Posted on 01/06/2006 1:23:27 PM PST by SmithL
The eeevilll Republicans . . . oh wait . . . guess not.
Gays can't have children by birth.
FACT: Superintendent Arlene Ackerman, the city's first African American schools chief, said the schools on the list were the ones hemorrhaging students, so they're the ones that should close.
Superintendent Ackerman (an African American herself) directly contradicts the Chronicle's liberal editorial spin in the last paragraph. African American students are rapidly vanishing from the district - that's why "their" schools are being closed.
LOL!!!
If I wanted to be journalist I would skip College. I would just write articles about race, ethnicity, and poverty. Seems any article involving those three subjects is given instant publication in the mainstream media.
To paraphrase as Rush Limbaugh once said: "School closings; women and minorities hardest hit".
If you click the link and read further, it is a pity-party of parents saying "don't inconvience me - inconvience white families".
What an insult to Rosa Parks! Why would anyone allow a public school (or ANY edifice) to be named after that racist thug?
Where are they going?
Biggest reasons -
1. New parents tend to move out of town; larger homes are unaffordable in SF and the perception that the place isn't family-friendly.
2. Low birth rate
3. Blacks and other low-income people have been leaving because rents are too high.
"vanishing"--love the word
Richmond. Oakland. Los Angeles.
As if David Copperfield came to town.
Ackerman is a very competent administrator.
Too competent - the school board has forced her to resign; she is a lame duck at the moment. Our loss will be some other districts good fortune.
This asylum is indeed being run by the inmates.
Maybe he can make all of the "whining" go away also. I am not big in to magic shows but I would pay to see that!!
"Where are they going?"
Oakland and Richmond mostly I think.
Send her down to San Jose. I can't stand the administration at San Jose Unified.
Do you know what the criteria for closing the schools is?
In San Jose, the district is losing enrollment in the northern Hispanic area, and gaining enrollment in the southern white and Asian area. The schools in the north are also failing, and the schools in the south are doing okay with a few exceptions.
Our district closed my daughters school even though it was in the south in the area with gaining enrollment, and it was a school with great test scores (5th highest out of 31) in the district. The new school my daughters are going to sucks. They made it way too big, almost 900 kids for an elementary school. There are lots of discipline problems. All they do is reading/writing/math. There's not science, technology, history, social studies, pe, or music. My daughters are bored!
We're trying to go to a charter school next year.
It seems like the principal criteria for closure is lack of demand. In SF you can select your preferred school; many schools have far more applicants than available places, others don't manage to enroll to capacity.
The success or failure of a school seems to have little to do with the school facilities or teachers and nearly everything to do with the student body. If a school goes from 20% White/Asian to @60%, it will automatically become successful and desirable. This has happened several times in SF.
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