Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
Correct. The real goal was never to fix "failing schools." It was to franchise education for a certain population and make more money for a precious few. >From lockstep scripted curricula without the arts, sciences etc. to the loss of school nurses. The new Common Core Standards are a glaring example. Instead of a High-stake test for each state, Pearson can now make one blanket test for everyone, with Pearson the required Pearson Test prep materials which must be purchased. Now children can be put into categories more easily. Someone in Denver can know my students are a "1", or a "3" without ever having met them, knowing what they can do, how they think, etc. Of course not all children will have go to through this. Children of the well-off will not have to experience this nor their teachers. Only working-class children and poor children of color. If you connect the dots between who owns Pearson, CTB McGraw-Hill you will find the usual suspects from the Wall St. bailouts behind them. From: Glenn moyer Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:05:02 -0500 To: Alex de Soto Cc: UnivCity listserv Subject: Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open The real goal of "education reform" comes through in the latest Chicago example, but citizens need to pay attention! If one looks at the shenanigans closely, the school board was not aware that some of the schools being closed had made tremendous strides in raising student scores, even with the fraudulent evaluations used against them. They were also not aware that principals and pedagogy had been changed just last year and often yearly for ten years. This is extremely important! While the very involved parents and students know that sabotaging and then closing their public schools has long been the goal, the board is armed with FRAUDULENT data! It's another important example of the real goal, like the evaluation that was exposed in the phillycom article I posted a few days ago (the good teacher got a failing grade for "group activities" even though the principal knew she was good at this). These evaluation packages make a tiny group of education "experts" millions of dollars! The simplistic measurement instruments are pushed as valid and reliable at a bargain price for the businesses running school boards. But they give arbitrary and failing grades to any schools or teachers, and the entire system is pushed to adopt strategies to beat the scheme behind the test, while the morale of good teachers is destroyed. Invalid and unreliable measurements are no better than evaluating teachers by the color of their shoes and maybe worse! The university based reformers funnel the data crunching contracts to their private companies and that's where the reformers make their millions! Of course the victims in poor and working class neighborhoods know beyond any doubt, THAT THIS FRAUD WAS NEVER INTENDED TO IMPROVE SCHOOLS. It was always about building a disingenuous case, while simultaneously de-funding schools one library and one music program at a time! I saw the identical process close-up in behavioral health care. They are closing down all those programs too, while the stocks in private prisons skyrocket! Glenn PS: I saw about a year ago, Detroit raised its class size to 60 pupils, in poor neighborhoods of course. On 2/24/2012 9:22 PM, wil.p...@comcast.net wrote: > Chicago is where the President Obama's Race to the Top was born as a kind of > a joke between then Sen. Obama and Arne Duncan. Chicago nearly as much as New > Orleans sees the terrible effects of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. > > Ironically, Paul Vallas, from Chicago destroyed the Post-Katrina New Orleans > School District under the auspices of Arne Duncan. "The best thing that ever > happened to the New Orleans Schools was Hurricane Katrina." > > If people really care to they can do a search and verify this. > > Sent from Xfinity Mobile App > > - Original Message - > From: glen...@earthlink.net > To: wil.p...@comcast.net > Cc: UnivCity@list.purple.com > Sent:Sat Feb 25 01:34:32 UTC 2012 > Subject: Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open > Wilma, > > Have you seen the latest from Chicago? > > > > http://www.suntimes.com/news/10815524-418/board-of-education-oks-shake-ups-for > -17-schools.html > > > Our brothers and sisters from Occupy Chicago are standing in solidarity with > students, parents, and teachers. Knowing Chicago's history, this might be the > first place where teachers and parents are tazed and pepper sprayed in large > numbers. > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw4PgOeRuLg&feature=related > > > Chicago recently implemented the same "permit rules"
Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
The real goal of "education reform" comes through in the latest Chicago example, but citizens need to pay attention! If one looks at the shenanigans closely, the school board was not aware that some of the schools being closed had made tremendous strides in raising student scores, even with the fraudulent evaluations used against them. They were also not aware that principals and pedagogy had been changed just last year and often yearly for ten years. This is extremely important! While the very involved parents and students know that sabotaging and then closing their public schools has long been the goal, the board is armed with FRAUDULENT data! It's another important example of the real goal, like the evaluation that was exposed in the phillycom article I posted a few days ago (the good teacher got a failing grade for "group activities" even though the principal knew she was good at this). These evaluation packages make a tiny group of education "experts" millions of dollars! The