tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post8687918153036962625..comments2023-10-23T09:23:22.051-04:00Comments on Your Schools: Here are the CMS schools that grew the mostUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-4441722209855545262014-11-13T07:44:07.350-05:002014-11-13T07:44:07.350-05:00Andrew, are any of the schools with the largest st...Andrew, are any of the schools with the largest student increases over capacity or over enrollment?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-74699735341984912122014-11-12T22:48:16.879-05:002014-11-12T22:48:16.879-05:00Take back our schools...
"As our infamous Ms...Take back our schools...<br /><br />"As our infamous Ms Leake would say, when are the teachers going to look like the students they teach. "<br /><br />I really don't have a problem with that.<br /><br />Provided the courts don't then turn around and decide that "disparate impact" has resulted in a "poorer" education for those teachers and students who "look like" Ms. Leake.<br /><br />Because I'm always suspicious that change directed by all those good social-engineering intentions won't get the best results.<br /><br />It's a bit like putting those TFA newbies in the "needy" schools and then complaining about the "needy" schools having the least experienced teachers.<br /><br />Well, big DUH on that one...<br /><br />If you start putting all the black teachers in the black schools again, that starts looking like re-segregation.<br /><br />And one side of their mouth says that's bad, while the other supports MORE of it?<br /><br />Typical double-bind mindset.<br /><br />If my kids were struggling, I'd rather them have the most qualified teacher, but, then I'm funny that way.<br /><br />I don't think the politicians out there really care about the final results in education as much as the political hay they can make from all the fuss over "issues" they create.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Shamashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886687970259841873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-4714128931291461042014-11-12T22:31:31.671-05:002014-11-12T22:31:31.671-05:00Take back our schools...
I would classify a LOT o...Take back our schools...<br /><br />I would classify a LOT of what I see in the public schools today as PR stunts with little intent to expand them into real workable solutions to so many problems.<br /><br />There are just so many little projects out there that don't seem to be designed to help students as much as the careers of the educrats whose names are assigned to them.<br /><br />It's a bit sad but public education has become a quick road to fame and riches for the few who are willing to play that game.<br /><br />It's all about giving the crowd what it wants to hear in most cases, too.<br /><br />Just look at all the "supermen" and "courageous conversations" and similar bright shiny trinkets that fill the (over-)paid speaking circuit. <br /><br />Everyone who wants to be at the top seems to be clamoring to be part of some "high profile" project or the other to get their name out there.<br /><br />And to move on to the higher bucks, of course. As a consultant, or founder of some "movement" or the other.<br /><br />Because that's how the REAL game of "education" is apparently being played today.<br /><br />It reminds me a bit of the "megachurch" and "prosperity" thing that hit a certain subset of religion not so long ago.<br /><br />People just instinctively seem to know where there is money to be made.<br /><br />And I don't think it was always like that.Shamashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886687970259841873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-89470528005726282322014-11-12T08:10:36.883-05:002014-11-12T08:10:36.883-05:00To the comments about the overcrowding at some of ...To the comments about the overcrowding at some of the schools in south Charlotte, there are so many new homes and apartments being built in the Comm house and ardry kell area I don't know where all those new kids will go to school.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-53386480158609278402014-11-12T07:45:11.084-05:002014-11-12T07:45:11.084-05:00Apparently not everything is rosy in the burbs, wh...Apparently not everything is rosy in the burbs, why else would a busy HS principal feel compelled to have neighborhood meetings in south charlotte? Is this the new community outreach/teacher home visits we've been hearing about? <br /><br />No, it's due to the lack of respect by the overindulged students, and the dismal lack of character shown by students and parents that have led to so many "social" problems in and out of school. The urban areas may have their own issues, but the burbs are full of problems and a basic apathy on the part of students and parents.