IDBillzFan Posted January 13, 2014 Posted January 13, 2014 (edited) Just read the story linked here, and it's absolutely stunning that this is going on. Kids sit around all day watching movies. No classwork. No curriculum. And a fur-wrapped principal making $126k/year plus overtime...who never shows up. Hmmmmm....How does someone get away with this? Students at PS 106 in Far Rockaway, Queens, have gotten no math or reading and writing books for the rigorous Common Core curriculum, whistleblowers say. The 234 kids get no gym or art classes. Instead, they watch movies every day. “The kids have seen more movies than Siskel and Ebert,” a source said. The school nurse has no office equipped with a sink, refrigerator or cot. The library is a mess: “Nothing’s in order,” said a source. “It’s a junk room.” No substitutes are hired when a teacher is absent — students are divvied up among other classes. A classroom that includes learning-disabled kids doesn’t have the required special-ed co-teacher. About 40 kindergartners have no room in the three-story brick building. They sit all day in dilapidated trailers that reek of “animal urine,” a parent said; rats and squirrels noisily scamper in the walls and ceiling. Edited January 13, 2014 by LABillzFan
Alaska Darin Posted January 13, 2014 Posted January 13, 2014 I blame Bush. He doesn't care about the children.
DC Tom Posted January 13, 2014 Posted January 13, 2014 Clearly there's only one group responsible for this: the movie producers. Learned that from Benghazi.
IDBillzFan Posted January 13, 2014 Author Posted January 13, 2014 Probably the most ridiculous part of this story is the follow-up article announcing that the principal has retired with full bennies. In all seriousness, what I genuinely don't understand is how can the parents of 240 kids be so silenced on this? As soon as our son comes home, we review his school work and homework and he gets to work on the latter. He's in third grade and every day has upwards of two to three hours of homework, studying, reading, etc that has to be done and signed off by us before he returns the next day. If he ever came home and said "We just watched movies all day," it's impossible to grasp how we would respond. I just don't get how this could go on for as long as it does. Is it like this in all the inner-city schools in NYC?
pkwwjd Posted January 13, 2014 Posted January 13, 2014 Probably the most ridiculous part of this story is the follow-up article announcing that the principal has retired with full bennies. In all seriousness, what I genuinely don't understand is how can the parents of 240 kids be so silenced on this? As soon as our son comes home, we review his school work and homework and he gets to work on the latter. He's in third grade and every day has upwards of two to three hours of homework, studying, reading, etc that has to be done and signed off by us before he returns the next day. If he ever came home and said "We just watched movies all day," it's impossible to grasp how we would respond. I just don't get how this could go on for as long as it does. Is it like this in all the inner-city schools in NYC? If my kids came home with 2-3 hours of homework at that age, I would question if anything were done at school, too. More often than not, poor teachers are resorting to simply assigning work instead of teaching.
Just Jack Posted January 14, 2014 Posted January 14, 2014 Maybe their homework is writing movie reviews?
IDBillzFan Posted January 14, 2014 Author Posted January 14, 2014 If my kids came home with 2-3 hours of homework at that age, I would question if anything were done at school, too. More often than not, poor teachers are resorting to simply assigning work instead of teaching. My wife works at his school and is aware of the teacher's abilities. We also meet with her, review her curriculum, plan, etc. His assignments are simply time-consuming. Depending on the projects he has going on, it can be a lot of work. Also, he attends a private school, so that's probably what's tripping you up. He's doing stuff the public schools don't teach for another year or two.
OCinBuffalo Posted January 14, 2014 Posted January 14, 2014 (edited) Well, we have "improvement"! Principal shows up on time for work for the first time in 7 years And, what the hell is making poor kids spend $110 for a 5th grade formal? That's just weird. But, you know, it's for the children, so it must be good. My wife works at his school and is aware of the teacher's abilities. We also meet with her, review her curriculum, plan, etc. His assignments are simply time-consuming. Depending on the projects he has going on, it can be a lot of work. Also, he attends a private school, so that's probably what's tripping you up. He's doing stuff the public schools don't teach for another year or two. Aren't you the one who told us you put your kid in private school because...there was sex going on at the public school, or something like that? Or am I confused? Edited January 14, 2014 by OCinBuffalo
IDBillzFan Posted January 14, 2014 Author Posted January 14, 2014 Aren't you the one who told us you put your kid in private school because...there was sex going on at the public school, or something like that? Or am I confused? You're confused.
drinkTHEkoolaid Posted January 14, 2014 Posted January 14, 2014 Clearly we need to raise school taxes
birdog1960 Posted January 14, 2014 Posted January 14, 2014 the best and brightest are not going in to teaching. why would they? there is an outright war on public education in some parts of the country. north carolina is the poster child. guess which side of the aisle composes the attackers? unfortunately, many people can't afford private schools but most of them don't vote republican. yes, there are some very bad teachers around. there are also some amazing ones. the answer is to weed out the bad and incentivize enough good to retain and recruit them to public education. i'm guessing that's not what you all imagine as the solution.
KD in CA Posted January 14, 2014 Posted January 14, 2014 UNION YES!!! the best and brightest are not going in to teaching. why would they? there is an outright war on public education in some parts of the country. north carolina is the poster child. guess which side of the aisle composes the attackers? unfortunately, many people can't afford private schools but most of them don't vote republican. yes, there are some very bad teachers around. there are also some amazing ones. the answer is to weed out the bad and incentivize enough good to retain and recruit them to public education. i'm guessing that's not what you all imagine as the solution. Which is impossible to accomplish because left wing lemmings like you insist on keeping the corrupt union system in place. But yeah, it's a real 'war' out there. How can public schools survive on per-pupil spending that exceeds every other nation on earth!
Jim in Anchorage Posted January 14, 2014 Posted January 14, 2014 My wife works at his school and is aware of the teacher's abilities. We also meet with her, review her curriculum, plan, etc. His assignments are simply time-consuming. Depending on the projects he has going on, it can be a lot of work. Also, he attends a private school, so that's probably what's tripping you up. He's doing stuff the public schools don't teach for another year or two. Ck out the Muslim thread to see the homework assignment Tasker gave me. A weeks work, minimum.
boyst Posted January 14, 2014 Posted January 14, 2014 the best and brightest are not going in to teaching. why would they? there is an outright war on public education in some parts of the country. north carolina is the poster child. guess which side of the aisle composes the attackers? unfortunately, many people can't afford private schools but most of them don't vote republican. yes, there are some very bad teachers around. there are also some amazing ones. the answer is to weed out the bad and incentivize enough good to retain and recruit them to public education. i'm guessing that's not what you all imagine as the solution. you don't live in NC. You have no idea what's happened here
birdog1960 Posted January 14, 2014 Posted January 14, 2014 you don't live in NC. You have no idea what's happened here well, yes, i do. i have a niece that teaches elementary school in durham. it probably won't surprise you that many of my friends are educators here in va. they're well aware of what's going on over there eg teacher pay freezes for the last 5 years or so, no compensation for advanced degrees, no tenure, wages for some teachers as low as 20k and much more. and there's proven links to these efforts and far right national conservative groups.
IDBillzFan Posted January 14, 2014 Author Posted January 14, 2014 you don't live in NC. You have no idea what's happened here He knows what's going on. Even has his free Moral Monday t-shirt that came with his donation. no tenure You write that as if it's a bad thing. Tenure is ridiculous and should be eliminated nationwide...among other corrupt union kickbacks.
KD in CA Posted January 14, 2014 Posted January 14, 2014 the answer is to weed out the bad no tenure It's almost as if crayonz was still here.
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