MCHS earns a 2012 school grade of ‘A’
PRESS RELEASE
The Florida Department of Education has released the preliminary school grades for Florida’s high schools. Madison County High School is now an ‘A’ school! The achievement of the school grade is testimony to the dedication and commitment of the students, faculty, staff, and parents at MCHS and former superintendent of schools, Lou Miller, and her district administrative team.
The move from a grade of ‘C’ to a grade of ‘A’ demonstrates the power of setting high expectations, developing a school culture dedicated to meeting the expectations, and the dogged commitment to meet and exceed those goals. Principal Ben Killingsworth and all of the MCHS faculty and staff are to be commended for their incredible work in making this ‘A’ grade a reality.
Doug Brown
Culpepper and Catron, you guys are living in a dream world if you believe everything “authority” tells you to believe. Do you not have minds and voices of your own?
“Propaganda does not deceive people, it merely helps them to deceive themselves”
Congratulations is enough. We have an opportunity to support excellence in the classroom and on the athletic field. Without community and parent support we will have difficulty achieving what is possible. I agree 100% with Jack Culpepper’s comment. Superintendent Brown will keep us informed and challenge students to be the best that they can be.
It’s true that a HS education alone does not mean much anymore. But it makes a person eligible for college where those skills can be learned.
Graduating college, no matter what your major, in addition to providing knowledge and skills, proves that you finish what you start, that you know how to set and accomplish goals, that you can deal with challenges rather than running from them, that (if you conduct yourself wisely) you are responsible, adaptable, on time, and inclined to take assigned tasks seriously, that you can problem solve by thinking critically.
There are a lot of things you learn at college besides what you get from the lectures that a wise employer should be interested in when looking for a good employee. If I have a choice between a college educated person and a HS educated person with roughly the same qualifications otherwise, I’m taking the college educated person for that additional potential.
Unless it’s a Gov job, or a job that satisfies a need of society, your chances are slim that the education will help.
Gov. Jobs
Medical Professionals
Industrial & Domestic Mechanics.
Information Technology(backbone type jobs)
Room/At home Service Oriented(maids & other types like that)
Not much left
They are certainly being taught test taking skills thanks to government interference in education. But Doug Brown or Lou Miller has no power to control that. That’s legislature driven. If you are going to knock someone, knock the legislature. Congratulations MCHS! It just goes to show our kids can learn whatever the teachers can teach them! Right now, that is, by state edict, test taking skill.
Seems to me, our schools and universities these days have abandoned real education in favor of job training, generally for jobs that don’t exist or will not exist in the future. Many of our youngsters are going in debt for educations that will not be relevant in our future.
Mr Brown, or someone else, please address this statement. ” What jobs are we training our children for? What are the skills they will need?”
Time to consider developing some scenarios. Surely you have a vision for the future and the skills you believe will be required for that future. If not, please think about this important subject.
Personally, I would prefer an F in relevance, to an A in irrelevance. Think CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS.
“”The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.” – Bodhidharma
Yeah, I’m sure Mr. Brown would have issued a press release if Madison had received an “F.”
Personally, I would have liked a little more info, for perspective into what this grade truly means. What was the criteria for these grades? Does it involve FCAT scores, etc., etc.
It’s a very simple concept, one you learn in your first journalism class. It should have been identified as a press release. Mr. Brown should have identified himself as superintendent. There are a lot of issues. I also want to make sure it’s clear I am not blaming John for any of this. The Voice is head and shoulders above the other Madison rag, and he is doing a tremendous service to the community. These snowflakes are driving me crazy.
I ABSOLUTELY believe that Doug Brown would have released the information in the same way if it were negative rather than positive. He would have used negative info to build a positive future. I truly don’t understand your journalism issues, as a the majority of government related information articles on The Voice are in fact what you describe as “press releases” ….. Suggestions on how to have this info posted on digital media sites? Thanks…… Congrats MCHS!
I’m not disagreeing with the hard facts of the story, and I never asked for proof. Mine is a journalistic concern. News stories should not be written by participants in the news. I understand John is pretty much a one-man operation and cannot do everything. He does a ton as it is.
What I’m saying is the story lacks an overall perspective, because the problems at Madison schools are FAR from over just because they received this “A.”
What the superintendent wrote was essentially a press release. People who read it should understand that, and believe me, most people don’t. They see it in the paper, they think it’s news.
I’m happy the superintendent is involved enough to share the info, and he seems to me like a good superintendent. BUT — do you think he would have done that if the information had been negative?
Here you go, Tim. The proof you are seeking is not hard to find. You can view the grades for every county in Florida at http://schoolgrades.fldoe.org/
If you open the “School Grades, Basic Information on Schools” file, you’ll see the following 2012 grades for Madison County (beginning on line 1866 of the Excel file):
A – Madison County High School
D – Madison County Central School
F – Greenville Elementary School
A – Lee Elementary School
A – Pinetta Elementary School
While you’re looking at the file, check out our surrounding counties as well. I also recommend reading the “Detailed Information” for the schools. It definitely points out skills gaps that the kids in our state are facing. Unless we find ways to help these kids they will grow up to be adults who can only find limited employment because of their gaps. This is a very big challenge that employers are having to deal with too. New businesses look for these basic skills when they decide where to locate. TIP: Great jobs will not come to Madison if we don’t have great employees for them.
I appreciate Mr. Brown sharing information with the public the way he does. That was one reason I voted for him. I think openly communicating is a great start to improving our schools. There’s no reason to hide this data. It is what it is. What we do with it is what matters.
I’m not buying it. It would help if this were written by a reporter, not the Superintendent. I’m not saying the story is inaccurate, it just needs to be checked by an objective journalist.
Good! GOOD!! NEWS. Keep it up……………….
Congrats to the School, 1 down and 1 to go.
By that I mean, get and A next year as well!
Bout Time!