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Posted: Wed Feb 25th, 2009 01:16 am |
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I'm not familiar with the case involving the school in Wilmington. Are charter school teachers in Delaware state employees, or private sector employees? By the way I didn't read through it all did your child ever get into Tech ? (I remember the fiasco you went through last year)
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| bluesman, a kangaroo court would actually be good enough for this town...and if personnel records are confidential then explain what happened at wilmington charter recently.
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SOS,
One question where is your sense of professionalism ? My wife is a fulltime educator in another school district and I substitute. We are appalled that you would choose to try and conduct some form of a kangaroo court in newszap about personnel matters that are clearly a "no public discussion" issue. No ones personnel records fall under the FOIA, and any request for those records will be denied.
You have those same rights.
Many people including my wife and I were just as appalled last year when the same type of posts were made in newszap about a teacher in another school district, who allegedly was involved in a bomb threat. The allegations and charges were later proven to be false. The damage was done which could not be undone.
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| Seaford Parent: You are correrct. One of the principals at the high school had to come to Seaford because he did not have a future in the district that he came from because of professionalism. His district will tell you he was a good teacher but if he was still in his old district, he would still be in the classroom. The district curriculum director has several bridges still on fire. Three key district directors including the superintendent are internal. If you combine principals and assistant principals: 2 at the high school, 3 at the middle school, 1 at Fred, 1 at Central, 1 at West, and 2 at Blades. It looks like in-breeding. We all know what happens with that situation.
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SOS wrote:
I have had several hours to think about the comments from "Seaford Parent". These are excellent and valid points. In my opinion, the points that I have underlined are the most important. The next crucial problem is the hiring of building administrators. So you were a good teacher, does that mean that you can provide the leadership and guidance for an entire building? We usually hire principals from nearby districts who come to Seaford with a past or they could not get a job in another district. Eithics is also an issue along with moral fiber. Cheating and avoiding the truth is acceptable.
i think you need to take a look at all the names who are currently principals in seaford. i can only think of 2 of them being from other districts, one of them i know is from out of state because he was in the paper. the rest are all in-district hires, which is a real problem! the high school one was my girls' middle school band director and eventual assistant principal at the hs for pete's sake. wish he had stayed teaching music!
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Here Here, SOS...well said. I am pretty sure that most people would agree with you.
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the longest tenured superintendent in the state, an idiot of a curriculum director who is stuck in the in the wrong decade, another curriculum director who was terrible principal to begin with, another admin who was better suited to be a jock than an administrator. they rather ignore problems than flat out deal with them, that is the point. then they want to go and blame other people for them
I have had several hours to think about the comments from "Seaford Parent". These are excellent and valid points. In my opinion, the points that I have underlined are the most important. The next crucial problem is the hiring of building administrators. So you were a good teacher, does that mean that you can provide the leadership and guidance for an entire building? We usually hire principals from nearby districts who come to Seaford with a past or they could not get a job in another district. Eithics is also an issue along with moral fiber. Cheating and avoiding the truth is acceptable.
I don't think that we have a superintendent and a secondary curriculum director in the Seaford District that can teach principals to be educational resources for their faculties. These top school leaders can "tell" but they cannot "lead or teach". In turn they have hired a corp of principals who cannot help their teachers to be better teachers.
Our district curriculum director feels that good teaching is reading the state standards to the students when everyone in the state knows that the standards are for teachers to guide their curricula. The new evaluation process (DPASII) is all organized in a nice binder from the state. There has been a lot of training, but the high school principal goes to his conferences with teachers and reads out of the binder because he does not understand the process. Yes, I agree with you. We have a big problem in the district office and with the selection of principals. Teachers usually know more about curriculum than the administrators. What do you think the tax paying residents of this community should do? I am surprised that no one has said anythng about our superintendent's new car. His old car is good enough for faculty and staff to drive as a fleet car, but in tough financial times, not good enouugh for the superintendent.
