Wow! Hey Frank, can we give this guy a job? I nominate him to be
the next Super in AP.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> As a retired administrator for the NYC school system, I found that
the K-8
> model was preferable since the parents and teachers got to know
one another for
> a much longer time. In this situation, the students tended to
act out less
> since the principal knew each of the names of the students and had
a closer
> relationship with each of the parents. The test scores were
also much
> higher for students in grades 5-8 in a K-8 setting. Until reading
and math scores
> improve in Asbury Park, many middle class parents, especially
black middle
> class parents, will continue to send their studious children to
private
> schools. I think that a mixture of needy families along with
middle class families
> working together is what is needed to give us a well needed turn
around in
> our schools. Since the number of students in Asbury Park schools
is not that
> large, it should not be that difficult to place test prep programs
in the
> schools during the school day. In addition, students in risk of
academic failure
> should attend math and reading boot camp after school, on
Saturdays and
> during the vacation periods. If these programs can work in the
poorest schools in
> the South Bronx, they most certainly can work in Asbury Park. As
a result in
> the reading and math score improvement in the South Bronx,
students felt
> more confident and better about themselves and saw educational
success as an
> alternative to gang membership. The other thing that we did in the
South Bronx
> was to bring in successful role models of color, other than rap
stars and
> sports stars for the students to identify with and aspire to. We
brought in CEOs,
> superintendents, politicians and other successful businessmen of
color for
> the students see, hear and relate with. The message was that today
more than
> ever there are more high level job opportunities for students of
color who
> have succeeded in school. The message that we instilled upon the
students is
> that there is hope.
>
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