<br /><br />Glad I don't have a dog in the hunt here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-16558558043099357232014-11-12T07:36:11.111-05:002014-11-12T07:36:11.111-05:008:59 Alicia, I would not agree with your statement...8:59 Alicia, I would not agree with your statement. I personally know several CMS teachers who send their kids to Non-cms schools. And the teachers I know who's children attend "their" school is mostly due to family convenience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-56545343267227809692014-11-11T22:09:11.386-05:002014-11-11T22:09:11.386-05:00Prince George's County presented me with a tea...Prince George's County presented me with a teaching award after working for the system less than 6 months.<br /><br />My gold plague - which I still have - reads Alyshia. <br /><br />Alicia <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-82494265481239009732014-11-11T21:49:57.470-05:002014-11-11T21:49:57.470-05:00Shamash,
In my mid-20's before having childre...Shamash,<br /><br />In my mid-20's before having children, I very distinctly remember coming home from my new job at a high school in Prince George's County MD and informing my husband that I would NEVER send our future children to the school I worked at. It was that bad despite the fact that I loved what I was doing - teaching dance.<br /><br />My father (a retired public school superintendent) and husband strongly encouraged me to quit the job I had in Prince George's County MD after visiting the school I taught for.<br /><br />Where teachers send their own children to school is an interesting matter. <br /><br />Alicia<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-19568242255870420612014-11-11T21:31:59.357-05:002014-11-11T21:31:59.357-05:00Shamash, you bring up a good point about TFA's...Shamash, you bring up a good point about TFA's I never could understand. I saw one report a few years after CMS started using them and the only area they were any better than the traditionally trained teacher was middle school math. Then when I thought about it some more, I realized the demographics had more to do with I would bet. As our infamous Ms Leake would say, when are the teachers going to look like the students they teach. <br /><br />Secondly, TFA teachers put a huge workload burden on the rest of the teachers especially their assigned "mentor".<br /><br />Lastly, TFA's are exactly the last people Judge Manning said should be put in these urban classrooms. Just when they've acquired enough experience to be any good, the vast majority is gone. Many of these did their "time" just to get their student loans paid off. Don't get me wrong here though. Most were the brightest and best in their colleges. But with the job market the way it was, the carrot with debt being paid off and some resume enhancement some companies talked about being interested in, the obvious is what happened. <br /><br />So as we've seen from the late "Strategic Staffing" program, the TFA program, and Project Lift, there have no sustained programs dreamt of with unlimited funding that have pulled off this new Obama-Holder directive.<br /><br />So if you think teachers left CMS due to pay or whatever, you've seen nothing yet like the exodus you will see if they try to force school assignments. <br /><br />So the community organizers better get their kids straightened out and force them to behave civilized if they want to see any betterment in their lives. But of course they will not because the community organizers would have no relevance if they can no longer scream victimhood. Welcome to Detroit of the South.Take back our schoolsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-53081303603460082232014-11-11T21:22:58.073-05:002014-11-11T21:22:58.073-05:00Alicia,
"The quality of any school can be de...Alicia,<br /><br />"The quality of any school can be determined by the percentage of teachers who have their own children enrolled at the same school they teach at."<br /><br /><br />Now THAT would be an interesting statistic. And it makes sense from my experience as well.<br /><br />Of course, enough teachers would need to have school age children for that to be significant.Shamashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886687970259841873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-50325079000665045502014-11-11T20:59:51.863-05:002014-11-11T20:59:51.863-05:00Shamash,
It's not that complicated.
The qual...Shamash,<br /><br />It's not that complicated.<br /><br />The quality of any school can be determined by the percentage of teachers who have their own children enrolled at the same school they teach at.<br /><br />Teachers will not enroll their own children at a marginal school. In fact, teachers are less likely than anyone to risk sending their own children to a school loaded with 22-year-old TFA domestic peace corps recruits or Project "LIFT Way" Stepford employees. <br /><br />AliciaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-5457162662706567272014-11-11T20:37:49.869-05:002014-11-11T20:37:49.869-05:00Anon 1:38pm.
