tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post7074019598932007425..comments2024-03-24T11:39:28.574-04:00Comments on NYC Public School Parents: "Revolutionary" changes to alternative schools?Patrick Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631038958645725010noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-85920300073967592482007-05-29T22:25:00.000-04:002007-05-29T22:25:00.000-04:00Klein and Walcott identify a failing program and a...Klein and Walcott identify a failing program and announce that closing it down is "revolutionary". Instead of doing some checking to find out these guys created the program in the first place, the Sun just runs their story verbatim. If that's what passes for journalism, perhaps a more concerted effort is needed to provide a factual record of what's happening in the schools under the Bloomberg administration.Patrick Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10631038958645725010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-90138420574269965552007-05-29T19:34:00.000-04:002007-05-29T19:34:00.000-04:00Thanks for the "SOS Scandal" to come reference. Wh...Thanks for the "SOS Scandal" to come reference. When are we going to see the expose.Jeff Kaufmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728874415155394751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-43317655604367650322007-05-29T18:48:00.000-04:002007-05-29T18:48:00.000-04:00That should be "ratio," not "ration."That should be "ratio," not "ration."NYC Educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12188066345722781723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-71576223703101450932007-05-29T18:47:00.000-04:002007-05-29T18:47:00.000-04:00I had one kid who was sent to one of these last-ch...I had one kid who was sent to one of these last-chance-style facilities. Now I can't say for certain it was New Beginnings, but she came to visit me on a parent-teacher night and seemed to be doing much better than she had been previously. But she's the only one I ever saw.<BR/><BR/>While these schools may not have worked, we could really use a good program to reach out to kids like her. I've been getting scores of kids from Korea who live in this sort of church-home arrangement. While the parents value an American education, they sorely underestimate the effect of direct parental supervision (or lack thereof). They pay these churches to supervise their kids, and they certainly aren't getting their money's worth.<BR/><BR/>The New Beginnings idea strikes me as potentially good. However, the NYC MO is to create a new school, lose everyone and anyone who had any stake in its mission, and let absolutely anyone run these schools.<BR/><BR/>If you're gonna target these kids, you have to be prepared to dig a little deeper than their previous teachers did. Guidance counselors at most schools are so preposterously overworked they may not even know who these kids are.<BR/><BR/>You'd need a much, much lower ration with these kids, reflecting dollars that always come way more first than children first ever could.NYC Educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12188066345722781723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-83149584802629226712007-05-29T18:18:00.000-04:002007-05-29T18:18:00.000-04:00Yes, they uproot the changes that they themselves ...Yes, they uproot the changes that they themselves instituted -- and each time, it's even more brilliant than before. <BR/><BR/>There always seem to be (magical) cost-savings too -- by eliminating the structures that they themselves put into place.Leonie Haimsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17317355552298136811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-75981407058955065442007-05-29T17:38:00.000-04:002007-05-29T17:38:00.000-04:00What a great parody I could write on this, I thoug...What a great parody I could write on this, I thought! I would really exaggerate and write that the DOE came up with a "revolutionary" change that got rid of the entire system of centralized regions. Then it would turn out that it was the DOE that instituted the very system they replaced. But then I realized: That's what actually happened! Maybe the DOE should just write their own parodies directly to the blog and save Jan and me the trouble.Gary Babadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02081430777224237696noreply@blogger.com