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I would like to invite all of you to attend our faculty meeting on Tuesday, February 24, in the Bluejay Cafe at the high school. The meeting starts at 2:50 p.m. Take a positive step and take action. Some key points of the agenda are: Staffing, Restructuring, and DSTP.
Mr. Brown could use your help in trying to decide what types of special activities need to be offered to the 10th grade students on the last two days of the DSTP. The school administrators have decided to dismiss the 9th, 11th, and 12th grade students for the last two days of the DSTP, since the 10th grade students are only required to take the writing test this year. We have all been asked to plan activities for the 10th grade students for those afternoons. Please call in your suggestions to the high school.
I am confused why the administration has decided to cancel classes for 9th, 11th, and 12th grade students. When the 11th grade students take the Science and Social Studies DSTP in May, we usually do not cancel classes for the rest of the school. I am confused, especially when we have seniors on life support trying to graduate, and several 9th grade students who did not make a 2.0 for the first semester.
Again, don't forget your invitation to the faculty meeting on Tuesday, February 24, at 2:50. Remember, it takes a village.
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SOS wrote:  Complaining will never change actions or behavior. The community and the school district need to ban together. I believe that everything in life comes from above. With that thought, we need to think about the leadership of our school district and the leadership of our community. Both groups have made some bad decisions. Seaford citizens are big on blaming and not so big on taking action.
When DuPont closed, all of a sudden, the citizens were blaming them for all the bad decisions that the city fathers had made. Same thing with the school district. It is about all those bad teachers. Teachers do not make the district decisions. Teachers do not bring all of their students into the world. Teachers do not hire the administration.
The teachers are doing the best that they can do with what they have to work with in their classrooms. The teachers need help. The village needs to step in and help.
When Seaford community leaders decided to go into the housing development business, the profile of the community became unbalanced. With housing developments, come individuals who do not have incomes, sometimes have never worked, have careers of living on the system, involved in crime, and single-parent homes. There are Seaford citizens who have made a lot of money off of the housing developments. One of them sits on the school board. The community did not plan for Seaford's future because they had DuPont.
The school district did not plan for the change in the student profile. A large percentage of our students come from homes where their parents cannot read or write, English is not their first language, unlawful behavior is common place, and some of our students do not even know who their fathers are. Many of our students mothers did not have proper pre-natal care and delivered low-birth weight babies. Some of our students' mothers were still taking drugs during their pregnancies. Many of our students do not live with their parents. Many of our students suffer from trauma in their homes. There are pets in Seaford that have better care than the larger percentage of our students. Many of our students get less than 4 hours of sleep per night. There are people in Seaford who have children and never had the intentions of taking care of them. Many of our students are stray children.
So why do we blame the teachers. I would like to invite the community and the administrators in our district to volunteer to teach one day for every teacher. At the high school level, we have to make adjustments for students who are hungry, suffer from some very serious illnesses, pregnant, suffer from serious emotional issues, rape victims, gun shot victims, sexual abuse victims, physical abuse victim and all kinds of disabilities in about 45 minutes. Yes, most of our classes have all of these situations in one room.
The Seaford commmunity and the Seaford School District has a serious problem. It starts at the top.
Share your ideas and take action now. If we need to replace leadership, lets do it. If you think you have a skill to offer the school, volunteer. If you attend school meetings, speak up and do not allow someone to tell you things about the school, speak your mind.Seek action. Take back the community and our schools.
The teachers are doing their best with the little support that they have available. There is no funding for professional development for the teachers. There is no money for the teachers to travel and work with other teachers in other states so that they can learn to address the issues in their classrooms. The teachers need specialize training for the students they are working with in their classrooms. Most of our students do not come from homes like ours. Most of our students have not had the same lives that we have provided for our children. We know our subject matter, but we do not know how to teach the majority of students in Seaford.
The community is sinking and along with it our school. Take action now. If we do, we can save the community and the schools. Everyone suffers. Area businesses cannot recruit quality people for quality jobs because these individuals do not want to move to Seaford. Help to put Seaford and the school district back on the map. WE were a big deal back in the day. WE can do it again, but action needs to be taken.