"Yet, CMS couldn't care les...Anon 1:38pm.<br /><br />"Yet, CMS couldn't care less, because the inner city, urban crowd's needs supplant those of every other demographic group represented in CMS - and thus the declining numbers among those who can leave."<br /><br />Of course.<br /><br />Because that's where there's more political "hay" to be made.<br /><br />No one rises to the top by catering to those who are capable of helping themselves.<br /><br />The surest way to the "top" of the education heap nowadays is to have some miraculous story about how you can "save" the urban crowd. <br /><br />Even (or especially) if they don't want to "save" themselves.<br /><br />No one gets rich, famous, or powerful (or even the occasional lucrative speaking gig) by improving education for those at the top (or even middle) of the heap.<br /><br />Because our government is all about the numbers (of votes) and most of the numbers are at the bottom of our society now.<br /><br />Oddly enough, the real money in gubmint for most bureaucrats comes from catering to the 99% (not the 1% as many would like us to believe). <br /><br />Even though they are USING MONEY from the 1% (or, realistically, the 20%).<br /><br />Most clever educrats know on which side THEIR toast is buttered.<br /><br />And unlike most of us, it's the bottom.<br /><br />Shamashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886687970259841873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-72847922436664738542014-11-11T20:37:03.241-05:002014-11-11T20:37:03.241-05:00Alicia,
I hope you are not calling the people in B...Alicia,<br />I hope you are not calling the people in Ballantyne racists, I hope you made the comment in the spirit of sarcasm.<br /><br />I pointed out the relationship between low academic performance and minorities for a reason. White families and middle class families in general have been leaving the cms system for years. As a result you have the majority of the schools in CMS serving mostly minority children, thus those schools struggle. With respect, please don't say how charters are better, they aren't. The same article I provided in my post from 3:43 also includes charters, and guess what, the charters that focus on minority students have shown abysmal results as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-28096937624836452372014-11-11T20:26:36.894-05:002014-11-11T20:26:36.894-05:00Wiley,
"A white student is four times less l...Wiley,<br /><br />"A white student is four times less likely than a black or Native American student to be in a school with more than 20% first-year teachers and three times less likely than a Latino student, according to the US's Civil Rights Data Collection."<br /><br />I wonder how much of that is due to things like Teach For America and other "heroic" attempts to educate the urban crowd.<br /><br />And, of course, the other types of incentives (such as hardship pay, or whatever they call it) specifically designed by the gubmint bureaucrats to encourage people (most likely YOUNG people) to teach in urban schools.<br /><br />Of course, there is the "experience" factor that probably inspires many older, more experienced teachers to run from the "problem" (having probably experienced a taste of it before).<br /><br />Will anyone sort THAT out for us?<br /><br />This sort of "statistical" discrimination BS stinks of "disparate impact", doesn't it?<br /><br />Maybe the whole TFA was a scam to get these kinds of statistics for someone to "do something about".<br /><br />It wouldn't surprise me as our gubmint often causes its own problems in order to expand its various fiefdoms.<br /><br />Remember, y'all:<br /><br />"I'm from the gubmint and I'm here to help..."Shamashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886687970259841873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-15239629051234809142014-11-11T20:06:23.524-05:002014-11-11T20:06:23.524-05:007:51
I'm just pointing out the absurdity.
