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| Building | Martin W. Nicholson | John M. Young |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 133 | 207 |
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| Building | John C. Megahan, Sr | Melodie A. Spotts |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 40 | 197 |
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| Building | Dennis C. Cini, Sr. | Michael J. Piccio |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 198 | 372 |
| A. I. duPont High School | 14 | 13 |
| Baltz Elementary School | 7 | 16 |
| Brandywine Springs School | 12 | 23 |
| Cab Calloway School of the Arts | 12 | 13 |
| Conrad Schools of Science | 12 | 16 |
| Dickinson High School | 12 | 54 |
| Forest Oak Elementary School | 14 | 46 |
| H. B. duPont Middle School | 12 | 16 |
| Highlands Elementary School | 14 | 43 |
| Hilltop Lutheran Community Center | 4 | 3 |
| Lewis Elementary School | 8 | 10 |
| Linden Hill Elementary School | 8 | 21 |
| Marbrook Elementary School | 9 | 24 |
| McKean High School | 15 | 19 |
| North Star Elementary School | 14 | 29 |
| Stanton Middle School | 27 | 10 |
| Warner Elementary School | 2 | 15 |
| Absemtee | 2 | 1 |
Because son, in this world, if you don’t make your own decisions,… someone else will make them for you…..
The following candidates support We, The People, and not Corporate America, being the ones to make our own decisions for our own kids…..
John Young — Christina School District
Michael J. Piccio — Red Clay School District
Melodie Spotts — Colonial School District
Hmmm… There is no clearer way to have put that…..
just saw this…. next door, obviously influenced by the Christina School District, WHICH ACTUALLY TOUCHES THE BORDER OF MARYLAND, 22/24 of Maryland’s Superintendents, said no to rushing forward with Common Core…. Just as did Christina School District…..
The Christina School Board was the first in the nation. It created a stir, you can imagine. But as more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and more (22 in all) find themselves in the exact same position, all are siding with Christina’s side… and none are siding with the side of Jack Markell and Mark Murphy. That should tell you something.
Common Core is very dangerous. To your children it is worse than an out of control step mother. it is abusive, idiotic, and damaging to a children’s learning process…. if one could dream up an imaginary weapon to render future Americans so apathetic, one could just walk in and take over America, even dreaming they could not come up with something so damaging to our future, as this Common Core…
Everyone who REALLY LOOKS AT IT, is horrified….
In fact, the next time anyone waxes pleasant over the Common Core problems, ASK THEM, have you looked at it? Don’t let them off the hook with a fake yes. You know it is fake, because no one who has ever seen Common Core in action, can speak highly of it….
22/24 Maryland Superintendents basically said Common Core is Crap.
The educational department of the University of Delaware is ranked 31st in the nation... That is at least out of 5000 accredited teaching schools…
Not only that, they are 31st in the top ranked educational teacher training country in the entire world… Apparently there is no educational crises in America when it comes to teachers receiving top notch training.
What just passed last Thursday in Delaware, now requires the University of Delaware, again now ranked 31st in the top educator nation in the world, 🙂 to be judged solely on how its teachers administer Common Core when they go out into the field…
Common Core?
Just how good is this Common Core we are talking about?
New Attack on Common Core From Pennsylvania Democrats
Common Core Standards attacked by Republicans
‘Common Core’ Standards Come Under Attack By Lucas Johnson, Associated Press
Nation at Risk Anniversary, Common Core Under Attack
Common Core State Standards Under Attack
The RNC’s Attack on Common Standards
The War Against the Common Core
911: Common Core Under Attack
Rotten to the Core: Conservatives spearhead drive at RNC meeting to stop Common Core
Washington Post: Common Core is in Trouble
Common Core Standards Facing Increased Opposition
Indiana Among States Acting to Oppose Common Core Standards
Lisa Nielsen: Is the Common Core an Attack on Progressive Education?
Common Core: Education Without Representation
The Common Core: The Good, the Bad, the Possible
Your Children Need a Néw Brain for Common Core
Kentuckians Against Common Core Standards
Toynbee Predicted Privatization
One would think someone in Legislative Hall would have at least looked into Common Core before mandating that the 31st best teaching institution in the best ranked nation for turning out good teachers, would have to be judged on its effectiveness by the results of a program everyone is having so much trouble with.
Progressives are against it. Tea Party Advocates are against it. Democrats are against it. Republicans are against it.. Red States are against it. Blue States are against it. How could this be? Could it be possible they all have children?
