Wednesday, October 12, 2011
CROWD(ING) CONTROL
One of the things that came out of last night's debate from several of the candidates is that there are many of classes in the middle schools in 30-35 range. This unmanageable. As a parent of two seventh-graders in two different schools, I can tell you this is a very difficult age to get them to focus. Physiologically and developmentally, too many things are happening that make staying on task difficult and with classes that size, teaching is often relegated to crowd control.
What are we supposed to do? We have several hundred year-old buildings and a growing population.. Since we are not going to wake-up some morning and find someone build us some new buildings, we need some alternatives. JOHN FORD said it was ridiculous to spend 100K fixing up 20+ year-old trailers. Good point, but then I wonder then why he voted to approve it in the past? Renting space is an alternative I have heard before JOHN FORD proposed it last night but he did put forth the idea as a possible solution.
RICK STARBARD put forth a novel solution to put a STEM heavy middle school in the Tech Annex building that currently houses the administration offices on Commercial Street that is if they ever make the long talked about move to Bennett St. Those Commercial St. office must have something that Bennett St, doesn't for as long as it's taking them to move. Could it be air conditioning? Someone ought to put a call into U-Haul.
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Sorry there's no video of this debate. Was LynnCAM there? I apparently need to make a connection with someone in the Lynn Teacher's Union!
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I take issue with holding debates the same nights as other civic/government meetings. It should not have been on a Tuesday, in my opinion. Though it didn't hurt turnout from what I've heard, it excluded City Hall employees and other elected officials/candidates.
I think it was on Lynn English TV. Somebody else was there. I agree it was a strange date.
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