Al...7:51<br /><br />I'm just pointing out the absurdity.<br /><br />Also, you'd be foolish to underestimate the strong political influence of South Meck., East Meck, Providence and Myers Park who all desire exactly the same thing for their high schools that "racists" in the Ballantyne area desire. In the end, it's all about securing the most educated families. <br /><br />Messing with South Charlotte Middle School's current assignment plan is a minefield of complication impacting at least three high schools.<br /><br />Get ready to fasten your seatbelt. <br /><br />Alicia Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-3416606648231811902014-11-11T17:32:15.337-05:002014-11-11T17:32:15.337-05:00Wiley, don't be too sure that CMS won't tr...Wiley, don't be too sure that CMS won't try to move the "good" teachers to lower performing schools via govt edict. Now those schools will get 3x the money and the good teachers. Just watch the mass exodus then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-66888548102804578582014-11-11T17:29:52.968-05:002014-11-11T17:29:52.968-05:00So think about it, Comm house MS is almost as big ...So think about it, Comm house MS is almost as big as Providence HS, give it another year and it probably will be. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-90819604086964467772014-11-11T15:35:03.657-05:002014-11-11T15:35:03.657-05:00AKHS could have 5,000 and so could CHMS. CMS still...AKHS could have 5,000 and so could CHMS. CMS still would not lift (ha ha-lift) a finger to assist. <br />Doing a story on personalized learning so late in the year after people have been begging for it seems odd. Parents have already donated big bucks on carpet and chairs Dunn. Too little too late.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-28544845380889567932014-11-11T15:32:32.800-05:002014-11-11T15:32:32.800-05:00Ardrey Kell High
2014 Enrollment: 2701
2013 Enr...<b>Ardrey Kell High</b> <br />2014 Enrollment: 2701 <br />2013 Enrollment: 2518 <br />Student Increase: 183 <br />Increase: 7%<br /><br /><b>South Mecklenburg High</b> <br />2014 Enrollment: 2913 <br />2013 Enrollment: 2732 <br />Student Increase: 181 <br />Increase: 7%<br /><br /><b>Butler High</b> <br />2014 Enrollment: 2081 <br />2013 Enrollment: 2069 <br />Student Increase: 12 <br />Increase: 1%<br /><br /><b>Providence High</b> <br />2014 Enrollment: 1991 <br />2013 Enrollment: 1993 <br />Student Decrease: -2 <br />Increase: 0%<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-15488263335422957602014-11-11T15:26:25.072-05:002014-11-11T15:26:25.072-05:00Community House Middle
2014 Enrollment: 1750
20...<b>Community House Middle</b> <br />2014 Enrollment: 1750 <br />2013 Enrollment: 1630 <br />Student Increase: 120<br />Increase: 7%<br /><br /><b>Jay M Robinson Middle</b> <br />2014 Enrollment: 1101 <br />2013 Enrollment: 1106 <br />Student Decrease: -5 <br />Decrease: 0%<br /><br /><b>South Charlotte Middle</b> <br />2014 Enrollment: 856 <br />2013 Enrollment: 887 <br />Student Decrease: -31 <br />Decrease: -3%<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-16415438552594604112014-11-11T14:44:09.830-05:002014-11-11T14:44:09.830-05:00CMS,
Instead of changing the approach to teachi...CMS, <br /><br />Instead of changing the approach to teaching every other year or so, how about working harder to achieve more equitable student/teacher ratios across the district?<br /><br />Leave the basics alone!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-53771752343116090592014-11-11T13:38:37.914-05:002014-11-11T13:38:37.914-05:001:22 and 3:43,
Your points are all well made.
...1:22 and 3:43,<br /><br />Your points are all well made. <br /><br />Yet, CMS couldn't care less, because the inner city, urban crowd's needs supplant those of every other demographic group represented in CMS - and thus the declining numbers among those who can leave.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-21417169788158167052014-11-11T13:33:46.473-05:002014-11-11T13:33:46.473-05:00CMS has lost white families in large numbers and c...<i><b>CMS has lost white families in large numbers and continues to do so by not addressing the issues that are important to them. Over crowding being one of them!</b></i><br /><br />CMS' sales tax initiative failed at the polls Tuesday, so they'll conjure up some new scheme to shake the suburban money tree, yet the needs of the crowd they're shaking down will be left un-addressed and the "white flight" will continue.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-40745131256752501632014-11-11T13:22:56.195-05:002014-11-11T13:22:56.195-05:00The numbers presented by some of you with regards ...The numbers presented by some of you with regards demographics at of the high schools on the south side relate to my post from yesterday at 3:43. look at the demographics of these schools and then compare them to the test scores of those schools. <br /><br />CMS has lost white families in large numbers and continues to do so by not addressing the issues that are important to them. Over crowding being one of them! <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-58344478611343940412014-11-11T12:25:20.536-05:002014-11-11T12:25:20.536-05:00Here are the CMS schools that grew the most
How a...<b>Here are the CMS schools that grew the most</b><br /><br />How about the following article:<br /><br /><b>Here are the CMS schools that cannot grow anymore.</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com