In fact, it appears there is no one who is in favor of common core, across this entire great nation we are so fortunate to live in… No one except 59 Delaware legislators, who apparently didn’t get the memo…..
Before anyone gets bent up over the Christina School board turning down the fight to keep $2.3 million, there is something you should know.
This money was strictly tied to starting a habit for which there would be no money next year…If the board accepted the money, at the end of funding which is this year, the board would have to pay for this extra little thing we have to do just to get our state RTTT funding.
It would be like taking up heroin because it was free. Then you got to pay for it after you are addicted.
The Board of Education made a shrewed and very smart business decision. Many who do not have a clue will yell at the headlines. However those of us who appreciate the power of money, who understand money, who know that money works on rules of its own and is not subject to the whims of popular opinion, KNOW this was a very smart choice.
One that clearly was the right thing to do, even though emotionally it may be hard to bear because after all it was the right decision and not the “easy” one.
There may be criticism for awhile, but by next year, when every other district is debating whether to cut this RTTT program or fund it with another referendum, the Christina School District will be focusing on education… as it should…
I for one, am always glad when someone, anyone, is clear headed and makes a tough decision based on what is right.;;;
Now lets see who’s stupid and self serving as they line up to criticize the board for turning this down, and who will say…”Oh, this is a stupid decision.. Who passes up free heroin!” ..
Mr. Street: The floor is yours. The line starts here.
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Twas the night of mid May,
The clouds were long shed,
The stars were all out,
The moon was half dead.
I’d just closed my eyes
In dark deepest dread.
I had a forewarning
Of what was ahead.
The river was foggy
So full of thick mist,
My eyes played tricks.
A hand grabbed my wrist
“What is it ” I cried
As my wrist was entwined.
“Come Hither”, it hissed,
in a voice harsh and sublime.
“In your search of pure knowledge
Things are not as you know
Shapes shift, spin around.
Truth lies buried under snow
Down becomes up, and up, is then down”
“Plant only one seed
Something evil will grow”.
Something dark is afoot,
In spirit it has stalked,
If it wins out tomorrow,
Education is debauched….
Tomorrow at Two
It will take place in Bright Light.
What I feared from my heart,
In that deepest dark night.
The 147th House would vote,
Without any debate,
On something important
To all our children’s fate.
War would soon be declared
On all those teachers who were right.
They’d all have to leave
Or stand up and fight.
A Bill with nice thoughts
Will be laid on the dock.
But in the dark wording it shields,
A most powerful shock.
Instead of making better,
It tears down all the schools,
Putting up cheap imitations
That mock all the rules.
No more shall a teacher know
What her calling required?
She could only hope like her kids,
Her scores would help get her hired.
Instead of knowledge, proven and direct.
She’d be tested on simply how well she could bet.
Praxis One and Praxis Two
Those tests of the best.
Would now be retired.
By which test could “bid” best.
Instead of old classics,
New standards were wrought,
“Romeo and Juliette” now replaced
By “How To Properly Clean a Pot”.
Twas necessary to learn prose they said.
No matter if such a bore.
It left no brain cells still standing.
Well done, Common Core.
Delaware’s education is 35th best.
That Includes the Ivy Leagues,
And all those good schools out West
“Not Good Enough”!
The gauntlet was laid
We must tear it down quickly
Our consultant’s need paid.
We must start something new!
We don’t know what it is.
But without old constraints
We can create it like jizz.
Who will do this? Good question!
That we do not know.
But when it gets done,
Arne Duncun will be here to show.
So we’ll make it mysterious.
And hard to deduce.
Make the poor teachers sweat,
Think they’re all in the caboose.
We can brainwash them now,
Do it before they begin.
They will soon work for peanuts
Because that’s all we’ll send in.
We won’t let them pass
Till their eyes all have tears in,
We’ll switch things around
Like we do on kids with Pearson….
We’ll make them earn B’s
To get into our class.
Those who don’t earn them,
Can get in with a pass.
These new tough standards
Will make bad teaching stop.
Besides we will need them
In our Race To The Top.
It says right here on line 53
“Must redo college standards”
Let us buy them new teacher ID’s
Which they can hang from their lanyards.
It says “redo”, not “raise levels” I see
Let us make up our creed
Raise them higher or lower,
Or even sideways if we need.
So let’s scrap what we have,
Make new in our image.
Trash all classic standards,
We’ll make it a corporate scrimmage.
The tests we used to have,
Were so hard and so tough,
Lets’ sub them with easy ones,
Those scores will rise with fluff.
When the kids scream about testing
We’ll know we’ve done enough.
