tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post1627251338915845344..comments2023-10-23T09:23:22.051-04:00Comments on Your Schools: CMS mulls "marriage" to philanthropistsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-28402981163034275962012-01-21T11:06:09.591-05:002012-01-21T11:06:09.591-05:00Project LIFT, Bright Beginnings...
No difference....Project LIFT, Bright Beginnings...<br /><br />No difference.<br /><br />Both a waste of millions.<br /><br />I'll say it for the umpteenth time.<br /><br />It does not matter who you are or where you come from. At the end of the day, you either learn what the 26 letters of the alphabet are or you don't.<br /><br />To suggest it takes an additional $2,000 per year per student for 5,500 students to accomplish this is ridiculous.<br /><br />How much more in TAX DOLLARS will we have to thrown down this impending black hole?Wiley Coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16966764080565903720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-14367472902936261022012-01-21T09:42:14.377-05:002012-01-21T09:42:14.377-05:00I too was concerned about Tom Tate's comments,...I too was concerned about Tom Tate's comments, although I was not there to hear or see the whole thing. I agree that it is unacceptable for him to be dismissive of suburban issues. Interesting that he and his supporters often accuse the suburbs of doing the same thing--minimizing or ignoring urban issues.<br /><br />Sharon StarksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-84852376365521062332012-01-21T09:20:03.084-05:002012-01-21T09:20:03.084-05:00I have a different take from Ann on the section sh...I have a different take from Ann on the section she wrote around the theory of action, 3rd section down this morning. I sat there and heard Tom first hand and watched his body langauage as he and his elitist superioirty dismissed the facilitator and Rhonda and other board members when they insisted poor white and hispanic children had the same challenges with education and poverty.<br /><br />He is clearly pandering to a voting block to get his and his cult followers thinking back in control via busing.<br /><br />He should be ashamed of himself. This community should be ashamed of him and demand his resignation from the BIE>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-49972391807852342592012-01-21T08:53:49.922-05:002012-01-21T08:53:49.922-05:00From the announcements at past Tuesday's Tuesd...From the announcements at past Tuesday's Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum: Mary Klenz announced for Louise Woods that the League of Women Voters is encouraging the CMS school board to re-establish an Equity Committee. For more info, contact Louise Woods.<br /><br />Louise Woods--Meck ACTS, League of Women Voters, Tuesday Morning Breakfast participant, most likely a Swann Fellowship member as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-28420337104355652702012-01-21T08:39:23.317-05:002012-01-21T08:39:23.317-05:00To the Project LIFT naysayers: how many of you hav...To the Project LIFT naysayers: how many of you have been in these schools? Allenbrook and Bruns do not look like Hawk Ridge and Olde Providence based on resources and volunteers. Yes, the public money is disproportionate to these schools, but so is the private money that flows into them from suburban parents and corporate matching gifts. BOE- we need BOLD actions and Project LIFT is precisely that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-11443764133423587872012-01-21T00:29:48.693-05:002012-01-21T00:29:48.693-05:00Really tired of the whining about the District 6 a...Really tired of the whining about the District 6 appointment. If people want to complain, blame Tim Morgan. He is the one that chose to ruan at-large - he just miscalculated. This is the way elective politics works - the winners run things - GET OVER IT!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-71368231581503775022012-01-20T21:40:01.867-05:002012-01-20T21:40:01.867-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Wiley Coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16966764080565903720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-61714930239157357992012-01-20T21:35:17.791-05:002012-01-20T21:35:17.791-05:00It's a shame when the only one caring about th...It's a shame when the only one caring about the suburban children is the facilitator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-49134976660214180472012-01-20T21:20:24.116-05:002012-01-20T21:20:24.116-05:00McElrath has it exactly backward. You don't el...McElrath has it exactly backward. You don't eliminate poverty to lift students....you lift students to eliminate poverty. You don't perpetuate ignorance. you demand excellence. For CMS to stand in the way of a group of folks who want to adopt West Charlotte and turn it into a center of excellence, you should be ashamed to look in the mirror. I'd love to see a stat of how many kids who attended W. Charlotte and didn't graduate are now in jail. Put the kids first!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-57160576984918781062012-01-20T21:16:17.767-05:002012-01-20T21:16:17.767-05:00Do you realize that Project lift might try to eval...Do you realize that Project lift might try to evaluate teachers and might reassign them? The nerve! BTW, I just hated what NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg had to say to the Council of Mayors in DC today:<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/01/20/in-washington-mayor-bloomberg-makes-his-case-for-teacher-evaluations/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-82891549034201743412012-01-20T21:13:20.057-05:002012-01-20T21:13:20.057-05:00Why in the world would CMS take this money and par...Why in the world would CMS take this money and partnership. Obviously CMS is doing an incredible job at West Charlotte...I mean half the folks are graduating. Don't get in cahoots with a national group that is dedicated to bringing change. They might make it worse just at a time when things are going great over there. I think it is arrogant for philantropists to want to help minority kids to learn. They obviously have a (hidden) motive, probably to make a lot of profit off the west side...yeah, that's it. I say keep things the way they are...they're going great.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-49293498160997231952012-01-20T21:00:59.531-05:002012-01-20T21:00:59.531-05:00Alright so if approved by the BOE, next comes the ...Alright so if approved by the BOE, next comes the North Meck crowd, the Ballantyne crowd, etc. wanting to run their schools to suit their "clients", the kids and their parents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-64347709886044775842012-01-20T20:38:59.577-05:002012-01-20T20:38:59.577-05:00Anon 8:30....