These words are good and true as I have seen these same changes over my years living here going to school here and sending my odler kids here. but there are plenty of other factors. seaford hasnt tried to change they let everyone else around them change but they dont try to change. that is why they have the longest tenured superintendent in the state, an idiot of a curriculum director who is stuck in the in the wrong decade, another curriculum director who was terrible principal to begin with, another admin who was better suited to be a jock than an administrator. they rather ignore problems than flat out deal with them, that is the point. then they want to go and blame other people for them.
when you have to hear at church that the majority of your friends rather would send their kids to sussex academy or even sussex tech, that tells you something. nothing is being done to fix that. if you want to be better then foster or create a better environment by being on top of everything and not tolerating the antics of those kids you mention in your passage. yeah, they need help, then send them somewhere to get it! or have someone qualified enough to deal with and not just ignore it. it is kinda sad that inner city schools in some parts of our country with the exact same kinds of kids our doing better than ours! 
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Hey there Delilah wrote: AGAIN...you moved your child, you were not forced to do so. Why are you even in this forum as Seaford Parent? If you are so happy with IR, then go to their forum and quit b**ching about Seaford---where you do not even have a child attending.
whatever, I have the right to b**ch. Id love to send my kid back to seaford but since they dont have their act together that cannot happen. it is an inconvenience you know to some degree. and actually, if you have been around, I wanted my kid to go to tech to learn a trade, like he wanted to do! but they don't take average kids there anymore. I guess you missed those posts!
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Teachers are not.
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I think you are one the individuals that I am talking about. Remember, talk is cheap.
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| Nicely stated SOS....now let's see who steps up to the plate!
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| I think you are one the individuals that I am talking about. Remember, talk is cheap.
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| Talk to us in 25 years when you get to suck up your retirement fund. Let us know how it went.
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Complaining will never change actions or behavior. The community and the school district need to ban together. I believe that everything in life comes from above. With that thought, we need to think about the leadership of our school district and the leadership of our community. Both groups have made some bad decisions. Seaford citizens are big on blaming and not so big on taking action.
When DuPont closed, all of a sudden, the citizens were blaming them for all the bad decisions that the city fathers had made. Same thing with the school district. It is about all those bad teachers. Teachers do not make the district decisions. Teachers do not bring all of their students into the world. Teachers do not hire the administration.
The teachers are doing the best that they can do with what they have to work with in their classrooms. The teachers need help. The village needs to step in and help.
When Seaford community leaders decided to go into the housing development business, the profile of the community became unbalanced. With housing developments, come individuals who do not have incomes, sometimes have never worked, have careers of living on the system, involved in crime, and single-parent homes. There are Seaford citizens who have made a lot of money off of the housing developments. One of them sits on the school board. The community did not plan for Seaford's future because they had DuPont.
The school district did not plan for the change in the student profile. A large percentage of our students come from homes where their parents cannot read or write, English is not their first language, unlawful behavior is common place, and some of our students do not even know who their fathers are. Many of our students mothers did not have proper pre-natal care and delivered low-birth weight babies. Some of our students' mothers were still taking drugs during their pregnancies. Many of our students do not live with their parents. Many of our students suffer from trauma in their homes. There are pets in Seaford that have better care than the larger percentage of our students. Many of our students get less than 4 hours of sleep per night. There are people in Seaford who have children and never had the intentions of taking care of them. Many of our students are stray children.
So why do we blame the teachers. I would like to invite the community and the administrators in our district to volunteer to teach one day for every teacher. At the high school level, we have to make adjustments for students who are hungry, suffer from some very serious illnesses, pregnant, suffer from serious emotional issues, rape victims, gun shot victims, sexual abuse victims, physical abuse victim and all kinds of disabilities in about 45 minutes. Yes, most of our classes have all of these situations in one room.
The Seaford commmunity and the Seaford School District has a serious problem. It starts at the top.
