IF ONLY LPS OFFICIALS READ MY BLOG

I am so confused. I mean it is PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE that I am none too smart. It must be from all of those double first cousins in WV.

What I hear around the well when I go to get buckets of water for the house is a lot of chatter about how TITLE I money can’t be used to pay for GED instruction.

FUNNY…..

the way I understand the TITLE I regs:

FUNDS ARE TO BE USEDTO BUILD PARENT CAPACITY IN IMPROVING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

HMM….,

you would think that a more learned parent, one who had worked for a GED, would be one that would have more CAPACITY to be able HELP (aka IMPROVE) their kids school work.

MAYBE….,

with the TITLE I money not being spent on GED classes can be thrown into a WISHING WELL and that’s how we can better use the TITLE I monies.

THOSE LPS ADMINISTRATORS ARE SO SMART!

HOW CAN PARENTS BECOME INVOLVED WITH TITLE I SPENDING?

I'm not going to tell you.

LPS HAS TO TELL YOU!

They are REQUIRED to Develop/review/ distribute

DISTRICT AND SCHOOL PARENT INVOLVEMENT POLICIES

DEMAND A DATE FROM CATHE

Do you know that LPS is REQUIRED by law to have an annual to present information on TITLE 1 FUNDS?

The AGENDA is to include:

1. Distribution and Discussion og "Title I Program Description"

2. Distribution and Discussion of School Parent Involvement Policy and District Parent Involvement Policy

3. Discussion of the School Improvement Plan

4. OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARENT TRAINING

For more info:

Lynn Public Schools
Administrative Offices
90 Commercial Street
Lynn, Massachusetts 01905
(781) 593-1680

KIPP KOMES TO HICO

We had the monthly meeting for the HIGHLANDS COALITION last night at the FORD SCHOOL. LSC members RICK STARBARD and MARIA CARRASCO were there representing LPS.

KIPP was represented by a young guy, I don't remember his name. FORGIVE ME, I'm old. What I do remember is that they are having some sort of OPEN HOUSE on Thursday, Sept. 20. All I know for sure is it starts at 8AM and breakfast is involved. FEED ME, I can be bought.

Anyway give them a call to find out more,

School phone: 781-581-8491 
School email: adeangelo@kippma.org
Website: http://www.kipplynn.org

WOTRING WING AWAY?

I stopped by MARSHALL yesterday under the disguise of a concerned parent. DR. COWDELL immediately met with me and promised to keep me in the loop about my daughter's progress, grades and meetings and such. I have repeatedly told you my life is CRAZY. I have NOTHING but praise to heap on him for his responsiveness on this matter.

BUT.....,

the real reason I was there was to undertake a covert operation on the current construction status of the MUCH ANTICIPATED (by me anyway) WOTRING WING in the new MARSHALL construction plans. To my surprise on the posted agenda for Thursday night's LSC meeting there is a communication, a Monthly Progress Report for THURGOOD MARSHALL SCHOOL.

FUNNY THOUGH.....,

no one ever SEES the ACTUAL COMMUNICATION. Doesn't seem like a good way to communicate. I've suggested many time before they should put it on line for everyone to see.

BUT HEY......,

why shouldn't we believe what we are told?

LORI GIVES LIP ABOUT CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS ON THE AGENDA

.Let's all remember that Kevin McHugh just got a raise and makes about $121,000 per year and Tom Iarrobino, who is the SECRETARY for the school committee, makes over $91,000 per year. Yes,as a SECRETARY!! How many of you parents have already received the lists of required supplies from your children's teachers that you MUST purchase because LPS refuses to?? I bet they won't have a problem finding the money to give out during these contract negotiations, just like they have never had a problem before finding money for all other administrative raises. Meanwhile, our kids are suffering in over-crowded, chaotic classrooms that lack necessary resources and supplies in deteriorating and hazardous buildings!! Is anyone still confused on why Lynn has so many failing and under-performing schools and is a failing school district??

Also.....these raises that we all know will be voted and approved to be given out in these negotiations WERE NOT in the proposed budget. What does this mean? It means they will steal money away from our schools and kids and put it in the pockets of yet more administrators!!

CLEO KEEPS UP ON AGENDA

http://uneducacion.blogspot.com/2012/09/lynn-school-committee-meeting-91312.html?spref=fb

WATCH “WRONG” AGAIN?

