District 308 has announced its second semester honor rolls for Oswego High School for the 2011-12 school year. Find the links below.
District 308 has announced its second semester honor rolls for Oswego High School for the 2011-12 school year. Find the links below.
Olivia5307
2:54 pm on Wednesday, July 4, 2012
How is it that so many students at both high schools make the honor roll, and yet the district's ACT score is so embarrassingly low?
Mel
9:28 am on Thursday, July 5, 2012
The lower achievers always bring down the good hard workers. I wish they could just test the students that are planning to attend college, but that would never happen. I guess I just worry about my own. As long as she is doing well and doing what she should be doing then life is good. Oswego in my opinion is a great community, but in recent years we have aquired some less desirables from other communities due to foreclosures etc. The teachers here are not miracle workers and can not fix the problems long neglected from the parents (lack of attention) and other previous school districts.
John Spasojevich
6:35 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012
I didn't know this was an elites only community...sorry that there are some children who have learning issues. Maybe we can hold a referendum and build a "separate but equal" facility for them so they don't drag down everyone else.
Sally Jamieson
9:13 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012
My daughter is in a special education program, but she works hard and gets good grades. However, she doesn't test well on the SATs because of her learning disability. IT's not her fault, and those tests never give an accurate picture about what she is capable of. I really resent anyone thinking that my daughter or other students in special ed programs are "bringing down the good hard workers." Trust me, no one is harder on my daughter than she is, and she works harder and longer to get good grades than most regular ed. students. Every individual student is different. It is the state that makes all students take the SATs. Every school district has special ed. students.
Olivia5307
2:52 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012
The State requires ACT, not SAT. Every district has high-performing students and special ed students, so it all averages out. Our district's ACT average score is only a touch higher than the State's average, which incorporates Chicago Public Schools and downstate small rural districts. The score is a metric of TEACHING, as well as student achievement, and ours is nothing to be proud of.
John Spasojevich
7:06 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012
I think that each student who is motivated an interested in furthering their education tries to do their very best on the ACT and the SAT. Not every student is interested in higher education. Personally I had a pretty high average although my math score was unbelievably poor, others did better and many did worse. There was not as much weight, not as much sense of a schools failure if the number isn't just so as there is today.