Wow, something I can finally speak about without asking questions first! Last June my son graduated from the International Baccalaureate (IB) program at Southwest High School. This fall he is enrolled at a Midwest university. When I called him one day to see how things were going he said that school was easy. He could not understand how kids at his college could get C's and D's on stuff that was so easy. Need I say anymore about the education he received in high school?
I have daughter who is a Junior at Southwest this year. She is not in the IB but in the Arts & Humanities (A&H) program. She is taking Advanced Placement (AP) English. At conferences this fall her English teacher stated that he had 40 kids in 3 sections of AP English. He did not have time to make the class as challenging as he would like. I found this to be very disappointing. However, let me say that I do know Dr. Smith, the principal at Southwest and I am always impressed with how he and his staff care for and challenge students. What I find interesting is that he has had to become a salesman for the school traveling around to middle and K-8 schools trying to convince students to apply to the IB or to attend their attendance district school. That is enough. Rick Kuhlmann Hale-Page-Diamond Lake (HPDL) Oh! And Liz, or anyone, can you tell me why the MPRB meeting from last week is not on webcast? Liz Wielinski wrote: The statement in this story that bothered me was that a teacher was not going to be assigning a specific type of assignment because evaluating 37+ of them would be too time consuming. Great... so now our kids aren't going to get the more challenging thought provoking assignments because there are too many of them in a class. Can't say more because that type of language will get me kicked off the list. Liz Wielinski Columbia Park REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@mnforum.org Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
