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| Friday, March 5, 2010 |
| This is our Mission |
"Our mission is student success... Academic, Artistic, and Humanistic." Words worthy of a classroom motivational poster. However, what do they really mean? How is success measured? On an individual basis? Collectively? Putting aside the puffery, what does this really mean to say?
To me, the message is idealistic but honorable. The idea that a school can have this sort of impact on the entire student body is far-fetched. However our school seems to be doing a good job, with a higher graduation rate that the rest of the district and the better part of out students graduate high school, and move on to some form of higher education. Success, however, I feel is better measured on a case by case basis to see how each person grows and changes.
Academic success is is different for every student. Students that always get solid A's and success from the start is different that the success of a failing student that brings up their grade to a passing one. Even if they are skirting the edge, I feel this is a greater success for struggling students and the school. As inspiring are these cases are, sometimes the school drops the ball on these struggling students, who continue to struggle through their school career. Overall however it seems that our school is succeeding in the academic portion of its mission, at least from my perspective.
Artistically are school seems to be doing fine. Dedicated arts teachers force feed students two hours of instruction a day. Our school turns out some incredibly talented individuals. We have amazing stage productions and students who receive scholarships. We are an arts school and it shows.
When it comes to the humanistic portion of our mission, we seem to be failing. Students walk the hallways brimming with brazen disrespect, acting entirely rude and obnoxious. Our school is failing to help old these individuals into the bar minimum of what is expected of them. Obliviously this is something we need to work on. |
posted by Val @ 9:48 AM  |
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