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Old 07-16-2011, 10:10 PM
 
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Well, they're not encouraged but they are tolerated. In my experience, teachers just work around them and hope that you'll get the hang of formal English after a while.
Students should have a structured curriculum/process to learn Standard American English--this is very important for students to have a chance in U.S. society.

Students will become bi-dialectual/bi-lingual because they will still speak their native dialect or language in their home and/or home community.
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Old 07-16-2011, 10:11 PM
 
Location: Jupiter, FL
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The correct way to run APS is very simple:

1. Limit expectations to achievable goals.
2. Discipline in the classroom.

Neither of these steps will be implemented in our lifetime.
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Old 07-16-2011, 10:36 PM
 
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Maybe it's a cultural thing.
Where are the PISA scores for APS that you referred to? I'm not finding them.
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Old 07-17-2011, 02:42 AM
 
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Teachers will fight call to resign *| ajc.com
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Old 07-17-2011, 02:44 AM
 
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Out-of-work teachers see APS cheating scandal as an opportunity to work *| ajc.com
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Old 07-17-2011, 02:47 AM
 
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Scandal could hamper city’s business growth *| ajc.com
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Old 07-17-2011, 02:49 AM
 
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Good post.

Everyone should peruse this blog/these articles pertaining to a global education:

Yong Zhao » Blog


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Old 07-17-2011, 06:36 AM
 
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But kids are doing well in APS and throughout our country. Our PISA scores rocked.
I can't find these PISA scores for APS. Where are they?
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Old 07-17-2011, 06:41 AM
 
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Great. So now we're going to litigation with cheating teachers who want to stay in their jobs? Just what APS needs.

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Old 07-17-2011, 08:38 AM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Well...the APS teachers have do have to actually face their accusers in some sort of court of law, don't they? What you and others on here seem to forget is that the results of the statewide audit as preformed by the G.B.I. are still up this point, allegations.

Remember that word? "Allegations"? Here is another phrase that people also seem to conveniently forget as well: "Due process".

This is what I dislike about our America media nowadays. All this entity does is pump up the latent fears and biases of normal everyday people, work them up into a lather for a lynch party and make them forget that there was ever such an idea as due process. You know...that inconvenient little rule in the 5th amendment of the U.S. Constitution and buttressed by the 14th amendment that gives all legal citizens in all of the states & territories of the U.S.A. the right to face their accusers in a court of law.

How would you like it if you was accused of some major impropriety and had your good name dragged out in the press before you ever had the opportunity to face your accusers in a court of law? You wouldn't like it one bit, would you arjay?

And yet this what you are allowing yourself to get goaded into with the other lesser-minded bigoted types on city-data... the types who care less about the fate of Atlanta Public School's kids one way or another. A lot of the city-data personalities hate Atlanta one way or another, and that's never gonna change. Trying to convince those aforementioned types of anything different would be akin to casting pearls before swine.

But you are different, my friend. You are more conscious, more enlightened...a vastly different & rare breed of American, I'd say.

You should know better.


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Great. So now we're going to litigation with cheating teachers who want to stay in their jobs? Just what APS needs.


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