Friday, September 9, 2011
Student Schedule Problems...?
Please post this as a seperate topic
HOW IS YOUR CHILD'S SCHEDULE ?
Year after year we are inundated with scheduling problems for our child . It always seems as though the adminstrators ignore most of our concerns or requests for our child in the school. I would like to know what other parents have experienced
Monday, September 5, 2011
Needed: 9th Period. Change the Teacher's Contract
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Get with it! 9 Period day..
Board of Ed- We voted for you. Now do something to change this.
Parents do not realize this until they get to High School and their child can not take electives!
There needs to be a 9 period day for High School! Can we ad a referendum to the voting? BOE..Time for change..Get with the times and start negotiating this in the teachers contact!
Too many kids are missing out!
All other districts provide 9 period days to allow for electives and especially extra help.
All students could benefit from this not just the ones that need extra academic support. With the amount of money we pay to live here and how everyone brags how great it is...It's not that great when I have to choose either electives that enrich or academic support.
Time for Change!
Sunday, August 21, 2011
New School Year, Same Old Teacher Picketing?- Inquires Resident.
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A few weeks before school starting, the rumors are starting of school "informational picketing" again. Any thoughts? Is the PCT going to do this again? I've had it. I'm moving if this happens.
Please post as new thread..
A few weeks before school starting, the rumors are starting of school "informational picketing" again. Any thoughts? Is the PCT going to do this again? I've had it. I'm moving if this happens.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Sept 6th Lice Check Event. Proceeds to Charity and a Lice Free School for Your Kids
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The first day of school is just around the corner. On Tuesday, September 6th starting at 10am, I am holding another before school lice checking day with Kathy from Deliceful.
Last year's event detected 20% of lice infestations in the people that attended. Help make this year's check another success and make an even bigger impact in decreasing the number of lice infestations this school year. Don't let your child be the one who brings lice into the schools.
The cost is once again $10 per head. A portion of the proceeds from the head checks will be donated to charity. Come vote for 1 of 3 charities for the money to be donated to. The charity with the most votes will receive the donation. The 3 charities selected are: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Autism Speaks and John Thiessen Children's Foundation.
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 6th
Time: 10 am to 12:00pm
Place: 103 Wilson Place, Plainview
For further information or to RSVP to this event, email liceday2010@optonline.net
Please start a new thread for this post.
The first day of school is just around the corner. On Tuesday, September 6th starting at 10am, I am holding another before school lice checking day with Kathy from Deliceful.
Last year's event detected 20% of lice infestations in the people that attended. Help make this year's check another success and make an even bigger impact in decreasing the number of lice infestations this school year. Don't let your child be the one who brings lice into the schools.
The cost is once again $10 per head. A portion of the proceeds from the head checks will be donated to charity. Come vote for 1 of 3 charities for the money to be donated to. The charity with the most votes will receive the donation. The 3 charities selected are: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Autism Speaks and John Thiessen Children's Foundation.
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 6th
Time: 10 am to 12:00pm
Place: 103 Wilson Place, Plainview
For further information or to RSVP to this event, email liceday2010@optonline.net
Friday, July 29, 2011
Will City's New Standard for AchievingTenure Be Used in Plainview?
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "A Very Plainvew Blog is All Yours......":
Suzala, Please post this separately.
I wonder if our board will be using these guidelines as well. Perhaps if they did it would raise the low level of teaching that is evident in some classrooms.
" While state law outlines the general procedures for awarding tenure to teachers, the details are left to individual districts. “We’ve turned what had been a joke interpretation of the state law,” Mr. Bloomberg said, “to make it something that you have to work hard, earn, and show that you are better than the average bear” to get.
Under the city’s new standards, teachers are rated on a four-point scale as highly effective, effective, developing or ineffective, based on students’ tests scores, classroom observations, feedback from parents, and other factors. (Previously, they were simply rated satisfactory or not.) Principals, who make recommendations on tenure, and supervisors, who make the decisions, were allowed to give tenure only to teachers who were rated effective or better for two consecutive years.
But as city officials predicted that the new policy would improve the quality of the teaching force, the results raised questions about its current state since so many teachers up for tenure were not rated effective.
The teachers’ union, defending the performance of its workers, objected to the way some of the evaluations by administrators were performed, and said..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/nyregion/tenure-granted-to-58-of-eligible-teachers-in-city.html?src=recg
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Suzala, Please post this separately.
I wonder if our board will be using these guidelines as well. Perhaps if they did it would raise the low level of teaching that is evident in some classrooms.
" While state law outlines the general procedures for awarding tenure to teachers, the details are left to individual districts. “We’ve turned what had been a joke interpretation of the state law,” Mr. Bloomberg said, “to make it something that you have to work hard, earn, and show that you are better than the average bear” to get.
Under the city’s new standards, teachers are rated on a four-point scale as highly effective, effective, developing or ineffective, based on students’ tests scores, classroom observations, feedback from parents, and other factors. (Previously, they were simply rated satisfactory or not.) Principals, who make recommendations on tenure, and supervisors, who make the decisions, were allowed to give tenure only to teachers who were rated effective or better for two consecutive years.
But as city officials predicted that the new policy would improve the quality of the teaching force, the results raised questions about its current state since so many teachers up for tenure were not rated effective.
The teachers’ union, defending the performance of its workers, objected to the way some of the evaluations by administrators were performed, and said..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/nyregion/tenure-granted-to-58-of-eligible-teachers-in-city.html?src=recg
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