If we spent more time on getting schools to employ honest professionals who are interested in teaching children the basics and afterwards the sophisticated stuff instead of the petty criminals that inhabit the board and administration in Hillsborough County, we would stanch the illiteracy at the source.
That is the pattern that should obtain everywhere education goes on. The children can’t learn what nobody knows or teaches them. Emphasis should home in on the problem of basic literacy. Let’s start with the school boards and administrations. They set the priorities of schools.
The NYT has Frank Rich’s analysis of the criminality of the outgoing Bush administration in this morning’s paper. I don’t see that it is a bit different from the Hillsborough County board and administration. Rich says that this criminality should not be swept under the rug but should be exposed. I agree.
Everybody says, “There is corruption everywhere. We can’t deal with it all.”
We don’t have to deal with it all; we have to deal with just our little piece of it right in front of our eyes.
This message about the Hillsborough board and administration went all over the state of Florida to the school leadership. One way to stop corruption is to expose it. That exposure we have begun with my two-years-of-observation email posts that sailed away over the Internet this weekend. lee
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Bravo! This is great! I think you have done an excellent job informing the public of the corruption that occurs downtown everyday.
Also, if you think that the school district administration can't punctuate, check out the Boys & Girls Club. Their grammar and punctuation (or lack thereof) would make your ears curl!
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Ms. Lee,
Go to April's blog. There's a post about more massive curves on those English Springboard midterms. Some failing students were given a C by the county. This is last year all over again! Thought this could be added to your case against the district. Happy New Year.
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Ms. Lee,
Go to April's blog. There's a post about more massive curves on those English Springboard midterms. Some failing students were given a C by the county. This is last year all over again! Thought this could be added to your case against the district. Happy New Year.
Have you noticed how most of the board members have embarrassing educational backgrounds? Go to the school district website and look at the school board members' bios.
Kurdell: BA in Human Development from Eckerd College
Edgecomb: Talladega College in Alabama (WHAT is that?)
Faliero: BA from USF (barely a real school)
Olson: MBA from USF (MBAs are what unimaginative people get, and she got it at a sorry school)
Valdes and Griffin do not seem to have degrees.
Jack Lamb is the only one with halfway decent credentials: UT, UF, and Syracuse Univ.
Elia: Daemen College (What the heck is that? Is that like a correspondence course college? Later she went to the U of Buffalo which might be a real university. Not sure.
But the degrees and universities say a whole lot about how these people valued education in their own lives.
Good God, Lee--What's with the folks in the abyss??? WE could sure use their energy and zeal for REAL problems!!! Yes--the curve for Springboard was even more absurd than in years past--what else do we expect???? My students "earned" A & B grades unless they simply didn't do the work!!! Those that didn't get to exempt the exam ( below C average, excessive absences, discipline referrals) were amazed at how their exam grades eneded up!!!! By the way--when posting or emailing -- I am famous for my typo occurences--I make no apologies--professional stuff where I edit is another matter--the message is important here.....
You should get someone with computer savvy to get you the inane survey we were sent--of course there was no place to put suggestions......I'll take a 2% cut when ROSSAC folks are on the same scake as teachers-- just getting the $$ for timwe served-- bonus be damened! Oh--whatever happened to that Smoth woman--who could not function at Alafia???? Where did she end up???
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