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Nathan Stauer April 24, 2013 at 10:24 pm
i dont think its a matter of skill or what they are teaching any more but how they are teaching.it…Read More is a well known fact Asia is kicking our buts in mathmatics,the question is why what are they doing differently than us maby we should be looking in to how and what they teach.
Wire April 26, 2013 at 01:33 am
So you noticed no small school districts, HE HE HE, if you went to
www.edtrust.org/west
Ed…Read More Trust–West Releases Third Annual Report Cards Grading the 148 Largest Unified Districts on Outcomes for Latino, African-American, and Low-income Students
You would have noticed that 5,000 or more student were needed to make the list.per district. HE HE HE! Just don't read what they want you to. HE HE HE. Darn you guy are so sheepish.
Trust–West Releases Third Annual Report Cards Grading the 148 Largest Unified Districts on Outcomes for Latino, African-American, and Low-income Students
juliette andrews April 18, 2013 at 11:12 am
Perfect choice. I concur that she is in the brightest and best for this position. Juliette
Jeffrey Bottaro April 1, 2013 at 08:09 pm
Green Flash: All of your statements make sense to me, and I fundamentally agree. Unfortunately,…Read More the incursion of ANY industry into the University marketplace has a way of corrupting it in proportion to the financial size of the outside presence. This is not to renounce such things; it is merely a plea to scrutinize them in proportion to their influence. Athletes are not asked to finance the particle accelerator; why should physicists be made to finance the gridiron?
The University was born of communities of cloistered priests and monks. Its interface with the world will always be a thing with contradictions and complexities that defy simple solutions. BUT, anyone who succumbs to the pressure NOT to look behind the wizard's curtain is not only denying himself the indulgence of a universal human impulse; he is also BETRAYING HIS OWN INTEGRITY.
Leland Vandiver April 2, 2013 at 02:41 am
Jeffrey,
Actually, we (the federal government) pay for particle accelerators...with some left over.…Read More Universities NEVER get the short end of the funding stick when it deals with DARPA, NIH, etc. In fact, sometimes universities become piggish (e.g., Stanford in the mid-1990's). I agree, if you do not search for the truth...you are a pawn of some factor or person. We need fewer pawns...
Active Thinker April 3, 2013 at 11:04 pm
The large sports might bring in more people to watch but they spend way more...only a handful of…Read More team make any money at all...and most of those sports don't graduate athletes at all...it's ajoke.
tiana wells February 21, 2013 at 01:04 pm
Mr Geddes let me in his classroom during his study break as there was no Ceramics IV class .…Read More I was his solo student and had the chance to get to know him. He was a good influence in my life.I am sad to see him go so soon.
Leslie Marioni February 21, 2013 at 03:19 pm
A visit from Don Geddes was always a highlight. He was the only teacher I had in high school that…Read More was genuinely interested in me as a person. He could look you right in the eyes and you could actually see his eyes sparkle! He was full of life, enthusiasm, and compassion. He also had this feeling about him that life is a great adventure. He was a kind-hearted soul and will be greatly missed. I am saddened by this loss and my thoughts and prayers go out to his family.
Kimberly Hall June 3, 2013 at 08:05 pm
My prayer goes to his family and to Don Geddes. He will forever be missed. May his soul rest in…Read More eternal peace. -http://www.crosby-ngray.com/
Robert Demler February 18, 2013 at 12:54 pm
I still contend (as I did in an earlier posting to the Index-Tribune) that this program is…Read More entrapment as these folks (the staff at these restaurants) would not normally intend to sell alcohol to minors. Look up the definition of entrapment.
I also think that the use of minors in this program is a form of child abuse.
