tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post2208513007079994988..comments2023-10-23T09:23:22.051-04:00Comments on Your Schools: Are low-performing schools 'bad' schools?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-82487587672268950852014-10-31T11:04:41.793-04:002014-10-31T11:04:41.793-04:00Paying $50 per hour for tutoring has been a good i...Paying $50 per hour for tutoring has been a good investment in my children. They do not charge for extra help given at school, only for one-on-one attention given off school property. I like to think that it is helping keep some good teachers who would otherwise leave, by providing them with an additional source of income. I would rather pay teachers directly than create a pool of sales tax money for politicians to plunder for other things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-20186139613291595302014-10-29T19:51:59.801-04:002014-10-29T19:51:59.801-04:00Shamash,
Singapore math is highly scripted. But ...Shamash,<br /><br />Singapore math is highly scripted. But then again, so is ballet.<br /><br />What I'm finding is that the average to above average 5th grade math student can "do" math as long as it's highly compartmentalized while having absolutely no clue how to "do" math when a conversion of math skills is required. In other words, the process of actually thinking about how to solve a problem with the knowledge you have without the lazy benefit of being spoon fed compartmentalized information. It's a connecting the dots thing. As far as criticizing 5th grade Singapore math, God help the student how hasn't mastered basic fundamental math skills. <br /><br />AliciaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-15205462367733757992014-10-29T11:39:11.012-04:002014-10-29T11:39:11.012-04:00People, what do you expect for free? Honestly I t...People, what do you expect for free? Honestly I think that a lot of the staff feels this way towards its "customers".namelessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-83288839168455880012014-10-29T09:30:48.865-04:002014-10-29T09:30:48.865-04:00Regarding what happened in Charlotte's urban n...Regarding what happened in Charlotte's urban neighborhoods<br /><br />The school board's decision to accommodate white parents by closing many black schools rather than integrating them did indeed remove some significant community institutions from the central city (Second Ward High School being the most prominent but not the only example). <br /><br />But the main forces that led to the concentrated poverty we see in many central city areas were urban renewal, which destroyed community ties and sent a wave of refugees into surrounding neighborhoods (aided by block-busting realtors eager to turn privately owned homes into high-profit low-end rentals); public and private decisions to concentrate low-income housing developments in those areas; and the aging out of the existing middle class population, which was not replaced (this same aging out took place in many other neighborhoods as well, including Plaza-Midwood and Country Club Heights). <br /><br />Busing had very little to do with it, except in providing many black students with better opportunities. Most of the students who took advantage of those opportunities did not move back to their old neighborhoods but instead, like their white counterparts, settled in newer neighborhoods further out. Pamela Grundynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-57969069989388471552014-10-29T07:22:35.742-04:002014-10-29T07:22:35.742-04:00In response to Pamela's last post: Of course b...In response to Pamela's last post: Of course busing had nothing to do with the destabilization of urban neighborhoods.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-29458605323640980532014-10-28T22:39:02.335-04:002014-10-28T22:39:02.335-04:00Alicia,
"On top of this, most parents have n...Alicia,<br /><br />"On top of this, most parents have not been exposed to the Singapore math curriculum my school has adopted which is taught differently than the way most parents were taught."<br /><br />Glad to hear someone is actually using this curriculum. The funny thing is that it is actually based on research done in the US.<br /><br />Only Singapore was smart enough to turn it into a curriculum. <br /><br />I used it to teach my son some additional math in addition to what they were teaching him in school (which was really moronic, if you can excuse my namecalling).<br /><br />But I have a degree in math, so am comfortable going outside the curriculum to do the right thing for our kids.<br /><br />Of course, I can't do this in Chemistry, but I know a bad Chemistry teacher and a bad Chemistry curriculum when I see one thanks to my own poor "education" in the subject.<br /><br />I am proof that you don't need to be "educated" in a subject to know when something isn't working.<br /><br />You just have to pay attention and know enough to know when no one is actually teaching anything.<br /><br /><br />Shamashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886687970259841873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-66708246815228743082014-10-28T21:47:11.631-04:002014-10-28T21:47:11.631-04:00I knew the gentrification card would be played bef...I knew the gentrification card would be played before the comments hit 100.....can't defend busing or the generations who were supposed to benefit from busing and all those extra tax monies but still don't get it, so blame it on urban renewal.<br /><br />Again, 2+2=4 in all schools, in all areas, under busing, no busing, this zip code, that zip code, this urban renewal, that high poverty area and so on and so on.<br /><br />You either get it or you don't.<br /><br />Wiley Coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16966764080565903720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-6767621595769376612014-10-28T21:40:34.071-04:002014-10-28T21:40:34.071-04:005:44pm