Share your ideas and take action now. If we need to replace leadership, lets do it. If you think you have a skill to offer the school, volunteer. If you attend school meetings, speak up and do not allow someone to tell you things about the school, speak your mind.Seek action. Take back the community and our schools.
The teachers are doing their best with the little support that they have available. There is no funding for professional development for the teachers. There is no money for the teachers to travel and work with other teachers in other states so that they can learn to address the issues in their classrooms. The teachers need specialize training for the students they are working with in their classrooms. Most of our students do not come from homes like ours. Most of our students have not had the same lives that we have provided for our children. We know our subject matter, but we do not know how to teach the majority of students in Seaford.
The community is sinking and along with it our school. Take action now. If we do, we can save the community and the schools. Everyone suffers. Area businesses cannot recruit quality people for quality jobs because these individuals do not want to move to Seaford. Help to put Seaford and the school district back on the map. WE were a big deal back in the day. WE can do it again, but action needs to be taken.
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| AGAIN...you moved your child, you were not forced to do so. Why are you even in this forum as Seaford Parent? If you are so happy with IR, then go to their forum and quit b**ching about Seaford---where you do not even have a child attending.
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| im complaining because i shouldnt have had to move my kid to begin with! seaford and tech forced that move for different reasons. it is a given that no respectable parent wants to send their kids to seaford middle or high with the options available. that is a shame but that is the reality and nothingis being done to change it.
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| So, if your child goes to IR, why are you still complaining about Seaford? It would seem that you made the choice to move your child, so why are you worried about it? However I do agree with you about what staff should be cut.
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@purple. i did, i sent my son to IR via choice. couldnt get him into tech but i have already whined enough about that
so here is a thought. we are probably going to hear about losing teachers in seaford thanks to the budget. why not do this, forget laying off the ones lower on the totem pole, find the idiots who are doing a bad job and cut them! screw the union they should have no defense for doing a poor job.
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| Why do you people constantly bash the high school? If it is so horrible in your eyes, send your kids elsewhere!!!
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| or why dont you go and plead with your administrators to be a little more forceful about behaviors or stop putting pressure on some teachers for things while ignoring others who waste valuable classtime give things away for free in their classes or flirt with their kids for that matter.
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Another Seaford Parent wrote: .... but what caught my eye more was the high school cheer leading outfits. Sorry but they look like porn outfits.
Torino --- If you must flood the forum as you just have, why don't you write something useful about this concern?
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| it was nice to read in the leader the article about the recent forum on education. though the topic was a little distressing a title (race is not an issue! there are white kids that are stupid or should it say act stupid too), it hit on the most important point, parent involvement! Dont bullcrap us out there parents, you are not that involved with the way things are.
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| huh? well i hope they caught that kid anyway like the one last year and i hope he gets to spend some time in jail
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no you AIN'T gonna hear about those fights. Maybe because they involved minors. (You know laws and stuff) and about the "bomb threat" they need to work harder on covering things up. You found out and by all your post you have no connections to the school.  they will have to find that leak and put some duck tape on it. watch your back they are out to get us all.
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| well with that in mind you aint gonna hear about the fights at the hs yesterday or the bomb threat today. that stuff stays hidden but those of us who are "cowards" know better what truth there is
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SeafordParent wrote: 3dogday wrote: If someone thinks that a newspaper does what an institution (school district) wants, or is at their beck and call, they either don't know how the world works or they are paranoid.
Arf.
what is that supposed to mean? at least a news paper or tv station can tell us what is going on rather than it being hidden!
SeafordParent,
I agree completely school districts and government does to a degree have control of what information gets published or broadcast. I know of specific incidents in 2 school districts that were either reported completely opposite of the facts or not reported at all.
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3dogday wrote: If someone thinks that a newspaper does what an institution (school district) wants, or is at their beck and call, they either don't know how the world works or they are paranoid.
Arf.
what is that supposed to mean? at least a news paper or tv station can tell us what is going on rather than it being hidden!
