[LoriTutoli]

Board Of Ed meeting was changed again and it was last night and we had a great turn out and full day is back in the budget YAY! Now the budget heads to the town taxation meeting at the end of the month.
Parents along with the Board Of Ed will be stepping up to fight.......enough taking away every year from the children who are our future. Find somewhere else to make cuts throughout the city. Leave the children alone.

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by LoriTutoli

Board Of Ed meeting was changed again and it was last night and we had a great turn out and full day is back in the budget YAY! Now the budget heads to the town taxation meeting at the end of the month.
Parents along with the Board Of Ed will be stepping up to fight.......enough taking away every year from the children who are our future. Find somewhere else to make cuts throughout the city. Leave the children alone.

Maybe you should suggest paycuts for the superintendent, principals and un-needed administrators. There is too much dead weight in these schools.

[AMSS]

Originally Posted by kidyankee764

Maybe you should suggest paycuts for the superintendent, principals and un-needed administrators. There is too much dead weight in these schools.

As long as the states keep passing crazy mandates, more administrators will be needed (I will admit that some systems have taken advantage of it and are too top heavy). As for the full day kindergarten, I just think that's more of a parent need than a child need. Just my opinion though.

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by AMSS

As long as the states keep passing crazy mandates, more administrators will be needed (I will admit that some systems have taken advantage of it and are too top heavy). As for the full day kindergarten, I just think that's more of a parent need than a child need. Just my opinion though.

It isn't just the state. The No Child Left Behind act adds so much to the costs of schools yet provided little or no additional funding to pay for its mandates. It also sets the entire program up for failure because it is based on the assumptions that all schools can improve. Eventually test scores will not improve. Good schools will eventually reach their highest level and then stop so eventually all schools will start to fail if current criteria is kept. Also it just promote schools to teach to the test rather than to learn. A lot of kids don't test well so they get left behind anyway. It was not a well thought out program. Jay

[AMSS]

Originally Posted by JayCT

It isn't just the state. The No Child Left Behind act adds so much to the costs of schools yet provided little or no additional funding to pay for its mandates. It also sets the entire program up for failure because it is based on the assumptions that all schools can improve. Eventually test scores will not improve. Good schools will eventually reach their highest level and then stop so eventually all schools will start to fail if current criteria is kept. Also it just promote schools to teach to the test rather than to learn. A lot of kids don't test well so they get left behind anyway. It was not a well thought out program. Jay

[jjinla]

From my understanding, the NCLB goal was to have 100% proficiency on all standardized tests by 2014. That was destined for failure from the start. We all know that 100% of all kids in even the GOOD districts aren't going to pass, let alone BAD districts.

I moved from LA, where over 70% of the district's kids were hispanic, many were ESL learners, and even more had parents that spoke zero english and didn't have more than a 2nd grade education themselves. Good luck getting them to be proficient with no additional resources!

Some kids SHOULD be left behind. At least until they grasp the material. Even then, I have several teacher friends that have said that the district forced them to pass failing kids because they didn't want to deal with them anymore, and they would always fail regardless of what grade they were in.

Obama is supposedly trying to repeal it. It would be nice if he did at least one thing I agreed with in his 4 years.

[LoriTutoli]

we did get the numbers and got Full day back on the drawing board...now it goes to the taxation meeting and we got people lol

[Bren's Mom]

The Board of Appropriation and Taxation meeting is Tuesday, March 29 at 7pm at City Hall.

I will be there!

My child is currently in K in Derby. I want to see full day K stay, because I believe in it, and I also don't want to see them cut other very important programs like art and music.

There ARE places in the City where things can be cut, our children's education shouldn't be one of them.

[Stylo]

My parents chose half-day on most days for me. I turned out fine!