10 lowest-scoring schools in the state

So, basically saying don't move to Ogden

It's interesting to note the high percentage of Hispanic (English as a Second Language) students. I'm almost willing to bet the "top ranking" schools have very low if not zero percentage of Hispanic students. Our schools do a wonderful job with what they are allowed to have....

Ain't diversity wonderful? Liberals tell us, it is what makes us strong.

Sucks to be in Ogden, and horrors, a charter school made the list. Looks like certain areas need to open the immigration gates for Asians, they tend to bump up the scores.

Unity is what makes something strong, not diversity.

As someone pointed out, lower performing schools have a higher Hispanic population, but it isn't 100%.

There is a better indicator of low performance and that is the number of students who get free food.

It's not diversity, it's poverty. Look at the reduced lunch rate. And how much lunch is given? Is is adequate? Are those students enrolled year round or are they away a good portion of the year?

Poverty, reduced lunch, low test scores, low performing. What common denominator do these terms have?--"pre-marital _ _ _. We all pay for the actions of others.

And those who are criticizing the overall performance of schools tend to live in middle to upper income areas that are predominantly Caucasian. Take a look at Senator Stephenson,as an example. He lives in Draper and has a nice home and has a nice standard of living. I do not begrudge him anything that he has earned through his hard work and through his educational upbringing. What I fail to understand through all of his messages about how public schools are not performing well enough to deserve public money is the idea of "what is one of the primary purposes of our public education system?". That purpose is to raise future citizens of our country. Public schools provide the opportunity for everyone to have the chance to become educated and hopefully productive citizens, especially for those young people whose families are,for want of a better term, poor. Just as history is full of stories of people who have taken advantage of the "system" in a negative way there are countless stories of young people who have come from poor backgrounds, become educated, and contributed to America. Good "welfare"? The best possible type that pays it forward.

The worst thing about all this is that it will be the teachers -- not the parents who actually create the mess -- who will take the blame.

I can hear the right-wingnuts now. Fire the teachers! Fire the teachers!

It really bothers me that this article is using last year's scores for an article at the same time as the 2011 test have just finished. This makes people think that these are this year's scores. Did it really take a whole year to put this article together?!