by Stuart Singer

I am so excited about my upcoming evaluation.  I just know it is going to be a good one.  Let me share with you how my year has progressed.  My average class size was about thirty.  So for their final exam I broke them into groups of five and assigned them a project to encompass all of the work we have done throughout the year.  But again, for the sixth year in a row I was very disappointed with the results; more than half were unsatisfactory. It is so frustrating. To be precise, four of the groups should have gotten a zero for their performance, another was barely passing, and one was really quite good.  So I thought to myself, with a large majority of the students doing so poorly the right thing to do was to fail every one of them.  Based on the way things were handled in Central Falls, Rhode Island and the response of the Secretary of Education and the Administration, I know I must be doing the right thing.  So that is what I did.  All thirty were given grades of “F” so the entire group will retake the class again next year.  By taking this approach I am confident that I have sent a clear message to my future students.  I am sure they are looking forward to taking my class—kids like teachers who are consistent and predictable.

I am so excited about my upcoming evaluation.