and on that note, pushing all students thr...5:44pm<br /><br />and on that note, pushing all students through the system so we can have higher graduation rates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-89038735033863431412014-10-28T21:10:16.326-04:002014-10-28T21:10:16.326-04:00Tutoring is a BIG business in south charlotte. All...Tutoring is a BIG business in south charlotte. All those AK and Providence students lining up to learn the subject matter in the evenings because it's NOT happening in the class room. The students have math for 7.5 hours a week and they still aren't learning the subject matter. What is wrong with this picture? CMS is a joke. if we didn't have one year left we would be outta here.Everestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-11463070611682285502014-10-28T18:24:40.301-04:002014-10-28T18:24:40.301-04:005:44
With the exception of the unnecessary name ca...5:44<br />With the exception of the unnecessary name calling...<br /><br />You have a point as far as overcrowded classrooms in the south Charlotte area. My son attended South Charlotte MS. We paid for private tutoring as a result of my son being placed in the highest level 7th grade math class South Charlotte offered - one year Algebra 1. A year later, one year Algebra 1 was disbanded because research concluded that most 7th grade students aren't developmentally ready to tackle high school Algebra 1 in 7th grade before tackling high school Geometry in 8th grade but trying to convince parents in this area of town who have aspirations of sending their children to Harvard is another story. Again, "A Race to Nowhere" is a documentary worth watching. <br /><br />I teach 5th grade math and social studies at a charter school with 16 and 18 students in each class. My school requires that I offer free tutoring after school at least one day a week. Even with an ideal number of students in each class, the process of trying to differentiate instruction between students who are scoring in the 98th percentile on the EOG's and those scoring in the 5th percentile on the EOG's is the most challenging thing I do on a daily basis. I can't imagine trying to teach math to a class of 30 plus students without relying on outside tutors to help reach the highest and lowest performers. On top of this, most parents have not been exposed to the Singapore math curriculum my school has adopted which is taught differently than the way most parents were taught.<br /><br />Alicia Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-81404169789407397672014-10-28T17:51:56.010-04:002014-10-28T17:51:56.010-04:00Can you imagine the outrage if Shamrock (or pick a...Can you imagine the outrage if Shamrock (or pick a LIFT school) had 40+ students in a room? Or if their lunch started at 10:10?<br />Or-heaven forward-kids sitting on the floor? <br />Welcome to suburbia-the land CMS doesn't want to acknowledge.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-67760474385836493862014-10-28T17:44:10.774-04:002014-10-28T17:44:10.774-04:00MORON
I have not had an ALGEBRA class in over 30 ...MORON<br /><br />I have not had an ALGEBRA class in over 30 years.That is why my family has to hire a tutor at $50 per hour. My daughter goes to AK where they have 30+ in the classrooms. <br /><br />This goes on constantly in schools in our area. If the class only had 15/20, then the teacher may be able to spend that extra time with her. As it is she does not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-73307253588333555942014-10-28T17:33:26.067-04:002014-10-28T17:33:26.067-04:00why are there so few same sex classes, or even sch...why are there so few same sex classes, or even schools, within CMS? I am only aware of South Charlotte Middle.<br /><br />This could have more positive results for our students than worrying about the economic status of students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-32668694733947856582014-10-28T17:22:13.165-04:002014-10-28T17:22:13.165-04:00anon 1:54 - you are right, and keep doing what you...anon 1:54 - you are right, and keep doing what you're doing. Our society needs a few responsible, interesting, respectful children to become responsible, interesting and respectful adults. The way things are going, your kids won't have much competition.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-16515992650108283962014-10-28T16:03:14.664-04:002014-10-28T16:03:14.664-04:00Here is where the arguments start to get superfici...Here is where the arguments start to get superficial. Busing for school desegregation didn't magically solve all of society's problems, so what was the point?<br /><br />1. The quality of a school can make a big difference in a child's life. As a result, it's important that as a society we provide equally high-quality opportunities for all children. However, just because it can make a large difference doesn't mean that it will make that difference for all children. That kind of expectation is unrealistic. <br /><br />2. Because of this community's tremendous growth, most CMS students have parents who did not go to school in Charlotte. <br /><br />3. Busing was not the only thing happening in the community at the time. At the same time that busing started, for example, urban renewal profoundly destabilized communities throughout the central city. Assessing the actual effects of busing requires far broader consideration. <br /><br />Pamela Grundynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-87285913002059459472014-10-28T15:47:20.134-04:002014-10-28T15:47:20.134-04:00Shamash,
