AYP Results Are Out--Paulding Did Not Meet

unionmom said:
I am absolutely baffled by the whole lack of books situation. WTH?
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Yep, I was highly upset when my daughter didn't have a book to study with and I went up to the school and spoke to the teacher and it was true....There was not enough books for everyone.....I remember being so upset about that....
 
unionmom said:
I am absolutely baffled by the whole lack of books situation. WTH?
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The state sets the standards and it is up to the local schools as to how to meet those standards. The teachers have made up their own curriculum and they do it without books. Cheaper that way. For several years they said there were no books that taught all of the standards. ::) My grand kid had books in the Virtual school that were terrific and they met all of the standards. Back in public school now and back to no books! :BH
 
There's simply no excuse for it. I don't care what the reasoning is, it's absolutely inexcusable. How are children supposed to do all of the needed studying and how are parents supposed to help when there are no books to go home? You can not count on the hand-outs from the teachers because, sorry to say, I have personally found a large number of errors on those very sheets. How is that helping anything? At least the textbooks have a much higher level of editing and double-checking that goes into them. Grammatical errors in questions, wrong answers in answer keys, subjective answers where there is no room subjectivity, etc. I love this county and, so far, we have been lucky with our teachers and school experience but I'm so aggravated by some of these things.
 
naturegirl said:
NJ, I don't know what the answer is, how did we manage to get a better education than these kids today?? I just can't figure it out. I do know teachers expected us to behave and be quiet. My mom wouldn't think of going to school on my behalf, it I got in trouble there I was in even bigger trouble at home. The teacher was ALWAYS right, no matter what. Well, that's what she told us anyway.
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I apologize. The headline is, "Math are of impovement in CRCT scores."

During the past school year, Assistant Superintendent for School Improvement Yvette Hill said the district broke its annual district wide strategic plan into "little chunks and focused on those little chunks."

"This year we focused on math," she said. "The year before we had very low numbers in our math."

And the payback was an overall average of 82 percent of students meeting or exceeding state standards.
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This was taken from the Paulding Neighbor dated July 14, 2011.
 
Foxmeister said:
I apologize. The headline is, "Math are of impovement in CRCT scores."

During the past school year, Assistant Superintendent for School Improvement Yvette Hill said the district broke its annual district wide strategic plan into "little chunks and focused on those little chunks."

"This year we focused on math," she said. "The year before we had very low numbers in our math."

And the payback was an overall average of 82 percent of students meeting or exceeding state standards.
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This was taken from the Paulding Neighbor dated July 14, 2011.
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I know what they said. I don't buy it do you?
 
newsjunky said:
Foxmeister said:
I apologize. The headline is, "Math are of impovement in CRCT scores."

During the past school year, Assistant Superintendent for School Improvement Yvette Hill said the district broke its annual district wide strategic plan into "little chunks and focused on those little chunks."

"This year we focused on math," she said. "The year before we had very low numbers in our math."

And the payback was an overall average of 82 percent of students meeting or exceeding state standards.
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This was taken from the Paulding Neighbor dated July 14, 2011.
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I know what they said. I don't buy it do you?
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Not at all.
 
My son is entering middle school this year. At a school meeting we were told specifically that he would not be issued any books. All books are for classroom use. They also have workbooks but those would not be leaving the classroom either. He was told he should simply have a "string" backpack for paper, pencils, etc.

In addition, we were told that all assignment details would be available on the school's website and that some of the textbook materials were also loaded on the school's website.

Of course, in this economy, I'm not sure what parent's without internet access are doing.
 
Madea said:
My son is entering middle school this year. At a school meeting we were told specifically that he would not be issued any books. All books are for classroom use. They also have workbooks but those would not be leaving the classroom either. He was told he should simply have a "string" backpack for paper, pencils, etc.

In addition, we were told that all assignment details would be available on the school's website and that some of the textbook materials were also loaded on the school's website.

Of course, in this economy, I'm not sure what parent's without internet access are doing.
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This is such BULL CRAP!!! When the district does not provide the students with text books and material to take home to study, they are only setting our children up for failure. THIS REALLY TICKS ME OFF!!!
 
