Proficiency Tests
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I am absolutely livid about your article “New Standards Put Students to the Test,” May 19, describing how a B student from Fillmore High School can’t graduate because she failed the proficiency test twice.
It is Fillmore High that has failed by giving this student grades that led her and her family to believe she was performing well.
This child is being held accountable for the failure of the school, the administrators, the teachers and the Board of Education.
Standards should be high, but the job of the school and educators is to help kids achieve high standards and give them every opportunity possible. Otherwise our money is being thrown down a rat hole.
TRECY CARPENTER
Ojai
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I’m sure I’m not the only one who noticed that both of those Fillmore High students who complained about the tougher proficiency exam standards made ungrammatical statements to your reporter.
Seems proof enough that they aren’t proficient.
TODD TERRES
Camarillo
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