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Thursday, February 24, 2011

It's A Done Deal!

http://www.acps.k12.va.us/board/meetings/2010-2011/20110224sbx.pdf


This is the link to the document, from which Jim Loomis will speak at tonight's school board meeting.  Whether you agree with the outcome or not is not the point.  This demonstrates that anything can be railroaded through.  ACPS is truly a third world (I know, not politically correct) school district.  This would never be the protocol in Arlington or Fairfax.

This attachment from the school board page of the acps website reveals that the issues concerning the extended school year and the extended school day have already been decided.  What's worse, the unrepresentative EAA is the entity that (with Mort Sherman) decided it.  I have already submitted my letter stating my desire to leave the Association.

What is clear, is that Alexandria is place where those with private agendas may experiment, tinker, corrupt and create without fear of oversight or accountability.  Muaaaahhhhahhhh, let the consultant creations LIVE ON!!!!

10 comments:

  1. I can't understand why the local media is not jumping on this?? Where is VDOE department of accountability??? has anyone mass mailed them yet????? AUGH....MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP!

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  2. I know my perspective may not be appreciated, but I believe it was a done deal as originally proposed by Sherman, and so I actually think EAA did the best they could. Countering anything is progress. Remember that our snow survey was used to demonstrate "approval for adding 30 minutes" in general, rather than simply approval for utilizing adding time per day versus at the end of the year when we have a lot of snow days.
    So, with the manipulation that you have addressed here, beyond the snow survey, I do think the tweaking EAA did is great. 1 hour a week for 21 weeks, versus 2 and 1/2 for 40 is improvement, when initially we all knew it was a done deal. The pay is better as well. The Superintendent and School Board were bound and determined to add the time supposedly due to TC's transformation requirement.
    I do wonder how TC was on that list, when the other schools that are on it that I am aware of, had pass rates in the single digits or way below 50% in math and English. I do think we need to investigate the reasons for creating 5 middle schools, applying for Title 1 monies, and TC's transformation..all probably geared to show AYP improvement. Who initiated TC's labeling of low performing school?

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  3. I believe it was Mort Sherman himself who initiated the PLA label. There was government money to be had. Traditionally only the schools in the city with the neediest kids- elementary schools- were labeled Title I to be sure the funding went where it was needed most. Sherman found yet another way to aggrandize himself.

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  4. The real crime here is that all of the "meetings and community outreach" to talk about and listen to concerns where merely dog and pony shows, so that Dr. Sherman looks like the concerned community member he ISN'T. His total arrogance and control of the board made this a dead issue from its inception. He has only acted concerned because parents pushed back but he never had any intention of backing away from his heart's desire regardless of community opinion. Alexandria needs to wake up and call for a replacement of the Board because, in all of this, they are the ones who should have been working for the greater good and didn't. It is a shameful example of corruption, disinterest, lack of education and spinelessness on all of their parts.
    What idiots we are for believing in a process that does not exist!

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  5. Another question: Whatever happened to the principal at Minnie Howard who insisted that the Registrar to change all those grades and then tried to frame her for it? Apparently she and the TC principal told teachers that, should parents notice the I's were back to F's again, they should tell them it was "a computer glitch". Do two wrongs now make a right, or is this going under the ACPS rug too?

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  6. What? Are administrators giving fake grades?

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  7. Isn't that illegal?

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  8. Get some T.C. teachers to confirm this, better yet, find it in writing and post it here or send it to the state.

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  9. What is ACPS teaching out students? It isn't responsibility. What will happen to them when they enter the real world?

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  10. One thing they are teaching our students is if you don't like the results of an election, vote again until you get the answer you want. That will help them in the real world only if they move to Florida.

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