By Antonio D. French
Filed Saturday, February 02, 2008 at 1:54 AM
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VIDEO: Bourisaw on School Closings
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6 Comments:
What impact on the proposed school closings would having not more than 17 children per teacher ratio per classsroom have ???????????
2/02/2008 7:46 AM
What impact on the solvency of the entire district would leaving half empty buildings open have???????
2/02/2008 10:53 AM
Where are all the people who demonized Dr. Creg Williams, and brought us Bourisaw. It is the very ones who speak as the "voices" of Black America, who continually have a record of attacking Blacks. Now that the Lizz Browns, teacher's unions, and other activist figured out that they can't control Bourisaw the community is now stuck. What is Bourisaw's position on school closings? What is her plan if they close? I've attended many different meetings, and it seems that her environment at the time, dictates her position. Does she support charter schools are is she opposed to charter schools? The schools are attacked, the SAB, the elected board and she's the only one coming out smelling like roses. Bring Creg Williams back! At least he reflected the population of the district!
2/02/2008 12:05 PM
Mr. Monroe's question is the only one that really matters. Neither Bourisaw or Williams were willing to address the critical question of class sizes. (They knew they couldn't do anything about it because the money is not there)
Everything else is a waste of time and resources (money).
As far as the solvency of the district...what does it matter if the district is solvent financially, if large class sizes prevent any progress?
To put it in terms some may understand better...What good is having a home building business that stays afloat but doesn't build any homes?
2/03/2008 1:33 PM
There is article after article about how great kipps is---and they are right, of course. You take specially trained principals, and specially chosen teachers, and carefully chosen disadvantaged students, make them go to schoold ten hours a day, let them have their teachers phone numbers, and enforce discipline like marine boot camp---and yes---the performance is going to be really good. For a small percentage.
It is still good, even if it is not feasible to do on a large scale.
The real future is something you might be able to observe right now----at 4300 goodfellow. The geniuses at the state board have outsourced the job of running a charter school to texasCan---google them---figure out how they operate.
It might be different at 4300 goodfellow---I have no idea---BECAUSE THERE IS NOT A NEWS REPORTER IN THIS TOWN WHO THINKS IT IS WORTH A TRIP OUT TO 4300 GOODFELLOW TO SEE JUST HOW THE SAME PEOPLE WHO DISENFRANCHISED ST. LOUIS VOTERS ARE RUNNING THEIR FIRST EVER CHARTER SCHOOL! IT MIGHT BE GREAT.
2/03/2008 4:00 PM
I trust antonio. If what I tried to post should not be---then I stepped over some sort of line. Not sure what I did.
2/03/2008 11:33 PM
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