Entire School Staff Fired

[mawilson 2,133]

To simply fire everyone, even the teachers that are trying their best, is pathetic on every level.

How do you know they are trying their best? Maybe the teachers don't give a sh!t and should be fired?

[SuperDuper! 230]

Are these guys for real? I'm the furthest thing from a union guy, but what a low blow. The few people who are willing to work in such areas get the shaft.

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Entire school fired in Rhode Island

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

CENTRAL FALLS -- A Rhode Island school district has voted to fire all the teachers at an underperforming school.

The Central Falls School Committee voted Tuesday evening to fire every educator at Central Falls High School, including teachers, guidance counselors and the principal.

It's the only school in the tiny, impoverished city north of Providence. Only about half its students graduate, and only 7 percent of 11th-graders were proficient in math in 2009. The plan was developed because of a federal effort to makeover failing schools.

The Central Falls Teachers Union says it is reviewing legal options and hasn't decided what action to take.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan applauds the decision and says "when schools continue to struggle we have a collective obligation to take action."

(Copyright ©2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

These "teachers" failed the students in imparting to them a quality education. Throw the bums out, and let's get Ed. Vouchers as an option to apply Free Market Competition to improve our public school systems!

[Ali G. 37]

These "teachers" failed the students in imparting to them a quality education. Throw the bums out, and let's get Ed. Vouchers as an option to apply Free Market Competition to improve our public school systems!

You totally lost me there. We use a similar system throughout Australia but you still need to pay on top of the government funding when attending a private school. The voucher just reduces the fee.

What exactly do you feel is the issue of the public system? I would also keen on knowing how the private sector (by default) is so much better.

[Ali G. 37]

How do you know they are trying their best? Maybe the teachers don't give a sh!t and should be fired?

I highly doubt an entire school of teachers voluntarily working in a dangerous neighborhood don't give a sh-t. The reality is that there is only x they can do.

It's all about attitude towards education. It's also why you have so many people chilling in the ghettos.

[SuperDuper! 230]

BYah,

I assumed you knew that Free Market Choice lights a fire under slothful, lazy school teachers and administrators. Choice is a wonderful thing, unless you like old-school socialism.

Low-Income Students Receiving Vouchers Make Reading Gains

April 07, 2009 11:35 AM ET

A new study measuring the success of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, the nation's only federally funded voucher program, is reigniting a debate about whether vouchers can help raise achievement among low-income students.

The study, which was conducted by the U.S. Department of Education and released last week, compared the performance and satisfaction of District of Columbia students who received vouchers to attend private schools against students who remained enrolled in regular public schools. It found that overall, the voucher students were at least three months ahead of their public school peers in reading but performed at similar levels in math.

Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon of California, the top Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, hailed the report's findings as evidence that vouchers can help struggling students achieve. He and other Republicans have called on Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to push for reauthorization of the D.C. program. Funding for it is slated to end after the 2009-10 school year.

"The U.S. Department of Education has confirmed what we've been saying all along—when parents are given a choice, and children are able to attend safer, higher-performing schools, achievement and satisfaction will rise," McKeon said in a statement.

Duncan has said he doesn't want to create a disruption for the students currently enrolled in the program but believes the program should end because it has not had a significant positive effect on students from the lowest-performing schools. The report says that the particular subgroup of students who received the vouchers after attending schools deemed "in need of improvement" did not make notable gains in reading or math.

The voucher initiative, which was created by a Republican-controlled Congress in 2004, has served more than 3,000 students. Students receive up to $7,500 a year for tuition and other fees to attend schools that participate in the program. A Senate committee is expected to hold hearings later this year on the fate of the program. http://www.usnews.com/blogs/on-education/2...ding-gains.html

[Ali G. 37]

BYah,

I assumed you knew that Free Market Choice lights a fire under slothful, lazy school teachers and administrators. Choice is a wonderful thing, unless you like old-school socialism.

Low-Income Students Receiving Vouchers Make Reading Gains

April 07, 2009 11:35 AM ET

A new study measuring the success of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, the nation's only federally funded voucher program, is reigniting a debate about whether vouchers can help raise achievement among low-income students.

The study, which was conducted by the U.S. Department of Education and released last week, compared the performance and satisfaction of District of Columbia students who received vouchers to attend private schools against students who remained enrolled in regular public schools. It found that overall, the voucher students were at least three months ahead of their public school peers in reading but performed at similar levels in math.

Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon of California, the top Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, hailed the report's findings as evidence that vouchers can help struggling students achieve. He and other Republicans have called on Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to push for reauthorization of the D.C. program. Funding for it is slated to end after the 2009-10 school year.

"The U.S. Department of Education has confirmed what we've been saying all along—when parents are given a choice, and children are able to attend safer, higher-performing schools, achievement and satisfaction will rise," McKeon said in a statement.

Duncan has said he doesn't want to create a disruption for the students currently enrolled in the program but believes the program should end because it has not had a significant positive effect on students from the lowest-performing schools. The report says that the particular subgroup of students who received the vouchers after attending schools deemed "in need of improvement" did not make notable gains in reading or math.

The voucher initiative, which was created by a Republican-controlled Congress in 2004, has served more than 3,000 students. Students receive up to $7,500 a year for tuition and other fees to attend schools that participate in the program. A Senate committee is expected to hold hearings later this year on the fate of the program. http://www.usnews.com/blogs/on-education/2...ding-gains.html

Improved from where? Bottom last. They don't come anywhere close to the performance of public schools in our local counties, let alone when compared to religious private schools.

I need to see the results though. I don't know enough about charters schools but from what I have read, they are basically public funded schools but the schools get to deviate from the curriculum and do their own thing. Therefore, I would like to know if the SAT scores are the same for those of charter schools versus those from public.

Then I would like to know the difference in the administration of the schools. Do charter schools also have elected school boards that get to call the shots? Do Charter schools accept any and every student? Are charter schools forced to keep bad students?

Edited February 26, 2010 by Booyah

[AandD 20]

Charter schools get to pick and choose their students

[Ali G. 37]

Charter schools get to pick and choose their students

Ah okay, so they don't have to work with kids who a range of disabilities, social needs or behavioral problems. They basically get to pick the cream of the crop and then say, see look how well our school performs.

[jundp 191]

An old friend of mine's father was a high shcool guidance counselor in an affluent suburb of Boston and the stories he told about the parents were unbelievable. Just as you say, complaining because Johnny got a C and it was going to hurt his chances for getting into the college he wanted to go to. You name it, the parents blamed someone else, the school, the teachers, the town, etc. It's worse in the wealthy towns than it is elsewhere.

I've seen that too, though thankfully not as often as some of my colleagues in wealthier schools.