Can you show me the data proving these new schools have been working in Milwaukee?
So far, every school that has been broken up into "small" schools has gone from very bad to worse.
Each floor is its own school, and at at least one of those schools, each floor turns into its own gang...that fight each other on a regular basis.
This is liberalism at its worst. Some "intellectuals" get a study that says this is the best way to teach inner city kids (and in 5 years it will be something different) and they run with it. They don't care that it has been failing for years now, and that many of these kids eventually come back to the "big" high schools having gone backwards in their academic achievement.
I have taught these kids, I see it first hand.
And they are going back to "big" schools that get beat up more and more every year by budget cuts...
Well, at least for now it seems that MPS will continue the flavor of the day in education...and the flavor is failure...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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AWFUL Andy has to promote the new trend in education, the concept of small high schools improve education. What a crock!! These ideas have taken traditional MPS high schools and turned them into really crumbling programs. What needs to be done never even gets a chance to be mentioned.
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Luckily for me (and not for you), they're trying all this "new fangled crap" in your district and not mine. Parents in my district still have limited power. Of course, every meeting there's a new graduate student with good ideas (that essentially take decisions from the parents and give it to the administrators. We fight it as good parents should - all the while being portrayed as "anti-educational" (can you say John Dewey?).
But I'm real curious, because the system is broke, and I would think experimentation would be a good thing, - do they (the dreaded "they"), refuse to ask & implement the opinion of the teachers? After all, you're the people closest to the problems?
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