simplistic measurement instruments are pushed as valid and reliable at a bargain price for the businesses running school boards. But they give arbitrary and failing grades to any schools or teachers, and the entire system is pushed to adopt strategies to beat the scheme behind the test, while the morale of good teachers is destroyed. Invalid and unreliable measurements are no better than evaluating teachers by the color of their shoes and maybe worse! The university based reformers funnel the data crunching contracts to their private companies and that's where the reformers make their millions! Of course the victims in poor and working class neighborhoods know beyond any doubt, THAT THIS FRAUD WAS NEVER INTENDED TO IMPROVE SCHOOLS. It was always about building a disingenuous case, while simultaneously de-funding schools one library and one music program at a time! I saw the identical process close-up in behavioral health care. They are closing down all those programs too, while the stocks in private prisons skyrocket! Glenn PS: I saw about a year ago, Detroit raised its class size to 60 pupils, in poor neighborhoods of course. On 2/24/2012 9:22 PM, wil.p...@comcast.net wrote: Chicago is where the President Obama's Race to the Top was born as a kind of a joke between then Sen. Obama and Arne Duncan. Chicago nearly as much as New Orleans sees the terrible effects of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. Ironically, Paul Vallas, from Chicago destroyed the Post-Katrina New Orleans School District under the auspices of Arne Duncan. "The best thing that ever happened to the New Orleans Schools was Hurricane Katrina." If people really care to they can do a search and verify this. Sent from Xfinity Mobile App - Original Message - From: glen...@earthlink.net To: wil.p...@comcast.net Cc: UnivCity@list.purple.com Sent:Sat Feb 25 01:34:32 UTC 2012 Subject: Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open Wilma, Have you seen the latest from Chicago? http://www.suntimes.com/news/10815524-418/board-of-education-oks-shake-ups-for-17-schools.html Our brothers and sisters from Occupy Chicago are standing in solidarity with students, parents, and teachers. Knowing Chicago's history, this might be the first place where teachers and parents are tazed and pepper sprayed in large numbers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw4PgOeRuLg&feature=related Chicago recently implemented the same "permit rules" as our very own Parks and Recreation. Isn't that a strange "coincidence?" Peace and solidarity, Glenn On 2/24/2012 6:20 PM, Wilma de Soto wrote: I for one am VERY happy about this. Unfortunately those parents and children who do NOT have the money and the clout behind them will lose their neighborhood schools and be herded into corporate charter schools IF they would have them. They will also be "counseled out" and have decreasing choices for their education if charters do not keep them. The attrition rate for African-American students, particularly males, is quite high for corporate charter franchises. Segregated, (mainly charter schools), have increased at a rate not seen since BEFORE the Civil Rights Movement. The remaining public schools are rundown, neglected from the siphoning of public funds to corporate charters. Thankfully, Parochial School children have averted this fate because the right people support them. I just wish it could be so for public school poor children of color. From: mailto:craigso...@aol.com>> Reply-To: mailto:craigso...@aol.com>> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:07:15 -0500 (EST) To: "krf...@aol.com <mailto:krf...@aol.com>" mailto:krf...@aol.com>>, UnivCity listserv mailto:UnivCity@list.purple.com>> Subject: R
Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
Chicago is where the President Obama's Race to the Top was born as a kind of a joke between then Sen. Obama and Arne Duncan. Chicago nearly as much as New Orleans sees the terrible effects of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top.Ironically, Paul Vallas, from Chicago destroyed the Post-Katrina New Orleans School District under the auspices of Arne Duncan. "The best thing that ever happened to the New Orleans Schools was Hurricane Katrina."If people really care to they can do a search and verify this.Sent from Xfinity Mobile App
Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
The West Philadelphia Coalition for Neighborhood Schools is one of my heroes.The rub is people of color have been dazzled by promises for charter schools which has been aided and abetted by politicians, the media, Hollywood, hedge fund managers, corporations and relying upon fomenting disrespect for teachers. To date there has been no evidence to support that charter schools outpace public schools. Some are successful, many are the same, a great deal are worse, yet the public perception is otherwise; unless you speak to current and former charter students and parents. They now realize the hype has had a pernicious effect with the de facto re-segregation of schools and demanding obedience and regimentation instead of a broad comprehensive curriculum.Parents who resist the rhetoric and fight to maintain quality public schools have my utmost respect.Sent from Xfinity Mobile App
Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
