Comments on: School Budget Time http://shesright.org/2008/01/03/school-budget-time/ Someone's gotta be right around here. Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:23:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Mister Guy http://shesright.org/2008/01/03/school-budget-time/comment-page-1/#comment-763 Mister Guy Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:17:48 +0000 http://shesright.org/?p=239#comment-763 Burlington doesn't need "coaches" to help teach math and reading. They need real, well-trained, well-paid, and well-motivated teachers that know how to teach math and reading. My Mom is a reading specialist in another state. They could have used that call alert system a few weeks ago down there when kids ended up being on school buses (and literally peeing in paper bags) till 10 PM because of an early release due to heavy snow. The next time there's a school shooting in VT...you can bet your bottom dollar that parents will complain if they are not notified immediately. NCLB is a trap meant to label as many schools as possible as "failing" so pressure can put on them to close down and be replaced with private schools. The concept of high-stakes testing never really worked in the first place in TX...that fact is well documented now. All school commitees should be abolished IMO...they add virtually nothing substantitive to the debate over school funding. Burlington doesn’t need “coaches” to help teach math and reading. They need real, well-trained, well-paid, and well-motivated teachers that know how to teach math and reading. My Mom is a reading specialist in another state. They could have used that call alert system a few weeks ago down there when kids ended up being on school buses (and literally peeing in paper bags) till 10 PM because of an early release due to heavy snow. The next time there’s a school shooting in VT…you can bet your bottom dollar that parents will complain if they are not notified immediately.

NCLB is a trap meant to label as many schools as possible as “failing” so pressure can put on them to close down and be replaced with private schools. The concept of high-stakes testing never really worked in the first place in TX…that fact is well documented now. All school commitees should be abolished IMO…they add virtually nothing substantitive to the debate over school funding.

]]> By: JD Ryan http://shesright.org/2008/01/03/school-budget-time/comment-page-1/#comment-762 JD Ryan Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:34:29 +0000 http://shesright.org/?p=239#comment-762 Re: call alert... You'll probably agree with me on this one.. wasn't half the fun of a snow day "in the olden days" sitting by the radio or tv to hear "two hour delay" or "closed"? Aside from wastefulness, it's taking a lot of fun out of it. Re: call alert…

You’ll probably agree with me on this one.. wasn’t half the fun of a snow day “in the olden days” sitting by the radio or tv to hear “two hour delay” or “closed”? Aside from wastefulness, it’s taking a lot of fun out of it.

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