Here is an article quoted from the August 28, 1996 Daily Report Card:
-> *1   FAILING GRADES:  GETS TEACHER OUSTED
->    Shehrever Masters, a Toledo, Ohio, high school science
-> teacher was fired because he failed too many students
-> (AP/Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 8/23).  School Superintendent Crystal
-> Ellis also complained that Masters refused to change his teaching
-> style to help at-risk students, writes the paper.  More than two-
-> thirds of the 125 students in Masters five ninth-grade science
-> classes dropped out last year; half failed the course.
->    "The charges are unfounded and untrue," said Masters.  He
-> added:  "Their assumption that I'm an ineffective teacher because
-> children fail is ridiculous, because there is no way you can
-> gauge a teacher that way.  All that does is ask teachers to grade
-> themselves by giving lots of passing grades to kids, and that's
-> exactly what's happening these days.  The entire system's
-> standards are dropping because teachers are so scared to do
-> what's right."  Masters also charged that other teachers have
-> been badgered by the administration into "giving grades that
-> makes the public think that education is going on."
->    According to the paper, Masters gives a five-minute quiz at
-> each class and a weekly exam.  Students also are expected to
-> complete fifteen minutes of homework each evening.
->    From the paper:  "Dozens of parents have supported Masters.
-> Some plan to testify at the hearings.  They say Masters is an
-> excellent teacher who has motivated their children."
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