you surprise me! My point is this, far to...Shamash,<br />you surprise me! My point is this, far too many people are just too plain lazy (not you) to take the time to help their own children, but yet they have plenty of energy to judge the teachers? <br /><br />Here is a novel concept, if you cannot help your child with their school work, figure it out together, teach your child practical problem solving skills, one on one. After all, isn't that what learning is all about anyway?<br /><br />That is of course, if you can pry yourself away from your facebook page long enough to do so!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-60595506669596476922014-10-28T15:33:52.590-04:002014-10-28T15:33:52.590-04:00What 3:10 said.....cannot wait to read the respons...What 3:10 said.....cannot wait to read the response to that one. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-76891166373583279192014-10-28T15:32:44.158-04:002014-10-28T15:32:44.158-04:001:54 You are absolutely correct. But, don't go...1:54 You are absolutely correct. But, don't go thinking that anything is different out in the burps. Keep doing what you're doing and raising your kids right. Just think how much better off they'll be than their peer competition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-29090857218102867982014-10-28T15:28:06.374-04:002014-10-28T15:28:06.374-04:00"Student hit by car in East Charlotte"
..."Student hit by car in East Charlotte"<br /><br />Why is a middle school student out walking when it's still relatively dark (before 7:15am)? Very unsafe.Barb S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-55361690864902319482014-10-28T15:10:49.288-04:002014-10-28T15:10:49.288-04:00If busing was successful, why then are so many low...If busing was successful, why then are so many low income parents, who are the age to have been students under busing, struggling? And why do they not know how to help their kids? Why do they not know the value of self control? If their education under busing did not provide them with a foundation for a successful life, what exactly was the point of it all?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-27437872691825374212014-10-28T14:53:10.958-04:002014-10-28T14:53:10.958-04:00to Pamela Grundy,
While I admire you for trying, y...to Pamela Grundy,<br />While I admire you for trying, you are not going to win with this group. <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-87251237159831815772014-10-28T13:54:52.024-04:002014-10-28T13:54:52.024-04:00Not sure why some folks like Ms. Grundy make this ...Not sure why some folks like Ms. Grundy make this such a complicated issue. I am tired of the weight of the education in this county put on the middle class (as usual).<br /><br />Let me make it simple, I do NOT want my children going to a school where education is on the back burner of the majority of the families there, where education is disrespected, where parents do not "know how" to get educational resources (but know how to fill out a free lunch program slip), where children don't know self control because their parent(s) doesn't know self control, where they are teaching to the lowest denominator, where a 2nd grader doesn't know how to spell their name, where children are given grandiose futures like a NFL star, where most students are a least one grade level behind in reading.<br /><br />I am TIRED of it. Tired of this weight. A low performing school is bad, because it is a reflection of all the above paragraph. <br /><br />I didn't go through college, career plan for myself, wait to have children until I found a perfect mate, not have more children then I can afford to send to college, save money for retirement before having children, make sure there is a 8 month money reserve if something happens to me or my husband before having children, send my children to a high level preschool so they are more than prepared for kindergarten, teach my children--- self control, people respect, respect of self, respect of teachers, spend 1 hour a day reading to them, limit TV watching, use a cross walk, give my children as much knowledge of the world as I have seen, always look someone in the eye-- all so they then can go to a public school to balance out the intellectual demographics and be a social experiment for a bunch of bureaucrats in their school towers. <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-90200039447986787082014-10-28T13:30:56.857-04:002014-10-28T13:30:56.857-04:00I stand by my statement. West Charlotte's staf...I stand by my statement. West Charlotte's staff was far more stable during busing than it has been since busing ended. That's not a utopian statement, it's a fact, even if you take the turmoil of the late 1990s into account. The same is true of most of today's high-poverty schools.<br /><br />As an aside, our time at Shamrock Gardens wasn't utopian either, but that didn't mean it wasn't enormously satisfying and worthwhile. I'm sorry you don't seem to feel the same way about your time at Billingsville. Pamela Grundynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-69485339793770765802014-10-28T13:11:41.176-04:002014-10-28T13:11:41.176-04:00Pamela, I agree that the 90's staffing issues ...Pamela, I agree that the 90's staffing issues at West Charlotte had nothing to do with busing. They had to do with political correctness--principal's staffing changes were encouraged by liberal white education advocates. You did state, though, that "the West Charlotte staff was far more stable (under busing) than it has been since busing ended." Busing days are often portrayed as utopian by those who still mourn the end of busing. They were not for many.1 As you say, it's all very complicated. Perhaps if both sides of the story had been accurately portrayed over the years our community would be much less divided today. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-11354493916938575632014-10-28T12:53:17.099-04:002014-10-28T12:53:17.099-04:00Vote No and vote with your feet folks. Your child ...Vote No and vote with your feet folks. Your child will be better off socially and academically by attending one to the local private schools in the area. You would be surprised at the financial aid that is available at some of those schools.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com