Let’s water the standards
But tell them they’re tough.
Do it with ed- gobblyspeak.
So those dummies in House
Without even a peek,
Vote YES like a mouse….
Since what you get out
Is What you put in,
We’ll have robots for teachers
Their union will end.
But we got to be careful,
We got to act fast,
If they catch what we’re doing,
This campaign can’t last.
Strike quickly, strike fast
Strike them hard like a flogger.
Can’t let them hear the truth,
Keep them far from that “blogger”.
Oh we’ll smile, we will praise,
We’ll do what we must.
What ever it takes
To turn those standards to dust.
Make Teachers in our image?
Yes, that’s what we’ll do.
We’ll count ourselves lucky
If they can count up to two.
The children? Don’t worry,
They’ll be fine as we speak.
We’ll teach them with tests,
So their knowledge will peak.
Then when it does,
We’ll know that we have won.
Common Core is in place.
Our work is now done.
Our friends in this Biz
Will now pay for our way.
When we meet our next challenger
Thinking he has something to say.
The Battle is ending
The war’s almost won.
We just need some dumb asses
To vote in S.B 51…..”
The specter was silent
It paused for a while
“Who are you? I said
I saw a faint smile.
It turned slowly towards me
And gave me a stare.
I could feel the electricity
From the bottom of each hair.
“Tell me” I inquired,
just one more time.
But the vision was fading
Into many fine lines
All that was left were the eyes,
And they gave me a shiver
It then grew transparent,
It was the Christina river.
So my friends, if you’re up,
If you read this in the morn.
It wasn’t a dream,
You must sound off your horn.
You must call down to Dover,
Let them know how you feel.
Hell copy and paste this.
Let them know this is for real.
We are being bamboozled
By clever and wit.
Our children won’t learn
Anything, not one little bit.
Teaching requires
Something you can’t test.
Requires a human you respect
Pushing to do your best.
We are moving away,
From what has worked well.
We are tearing down Rome
And burning it to hell.
This bill is too rash
Though it sounds pretty good.
It needs not to be rushed,
But debated as it should.
If anything is to change
It depends now on all of you.
Without your quick input,
Like in the Senate, it will pass too.
It’s tearing down what is good
And replacing it with “what-ever”
Gotta be bad for the kids,
No matter hard they endeavor.
This bill needs work.
Though it’s ideas are nice.
It will mess things up royally
Without changes concise.
A simple amendment
Is all it would take.
To undo all the damage
And terrible things soon at stake.
A little snip of a scissors will do
Component V and Evaluations…
Just separate the two.
Because the way this is written
If you teach and you fail.
It’s the blacks and the poor,
Who lose and wind up in jail.
Their great teachers got fired,
Because they worked in the city.
The teachers in rich schools.
Got good scores, just sitting pretty.
This is the damage this Bill will soon do.
For under this plan
If your kids don’t test well,
Your career is so through
Doesn’t matter if their poor,
Or if their homes are all broken.
When it comes down to corporate,
All excuses are token
“it’s your fault” they’ll say
“It can’t be the test.
You’re lazy and useless
You didn’t do your best”.
Meanwhile in Newark,
Where teaching’s a breeze.
Just wave a magic wand,
And there is no pay-freeze.
Scores roll in higher
Because the curriculum is dumbed down.
Kids do all the work.
You smile looking down.
So reader, what do you think…
As is, what will this bill do?
If you were a new teacher,
if it was you starting anew.
Would you go to the city?
Where opportunity lies?
Teach out your heart?
And stifle your cries?
Or would you choose
The easy way out.
A lifelong career
With no second doubt.
It is so important
That this bill get changed
Otherwise our system
Will split from the strain.
Decouple the evaluations
From component Five.
Let’s do what we can
To keep education alive.
This bill needs work
On quite a few levels
That will only happen,
If this vote gets disheveled.
If you love your kids,
And kids of all ages,
Make them retract their pledges.
They don’t know what’s in this bill.
Because they were told it’s ok.
Only the parents who vote
Can still save the day.
This is you I’m telling
Just so you know.
You need to go here,
And call all that you know.
Send them this poem,
It will get their attention,
Then give them the pitch,
Tell them they’ll go to detention.
What they’re about to do,
Is destroy our great state.
By Dismantling educational.quality
And by then it is too late.
This bill is on rush,
That i can tell you.
Vacation is coming.
But hopefully they’ll hear you.
Say “This Bill Cannot Pass”
Exactly as it is written.
“Change it, change it now
Before you get smitten”.
I hope these few words
Don’t fall on deaf ears.
