Unfortunately, the sideshow, gets all the attention, until the tests
scores come out, then it appears that the board isn't doing its' job,
while the teachers who are tenured, get a "get out of jail, free",
card. If everyone, checked their egos at the door, maybe something
could be achieved. Not blaming anyone, because there is something
else, underlying all of this. Not racism, but could it be a certain
"bias", toward something...someone?
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycheech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
> <justifiedright@> wrote:
>
> > 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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