Here's another ridiculous twist...Anon 8:30....<br /><br />Here's another ridiculous twist, in the fact McElrath wants to use zoning and housing policies to disperse throughout the County, the very students Project LIFT is supposed to "help"... <br /><br />This will be another example within CMS as to the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.<br /><br />At the end of this experiment, it will be a grand success. We already know that. Dramatic gains..achievement gap dramtically reduced....blah blah blah..<br /><br />Afterall, CMS is great at massaging data as we have recently learned.Wiley Coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16966764080565903720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-7425278212582141642012-01-20T20:31:59.925-05:002012-01-20T20:31:59.925-05:00So CMS BOE will give Project LIFT the power to dis...So CMS BOE will give Project LIFT the power to dismiss educators just because they are not "Superman"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-56458052495617429992012-01-20T20:30:36.258-05:002012-01-20T20:30:36.258-05:00Well this goes beyond what Project LIFT was origin...Well this goes beyond what Project LIFT was originally touted to be. It was to be anything but in the shcoolhouse. <br /><br />CMS should not be in cohoots with them. There are too many uptown power brokers trying to manipulate this demographic. Now if this fails, there will be so much finger pointing and public accusations of sabotage, it wil not be pretty.<br /><br />Make Project LIFT stand on their own!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-18629416835419106802012-01-20T20:23:11.626-05:002012-01-20T20:23:11.626-05:00Project L.I.F.T. is a ground breaking initiative t...<b>Project L.I.F.T. is a ground breaking initiative that recognizes that the achievement gap that separates thousands of minority and low-income students from their peers in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools is unacceptable. This educational crisis has far reaching economic and social implications for the community. To ensure all children receive the promise of a high quality education, Project L.I.F.T. aspires to lift up and accelerate the school district's efforts to improve academic outcomes for all students. The need is urgent and clear. The return on investment and collective impact of coordinating and leveraging philanthropy on a common agenda and approach to closing the achievement gap will be much greater than that of isolated efforts. To attain dramatic results in student achievement, bold action must be taken and it must be taken now.</b><br /><br />The arrogance in the statement above is appalling, especially to those taxpayers who have spent billions on CMS schools to ensure THEIR kids received a quality education. In fact, these same Project LIFT schools already receive(d) more money per pupil than most other CMS schools.<br /><br />So let me get this straight. Project LIFT people have come in and told CMS they have the answers to do all these wonderful, groundbreaking things for $55 million over five years?<br /><br />Why would the school board get in bed with this mess?<br /><br />I predict tax dollars will be spent on this down the road, yet another boondoggle, and it will never go away.<br /><br />This will be Bright Beginnings on steroids.<br /><br />For all the rhetoric from the Project LIFT website, talking about "westside schools", they are leaving out the old Waddell feeder schools which are just as abysmal and also West Meck.<br /><br /><b>Project L.I.F.T. Schools<br /><br />Allenbrook Elementary School<br /><br />Bruns Academy K-8<br /><br />Druid Hills Academy K-8<br /><br />Ranson Middle School<br /><br />Statesville Road Elementary School<br /><br />Thomasboro Academy K-8<br /><br />Walter G. Byers Academy K-8<br /><br />West Charlotte High School</b>Wiley Coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16966764080565903720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-57578861049009172002012-01-20T19:56:09.688-05:002012-01-20T19:56:09.688-05:00To the poster who stated that Rhonda Lennon repres...To the poster who stated that Rhonda Lennon represents her district I have to say "ARE YOU HIGH?" Rhonda Lennon represents Hough High and Hough High only! There are other schools in her district but she is concerned with only one and that my friends is a fact.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-91110874398345031702012-01-20T19:50:28.348-05:002012-01-20T19:50:28.348-05:00Peter Gorman was a "Change Agent" we gav...Peter Gorman was a "Change Agent" we gave him millions and he gave us back "CHANGE!!!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-43143173469834775802012-01-20T19:31:52.932-05:002012-01-20T19:31:52.932-05:00(McElrath is a big advocate of using zoning and ho...<b>(McElrath is a big advocate of using zoning and housing policy to avoid concentrating poverty in urban neighborhoods).</b><br /><br />That sentiment Sir, is why public education will remain in the toilet.<br /><br />You want to completely upend Mecklenburg County for social engineering?<br /><br />The stupidity in that mindset is the fact no matter what a child's skin color, household income or where they live, at the end of the day, they still have to learn the same answers to the same questions in class.Wiley Coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16966764080565903720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-6179888196989685792012-01-20T19:08:07.404-05:002012-01-20T19:08:07.404-05:00I wonder whose sorority chose Ms. Kendrick? I wond...I wonder whose sorority chose Ms. Kendrick? I wonder if anyone objected? Consumers have a right to know at these prices.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-36861227921830275342012-01-20T19:01:43.086-05:002012-01-20T19:01:43.086-05:00"change agent" - sheesh... barf."change agent" - sheesh... barf.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-6687639439479775842012-01-20T18:50:24.154-05:002012-01-20T18:50:24.154-05:00My gosh, it went from bad to worse. A facilitator ...My gosh, it went from bad to worse. A facilitator who is acting like the board chair? A facilitator is supposed to facilitate participation, not present his or her own views.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-80524517887474036422012-01-20T16:59:15.571-05:002012-01-20T16:59:15.571-05:00Unless we're planning to Change to a world in ...Unless we're planning to Change to a world in which students and parents are held accountable and where Uptown begins to believe it works for the schools, rather than the reverse, I don't want any.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-88295342840290901792012-01-20T16:45:42.001-05:002012-01-20T16:45:42.001-05:00The victor will never be asked if he told the trut...The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.<br /><br />Adolf HitlerDistrictSixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05446006141343133046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-88939878355141642252012-01-20T16:42:09.021-05:002012-01-20T16:42:09.021-05:00Ann, thanks so much for your effort and reporting ...Ann, thanks so much for your effort and reporting today, and your endurance and probably trying to hold back snickering with some of the theater.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com