Wilma, Have you seen the latest from Chicago? http://www.suntimes.com/news/10815524-418/board-of-education-oks-shake-ups-for-17-schools.html Our brothers and sisters from Occupy Chicago are standing in solidarity with students, parents, and teachers. Knowing Chicago's history, this might be the first place where teachers and parents are tazed and pepper sprayed in large numbers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw4PgOeRuLg&feature=related Chicago recently implemented the same "permit rules" as our very own Parks and Recreation. Isn't that a strange "coincidence?" Peace and solidarity, Glenn On 2/24/2012 6:20 PM, Wilma de Soto wrote: I for one am VERY happy about this. Unfortunately those parents and children who do NOT have the money and the clout behind them will lose their neighborhood schools and be herded into corporate charter schools IF they would have them. They will also be "counseled out" and have decreasing choices for their education if charters do not keep them. The attrition rate for African-American students, particularly males, is quite high for corporate charter franchises. Segregated, (mainly charter schools), have increased at a rate not seen since BEFORE the Civil Rights Movement. The remaining public schools are rundown, neglected from the siphoning of public funds to corporate charters. Thankfully, Parochial School children have averted this fate because the right people support them. I just wish it could be so for public school poor children of color. From: mailto:craigso...@aol.com>> Reply-To: mailto:craigso...@aol.com>> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:07:15 -0500 (EST) To: "krf...@aol.com <mailto:krf...@aol.com>" <mailto:krf...@aol.com>>, UnivCity listserv <mailto:UnivCity@list.purple.com>> Subject: Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open Also just announced on WPHT 1210 5:00 PM news, based on strong alumni support. I was with Fr Marrone Wed nite; he was anxious for an answer. His hard work and that of many others has been rewarded, but the stewardship will have to be continuous. Craig _ In a message dated 2/24/2012 4:41:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, krf...@aol.com <mailto:krf...@aol.com> writes: Click here: All four Catholic high schools saved <http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/school_files/Archdiocese-HS-news-coming-later-today.html> No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.927 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/4229 - Release Date: 02/24/12 02:34:00
Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
In a message dated 2/24/2012 6:20:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, wil.p...@comcast.net writes: I just wish it could be so for public school poor children of color. I suspect that parents who send their children to parochial or other fee-based school are, for any slice of the population you care to choose, more interested in and supportive of their childrens' educations than their counterparts whose kids go to public school. And the more so as you descend the socio-economic ladder. Certainly it's true that, at some point the parents couldn't afford the fee-based school, so exclude these people from the above point ... or we'll find ourselves debating the question of motivation to apply for admission to then provide the parental guidance needed to succeed in charter schools (which, come to think of it, we already are). So let's not blame the schools (as bad as they are) without recognizing that parents' roles are probably more important that teachers'. The parents' efforts to improve the Lea School is a good example of what can be done. It's obviously not at the level of Penn Alexander yet, but it seems to be a lot closer than it was a few years ago, and getting closer all the time. Al Krigman
Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
I for one am VERY happy about this. Unfortunately those parents and children who do NOT have the money and the clout behind them will lose their neighborhood schools and be herded into corporate charter schools IF they would have them. They will also be "counseled out" and have decreasing choices for their education if charters do not keep them. The attrition rate for African-American students, particularly males, is quite high for corporate charter franchises. Segregated, (mainly charter schools), have increased at a rate not seen since BEFORE the Civil Rights Movement. The remaining public schools are rundown, neglected from the siphoning of public funds to corporate charters. Thankfully, Parochial School children have averted this fate because the right people support them. I just wish it could be so for public school poor children of color. From: Reply-To: Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:07:15 -0500 (EST) To: "krf...@aol.com" , UnivCity listserv Subject: Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open Also just announced on WPHT 1210 5:00 PM news, based on strong alumni support. I was with Fr Marrone Wed nite; he was anxious for an answer. His hard work and that of many others has been rewarded, but the stewardship will have to be continuous. Craig _ In a message dated 2/24/2012 4:41:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, krf...@aol.com writes: > > Click here: All four Catholic high schools saved > <http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/school_files/Archdiocese-HS-news-coming-la > ter-today.html>
Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
Also just announced on WPHT 1210 5:00 PM news, based on strong alumni support. I was with Fr Marrone Wed nite; he was anxious for an answer. His hard work and that of many others has been rewarded, but the stewardship will have to be continuous. Craig _ In a message dated 2/24/2012 4:41:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, krf...@aol.com writes: _Click here: All four Catholic high schools saved_ (http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/school_files/Archdiocese-HS-news-coming-later-today.html)
[UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
_Click here: All four Catholic high schools saved_ (http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/school_files/Archdiocese-HS-news-coming-later-today.html)
