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What made you think that the SCHOOL could make a medical diagnosis (spelling) like that????? That's what doctors are for.
NO MORE PUBLIC SCHOOL
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My child is the minority of her school being called racist names and being hit on,not to mention having her supplies stolen everyday and the teachers said o well.That's just a few things but guns being brought in topped it off.We found this site through a friend at church and decided to go with it.Most everyone in this area that that is of my race are doing the same thing.I'm not racist and im not being racist.I have friends of all colors.I had i girl in a private school that we loved and i even went there as a child but the school wasn't getting enough funding to stay open and we had to put her into the public school system.But no i dont intend having her doing this forever,just untill i can find a decent school for her.Thanks for listening and didn't mean to throw the race card.Peace.
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No, I saw your post. Keep in mind, just getting together once in a while is NOT the same as clinical socialization. What about athletics? After school clubs? Lab work? Group study? Not to mention playground socialization.
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Dyslexia is as medical as a number of other learning disabilities. Most of which staff is trained to recognize and the district has accommodations for. She's not mentally retarded (not pc, I know), she doesn't have autism, it's not vision or hearing related, if it was any of these things, the would have screened it and found it. Dyslexia is found in up to 1 in 5 people. It is quite reasonable to be upset that the district doesn't train people to recognize a problem this common. It is also very appropriate to be frustrated with the fact that the district has no intervention for a learning problem that effects 20% of their students.
She has dyslexia, meaning her brain processes language differently than our brains. Doctors don't diagnose it. Most have little or no training in recognizing it and don't see the kids in a setting that would be conducive to recognizing it.
Am I way off base here????
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"It is quite reasonable to be upset that the district doesn't train people to recognize a problem this common. It is also very appropriate to be frustrated with the fact that the district has no intervention for a learning problem that effects 20% of their students."
If every parent paid the public schools $360 a month, the public schools could afford to hire experts in everything. As it is, they barely have enough money to take care of the other 80%.
You did fine, finding a way to take care of your kid. Quit worrying about the public system, they are as frustrated as you, and everyone they talk to expects them to more with less, while giving them grief about how they don't care. All while paying teachers less than a truck driver makes, while admin makes their money based on the budgets they administer, rather than their effectiveness...
If every parent paid the public schools $360 a month, the public schools could afford to hire experts in everything. As it is, they barely have enough money to take care of the other 80%.
You did fine, finding a way to take care of your kid. Quit worrying about the public system, they are as frustrated as you, and everyone they talk to expects them to more with less, while giving them grief about how they don't care. All while paying teachers less than a truck driver makes, while admin makes their money based on the budgets they administer, rather than their effectiveness...
Come to Cheney, you will be the only minority in this all white town. But this place needs some color anyways. Our little town was rated 7th I think in the state for public schools, your daughter will be in good hands here. Plus I'm here in town on the weekends, I'll watch over her...
I didn't mean to make a big issue out of this.I'm hearing now that they are going to make it a ,what do you call it,mandate? to have all kids take that shot and if parents refuse they get fined really big and go to jail.atleast now if the zombies want to try to make me or my child take that shot they have to come to my home which then i will be eaten by zombies in a war.
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I don't know where you live, but if anyone in my school tried to make kids get a shot...there'd be some serious issues. We were required to get parental permission slips to show the Presidential speech; if that gives you an idea of what my community is like. 
I'm very thankfull for our public schools . its just to bad we don't pay the teachers as they should be paid.if we did more would want to be our children's teachers . i wish you the best of luck in your endeavor. be sure she doesn't miss out on the I'm portant stuff. like school sports ,friends, dances and of course the graduation. its very important to make sure that the kids don't miss out on the interaction that we all need to survive.gl with your quest.
Federal Government run schools. lets call them what they are, have no place in a society that cannot afford to have children molded into whatever shape that government desires. Little if anything done by the Federal government has aided the education level of students but has great affect on the social engineering of children. If the choice is to end it or have this continue then by all means end it. The myth that only the Federal government has the ability to educate is propagated to retain control of what your children will become.
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Rhodes, the feds don't run schools. They run the NCLB requirements, they make us all jump through hoops to show that we are complying with those requirements, but none of those things tell us WHAT to teach, or HOW to teach it. They simply say we have to score at an ever increasing level, every year, in a math, language, and science test;and the states were free to choose or create the tests for themselves.
