To the editor:
While I was in the legislature, I was the author of the ISTEP law. It has since been used for purposes of which I do not approve, but this year’s results, as printed recently in the Reporter, reveal a crisis at the Greenfield-Central High School.
It’s bad enough that only 58 percent of sophomores (the only grade that takes the test) passed the English exam, but it is unforgivable that only 28 percent passed the math test. How can that be?
As a former trustee of IU, I can tell you that all students there must be able pass a math course to get a degree. Students will not even be admitted if their high school math scores do not look promising.
We cannot tolerate this. How has G-C fallen to this level? What is the problem? The school board should insist that it be an immediate priority for the high school principal and the superintendent to discover the cause and report it to the public, along with proposed solutions.
We must do whatever it takes to make it possible for our children to do well in school. Action must not be delayed.
Ray Richardson
Greenfield