I would have liked to get this info out earlier but I got the text after I left my office and well since you know I am Internet impaired it had to wait until now.

I sent text to RICK STARBARD, LSC member inquiring about the truth of the NEW PARENT LIASON rumor. He said he would check into it text me back.

A man of his word, he put a call into DR. LATHAM and he informed me of the results. His message indicated that DR. LATHAM had denied the rumor and insisted that FRANCES MARTINEZ was still in the position PARENT LIASON to the PAC. End of story, rumor squashed right?

I called my SECRET SOURCE (I feel like I’m making a Big Mac, maybe it has something to do with the location of my office) and he or she was perplexed. I was given the source of the source and I shared her perplexion.

For me to be right that would mean somebody was less than truthful. In the past there have been INNOVATIVE stories from the administration. For questions about reliability of truthfulness I refer you to the argument presented here, http://lynnschoolwatch.blogspot.com/2012/09/these-ducks-are-walking.html

It just seems a little strange to me that there has been no other denial of the truthfulness of my source. That wouldn’t mean anything if only my Mom read my BLOG. if you hadn’t noticed, I got some BIG numbers.

Oh, I keep forgetting, THE ADMINISTRATION DOESN’T READ MY BLOG!

Too Bad! Because it would be nice to have my official wrongness put out there. I’m good at being wrong, remember 4 wives. Admit your mistake and move on, that’s what I always say.

UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE

Arts After Hours - Clock to the Rock 5K Post Race Party - ALL ARE WELCOME!

Good party, free food, and tunes.

ACCIDENTS HAPPEN


Open House
For more information about LCEP, attend our
upcoming Open House:
When: Thursday, September 20
th
, 6-9PM
Where: LVTI Annex, 90 Commercial St

WHERE WILL YOU GO?

BRICKS BLOCK ENTRANCE TO PICKERING MIDDLE SCHOOL

You would think they could have seen this coming. There were a TON of signals. It seems that MR. RITTERHOUSE (remember I like him) has to do DOUBLE DUTY as BOTH principal and vice principal for at least a little bit.

Looking at the LPS website, http://www.lynnschools.org/departments_employment.shtml#gpm1_ , he may not be alone.

My understanding of a VP's job is that he or she is like the COP of the school handling DISCIPLINE problems. With the size of our middle schools, can we afford to let the students run amuck in the halls?

I have one word that could have avoided the potential of the possibility:

INTERIM.

THESE DUCKS ARE WALKING

Now I'm not one to start trouble or say anything bad about anybody, but if you will indulge me for a moment to point out a couple of things then you can come up with your own conclusion.

FACT ONE: SOURCE  FACEBOOK - DR. LATHAM said she was going to pull down the newly posted stipend position for LYNN COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT PROGRAM LIAISON, so that the creation of the position could be discussed in public before the WHOLE school committee and the PUBLIC.

IT WAS NOT.

FACT TWO: SOURCE LYNNHAPPENS http://lynnhappens.com/Not only was the questionably posted position not pulled down but as you can plainly see someone was hired

 LCEP Coordinator: Kevin McDormand
mcdormandk@lynnschools.org

Now I would never presume to label DR. LATHAM a liar. TOM IARIBINO already took me to the proverbial, metaphorical woodshed in my first meeting with LATHAM and her two heavies, UNCLE T and DR. J. So you can understand I am a little afraid and I don't want to start NO trouble.

So I am asking you, does this sound like someone being truthful.

QUACK, QUACK

LET'S TALK INFORMATION

I will refrain from making any MIS-INFORMATION jokes. I want to state that right up-front. I'll save that for another post. What I want to know is how in all that is holy (I'm talking WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY here) can we have someone in charge of both this and driving all our school buses at the same time. Okay so he doesn't ACTUALLY get behind the wheel of every single school bus but overseeing them all is still a monumental task.

That probably helps to EXPLAIN the pleasant, welcoming personality that the PARENT INFORMATION CENTER is best known for. I know they are busy. We got a lot of kids. Guess what? We knew this ahead of time. Why weren't we better prepared?

Hopefully when things all get settled, we'll won't have any classes the size of the ones I hear about now via FACEBOOK like all the 1st grade classes at 33 at FORD and 31 at TRACY.

