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Old 04-15-2013, 12:10 PM
 
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I'm interested in anyone who'd like to sing praise to the Clark Country School District in educating their children. If so, how did you go about gaining success for your child?
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Old 04-15-2013, 01:03 PM
 
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I have a 4th grader that's been with CCSD since the beginning. I can't praise the entire school system(probably wont find anyone to do that), but I will praise certain schools and standout teachers. So far we have had 4 good years out of five. That one bad year was because of a teacher that had a mindset of retirement rather than focusing the students. Not CCSD's fault. That was also the only year our daughter didn't make honor society.

Last month my daughter got accepted to a magnet school so we will see how it goes. She will be going from an average of 35 students per class to 15 per class. Can't get any better than that.

We all know that CCSD is a difficult district. Teachers need parents help, a little financial help for supplies and maybe smaller class sizes.

We have success only because there are 2 parents that are actively involved. The more the parents are involved, the better the results. Can't put all the blame on the school district.




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Old 04-15-2013, 04:01 PM
 
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My wife and I have been very happy with our daughters school. Great communication with her teachers and involvement with PTA. I could not ask for any more of a public school. We came from the East coast and my daughters school is BETTER than the one she was in before we moved.
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Old 04-15-2013, 04:18 PM
 
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I am a teacher in the district and I have to say it really depends on the school. Personally, I had my kids in stand alone magnet schools. The teachers there are no better than anywhere else. The difference is the caliber of students in the student body. The teachers at the magnets have so many more options because of smaller class sizes and they don't have nearly the issues with discipline. My kids received first rate educations.
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Old 04-15-2013, 04:34 PM
 
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All 3 of my kids are in CCSD schools. They are also straight "A" students. I make sure their homework is completed
each night and they read for one hour before they can play X-box or watch TV.
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Old 04-15-2013, 07:32 PM
 
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I am a teacher in the district and I have to say it really depends on the school. Personally, I had my kids in stand alone magnet schools. The teachers there are no better than anywhere else. The difference is the caliber of students in the student body. The teachers at the magnets have so many more options because of smaller class sizes and they don't have nearly the issues with discipline. My kids received first rate educations.
I don't know what grade you teach but is your school sending these out yet?




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Old 04-15-2013, 07:55 PM
 
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I don't know what grade you teach but is your school sending these out yet?




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That was obviously sent by an elementary school.

Personally, if I had school age children, I would opt them out of these specific tests.
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Old 04-15-2013, 08:17 PM
 
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I am a teacher in the district and I have to say it really depends on the school. Personally, I had my kids in stand alone magnet schools. The teachers there are no better than anywhere else. The difference is the caliber of students in the student body. The teachers at the magnets have so many more options because of smaller class sizes and they don't have nearly the issues with discipline. My kids received first rate educations.
I hope you don't take this the wrong way.

You say your kids received a first-rate education. Compared to what? Choate Rosemary Hall? Eton? Deerfield Academy? THAT is a first-rate education.

Calling ANY CCSD school "first-rate" is optimistic at best, disingenuous at worst. You work there, as does my wife. Some schools are better than average. That's as far as I'd care to go.

Combine a intellectually incurious population with low standards and a monolithic administration system that cares more about IEP meetings and forms and charts than children, and we have the CCSD as it stands today.
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Old 04-15-2013, 08:49 PM
 
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That was obviously sent by an elementary school.

Personally, if I had school age children, I would opt them out of these specific tests.
Why not? And what's the alternative?




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Old 04-15-2013, 09:09 PM
 
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I hope you don't take this the wrong way.

You say your kids received a first-rate education. Compared to what? Choate Rosemary Hall? Eton? Deerfield Academy? THAT is a first-rate education.

Calling ANY CCSD school "first-rate" is optimistic at best, disingenuous at worst. You work there, as does my wife. Some schools are better than average. That's as far as I'd care to go.

Combine a intellectually incurious population with low standards and a monolithic administration system that cares more about IEP meetings and forms and charts than children, and we have the CCSD as it stands today.
Yeah, I get it. ATEC is no Deerfield, but it's a very good public school and as good as any private school here.

You are being rather snide.

They didn't go to Harvard either, but they received a top notch college education.
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