The problem is that you CAN'T score better every year, its a ludicrous idea...If I get a GREAT group of kids one year, and average a 75%, then the next year I MUST do better. Even if the next group of kids are dorks on a stick, my entire school district gets punished for scoring worse. And then we are forced to spend your tax money hiring some consultant, of our choice, to help us raise the scores.
But we still get to choose, locally, what we teach, and what we teach about it.
Eventually, we will ALL fail, and then the system will come crashing down, when some school or state finally says...we aren't going to play the game. And we don't care if you won't accredit us, as your rules are impossible anyway.
But it will take some uptown big money school failing, to set off the people who can say that; and get away with it.
Here's a version of NCLB for football; it is very close to saying essentially the same thing NCLB says about students and their scores, and the punishments for failure.
No Child Left Behind: The Football Version
Author Unknown, additions by Carolyn K., director, Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
1. All teams must make the state playoffs, and all will win the championship. If a team does not win the championship, they will be on probation until they are the champions, and coaches will be held accountable.
2. All kids will be expected to have the same football skills at the same time and in the same conditions. No exceptions will be made for interest in football, a desire to perform athletically, or genetic abilities or disabilities. ALL KIDS WILL PLAY FOOTBALL AT A PROFICIENT LEVEL.
3. When players arrive at any game with remedial skills in football for any reason, their coaches will be penalized for their performance, regardless of how long the players have been on the team. cjk
4. If remedial players do not achieve proficiency by the next statistically recorded game, their coaches and athletic directors will be put on probation. After several games of probation, coaches and athletic directors may be released. Coach and athletic director probation and release will not be conditional on the size of gains in the remedial players football skills; players must reach proficiency. cjk
5. Talented players will be asked to work out on their own without instruction. Coaches will use all their instructional time with the athletes who aren't interested in football, have limited athletic ability or whose parents don't like football.
6. All coaches will be proficient in all aspects of football, or they will be released.
7. Games will be played year round, but statistics will only be kept in the 4th, 8th and 11th games.
8. This will create a New Age of sports where every school is expected to have the same level of talent and all teams will reach the same minimal goals.
If no football player gets ahead, then no football player will be left behind.
The problem is that you CAN'T score better every year, its a ludicrous idea...If I get a GREAT group of kids one year, and average a 75%, then the next year I MUST do better. Even if the next group of kids are dorks on a stick, my entire school district gets punished for scoring worse. And then we are forced to spend your tax money hiring some consultant, of our choice, to help us raise the scores.
But we still get to choose, locally, what we teach, and what we teach about it.
Eventually, we will ALL fail, and then the system will come crashing down, when some school or state finally says...we aren't going to play the game. And we don't care if you won't accredit us, as your rules are impossible anyway.
But it will take some uptown big money school failing, to set off the people who can say that; and get away with it.
Here's a version of NCLB for football; it is very close to saying essentially the same thing NCLB says about students and their scores, and the punishments for failure.
No Child Left Behind: The Football Version
Author Unknown, additions by Carolyn K., director, Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
1. All teams must make the state playoffs, and all will win the championship. If a team does not win the championship, they will be on probation until they are the champions, and coaches will be held accountable.
2. All kids will be expected to have the same football skills at the same time and in the same conditions. No exceptions will be made for interest in football, a desire to perform athletically, or genetic abilities or disabilities. ALL KIDS WILL PLAY FOOTBALL AT A PROFICIENT LEVEL.
3. When players arrive at any game with remedial skills in football for any reason, their coaches will be penalized for their performance, regardless of how long the players have been on the team. cjk
4. If remedial players do not achieve proficiency by the next statistically recorded game, their coaches and athletic directors will be put on probation. After several games of probation, coaches and athletic directors may be released. Coach and athletic director probation and release will not be conditional on the size of gains in the remedial players football skills; players must reach proficiency. cjk
5. Talented players will be asked to work out on their own without instruction. Coaches will use all their instructional time with the athletes who aren't interested in football, have limited athletic ability or whose parents don't like football.
6. All coaches will be proficient in all aspects of football, or they will be released.
7. Games will be played year round, but statistics will only be kept in the 4th, 8th and 11th games.
8. This will create a New Age of sports where every school is expected to have the same level of talent and all teams will reach the same minimal goals.
If no football player gets ahead, then no football player will be left behind.
me 2 ajole, just funny how some preach 1 thing and do another. i find it amazing that they didn't do all the rebellion 8 yrs ago wen we needed it . but now wen things are getting better and running better now they wanna revolt .lol makes me lol evertime. have a great day.then when they dont even know who runs what. 8)
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