Foxmeister said:
Madea said:
My son is entering middle school this year. At a school meeting we were told specifically that he would not be issued any books. All books are for classroom use. They also have workbooks but those would not be leaving the classroom either. He was told he should simply have a "string" backpack for paper, pencils, etc.

In addition, we were told that all assignment details would be available on the school's website and that some of the textbook materials were also loaded on the school's website.

Of course, in this economy, I'm not sure what parent's without internet access are doing.
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This is such BULL CRAP!!! When the district does not provide the students with text books and material to take home to study, they are only setting our children up for failure. THIS REALLY TICKS ME OFF!!!
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They need to either spit of get off the pot. Either go 100% web based materials and issue kids net tops, or give them ALL the material to take home. I've never seen anything like this. The kids need access to the material that is being taught. Not all kids can absorb all of the material in the classroom, and there is no way that a teacher or board member can guess what chapter or concept any given kid needs to study at home to keep up.
 
If the reason for no books is budget, the school system needs to get off whatever it takes to find the money to buy books.

If the reason for no books is the curriculum being taught is not support by any textbooks available ... Duh! What does that tell you????


I don't know what is going on put the more I think about it the more it pisses me off. :rant
 
It is a nightmare for some students and parents. Internet is great but if the child is going to have to rely on it or a curriculum made up by the teaches then I think the virtual school will be better for some of them. They have teachers and BOOKS!!! JMO
 
Foxmeister said:
This new math has no text book, just work books.
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Or Dittos. If the child needs a tutor there is nothing to give the tutor to help the child. The parents can't help either because there are no books and no way to know what to work on. Oh, and let's blame the parents some more when they have no way to help at home. It is no wonder we are at the bottom in Georgia. There has to be a better way. I do not blame the teachers. Most of them are as frustrated as we are.
 
newsjunky said:
Foxmeister said:
This new math has no text book, just work books.
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Or Dittos. If the child needs a tutor there is nothing to give the tutor to help the child. The parents can't help either because there are no books and no way to know what to work on. Oh, and let's blame the parents some more when they have no way to help at home. It is no wonder we are at the bottom in Georgia. There has to be a better way. I do not blame the teachers. Most of them are as frustrated as we are.
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I know I've told this story before, BUT last year (as a 5th grader) my son really needed additional help. He just wasn't "getting it" in class. Every week he brought home 4 worksheets (with NO instructions) for math homework. One week I became SO frustrated I sent in a note that stated simply that he would not have his homework completed for that week because I (who had taken advanced math in high school and calculus in college) could NOT decipher his homework.

His teacher's reply to him. Yeah, math isn't like it was when your Mom was in school. :rant

Sadly, it didn't get much better the remainder of the year. And, even sadder, now I see that my son and daughter's elementary school did NOT make AYP. :rant Thankfully, his upcoming middle school did make AYP. HOWEVER! my daughter is still there! :rant

MORE THAN THAT! I was told that there was no after school tutoring available because it wasn't in the budget! WELL how much is it going to cost since the schools didn't make AYP? It appears that schools that did not make AYP have to offer tutoring for those students!
 
I'm thinking the only reason why our BoE will not opt out of the new math curriculum is because they would have to purchase text books if they went to a traditional math curriculum. I really believe the only reason they decided to stick to this new math curriculum is because of money.
 
Foxmeister said:
I'm thinking the only reason why our BoE will not opt out of the new math curriculum is because they would have to purchase text books if they went to a traditional math curriculum. I really believe the only reason they decided to stick to this new math curriculum is because of money.
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Not that simple. The powers that make these decisions believe in this experiment. Add to that the National Standards are coming our way soon. More government interference. :rant
 
newsjunky said:
Foxmeister said:
I'm thinking the only reason why our BoE will not opt out of the new math curriculum is because they would have to purchase text books if they went to a traditional math curriculum. I really believe the only reason they decided to stick to this new math curriculum is because of money.
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Not that simple. The powers that make these decisions believe in this experiment. Add to that the National Standards are coming our way soon. More government interference. :rant
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More reason why the US Dept of Education needs to be abolished and more control over curriculum given to local districts. It was the state BoE who forced this new integrated math onto our public schools. There was nothing wrong with the traditional math program that was in place before this. Thank goodness Cox is no longer around as this was her brainchild.
 
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