Issues in Education
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That or our public schools are suddenly in charge of meting out capital punishment. Might not be the worst idea. Let these kids see what happens when you make poor life choices and maybe more of them will stay in school. Just a thought....
That was it. Apparently everyone knew about it because they all snapped to attention as soon as the music started.
The food was OK. Don’t think I will go back. The owner was a little too friendly in welcoming first timers for my taste and the anthem playing was a little creepy as well.
Looks crazy on the surface but it was probably done for legal reasons. Imagine if one of their students did something crazy like one of the things listed and they had no rules against it. I can hear the plaintiff lawyers right now, "Miss Jones, is it true that if a student in your school assaults another student you have no documented punishment for that? Aren't you in effect, condoning said behavior?"
There is a reason we usually don't sing the third stanza of the national anthem.
It’s controversial but not as clear what Key means when he refers to “slave”.
As a principal, I can suspend up to ten days at a time, depending on the offense. Usually, I use a progressive form of three, five, seven and ten days, again depending on what has taken place. If a student committed a homicide, I would go ten days with a recommendation of expulsion. Students with an Individual Education Plan (IEP) can only be suspended a total of ten days and then a manifestation determination review is required by federal law. With your wife working for the department of education and you being a lawyer, I am sure you are very familiar with this as well as due process which we also have to abide by with students. Only the superintendent can expel a student from school.
That expulsion isn’t an automatic option for specific offenses is as much of a condemnation of the public school system as anything I’ve seen, IMO.
At least $7.2 million in taxpayer funds spent on LEGO sets through Arizona's school voucher program, records show
12News uncovered the spending, including one family spending $30,000 on LEGO sets, after suing Superintendent Horne and Treasurer Yee to obtain ESA public records.
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At least $7.2 million in taxpayer funds spent on LEGO sets through Arizona's school voucher program, records show
12News uncovered the spending, including one family spending $30,000 on LEGO sets, after suing Superintendent Horne and Treasurer Yee to obtain ESA public records.PHOENIX — Parents participating in the ESA program have spent $7.2 million on LEGO sets since 2022, when the program was expanded to all Arizona students, according to new public records obtained by 12News after the news outlet sued two state officials.
The spending data includes:
- 22 families who spent at least $10,000 each on LEGO sets
- Nearly 500 LEGO sets costing $500 or more
- 175 high-end LEGO sets themed around Star Wars
- One family reimbursed $16,000 for LEGO sets alone
- Another family spending close to $30,000
If we expel a student, they are put in an online program run by the school and can still do their work. Students on an IEP are still entitled and receive services per the law.
KY bill pushing religion over school education is immoral | Opinion
A Kentucky bill seeks to let students leave public school to attend moral instruction off-campus, but the real goal seems to be a bid for control.
KY bill pushing religion over school education is immoral
On the heels of school districts in Kentucky exercising their choice not to bind themselves to any off- campus religious programming for public school students, State Reps. Shane Baker, Daniel Fister and Jason Petrie have decided in true Crusader style to force all public schools in Kentucky to do so. House Bill 829 is all about students leaving public schools to attend “moral instruction” offered off-campus during school hours.
There are not a lot of choices as to which program the schools now must bind themselves to, so in a big surprise, the LifeWise Academy of Hilliard, Ohio, which has been attempting to make inroads into Kentucky, will get the nod. Apparently, a handful of school districts have already turned LifeWise down, so LifeWise went to their Christian dominionist friends in the legislature to remedy their hurt.
The sponsors of this bill might as well be honest about their intentions here. They wish to do everything they can to weaken the public school system. They want to run our school boards and take away local control. The Kentucky legislature has already done runarounds that counter what the people have mandated in referendums concerning school vouchers/charter school funding and abortion rights, so why not force our schools to participate in obvious violations of the constitutional right to separation of religion and government too?
I have been diving deep into the Science of Reading world recently. And I am by no means an expert just because I've read a bunch of stuff online, a few books and listened to some podcasts.
But one consensus that is growing is that one problem we have is we are doing exactly that more and more. Teaching to decode is of utmost importance but it seems like more people now believe background knowledge is also incredibly important. And the only way to gain the knowledge is to teach it.
The example I heard that stuck was they did a study with 2 groups. The first group was proficient in reading but had little to no knowledge of baseball. The second group were struggling readers who knew a lot about baseball. They then had each group read a text about baseball and then tested for comprehension. Guess who had better comprehension? The kids who were struggling readers.
I've heard a lot of talk about "content rich" curriculums. However, they also emphasize that you need to integrate reading and writing in your history and science lessons as well. So, it seems like we just need better curriculums that don't differentiate subjects as much as we have.
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Kids will not read unless it is something they like reading about! Not surprised by the results of the group test. I am working individually with a 6th grade boy who reads on a second grade, three month level. I found out the student loves Science so guess what we have been reading and working on…Science. He has improved in a couple of months to a fourth grade level!!!
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, just working on phonics, decoding and basic skills. That formula may look different with groups of kids in the classroom. Any good teacher can make accommodations for any student! They do not have to be identified with an IEP or 504 plan.
TY for sharing what you found.
This applies to high school reading as well I suspect. I think many of my fellow students were turned off by the semester when we read Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights back to back. Ugh. Then you could see the light come on when read A Separate Peace... A novel that spoke to them. I say get the kids reading first and then worry about the classics, which are often dusty and musty to the children of today. Find a place for them, but don't overlook the obvious downsides.
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The local schools system is so strict that if a kid is habitually a problem, they just fix the problem by suspending the student, and transferring them to another school. Let the other school deal with the problem.
They had a kid take a gun to school, and he was only out for a couple weeks. I'm sure he got a note from the school: "Hey, try not to bring a loaded firearm in your backpack next time....mmmmkay???"
They had a kid take a gun to school, and he was only out for a couple weeks. I'm sure he got a note from the school: "Hey, try not to bring a loaded firearm in your backpack next time....mmmmkay???"
No one wants to publicly say it, but there are some kids (not even the fault of their own) not fit for regular school. Yet, we still plug them into the education system, and with our fingers crossed, hope a school teacher with an education degree and making $40,000-$50,000/year, can do psychological and behavioral miracles in the kids that most experts in the field can't do.
When I was in high school we had to read Watership Down, a book about a rabbit colony... Worst book I ever read.
Grapes of Wrath
Old Man & The Sea
Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies
My Brother Sam is Dead
Where the Red Fern Grows
To Kill a Mockingbird
All classics that I really enjoyed. I believe kids need to read books that teach them about a different era than which they live. Shakespeare is great and all but it was tough reading for me.
Probably true but what do you do with those kids?
This makes a ton of sense to me. The whole show them a window instead of a mirror idea
I don't have a quick answer. But there are elected officials and people in the field who get paid A LOT of money to figure it out.
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