Sudokuaholics Anonymous 2

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Back to the schools...yes, money, spotlight, a selected population,parental invovement all lead to a better education... Give the public schools the right to discipline, parental involvement, the option of getting rid of troublemakers,and proper funding...you'd have today's charter/privte schools...yet All children need and should have an education....parents need to be parents, expect children to learn and progress and question if they don't, teachers should teach Principals should lead, and children should be fed, rested and ready to learn...and I must be in the middle of a dream...this is not today...yet we do need answers.... I just don't have any!

Julie, I think there is a lottery. But so many have pooped up after the success of the first few, that I would imagine that you could get into one of them. The parents in the city, when interviewed on tv, seem to like the small classes, the discipline and the uniforms the kids wear. There is alot of competition re clothes and some kids have gotten hurt(physically) over it.

Hello, all. Quite a crowd tonight.

In Ohio, charter schools are privately run with taxpayer dollars. Anyone who wants to go to a charter school has to apply for a voucher from the state then apply to the school. They have to meet the same criteria as the public schools.

Mama, you must have been a teacher!?

I really do not understand public school either, so different from when my girls were in school. Neighbors child was having a bad time with spelling, so, they took her OUT of spelling class. I had a teacher try to explain that to me, but cold not understand at all.

yesterday, I couldn't post for ages. It seemed like I just dropped out of the convo but I was desperately trying to post to defend my honour!

Hi, Ruby! How are you doing?

Hi Ruby.

didn't notice - was your honor at stake?

Sure, Gail, sure.

Hi Becky and Ruby! Convo going so quickly that I didn't see you there. Sorry!

sorry ladies, lost the net , but back now

What do you think? she dissapears for hours and returns with 4 good looking young men, should we worry about Gail's honor?

The thing I find the most annoying about ed. is that a lot of focus is put on high achievers but the slightly slower or less interested kids get lost in the system.

Hi Stella.

Just lost that post . Don't start talking about it again if I can't get back!!!

Becky why would you say that I must have been a teacher?

Mama hasn't answered if she was a teacher. I will admit to being a retired teacher. I was in teaching long enough to see specialized programs come and go and come back again. The young teachers would start telling me how wonderful this new approach to teaching whatever subject, and I would tell them we had already done it that way before. What I found was best was to take what worked from each program that came through and use a hybrid approach - the best of the best. Since I worked often with children with learning disabilities, I felt one of the most important things I could do was to help them find out how they each learned best themselves and reinforce that approach.

This net thingy's got me baffled.

The rain is unlikely filling up the Dam... usually doens't fall in the catchment area
I think we need constant rain for about 10 weeks ( in the catchment area) to get any run off, into the Dams

Hi every body..so good to see you all.

That's when we should whisper and teehee.

ROFLOL, Gail is trying it again. 'can't get on to defend myself' might have worked once, but try it again?? come on girl, you can be more creative than that!!

Becky, the charter schools here are probably the same. I know that when they were trying to pass the school budgets a few weeks ago, the Albany district had to include all of the charter schools in their budget and it ended up not passing. My niece teaches in a charter school but I don't know alot about them really. She is not going back next year because the administration was so bad.

still pouring hasnt let up in the last 1/2 hour

Mama, I wondered if you had been a teacher because you see so clearly how the school population make-up, the family involvement, the preparedness of teachers AND students, the principal ALL have an influence on how children learn.

Mamacita, Julie is the one that said she thought you had been a teacher. I was for about 9 years and got tired of the politics, etc.

I'm sure some of the regulars and irregulars who post on Easy wouldn't expect to find a serious convo going on here.

I taught school for thirty years, too, Julie. If I get into this discussion, I'll write a book.

Hello Becky and Ruby

and hello Gail

Becky, I know what you mean about the politics! Hubby (also a retired teacher) and I kept each other's spirits up. We learned to fly low - under the radar - and do what we had to do to really teach our students.

Talked to several teachers who are at charter schools. They have the same problems as the public ones, but they are more noticible to the employees.

Ladies, it is now offically my bedtime, and i shall honor it tonight. Feel free to talk abut me when I am gone, but I will be reading again in the morning heheheh.

Hugs and good maeN to all!

When my son was young I became very involved at the school. Went on commitees etc. Was shown the many curriculum changes along the way. Every new govt knew better than the last, you know the retoric. Anyway, what the changes seemed to fail to address was the children! It still boils down to whether the teacher is good enough to make the kids WANT to learn.

Charter School ??

Another retired teacher then, Ruby!? Good for you! Most of our friends now comment on how good and relaxed we look NOW.

Julie, I too am a retiretire teacher....just wanted to know why Becky said that...I was a teacher of special needs children, and saw the same love of every trend to hit the mind-set, and saw the babies thrown out with the dirty water. Never mind what worked-----this is the way to teach or else..... I was at the stage of frustration, mine and the children's when I became ill and hd to retire.