Worst Of The Worst

[Tukaram (Tim)]

From the Panay News Facebook page:

ILOILO CITY SCHOOLS LOWEST IN NAT

IT IS deplorable to note that elementary and high school students in Iloilo City got the lowest scores in the 2012-2013 National Achievement Test (NAT) compared to 17 other schools divisions in Western Visayas.

Why is this so, Dr. Nelly Valerio?

Madam Valerio is Iloilo City’s Schools Division Superintendent.

But in her defense, Regional Director Corazon Brown of the Department of Education said they are not concerned with rankings.

“We do not stress which is the highest and lowest. Our concern is whether the division is improving or decreasing,” she said.

Ay ka tarsa ka ma’am ah!

The students, according to results of the NAT, have the lowest scores in important subjects such as English, Mathematics and Science.

Frankly, even teachers, particularly in the provinces, do not read newspapers.

 

http://www.panaynewsphilippines.com/top-stories/14844-lowest-nat-rank-a-wake-up-call.html

 

 

My favorite line: "“We do not stress which is the highest and lowest. Our concern is whether the division is improving or decreasing,” she said."  Yeah... we may be the worst but we don't suck as bad as we used too....  Oh well back to our city slogan  Iloilo - My city, my pride.   :tiphat:

[Malcolm Graham]

But statistically isn't that how you are meant to measure.  Not the position but if you are showing improvement 

[Americano]

"Even teachers do not read news papers."  Are they trying to say that the teachers cannot read the news papers which are in English so they are not qualified to teach English?

[Gerald Glatt]

Not all maybe first.

 

But why are so many last?

[Thomas]

Suprising for me they have test in Critical thinking! I thought the government don't want the people to do that...

[jpbago]

"Even teachers do not read news papers."  Are they trying to say that the teachers cannot read the news papers which are in English so they are not qualified to teach English?

 

Maybe they mean the teachers have a lack of interest in reading newspapers like the people that I know and see. The national news is mostly about corruption and they are not interested in the rest of the world. Filipinos are not known to be inquisitive. Gay TV is the national interest.

[Mike J]

But statistically isn't that how you are meant to measure.  Not the position but if you are showing improvement 

I agree with you Malcolm.  Measure 17 schools, one of them has to be the worst.  There is certainly no pride in being last, but the reality, not the excuse, is that one school will be last.  The question the school has to ask is "How did we get here, and how do we improve, catch up with, and then pass, those other schools".  The article could use more depth IMO.

[jpbago]

2014 Board exam results for UNOR pharmacy diploma was 12 passed out of 125.

2014 Board exam results for UNOR med tech diploma was 20 passed out of 230.

   Not even a 10% pass rate after 4 years of college. I am not 100% sure but I think that the board exams are a national standard yet the individual colleges are not teaching what is required to pass the board exam. The reasons may be that the teachers are not qualified or it may be monetary reasoning to keep the enrollment at maximum, or there just are not enough job openings if they all did pass.

   Criminology last year had poor results too. Over 40,000 started but after 4 years only 12,000 wrote the board exam with 700 passing it on the first attempt.

It is not easy for the passers either as after 4 years of college, they have 1 more year of paperwork and prerequisite testing. Oddly, they do the prerequisite tests like medical, neurological, X-rays, dental, IQ, etc after the 4 years, not before. Then they need a backer to get a job and maybe to get them through the testing.

[Mike S]

It is not easy for the passers either as after 4 years of college, they have 1 more year of paperwork and prerequisite testing. Oddly, they do the prerequisite tests like medical, neurological, X-rays, dental, IQ, etc after the 4 years, not before. Then they need a backer to get a job and maybe to get them through the testing.

 

Yup they sure do things backward here ..... we have a nephew in his 3rd year of engineering who has to take 1 year off and work for some company in his field .... if he doesn't work for or gets canned from the company the school sends him to he has to find his own job .... then after 15 months he goes back to college to finish his degree (3 months OJT and 12 months working) ..... so how would you like to interrupt your studies for 15 months and then go back to school .... really screwed up .....

 

Also remember that when a kid fails his boards there are refresher courses that they can pay for and then repeat the board exam ..... sounds to me like just another way to find jobs for people (teachers) at the expense of others (students families) .... but that is not new just look at the tons and tons of needless paperwork required for you to do anything here in the Phils ..... just creating jobs ..... JMHO 

[Jake]

I can remember taking my very first semi final exam in political science at San Sebastian College in Cavite City.

To my surprise, we were instructed to re-arrange our seats far enough from each other in order to prevent

cheating.  That took nearly 10 minutes and the remaining class time (only 45 minutes) was left to complete the

exam.  

 

Even though I was the last one out, I still did not complete the 50 question multiple choice exam.  I somehow

pass based on a class curve, thank god.  It was like that for all my classes (majoring in business management)

with one exception -- basic typing because the ancient typewriters were too heavy to move.  

 

Later on my 2nd year, I learned from my fellow US veterans attending the same college that you are there only

to earn and not to learn.  We were all collecting our GI bill (about 700 bucks a month) as long as we can show

proof of our credits to the VA office at the US Embassy.  That was easily fixed by giving gifts to the dean or to

the teacher(s).  God, what a racket......I spent many class hours at a nearby VFW, having liquid lunch. 

 

Thinking back, early college years in PI were like my freshman year (9th grade HS in California) but the Filipina

coeds were just too tempting -- it was a target enriched environment.  Thank god Judy yanked me out, otherwise

I would have been pregnant many times over.

 

Talk about multiple choices.....he, he.

Edited March 25, 2014 by Jake
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