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The gym at Chief Kanim Middle School echoed with as much applause and cheering as a good game would have, but on Monday morning, Sept. 10, the crowd was cheering for a different kind of competition.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Randy Dorn, was explaining what makes education so powerful, and he was talking to a school full of kids and staff who already knew.

Chief Kanim Middle School was the top-scoring middle school in the state in many of the state Measurement of Student Progress (MSP) tests conducted last spring, and number one in seventh-grade reading, math and writing, and eighth-grade math and science. The school celebrated these milestones, along with scoring highest in eighth-grade science for the second year in a row, at Monday’s event.

“I hope you’re proud of yourselves,” said Superintendent Joel Aune, “because you should be.”

Dorn congratulated the school on its accomplishment, and

for “getting focused on education,” because “the more educa-tion you have, the more choices you have.”

He described how education has changed dramatically, too. “Teachers today are here to coach you, not to school you,” he said.

American education, especially, offers students opportuni-ties to grow. Dorn talked briefly about a trip he made to South Korea to talk about American education, which, he was told, “is creative education.”

South Korean schools are like the game show “Jeopardy” Dorn said, because “Jeopardy is getting one answer, and get-ting it correct.” American education is more like “Survivor,” he said, “because you have to work with other people, you have to look what’s going on, you have to take in the whole environ-ment, and you have to creatively compete.”

CKMS competed with 294 school districts in the state on the MSP ratings, and ranked as follows:

Sixth GradeFourth in reading, with 90.8 percent meeting MSP requirementsSeventeenth in math, with 81.5 percent

Seventh GradeFirst in reading, with 96.5 percentFirst in math, with 92.9 percentFirst in writing, with 98.6 percent overall, and 100 percent of girls

Eighth GradeSecond in reading, with 90.6 percent -- Twin Falls Middle School was third with 90.5 percentFirst in math, with 91.5 percentFirst in science, with 97.4 percent.

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Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn spoke enthu-siastically Sept. 10, congratulating Chief Kanim Middle School students, staff and parents for “getting focused on education.”

Chief Kanim celebrates top MSP scores