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If someone thinks that a newspaper does what an institution (school district) wants, or is at their beck and call, they either don't know how the world works or they are paranoid.
Arf.
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Doubtful. AI DuPont always gets to go on these BIG trips. They have been to many Rose Parades, Macy Parades and other BIG events.
Besides, AI is right down the road from Joe's home
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| Nice to see DE represented by DSU, U of D and AI DuPont. That's right AI DuPont, the high school band... did any of the other HS bands tryout?
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“The problem,” said Rick Wheatley “is the principals ain’t doing their job.”
i think this quote says it all.
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seaford parent please complain to the webmaster I have repeatedly. This person and all the aliases he uses is nothing more than to hijack all the forums topics.
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| don't bring your personal crap here, this is a seaford forum. if you got something to say about seaford, then say it. my kids are too out of school *thankfully) and yet I still come here a discuss problems. i pay taxes for this debacle of a school district to act stupidly (at least in their secondary schools) so i have a right to complain!
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JOHN H wrote: Why are you even in this your kids are grown or is something wrong with you?
The real question is why would a grown adult go to such efforts to use at least 20 different aliases just to subotage every forum they post in?
My wife is a full time teacher and I substitute. We as tax payers also care about the education that the young men and women of this country receive so that they can become productive members of our society.
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 Bluesman wrote: Even 7 you are misinformed. The DSTP is very similar to every other state that has been mandated to do standarized testing under the NCLB Act. . In Massachusesttes it is called MCAS, Connecticut is CCAS, New Hampshire is NHTP.
Students have been able to legally drop out of school since I went 40 years ago once they reached the age of 16.
As to why they drop out is not the governments business and would be in violation of the 4th Amendment. As for not licensing anyone who is under the age of 18 because they drop out of school is ludicrous.
Your 40% drop out rate for students in the state of Delaware is not even close to correct.
BTW: Delaware ranked 21 st in comparision to other states in the national standardized testing in 2006.
Why are you even in this your kids are grown or is something wrong with you?
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Two Cents wrote: SeafordParent wrote: whats this i hear about a fight at a basketball game thursday night? good thing it didnt end up like the one upstate i saw on the news. course, we didnt see this one on the news, way to hide it!
Probably those cheerleader's uniforms!
HAHA.... that's a good one!!!
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Posted: Sat Jan 10th, 2009 08:06 pm |
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SeafordParent wrote: whats this i hear about a fight at a basketball game thursday night? good thing it didnt end up like the one upstate i saw on the news. course, we didnt see this one on the news, way to hide it!
Probably those cheerleader's uniforms!
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Posted: Sat Jan 10th, 2009 07:17 pm |
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SeafordParent wrote: what?
They were stating that the Leader and whatever organization it is, is covering up the High School thread by putting more and more articles on the posting site.
Sounds like we've hit a nerve and possibly exposed some truth to some goings on at the school and they don't like it.
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Posted: Fri Jan 9th, 2009 10:13 pm |
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| whats this i hear about a fight at a basketball game thursday night? good thing it didnt end up like the one upstate i saw on the news. course, we didnt see this one on the news, way to hide it!
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Posted: Thu Jan 8th, 2009 10:19 pm |
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| what? Last edited on Thu Jan 8th, 2009 10:20 pm by SeafordParent
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Posted: Wed Jan 7th, 2009 11:28 pm |
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| Jou know I love how d leader chicano is posting stuff to drown this forum. who care about the other? no one is replying to it eh gringo?
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Posted: Tue Jan 6th, 2009 11:59 pm |
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true, and if you read it, you'd see that kid attended Epworth.
heres something that i do not get. people and i mean administrators get upset about us talking on here and say we should be vocal and show up and talk to them. just an fyi, i have! I was always vocal when i was a parent and showed to to many different meetings and so do other parents i talk to. But they get a little upset that their words fall on deaf ears. well folks look what it has gotten you!
