate standardized testing. This source also clarifies that “[i]t is likely that some cheating occurs, but some people cheat on their tax returns also, and the solution is not to abolish taxation” (Standardized Tests - ProCon.org). Source number three, “Test Our Children Well”, proposes a solution that by using the “testing effect”, “teachers could develop new tests questions each week for each class…” (Emanuel 10) and by doing so, will eliminate the opportunity for student to cheat on exams.

In 1974, Dwight Lopez and eight students were suspended for 10 days on behalf of destroying school property and disrupting the learning environment at Central High School in Columbus, Ohio. Lopez testified he was a bystander and he was innocent. In addition, Lopez testified approximately 75 other students were suspended as well. Lopez claimed his suspension without a hearing violated his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process. During this action, the principals did not perform hearings for none of the affected students before ordering the suspensions. Due to the students not given a hearing, the principals’ actions were challenged and a class-action suit was filed asking for declaratory and injunctive

The fact that the court has tried this officer will continue to warrant safer staff and safer schools. Most students would agree that some staff at their school gets out of hand but this case can keep the staff on their toes about how they handle students. The students are at school to feel safe and learn, and with these actions students would be scared to say anything. Students are that environment to learn from their mistakes and if their mistakes are warrant for arrest why would kids ever want to go to school? Especially for kids with disabilities or special needs, that’s a lot to handle and take on at such a young age and the officers at school need to be aware of student with those

At the time, teachers and parents of Brazill both claim that he was an considerate individual who got along with his peers, and respected authority leading up to the day of his suspension (WPBF 25 News, 2011). In fact, the reason he was suspended simply because he was throwing water balloons on school premises (WPBF 25 News, 2011). According to his parents and teachers, there were no signs of violence in Nathaniel leading up to the day of his suspension (WPBF 25 News, 2011). Brazill’s family, fellow peers, and teachers were actually shocked that this had happened because nobody could have predicted he was capable of committing murder. Nathaniel was shocked himself and was in shocked after pulling the trigger which he stated he did not mean to (WPBF 25 News, 2011). Brazill talked about how he had no intentions on killing the man who he claimed to be his favorite teacher, that dreadful afternoon (WPBF 25 News, 2011). After the incident, Nathaniel Brazill was endured a mental test for insanity by a court therapist where he even claimed for him to be sane after a series of questions where it shows Brazill knew what he was doing and sympathize for doing it. Such tests are used in the courtroom to determine if the defendant should be charged with a crime he or she committed or placed in therapy (WPBF 25 News,

Facts: Ten students attending Central High School in the Columbus, Ohio, Public School System were suspended for a total of 10 days from school for various school violations. The administrator of Central High School in Columbus, Ohio, suspended the students without any formal hearing or notification of parents. The students filed a

The specific issues to consider would be how CES broke its ruling by not offering a hearing as it previewed for the school officials to notify the parent before an automatic suspension. The board of CES was supposed to hold a full hearing for the third offense to find out if the student is guilty before expulsion, arrest, incarceration for 30 days or confiscating the student's phone permanently. Congress may transfer the authority to create substantive rules that are compatible and in the scope of its statute. CES had a secluded requirement in the statute that allowed their officials to target principally female students because allegedly females talk on the phones than males. CES did not obtain Congressional delegation to target mostly female

In an effort to maintain this crisis, the legal system sentenced Jerry Sandusky to 30 to 60 years in prison nearly four months after his conviction (Erik & Dan, n.d.). This was not the only sentence handed down. The school is still trying to heal after the terrible aftermath of such a tragedy.

Not trying to say that people get falsely accused often with this because everything seems organized for the most part, because I’m sure some kids who did violate the policy would try to go to a hearing just to attempt to get themselves out of a mess even though they are guilty. I respect the fact that there is a whole office dedicated to this too that is constantly filing and monitoring these reports and that they even get a student advisor to deal with them and get advice from them for everything. The punishments are also really severe, which can be both a good and bad thing. Following the sanctions in the policy, if you create a high-level violation, you can get probation, suspended from college, or even thrown out. I can understand the severity of these crimes, but it always makes me wonder if someone is innocent and gets an expulsion from the college or something like that, is that talked about during the hearing, or what happens if they realize it and it’s too late and they’re already suspended or expelled? Also from the reading, you can tell they put a great deal into everything because if they believe another student was involved with this one as a sort of conspiracy type thing, they will look into the other student as

After all, the teachers offered a profuse apology and took measures to ensure that they correct the notion created by the students’ mind by having them visit the Tolerance Museum. To this group opposing the sacking decision, the measures taken to address the issue are already enough and should be enough reason to pardon the teachers involved. While this is a valid point, it has one major problem. As Karin Klein notes in another article, when the San Bernardino Sun first reported the issue, the district’s initial reaction was to defend the assignment. According to the district officials, the move was meant to help “Students to engage in developing critical thinking skills” (Klein). Although these officials later took a different stand, their initial position is a clear indication that they found nothing wrong on how the assignment proceeded. Considering the critical role that the teacher plays in the education system, it is only fair that the concerned authorities step in to ensure that the teachers looking after children are highly trained and adhere to the professional code of ethics. Allowing teachers who have already had questionable character to continue teaching the same children as though nothing happened will pose serious questions on the quality of the education system in

Some students even agreed with the school and felt that the punishment not harsh at all but actually well deserved because of what they had done. “Students sent each other memes … mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust, and the deaths of children” (Harvard 1). The quote states that students mocked things like the Holocaust and sexual assault through memes. “I do not know how those offensive images could be defended” (Harvard 2). The images couldn’t be defended because they were so offensive. Another student says, “We all pretty much universally agree that it was the right decision” (Harvard 2). The student says that students agree that it was right thing to do. The school wasn’t wrong or harsh in rescinding their

I feel the accuracy of the media played a big role in the story. The media wasn’t very accurate with some things, like when they said Philip was a tenth grader, and some more serious things, like when Ted Griffen said that Philip was expelled when Philip was only suspended. These false and inaccurate statements of the media allowed this whole problem to blow out of proportion. I also believe the actions of the talk show host had a made this problem a lot bigger. When people heard the talk show host getting loud about his opinion they would start to believe him. I also feel that the media was very one sided and left a lot of details out of this situation. The newspaper wrote all about Philip’s story and how he was kicked out for “singing” the

This is where administrative discretion can go wrong because it can be bias for personal reasons, sexual reasons, anything. My question would be what it the faculty members were having their own personal issues and they could not separate work from home and the allowed there personal issues control the decisions of the students punishments that could probably effect the rest of their lives. Another factor of a disadvantage is the sex-linked method the female faculty member may have been an emotional to her decision with the students if they were crying or had a compelling story of how they would act out oppose to the male faculty member who was demanding as far as being a disciplinarian. Then we also have to take into consideration age and race could have played a factor for the faculty in this case. The female had to deal with she was younger so she may have related to the students as well as being African-American which did honestly play a part back in that time even current statics dated in 2010 showed that African-Americans were only 9% of the teacher population within the whole nation..