I don’t want to see children
Through veils of thick tears….
It is you, it is me,
Who must carry this fight.
It is we who are parents.
We have the most right!.
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Of course you forgot… It’s a school board election…
But because of the corporate attempt to stock our school boards, this is one necessary vote.
Unless you LOVE corporations running your kids into a hole in the ground… you need to vote Minnehan in Christina School district.
For other districts go here…
The problem behind Common Core, or as Mike O rightfully calls the misuse of Common Core, is that all we have are rumors. If the rumors are true we have a disaster in the making. Well, the rumors are true and the test that was turned in to a British Paper (excellent move) proves it.
According to the newspaper that has seen the test,
It’s full of long, dense, off-the-wall nonfiction passages on making wind tunnels, soil formation and studying whales. There are two short stories, both set overseas. And there’s a vague selection from a poem about loneliness that students must interpret before choosing among four answers that contain two arguably correct selections.
Students got 90 minutes to complete the 32-page test, which contained 42 questions based on six written passages.
The News asked testing experts, teachers and parents to analyze the test, which state and city education officials have kept under lock and key. Everyone who saw it was left dumbfounded by the killer questions.
“You might as well just put ‘failure to students’ at the top of the exam,” said Tracy Woodall, a stay-at-home mom whose son is a fifth-grader at Public School 1 in the Bronx. “There’s no way they’re going to pass this.”
The questions on the fifth-grade reading test, designed to test comprehension, were enough to stump a city high-school teacher who reviewed it.
“Have these students had an opportunity to build up to that complexity? The answer is no,” said the teacher, who asked for anonymity for fear of getting sacked. “This test is coming at them like an anvil to their face.”
Aaron Pallas, a testing expert at Columbia University, ran the new fifth-grade exam though a computer analysis program and found that it was actually calibrated for the “middle of sixth grade.” Numerous families boycotted the new exams, and the national teachers union boss called for a moratorium on consequences from the high-stakes tests until they’re better-understood.
We are killing education in America by purposefully making the test so they make children fail, and then use that to fire teachers and close schools because their test results are so poor.
Let’s see, any new news on RTTT and the failure of our current educational program?
Nope. They are still asleep. But the blogs are where it’s at. They’ve been busy….
Stop Blaming Teachers For Your Own Incompetence
We Should Stop Trying To Emulate China: We’re Better Than That
Somehow it seems like Deja Vu and Global warming all over again. The News Journal is ignoring the evidence world-wide, and focusing only on what one tiny enclaved establishment wants them to hear…
So sad.
First off. Any one can say anything. I can say we should seriously colonize a nearby class “M” planet. I can find 40,000 reasons why the human race should do so. But, if you were to ask me how we would get there, I couldn’t tell you. But I would try.
I would blame the bad people here. I would say we need to get good people in positions of power. People with “vision”. I would say, we aren’t and haven’t been trying hard enough to allocate resources towards that. I would say that if we just rewarded those who worked on it, we’d get there. I’d say that if we paid some of my fellow science friends to figure what we are doing wrong, my fellow science friends with your money, would surely lead the way….
But in the end, after all your money was spent, all we’d have left to show for it… is an idea; that idea being that you know, that we should colonize a nearby class “M” planet….
Just in case you couldn’t see through the metaphor, this is what the Rodel Foundation has done….
I could go on and on with details, but it would be just copying this person who already has. Instead, I promised you a hole in their reasoning , didn’t I? Well, that’s what I promised so let me deliver.
Let us assume you recruit the best. You go after the trophy winners where ever they may be… you excite them with your presentation, you optimism and you give them a pen to sign the contract….
They pause, and ask. How much will I get paid?
A quick check of sources shows Delaware’s starting wage is $39,099. From the top that puts Delaware as the 10th highest starting salary. If you think a teacher with a portfolio of student loans more than owed on one’s house is not going to go to the highest bidder, you aren’t thinking correctly. Which means Delaware is already starting out of the gate with a handicap of 10.
So isn’t it silly, you tell me, to spend all the federal RTTT funds on recruiting the “best” teachers or professionals and then, forget to pay them because we are strapped for cash the following year? Can you say 8% pay cuts? Exactly how long ago was that?
What makes anyone think that a really good teacher who has an inside track in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Wyoming, California,New Jersey, Maryland, New York and Alaska is going to give it up to come to Delaware for less?
If you want talent, you have to pay for it. The idea of waving a magic wand and good teachers will come, is not grounded in reality. We might as well be recruiting on a class “M” planet.
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