I had my MLL(Mobile Literature Launcher- my handheld posterboard) deployed in front of FORD SCHOOL yesterday morning as I was witnessing the KINDERGARTEN kids loading the bus and lo and behold DR. LATHAM was there.
I guess she was too busy actually working to come over and say HI! I am impressed that she was there and had her hands on the situation. Unfortunately there is not as much to put her hands on as a significant number of kids are being held out of Kindergarten due to the BUSING BOONDOGGLE..
When that loss of education is added with the loss of time-on learning due to the bus rides that can't help but show up in lower MCAS scores later. The separation between selected schools grows wider.
.the facility at the LVTI annex is beautiful . Are you serious when you say that this will impact MCAS scores? The kinks will all get straightened out, it happens every year at every school. Heck they are still hiring kindergarten teachers at some schools in lynn. What about that?
ReplyDeleteAre you serious, you think it won't? Kids from 3 schools are going to have significant less instruction time than at the other schools in the city. The discrepancies will be noticeable, not to mention with the ones not gping/
DeleteWhen parents don't register their children for kindergarten is creates problems in the enrollment numbers. When they wait until September to go in and register it is a nightmare. But every year there is a huge number of kids that come in during September despite the efforts of the LPS. There is your problem !
ReplyDeleteAgain , would you rather have 5 th graders losing that time? You have not addressed that. When the ford annex was in operation those students lost a lot of learning time, 3 grade levels of older students starting late and ending early, no library there either, no after school,in that building with the teachers. Those kids had very abbreviated school days. and there were a few every day who missed all the buses and had too sit in the office at the main a building staring at the wall all day. That was a much better solution!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I am against busing any student. You have the expense of the transportation (in this case $270,000). There were better solutions than this ambush.
DeleteThe Ford Annex students did not lose that much time. School started at 7:30 and the kids were dismissed at 1:30...same amount of instructional time. The school also had late buses so there definitely weren't a few who sat in the office all day. The truant officer would have brought them down to the annex. And as for after school help, I know some middle school teachers did their after school help at the main building..some of the math teachers did it almost daily. If the students in the fifth grade needed extra help, we would have them stay at the end of the day and take a later bus back to the school. You really should get some facts straight before you post.
DeleteThe parents who kept their kids out of Kindergarten are doing a disservice to those little ones. If they hate the school system and their decisions so much then they need to move to another city, not keep their kids out of school and then moan about it and blame it on everyone but themselves. A good parent does whatever it takes to provide the best for their kids, even if it means making (what seems at the moment) hard decisions like sending their kids to school even if it's not their school of choice. If they saw the facility and the hard work from the staff at the Kindergarten Center they would be kicking themselves right now for keeping their kids out of school.
ReplyDeleteLow income parents who want the meals programs and the service of having their kids in place while they go to work will use the service; high end parents who can afford to drive them in or not, or choose busing or not are probably already supplying supplemental enriched home environments anyway, so their ability to make decisions such as whether or not to send their kids to school, or just to stay with their enriched family and extended family situations won't be detrimental to the kids at all in the long run. The low choice nearby parents are the ones who need the services, and are probably the ones that some grant(s) someplace anyway intended to receive the services.
ReplyDeleteNot entirely true, somearents can't be bothered to get out of bed to get their kids where they need to go. Catching a bus requires being on time. Don't like to categorize but the schools in the lower socioeconomic areas have these kinds of attendance problems especially in the lower grades.
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