Personally i hope that state takes over it would be the best thing that would happen to the high school at this point
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Posted: Thu Jan 1st, 2009 04:12 pm |
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The kid that wrote that has probably has a stable home life and great parents that know HOW to be parents!!!
It's very refreshing to know that there are kids out there that realize what is happening with the world. All to often the kids do fall into the pits that this student has spoken of.
I especially like the statement of "students expect their own parents to go and talk to the teacher"... because for some parents, "little jonny" does no wrong and is a perfect little angel, and when jonny knows he can't win, he brings in the parents.
As a teacher, I love those moments. The kids know they have failed or are failing, and they know WHY they are too, but when midterms come about and grades go home (cause most kids hide what their grades are... they know what their grades are all along, so it shouldn't be a surprise to them in the end) it's jonny crying to mommy and daddy that the TEACHER failed them... um, no, jonny, you failed yourself. I absolutely love it at conferences (when the parents show up), and they ask you about it with the kid standing right there... the kid goes pale and the parent says "oh really, you didn't tell me that part..." and then the teacher shows the gradebook and the work and the dates of the assignment and how long they had and you can just see that the student has lost and that the parent (no matter how much they do or don't like you) has to take the teachers side because the teacher has it all in their gradebook.
Anyway, this kid is right. It's a pretty accurate viewing by this student. I hear about how in colleges there are students that are "playstation/wii/xbox" majors because they only have 2 or 3 classes a day and the rest of the time they sit in their dorm rooms and play video games. Same can be said about these high schoolers. As soon as they get home, the books(if they take any home) hit the floor and the kid is on the system. I know that before I ever did anything when I got home from school, the homework had to be done, then I could enjoy the rest of my night.
Kids aren't dumb, they see the world as it is because they don't have clouded judgements. That's why it's soo interesting to talk to elementary school students. They will tell you that mommy or daddy or uncle jim was with a stranger last night in the bedroom or that they saw them smoking something that wasnt' a cigarette or that their parents were having a fight about money or whatever.. They don't know how to filter what they say and it's eye-opening what they hear and see.
I say try and get that student to write more as to what they see in the schools (in and outside the classroom) and in society, a few times a year. Just to see if and how the story changes as they get older and eventually, change buildings!!!
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Posted: Thu Jan 1st, 2009 12:03 am |
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On this new years eve i want to give some quotes from a letter i read tonight from the Star
"when my dad was my age he had a job""it was also expected that he obey his parents without questioning their authority""my generation often expects everything be handed to them on a silver platter""laziness saturates my generation with obstacles""with so many cool movies, tv shows and video games we find ourselves losing track of time therefore losing focus on more important priorities""another aspect in the battle of laziness is the idea that teenagers in my generation depend way too much on others.""I have also witnessed times when students in my grade have expected their own parents to talk to the teacher about extra credit simply because they did not take on the responsibility to complete the assigned work. Continually depending on others can cause self-destruction"
and you know what, this was written by an 8th grader! I hope a lot of kids read this at school cause i know they get this paper there and start to realize some things!
i love it when the kids show how right i am!
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Posted: Wed Dec 31st, 2008 01:12 am |
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SeafordParent wrote: ...my niece has Mr. Jeandell now and has nothing but good to say. i asked her about your comment and she said yeah most kids dont like him because he doesnt put up with their behavior. they also like mr. keaton too and mrs. sirman for German. shame whats happened to her over the past few years.
i don't think it is no one wants to teach there I think it is they keep picking some bad eggs or not holding them to high enough standards while chasing off the good teachers in the process.
and now for the good news, i just saw there are no more consequences regarding the DSTP. now are they going to keep holding our schools accountable based on it then? you just told the kids they dont have to do well on it!
I'd certainly have to agree with you niece's comment about Mr. Jeandell. He does come down hard on people who misbehave and he certainly doesn't take any crap. I also had Mr. Keeton. He was a fairly good teacher--not the best I ever had--but a good teacher. Mrs. Sirman is another tough but good teacher.
