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Actually, I would rather my kids not walk down the highway with a speed limit of 55 with no sidewalks less than a mile to our house.
Yes, a highway would be an entirely different situation from the neighborhood I'm talking about that has neighborhood roads with sidewalks to get to the school.
Seems like a scapegoat to me. They gave him mission impossible (more routes with less buses) and screamed bloody murder when things didn't go smoothly.
CARY, N.C. — Wake County school board members and the public will get their first look Tuesday at a revised student assignment plan that, school system leaders say, will link specific schools to every address in the district.
The proposed changes, for the 2013-14 school year, will be unveiled at the Board of Education's 5:30 p.m. meeting.
In June, the school board voted on a directive to change the current "controlled choice" plan so that students would, in part, be assigned to a school or schools within a "reasonable distance" from where they live.
Under the changes that are expected to be outlined Tuesday, each address in Wake County will be assigned a "base" elementary, middle and high school.
All new families, as well as families who move to a new address within the county, will be assigned to a base school.
Parents, however, will have the option to stay at the base school or rank among a list of other schools where they would prefer their children to attend.
So........... back to plan A? Sort of?
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Last week at open house, 2 of my daughter's teachers mentioned problems with text books. The social studies teacher said the old text did not match the new curriculum, and that it didn't really matter as it was not a great text in the first place. The science teacher said she did not have enough texts to issue one to each student, so they would only use them in class, but it didn't matter, because it didn't really match the curriculum.
I understand our rush to embrace Common Core standards....But what happens when the text books are no good is that teachers end up spending a gazillion dollars on photocopying materials they CAN use.
That's true at our M.S. too. I'm sure it will be a common problem across the US as most states switch to the Common Core. I havne't actually seen a lot of handouts....yet.
I feel like the textbook problem is as old as time. I remember in middle school our science teachers having to tell us to disregard whole chapters of our textbook because already scientific discoveries had moved on and disproven whatever. And these were relatively new textbooks at that time.
My kids haven't really used textbooks in years, even in high school. I think the only text book this year is an e text book in math and they occasionally use a science book in class.
There are parent sessions on common core in WCPSS this week if anyone cares to go: New Parent Academy gives families information on Common Core | Morning Announcements
I think we are definitely going to see less hard copy and more e-books. Just doesn't make sense otherwise. Like eva said, things change too fast.
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