Posted on 07/22/2016 9:24:00 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
"The good news and bad news is that dell/gates/broad have wasted close to $1 billion on public school improvement while we have only wasted less than $200 million in Chicago," Rauner wrote. "We should be seeking their advice and coordination now — with our great mayor and solid management team, we should be aiming for world-class transformation."... "That means CPS is paying more than $25K per person to train them," Lisa Schrader wrote in an email to Swanson, as well as then-Emanuel senior adviser David Spielfogel and Matt Hynes, another top mayoral aide at the time. "That's a pretty hefty investment. Maybe a semester tuition @ UofC. Are you comfortable? Is the board? Just seems very expensive for 10 day workshop plus weekly 'coaching' given the other financial challenges they face."
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Local rumor has it that CPS will hire almost anyone, but with CPS on your ticket good luck finding a different position.
Its good. They can relate more easily to their students.
The Trump Effect. It’s OK to speak the truth again.
One of my college classmates, a very intelligent woman, taught in Cicero (commuting from Hyde Park ... weird). She had to take a leave of absence after a student shot at her.
Too many teachers ARE illiterate - but they do know how to put a condom on a banana without committing a micro-aggression.
There was a time when Kansas City public schools lost their accreditation, making a high school diploma from there worthless. Could the same be in the cards for Chicago?
Wow, a couple thousand per person per day of a 10 day workshop! Only 10 days! I want a gig like that, training the teachers for a couple thousand per teacher per day. Hard to become competent on only 10 days of experience.
Chicongo!!!!!! LOL!!!
Well, as long as that aggression (all of it not-so-micro!) is ONLY against white, racist, homophobe Christians, it is OK, endorsed, and required!
Back in the old days some Chicago teachers, administrators and specialists would stay at the finest hotels for conferences even though they were within driving distance. They would also fly to Springfield for meetings. . .didn’t like the drive. Money seemed to be no problem.
Money is never a problem when it’s someone else’s.
“teachers ARE illiterate - but they do know how to put a condom on a banana without committing a micro-aggression.”
That is hilarious!
I didn’t see “Chicongo” until another poster pointed it out. It is my new favorite word.
My niece was going to a community college in Santa Rosa, CA, hoping to fill out her lower division humanities requirements for cheap before transferring to UC. In a history class last semester the instructor was asking students to list all the things that were "bad" about slavery and was writing the student's answers on a white board in advance of discussing them in class. One of the students said that slavery was bad because slavery was racist and racism was dumb. The instructor wrote "racism was dumn". A (more literate) student pointed out that that was not how to spell dumb. The instructor corrected it - "dumm" the student who knew how to spell said "no". The instructor wrote "stupid".
My niece walked out of the class and didn't go back until the final. She starts at UC Santa Cruz in September. More student loans but one year at community college was all she could take.
I understand Bill Ayers once had a gig like that. Maybe you could ask him how to get hired.
“Asked on Thursday about the governor’s characterization of Chicago educators, Rauner spokesman Lance Trover issued an apology on the governor’s behalf.”
Typical of Republicans. First reaction is to apologize.
THAT in itself explains Trump’s rise to the nomination.
My son went to a Chicago Public School from K to 8. I think he got a pretty good education. He had some very good teachers, and some very bad teachers. One evening when he was in about the fifth grade, we were out doing some shopping and he asked me, “Dad, how many states are there?” When I gave him the correct answer, he said, “I knew it! My teacher said there are fifty-four.” There were a number of times when his math teacher did not adequately explain a math concept (my son is a straight A student and I knew if he didn’t get it, it wasn’t taught properly) and we resorted to the internet to get an explanation, since I didn’t recall ever being taught math in that way. (A ninety-second youtube video gave us what we needed.) There was a permanent social studies display outside one classroom — in a teacher’s handwriting — that was about the “Artic” Ocean. And, once when the teachers’ union was out protesting something downtown, I saw a number of signs with misspelled words. The governor exaggerated a bit by what he wrote, but the fact remains that the CPS has problems beyond the budgetary ones.
Just show the documentation, Governor. . .it will speak for itself.
Years back I did some service work on equipment in CPS.
A school on the NW side, a nice area.
They said the room is being used but it is ok for me to work if I do not disturb the class.
May have been ESL(?). The teacher reads, then individual students pick up, back and forth. The teacher was an older black woman, the kids loved her.
It was a pleasant experience!
Later in the main office, the assistant principal is SCREAMING wildly at this unfortunate student demanding that he only speak English!!!
That made my blood boil.
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