When I really think about it, it seems like the district is chasing off experienced teachers in favor of younger inexperienced teachers. They only seem to keep the idiots because they are able to be manipulated. That, and newer teachers are also at lower pay grades. Miss Malley told us a story of being offered a college teaching position and one of her reasons for turning it down was a drop in pay.
Despite my thoughts that the DSTP is stupid and has caused a drop in the quality of education, that is beyond bogus. Yay for double standards!
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Posted: Wed Dec 31st, 2008 12:03 am |
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nice to hear your opinions. I agree with most of your teacher comments. my girls had malley and cannon and I have nothing but praise for their efforts. shame they basically retired because of the bad management at the school. my girls also had AC so they missed out on math and english there thank god and they raved about Rob Perciful too. they never had Mr. Lee or Mr. Jeandell or Mr. Bleile, guess because they were not teaching AP at the time. my niece has Mr. Jeandell now and has nothing but good to say. i asked her about your comment and she said yeah most kids dont like him because he doesnt put up with their behavior. they also like mr. keaton too and mrs. sirman for German. shame whats happened to her over the past few years.
i don't think it is no one wants to teach there I think it is they keep picking some bad eggs or not holding them to high enough standards while chasing off the good teachers in the process.
and now for the good news, i just saw there are no more consequences regarding the DSTP. now are they going to keep holding our schools accountable based on it then? you just told the kids they dont have to do well on it!
Last edited on Wed Dec 31st, 2008 12:15 am by SeafordParent
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Posted: Tue Dec 30th, 2008 02:50 am |
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Oh, I definitely agree most of the kids don't care. Personally, I think that's part of their upbringing. From the time I was very young, I knew I would be going to college and therefore needed to get good grades and pay attention and school.
And now for the dirt...
I'm sad to say that the two best teachers I ever had at Seaford are now retired. Those two would be Miss Malley and Mr. Cannon. Both were rough and both would kick you in the butt but you learned a heck of a lot.
The worst teacher I ever had at Seaford was Mr. Dunaway (he replaced Mrs. Cofield for a year) who was a complete and utter idiot. Other bad teachers (including some that have good reps)? Mr. Lee wasn't my favorite... he played favorites, especially since his son was in my class. Though I never had most of them (I was an academic challenge kid), considering my experiences in both in Physics and Calculus, most of the math teachers are subpar. We covered half of the material we were slated to cover because my fellow students' math skills required massive amounts of review. Mr. Bleile--though a very nice guy--sucked as a human behavior teacher. I learned next to nothing.
Mr. Perciful is an excellent, excellent teacher. His class really helped me prepare for a college style class room. Mr. Halter was also a good teacher. He was good at breaking complicated concepts down into simpler terms. Despite the number of students who dislike him, I found Mr. Jeandell to be a good teacher. I had two classes with him and learned a great deal in both.
I got lucky. I missed a lot of the idiots they've been hiring lately. Nobody wants to teach at Seaford anymore.
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Posted: Mon Dec 29th, 2008 11:57 pm |
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gladtogetaway wrote: I was fortunate in my experience at Seaford High School. I was a top student and therefore had a lot of attention from the staff at Seaford. This also meant I got to take classes from the good teachers (some of who are good teachers despite their reputations). I honestly feel sorry for the middle 50% of the student population. They get ignored. They pass with C's and D's and most of them are capable of more. They leave with no real college prospects. At least if you're in the bottom end of the totem pole, you get attention.
please, who is inept and who paid attention to you? it is best to name names, they read this stuff over there you know!
frankly i cannot say much for your middle 50%. they get ignored? probably because most of them are satisfied being in the middle. it is not up to the adults to overly promote college prospects, that is what they do already. those kids got to figure it out too! my daughters who graduated and nieces and nephews still there can tell you from their observations that most of their peers just do not give a d**n! when they get to deltech they finally figure it out, which is sad! one should go into 9th grade knowing what they want to do. maybe we should be focusing more on getting them when they are younger like in middle school?
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