tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post2706472578908329767..comments2023-10-23T09:23:22.051-04:00Comments on Your Schools: Saving sports, paying executives, catching upUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-83047372946265702402011-03-30T13:49:22.957-04:002011-03-30T13:49:22.957-04:00See? "motorcycle". Lord help me, I can&...See? "motorcycle". Lord help me, I can't spell motorcycle - despite Zen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-54111951795391268872011-03-30T13:46:10.031-04:002011-03-30T13:46:10.031-04:00Ann (or Anne),
I'll be darned. I've been ...Ann (or Anne),<br />I'll be darned. I've been accused of a few things in my life but never of spelling anything correctly. Thanks for a great laugh! <br /><br />My mother, who never had the opportunity to attend college but worked as a secretary, returned just about every love letter my father ever sent her while they were dating with spelling and grammatical corrections while he was a student at Columbia University. They've been married 53 years. My mother finally enrolled in college in her late 40's and earned a B.A. at UConn. <br /><br />UCONN!, UCONN!, UCAN! Go Huskies!<br /><br />I'm afraid Kay (or Kaye) might need to place me in a remedial spelling class before having the patience to work with me - despite the technological marvels of spell check. <br /><br />Thanks for the contact info. for Kay McSpadden. Again, I'd pay, volunteer, make CMS standardized test copies for band, answer phones or even bake fundraising cookies (I hate to bake) to have the honor of taking a class taught by her. <br /><br />It's cool I read "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" on my required high school reading list in the late 1970's but missing out on so many American classics is simply not a complete education unless pot brownies and flying bats "Count Dracula" for something. I had to read "Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance" in college. <br /><br />I want to read, comprehend, answer questions, write essays and contribute to class discussions on the books Kay has her high school students studying. If she can work with the last group of kids she wrote about than maybe this middle-aged mom isn't completely hopeless to the challenges and joys of great American and English Literature.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-67038581082987907592011-03-29T19:23:02.314-04:002011-03-29T19:23:02.314-04:00Since Pete doesn't want Chicago, maybe the ent...Since Pete doesn't want Chicago, maybe the entire state of Florida would be a suitable venue. Mr. Smith's position would be perfect to go union sniping for the new governor. Somehow I think the Tea Party wouldn't buy his smoke and mirrors and April Fool's day schemes as "professionalism."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-53159840160767186002011-03-29T15:15:17.413-04:002011-03-29T15:15:17.413-04:00I had never heard about the TFA bonuses. Sounds li...I had never heard about the TFA bonuses. Sounds like it's federal money that doesn't come out of the CMS budget, but still interesting. I'll see what I can find out. I clicked the "read the bill" link but it's 384 pages -- no wonder people get confused about what the feds are doing!Ann Doss Helmshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03511764376105157616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-82276716557934948782011-03-29T11:32:33.611-04:002011-03-29T11:32:33.611-04:00Incredible....The amount of pay we can pay out, bu...Incredible....The amount of pay we can pay out, but we must cut teachers and teacher assistants, the people that actually do the work. Dr. Gorman and his admin needs to leave Charlotte on the frst bus to ChicagoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-25585934600793331622011-03-28T21:52:12.817-04:002011-03-28T21:52:12.817-04:00With all of the reading that I do on the CO's ...With all of the reading that I do on the CO's website, I don't think that I have ever read that TFA receive 10K bonuses.<br /><br />Well guess what? The state's house has voted to get rid of those bonuses. Myrick voted against the bonuses.<br /><br />Sure wish that I had read it here first, but instead I had to read it on channel 9's website.<br /><br />Finally, a step in the right direction....no more TFAs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-80099812421314975852011-03-28T16:42:08.920-04:002011-03-28T16:42:08.920-04:00If you click the link to her column, there's a...If you click the link to her column, there's an email address so you could ask about other opportunities to meet her. She could definitely fill a literature for grown-ups class!<br /><br />And thanks for spelling her first name right. You made me realize I'd added an e, ala Kaye McGarry (I corrected it).Ann Doss Helmshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03511764376105157616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-90888916201018320092011-03-28T15:40:17.338-04:002011-03-28T15:40:17.338-04:00I'd give anything to meet Kay McSpadden. Unfo...I'd give anything to meet Kay McSpadden. Unfortunately, I can't make the scheduled meeting she will be speaking at.<br /><br />I loved her last column. I took one Shakespeare course in college while on a foreign exchange program in London. I struggled to understand half of it but I did see a number of Shakespearian plays that I also struggled to interpret but eventually got better at. Cool rake theatre stages in London. I vaguely remember Chaucer from high school which, at the time, I thought was the most dreadful literature on the face of the planet. <br /><br />Does Kay offer an "Incomplete English Literature Education" summer course for parents? Heck, I'd pay to just come and sit in on her regular high school classes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com