Certainly their reasons are not the destruction of poor children at the 8th and 9th grade level. But that is exactly what is happening at MPS schools. Unbelievably 111 MPS 8th graders who did not meet proficiency standards have disappeared. This is of course not possible in Wisconsin since all children are required to attend school until the age of 18. Of course if poor students dropout then the test scores of those remaining will significantly increase and schools will be able boast of increasing average test scores.
Higher math is the most useless subject taught in schools.
MPS schools and teachers in my view are as good or better than any urban School District in the nation or world. The new Milwaukee Public School Neighborhood School Plan will expand the finest example of choice in public schools in the world. The problem is that MPS cannot afford the operating costs for all these choices to operate. It is all a bunch of smoke and mirrors. Idiotic big government education plans that waste billions of dollars extolling useless universal testing of mathematics that may unjustly label schools as failing schools and cause harm to poor children are being hailed by so-called education leaders.