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  June 2011

  Dannyand Allison:

  fuzzylogic:

  Dannyand Allison:

  Electing a dentist because she had an R. Enrolling your child in a sports camp and then complaining because the star won't be there to sign autographs. How about enrolling him to build is skillset?

  I'm curious, and not trying to provoke anything here. But, what do you think Paddack would have done by now? I honestly wish that the Superintendent position was not party-based.

  Also--is there some kind of news story on the sports camp thing that I'm missing? I would be interested in knowing more about that. Do you think that sports camps have no place, or should all children be enrolled only in "skill" camps like math camp?

  I don't know what Paddack would have done by now my silly USB time machine isn't working. Hoping to get a USB crystal ball soon, so I'll let you know when it comes in the mail. 

  I wish the position had to be someone who has been in education and knows cutting the state education budget by $218 million, cutting teacher bonuses by $12 million, cutting Reading sufficiency by 1.4 million, dismantling the NBCT program, not funding AP, cutting all professional development programs that help teachers improve reading instruction, teacher evaluations based on student test score performance, no funding for textbooks, no funding for library media specialists, is not the way to go. Unless the goal is to run education into the ground so we can privatize education, then we are on the right path!        

  I'm sure that having to cut the education budget is not an easy task, but wtf is this lady thinking!  It seems as though she cut funding to some pretty important building blocks for learning.  I also think that teacher evaluations based on test score performance is asinine, especially for those teaching in low income areas. I applaud you Allison for your dedication. Your students are lucky to have you. 

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  June 2011

  +buttercup+:

  Dannyand Allison:

  fuzzylogic:

  Dannyand Allison:

  Electing a dentist because she had an R. Enrolling your child in a sports camp and then complaining because the star won't be there to sign autographs. How about enrolling him to build is skillset?

  I'm curious, and not trying to provoke anything here. But, what do you think Paddack would have done by now? I honestly wish that the Superintendent position was not party-based.

  Also--is there some kind of news story on the sports camp thing that I'm missing? I would be interested in knowing more about that. Do you think that sports camps have no place, or should all children be enrolled only in "skill" camps like math camp?

  I don't know what Paddack would have done by now my silly USB time machine isn't working. Hoping to get a USB crystal ball soon, so I'll let you know when it comes in the mail. 

  I wish the position had to be someone who has been in education and knows cutting the state education budget by $218 million, cutting teacher bonuses by $12 million, cutting Reading sufficiency by 1.4 million, dismantling the NBCT program, not funding AP, cutting all professional development programs that help teachers improve reading instruction, teacher evaluations based on student test score performance, no funding for textbooks, no funding for library media specialists, is not the way to go. Unless the goal is to run education into the ground so we can privatize education, then we are on the right path!        

  I'm sure that having to cut the education budget is not an easy task, but wtf is this lady thinking!  It seems as though she cut funding to some pretty important building blocks for learning.  I also think that teacher evaluations based on test score performance is asinine, especially for those teaching in low income areas. I applaud you Allison for your dedication. Your students are lucky to have you. 

  The state super isn't the one who creates the budget, the legislature does. Yes, she approved it, the entire state department of ed did. If she turned it away, it would cause a lot more controversy, and she's had enough of that already.

  And yes, "grading" teachers on test scores is asinine, as some of us teach classes that aren't even tested on a state level. So is merit pay, since some of us would never even have a chance of getting it. There has to be a better way to keep students, teachers, parents, and administrators accountable than pay. 

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