What Goes Up Must Come Down

Rory J. Koopmans, B. Admin., #203, 8912-156 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5R 5Z2

October VIIIth, MMXI

Hon. David G. Hancock, QC, MLA, Minister of Education, Progressive Conservative, Edmonton-Whitemud

Dear David:

What a unique & fascinating situation we have here with Edmonton Public School Board Chairman Dave Colburn commenting on school achievement testing scores. He almost seems surprised that many of the scientific & math scores are going down while others are going up. This is only logical as there were some educational cutbacks, so naturally some students affected by those cutbacks are possibly going to get lower grades if they lost teachers & say teacher aide help.

"We do have challenges in the area of our diploma results" says Chairman Colburn. Well of course you Dave, its the law of averages, some schools are going to perform better than others depending on how well the course materials were laid out in context II the exams as well as the intelligencia level of every student at every test structure & level will vary. In other years, lower scoring schools will rise & overtake other schools. Chairman Colburn, its just the way things of working out. All we can do is keep on working harder & harder IV the students.

My Compliments II Edmonton Catholic Schools On Their Above Average Scores,

Rory

Source: The Edmonton Sun, Angelique Rodrigues.