Jennifer Churchill February 19, 2013 at 04:01 pm
I agree it's strange to have young kids be involved in this way - maybe not child abuse, but…Read More certainly unusual and likely to have some sort of unintended impact on the kids that participate. First, they're being taught to lie, which isn't good. I agree that we don't want our kids to drink, but penalizing an establishment because someone mistook another's age isn't going to stop kids from drinking. It will just stop kids from drinking at that location; instead, they'll get it some other way and cruise the back roads. It just seems like a lot of financial and reputational damage is done to these businesses and it doesn't really impact the big picture of the problem of underage drinking at all.
Robert Demler February 19, 2013 at 04:27 pm
Well said, Jennifer Churchill - a better expression than mine about the negative aspects of…Read More involving minors in this so-called 'sting' operation which I still contend is entrapment.
Lilly Mc Donald January 24, 2013 at 04:51 pm
Dino loved his job and mostly loved these kids-this school district did the same thing to the last…Read More principal-forced to resign-until the parents demanded that she be reinstated at a board meeting. Now we are paying two principals a pretty large sum of money when janitors have lost their jobs-transparency??? It will never happen unless parents demand it! Mr. Battaglini did not want to leave his job he was forced to resign and no one knew nothing.
Julie Pendray (Editor) January 25, 2013 at 04:15 am
Yes, thank you for raising this Jennifer. This is always a possibility of course.
Lilly Mc Donald January 29, 2013 at 03:09 pm
Here is a true story about Mr. Dino! When he was the principal and Antioch high school, he got…Read More involved with a group of kids who simply did not give a crap about their future, grades or life in general. Dino jumped on board and help all and I mean ALL these students to turn their lives around-get a great GPA and for doing so-he treated them to a day at ATT park and held up a sign stating how these students turned their lives around. And this is a man that was FORCED to resign. REALLY? Very sad loss for the kids at Sonoma High.
Dee Baucher January 12, 2013 at 12:42 am
Condemning the mentally ill -with fault and stigma - without providing the resources that are needed…Read More (to actually provide the services they require) is just another unconscionable governmental action. Obama is right about the mentally ill getting guns easier than they can access care. It needs to change.
Dee Baucher January 11, 2013 at 03:19 am
Torlakson admits that doing the STAR tests has translated into improved student learning throughout…Read More the state, yet he now want to abandon them. It is obvious that California continues to lag behind the other states in student achievement, and getting rid of the evidence (the STAR test results) is just an easy way to avoid being accountable to the public. Our legislature should reject this.
Tom January 16, 2013 at 04:26 pm
Good teachers of course matter and I think most of them are quite good. I have kids at SRVHS and…Read More CWMS and for the most part am pleased with how professional they are. Sometimes though we do run into a bad one. When that happens my kids are strong enough to work through it and be fine but the weakers ones suffer.
In our school system it is MUCH easier for the teachers because you have VERY involved parents. We are a team and work with eachother. I hate the teachers union but respect the teachers. I also think there are many things we could do to improve things for students and teachers but we lack the backbone to do it.
Sylvia Jones January 16, 2013 at 06:24 pm
I am responding to Shlripathi Kamath's post of January 15 which takes exception to a teacher who…Read More receives a 78% pension for 12 years of teaching based on a salary in her/his last year in the classroom of $78,912. The writer cites no source for the information, and as a retired teacher I am concerned that readers will take this claim as fact.
Please consider the following: teacher retirement in the State of California is administered by the state, not by school districts. It is based on teacher age at retirement, number of years taught, and birthdate.
Here is an estimate of what a California teacher might receive based on the profile the writer uses. It is based on the formula as I came to understand it in going through my own retirement process.
Using the writer's data, here is what a California teacher might receive If she/he
retires this June with 12 years of experience, a birthdate of 1946 and an age at retirement of 64 years and seven moths, her/his retirement stipend would be approximately $1,869.89 per month or $22,438.68 per annum. That equates to 28% of final compensation, not the 78% that the writer decries.
Shripathi Kamath January 16, 2013 at 06:40 pm
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Alex Horvath December 19, 2012 at 09:15 pm
As a former SRJC journalism student, I should add that these students should look to Patch as a…Read More great place to make a career!
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