--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycheech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
> <justifiedright@> wrote:
>
> >
I think this Hopsin guy will see just that, the entire Board is for
the kids. He seems like a guy with a short fuse. Type A, an easy guy
to set off.
This Board of Education sounds like a bad episode of MTV's "The Real
> > World," where teenagers sit around yelling at one
another: "You're a
> > racist!" "No, you're a racist!" "No No, you're a homophobe!"
>
> Funny, Tom, but you were the first to use those labels in this
> discussion. I know that seems hard to believe, but check the paper
> trail. Since you're at least a generation younger than I, you
> compared it to something on MTV, while I had said it was a bad soap
> opera. To put it in perspective, however, I spent almost thirty
years
> dodging the slings and arrows of the Middletown Board of Ed. There
> was an upper middle class community, monolithic to say the least,
and
> when they fought publicly amoung themselves, it makes whatever
> disagreements we have had, even here, seem like a genteel tea party
by
> comparison. There is no correlation between infighting and test
scores.
> There have been comments here about Jersey City and its
possible
> emergence from state control. Back in 2004, and Mrs. Ross could
> confirm this, the Asbury Park Board of Education bought the very
same
> Math program with all of its bells and whistles that had succeeded
in
> Jersey City. It was put in place in the 3rd grade, and has advanced
> every year. Being an old Math teacher, I was skeptical about the
new
> approach but voted along with my colleagues to approve it, feeling
we
> needed to do whatever we could, and at whatever expense, to raise
> learning levels. The administrators keep telling us that the Math
> program is beginning to show the same success as in Jersey City (my
> hometown). That remains to be seen. But the fact is that even
though
> the board at the time and continuing to this day has sparred
> constantly and often bitterly, when we are confronted with a vote
for
> a program that the administrators believe will improve learning and
> teaching, we have never to my knowledge declined to approve it. So
> the infighting, disgusting as it is, is a sideshow.
> Frank
>
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