Some of these kids are going to get settled in at their new school then have to relive the TRAUMA a week later when they have to move to a new school.

LOOKS LIKE WE REALLY MISSED THE BUS ON THIS ONE!

FALSE OCCUPATION

Opening up LVTI this way
will cause the people who need help to stay
home where the benefits are sent
instead of learning to find a job to pay the rent.

We need more taxpayers,
not BS in pretty layers.

SOMETIMES I CAN SEE THE FUTURE

Been looking over the LYNN COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT PROGRAM and I noticed something missing - a class on FIREFIGHTING, because this thing is going to go down in FLAMES.

Most people who need those classes can't AFFORD those classes. Those of you who hope to open this up as a community space, I have some prime beachfront property for the location of the new MARSHALL (don't forget that WOTRING WING)

PREDICTION

This project will fail due to lack of interest - i.e. money - and it will close before it begins. You will never get the chance for real community involvement because well, the doors will be closed. SORRY, well we tried.

I hope I'm wrong. I do have blurry vision. Still though, that's better than no vision.

LET THE OCCUPATION BEGIN

Looks like it's all set. I just wonder about that liaison guy. Remember?

Lynn Community Enrichment Program Begins With Open Hou

I DON'T THINK THEY LIKE ME

SPED to get help from captain of a sinking ship. Rumor has it that possible  potential parent liaison has good friends who care about him if not about kids. I wonder what his qualifications are for this job. They must be PRETTY GOOD if I didn't even get the chance to COMPETE.

UH....,

well I didn't get a chance last time either. They didn't even acknowledge that I had expressed interest. GEEZ!

FROM STONE COLD TO RED HOT

FOR MY PAC PEOPLE

Sources suggest that a new parent liaison has been named. He is STEPHEN GODFREY from the CMCC. Let's go people, give me some juice.

I never knew they were looking for someone, I might have wanted to APPLY. I mean, I know people.

IT'S ALL ABOUT TIMING

Despite rain, school starts with smiles

New beginnings, time for a new start. Let's look at where we are at. We now have a former INNOVATION SCHOOL that wasn't really an INNOVATION SCHOOL. After a little pressure from this exposure, the INNOVATION part of the new school was dropped and the STEM focus has began to be touted.

Now I do like SCIENCE and it can be fun. Yes, I am a closet TREKKIE.

BUT.....

"beam me up CATHE!" What is going on?

Suddenly MONIES became available to make KNOW-ATOM to 3rd,4th, and 5th graders throughout the city (seriously good move). Did anyone else notice that 1st and 2nd graders weren't included? Okay I know there are more important things like the rudiments of READING. I mean who cares what a TRICORDER does, if you can't read what it says?

HMM...,

why then would we BRAG about having a NEW school that is STEM based that is limited this year to the first two grades when we have already PUBLICLY acknowledged that we don't think that the time is right to spend extra money on.

MAYBE....

that's because the students can't read the word - STEM - yet.

BUT....

who can read it are POTENTIAL VOTERS who can be deceived about innovative educational illusions than results from our kids.

ANYWAY....

let's just sit back and wait for those improved MCAS scores!

PARENTS POWER PUSHED

On the first day of school
crowded classrooms
that will be the rule
"We're looking good" says the fool.

Not enough text to go around,
only a few books
can be found.
Old schools given new looks

but we see more of the same.
In parents we must now hope
if education we are to tame
or with more failure, we must cope.

GALLO IS TOO "MODEST"

Charlie Gallo for Lynn School Committee

Missing from his list of credible accomplishment was his primary (how do you like a little voter vocab?) participation in programs that practiced practices promulgated illusions that alluded to deceptions for your reception.

Don't forget his part in the BOGUS BUDGET BALLYHOO. We all learned that a lawyer can indeed fish because MR. GALLO showed us he knew how to BAIT AND SWITCH.   -  SORRY CHARLIE!

AND THEN.....

there his delving into realm of MAGIC! He helped push the alluding of the illusion of an INNOVATION SCHOOL that was not one and not even particularly innovative. Look to the LPS Website and WASHINGTON INNOVATION SCHOOL. Now (really then) you see it, now (now, really) you don't.

Tis election time and time to crawl from under....(where?)