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Resident May 17, 2013 at 06:07 pm
Please note - the core curriculum is a state mandate this report card style is not part of the…Read More mandate. Please visit corestandards.org. There are very few towns that use this report card in middle school. There are none in our region. If you ask the Connecticut State Board of Education they will tell you there is no research available on how many schools are using this, and will tell you that Standard based report cards are not part of the mandate. This report style has major problems in my opinion. After reading 86 lines ( my child is in 4h grade) I still need to call the teacher and ask how is she doing. There is no definition of what equals a 2 or a 3. If a child gets100% on a math test is that a 3 or a 4? Who formulated the report card.....how did some standards get on the report card and others did not? What happens in 5th grade with over 100 core standards.....What is the plan of action if at the end of the year your child has a 2 on more than 4 areas of math or in English? Our kids are less motivated to do homework because it no longer counts on their grade. Many schools had this "theory" based report card and now have changed it back. There have been major problems with the implementation of this in our town. First, parents were told this was part of core, which it is not, there is no record of the BOE discussing this report card in the last 2 years of minutes. We have mixed messages on grading from administration to the teachers - especially on the first report card. Overall- this system is terrible and a bad choice by our administration.
save our schools May 17, 2013 at 01:02 pm
I am a parent of a recent Hale Ray graduate and have a student currently in the school system. My…Read More children are five years apart and it is down right scary to realize how much our school systems quality and rigor has been degraded in recent years. These changes are the direct result of the ill guided Board of Education. Recently I have heard that our high school will soon be becoming a vocational school and will not be accredited . This maybe a rumor but the current path we are on certainly supports the rumor. The loss of accreditation will mean that the diploma our children earn upon graduation will not be accepted by higher education institutions.
The mantra of doing less with more is destroying our community. Our children are being robbed of a successful future because of their penny wise pound poor management. We must demand change and accountability from our Board of Education!
Alicia Arena Dargenio May 17, 2013 at 10:29 am
For the 2012 -2013 school year, I would give it a 1= emerging. The SBRC is an improvement but…Read More flawed. On the positive, it separates academic behaviours from academic achievement. The problem is it needs an intepreter to understand until the final report card. It's only until the school year ends that a student has "made the grade" for each assessed subject. Of course by that time, what can a student do about it. A "4" assessment in academic behaviours each marking period doesn't guarantee they learned the material. The SBRC doesn't efficiently summarize each subject and stipulate a G.P.A. Currently, the SBRC doesn't correlate to all school districts. Colleges still use G.P.A. scores to filter applicants so in which "pile" would a high school graduate end up. These issues need to be addressed before the SBRC gets a "3" = meets standard from me.
Roy Downey May 12, 2013 at 07:32 am
I guess the question here is:
Do we allow the science teachers/educators do their jobs and decide…Read More how best to teach the subject as they are qualified to teach
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or, let PETA, an extremist animal rights organization with a political agenda, dictate how to teach the subject matter?
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/classroom-dissection.aspx
PETA background - FBI Warnings
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Mary Murphy May 11, 2013 at 06:39 am
Anyone training for for a medical degree has many opportunities to develop these skills. No one is…Read More learning how to drill teeth in high school, but dentists seem to learn just fine before they go into practice. I agree with Serene Skeptic - no one is saying that a student can opt out of learning anatomy. They are opting out of a method of learning it that is against their principles.
Roy Downey May 10, 2013 at 09:23 pm
At a time when the Medical Field is booming, and demand is high for entry level personnel, I don't…Read More believe this would be a wise choice for students who may choose this this direction. I sure wouldn't want someone who "opted-out" of "the basics" performing medical procedures on me!
Ray Forrest May 7, 2013 at 09:10 pm
"With a 0% increase and really no major cuts involved, why are we even waiting the money having…Read More a referendum? "
Because it's the law. Now, if Killingworth's residents would demand the same right from the Killingworth cabal regarding the town budget we'd all be able to have a say in that as well.
Milly Salafia May 6, 2013 at 10:24 am
With a 0% increase and really no major cuts involved, why are we even waiting the money having a…Read More referendum?
mr. digital March 22, 2013 at 04:38 pm
I agree with all of the points in this post. Being a business professional, I am often appalled by…Read More the inaccurate use of sentence structure especially in business writing. Many of the new hires directly out of college often communicate by writing everything from their stream of consciousness. Although today's various new forms of digital communication (Twitter, FB, etc.) may actually influence and encourage the lack of attention to correct grammar, such mediums should not be that much of an impact on business communication. All this being said, I do now question today's educational emphasis on effective writing skills from grammar school through the collegiate level.
Bill Keane March 22, 2013 at 01:56 am
So, hopefully, their print is adequate... and it may well be...
You see, when the power goes out, a…Read More pencil and paper can do what a PC and printer cannot.
g March 17, 2013 at 08:36 pm
Take a look at the entrance area outside Abbott Tech in Danbury, a 2 story Pi. Pi is an irrational…Read More number. It is created by dividing a circles circumference by it's diameter. Virtually all solutions for Pi calculated by modern devices, either us a constant to the number of digits the device is capable of supporting, or calculate Pi using a power series to approximate it's value with ever greater precision. As the value of Pi is irrational, the power series solution would be infinite. A mathematical power series must be transformed into a computational algorithm, either by looking at prior art, or employing a computer scientist who understands mathematics.
Iterative processes on infinite series are interesting, but can lead to infinite loops. Managing manipulation of various functions and constants (Sine, Tangent, Pi, e). We take for granted the ability to get very accurate results for many functions and constants today, in the past, calculation was impossible without direct measurement as the mathematics and methods for calculation weren't up to the task.
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