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FCAT scores at Pinellas charter school that used Scientology 'study tech' are among lowest in Tampa Bay
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Davis
May 26, 2012, 2:23:02 PM5/26/12
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By Drew Harwell, Staff Writer
Tampa Bay Times
In Print: Saturday, May 26, 2012
DUNEDIN N — When Hanan Islam and her management company took control of the
struggling Life Force Arts and Technology charter school here last summer,
she passed out lesson plans based on the work of Church of Scientology
founder L. Ron Hubbard.
She said Hubbard's "study technology" would enlighten children and help save
the school. But grades from Florida's standardized FCAT test released
Thursday show that, in one year under Islam's management, Life Force
students' education suffered.
Life Force's third- and fourth-graders scored the lowest or second-lowest
passing rates in math, reading and writing of more than 300 elementary
schools across Tampa Bay.
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Tampa Bay Times
In Print: Saturday, May 26, 2012
DUNEDIN N — When Hanan Islam and her management company took control of the
struggling Life Force Arts and Technology charter school here last summer,
she passed out lesson plans based on the work of Church of Scientology
founder L. Ron Hubbard.
She said Hubbard's "study technology" would enlighten children and help save
the school. But grades from Florida's standardized FCAT test released
Thursday show that, in one year under Islam's management, Life Force
students' education suffered.
Life Force's third- and fourth-graders scored the lowest or second-lowest
passing rates in math, reading and writing of more than 300 elementary
schools across Tampa Bay.
http://tinyurl.com/c42xbpw
http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/testing/fcat-scores-at-pinellas-charter-school-that-used-scientology-study-tech/1232114
phil scott
May 27, 2012, 10:55:17 AM5/27/12
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Thats revealing. I could understand a little bit of a dip.. but not
completely out the bottom! That really takes
a concerted effort... my guess it is the glass eye ball routine.. its
dehumanized em.
Davis
May 27, 2012, 4:51:18 PM5/27/12
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On 5/27/2012 7:55:20 AM, phil scott wrote:
> Thats revealing. I could understand a little bit of a dip.. but not
> completely out the bottom! That really takes
> a concerted effort... my guess it is the glass eye ball routine.. its
> dehumanized em.
>
>
The test score comparisons were rather shocking. Last place indeed!
> Thats revealing. I could understand a little bit of a dip.. but not
> completely out the bottom! That really takes
> a concerted effort... my guess it is the glass eye ball routine.. its
> dehumanized em.
>
>
But to put it in perspective, this school appeared to be composed primarily
of Afro-American/Afro-Caribbean students, so we probably would need to "grade
on the curve" to have a more realistic comparison to the other 300 schools in
the Tampa Bay area survey.
But coming in DEAD LAST really says a lot, especially for a private/charter
school, which ostensibly enrolls students from families who care enough about
their children's education to go to all the trouble and expense of sending
them there. So it would seem even the worst of the inner-city public schools
are better than an LRH Study Tech school.
Let's just hope that a CRIMINAL investigation is underway. For the school's
owner to be skimming hundreds of thousands of dollars **of taxpayer money**
off the top as "management fees" while teachers go unpaid and school supplies
run out, would suggest that this whole thing is more of a money-making scam
than just a case of sheer incompetence.
Sir · Gregory · Hall, Esq.
May 27, 2012, 4:55:34 PM5/27/12
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"Davis" <da...@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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*Study Tech* is nothing more than a way to indoctrinate young minds of
mush into accepting Scientology as a valid religion later on in life. It's
a method of recruiting and has never been show to have any efficacy other
than that.
That it can be so darned ineffective as a learning tool comes as no great
surprise to me. The very premise it's based upon includes being literate
in the English language to begin with. Duh! Hubbard was a freaking moron.
--
Sir Gregory
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mush into accepting Scientology as a valid religion later on in life. It's
a method of recruiting and has never been show to have any efficacy other
than that.
That it can be so darned ineffective as a learning tool comes as no great
surprise to me. The very premise it's based upon includes being literate
in the English language to begin with. Duh! Hubbard was a freaking moron.
--
Sir Gregory
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