Manchester’s Livingston claims school board did not have jurisdiction over the class de-leveling decision.
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Persistence Pays Off for Timberlane Resident
Thank you Cathy Gorman for your persistence in this matter! Yes we do believe it was YOUR action that stopped this nonsense.
Timberlane Parent Talks
Girard at Large has the story of the Timberlane Schools and their refusal to comply with NH’s Right to Know Laws.
Looks like this is over another survey ( Monitoring the Future ) that hopes to influence the students’ political views.
Salacious Surveys in Bedford NOT Anonymous
Timberlane Bucks Parents’ Right to Know
More on Bedford’s Controversial Survey
Rich tackles the question of what’s appropriate and not in our public schools.
Girard at Large
Bedford Schools Have Bad Record of Notifying Parents
When it comes to controversy in the public schools, Bedford’s school district is the poster child.
Now there is increasing evidence that Bedford has had a very bad record of notifying parents about things such as the controversial sex survey recently in the news, as opposed to their attempts to notify parents about other less important item.
Sid Glassner on Opt-Out of Smarter Balance Test
Listen to Sid Glassner cover the issue of the opt-out of NECAP and Smarter Balance that a parent was denied.
More Fads, Less Learning
You can have ZERO qualifications to become a state school board member because you need only to be appointed by those you know in high places.
In fact, you can even be a FAILED school teacher to become Chairman.
Behold this pair who appeared on Girard at Large and who are promoting yet more fad learning with no data to back up the idea that it will promote college readiness or career readiness.
Listen at Girard at Large
Commentary from educational expert:
Here is what Bramante has been pushing in NH via competency based ed:
Nothing new or innovative. It’s workforce development via Competency Based Ed. that is based on the German education system and now pushed at the state and federal level via Marc Tucker.
Again, more of the workforce training vs focusing on literacy and academic excellence.
Nothing in this proposal addressed the fuzzy math program in the Manchester schools (Everyday Math) that continues to fail students in basic math. However Rich does bring up excellent points about how the basics are NEEDED first.
Shouldn’t Ms Livingston worry about what is going on INSIDE the classroom first, before they scoot them out into an internship?
This is workforce training.
SUGGESTION TO MANCHESTER RESIDENTS… get to your school board meetings!
Common Core Meeting in Hollis
Sid Glassner talks about the Common Core meeting that was recently held in Hollis, and other education issues.