Philosophy Without A Home

The Illinois Association of School Boards or IASB has resolutions , "If approved by the Delegate Assembly, resolutions become Position Statements or Belief Statements in the IASB Constitution, and thus give IASB staff direction on legislative positions." Resolution number one proposed by Mercer County School Board w ould  " allow voluntary district employees, in any capacity, the ability to carry a concealed firearm on district property,". This resolution failed last year, but they came back with added rationales.  Their rationales: " In our district, we could allocate funds to hire a full-time SRO in each of our five buildings, but it would do no good, because there aren’t enough officers or deputies on staff in our community to fill those positions. " " Another problem, mainly found in rural areas, is the distance school buildings are from local law enforcement teams. " ... " response

Not my test the students took a test. We covered area, surface area, and volume or everything we focused on during first quarter. Oh my was that difficult. I called 16 of 62 parents, these were not the only failing grades these were the tests with nothing. Like what did we do for the last 10 weeks because they had no idea. 26% of my students seemed to have no idea what we did for the entire first quarter of math class. On the flip side only 21% passed. 79% of my students could not pass a 7th grade math test after spending an entire quarter learning and 3 days reviewing. Through my disappointment it occurred to me that if this many students failed maybe something else is wrong. Could I be failing as a teacher? Probably, I'm mediocre at best. All my innovative thoughts of differentiating down to the level of my students and building from what they know to what they need to learn just failed miserably. Did they just freeze on the test? Were the questions too complicated? Did