"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -- A man described by authorities as a known sexual predator was chased through the streets of South Philadelphia by an angry crowd of Catholic high school girls, who kicked and punched him after he was tackled by neighbors, police said Friday" More
On Monday Nov. 3, the regularly scheduled Education/Co-Curricular meeting will begin at 6:45 pm, prior to the Board Meeting. Of couse there is pleant of time to cancel it once again. The regular board meeting is at 7:30 PM second floor of the middle school. There should be signs posted. Should be interesting to see how big a raise we give Mr. Gilly this year.
Machines that create products directly from digital files can save hours of painstaking human labor, compress production schedules, and eliminate costly overstock." More
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"So, in what is becoming an annual ritual at virtually every school, men’s athletic teams are going to be on the chopping block again. The latest is the accomplished wrestling team at Binghamton University, which had their team and scholarships eliminated just this month. Even a pledge from actor, and Binghamton alum, Billy Baldwin to arrange independent funding for the team wasn’t enough to stop the Title IX guillotine. When schools are willing to snub famous and wealthy alumni, it shows clearly how strong is the fear of gender-quota lawsuits. " More :
Discussion Topics with 30 or more responses.
Mike McGinnis with D'Huy Construction Company gave the board three options to rectify the sink hole problems near the drainage pipes 1) Remove soil & backfill when needed 2) Pressure grout the area 3) Pressure grout just on both sides of the drainage pipes. Option 1 may be the cheapest but in the long run could be the most expensive. Option 3 would cost about $36K but might require additional work in the future. Option 3 at $50K gives the greatest security over the long term. The board appears to be approving the second option which appears to be the most cost effective.
The Committee of the Whole will meet tonight. The meetings are held in the board room located in the Middle School. This committee meeting should be attended by anyone who has issues they feel needs the board's attention. Next Monday will be the November Meeting where issues discussed tonight will be voted upon. They probably have an agenda for tonight but it hasn't been posted on the school site at this time.
"... outcomes are not preordained, and the solution is not more money, as the educationists would have us believe. Were that the case, academic achievement wouldn't be a problem. In the last two decades, educational expenditures have doubled, yet academic performance has declined.
Amazing a school board that actually turned down raises for administrators. Being $5 million dollars in debt helped with their decision.
"As the ratings have rolled in for the first three weeks of the new television season, one question has dominated the conversations inside the industry's executive suites: what the heck is going on?
In addition to our live discussion forum you can now make quick witty remarks on any topic on the front page. Just click "Comment" next to the date of the post. No disparaging remarks about the author's spelling should be made any idiot can spell the same word the same way twice.
It became very clear last Wednesday at the DT-PAT meeting that Lowry, Stehman and Yocco are the best qualified and most informed candidates for the school board. The other candidates besides being hand picked and supported by the current board members showed no inkling to the problems facing the district or any ideals for change. This view is supported by the unbiased reporter for the Reading-Eagle scroll down to the October 16th to see their account of the meeting.
"The just released No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom promises to do for education what Edward Banfield's Unheavenly City did for social/political science in general: Skewer shibboleths and inject some common sense into the discussion. " ...
By just shopping at the British site Amazon.co.uk you can buy a $100 text book for $50 and $8.00 delivery fee versus buying the book at the US site Amazon.com. The article doesn't say if some of the words are spelled funny or if the delivery method is by lorry or truck.
From A January 1946 Life magazine article:
OK finally found a round-to-it
The Discussion Board is under repair. You can still read but you can't post a reply. Tried to fix one thing and two more broke. So hold on to those disparaging remarks for a little while why I find a.a round-to-it.
For allowing the candidates time to introduce themselves and express their views at the meeting last night.
"Taxes and budget issues were the main topics Wednesday night at a forum for school board candidates in the Brandywine Heights School District.
On Nov. 4 please vote YES to questions #1 and #2. They will allow the way children may testify in crminal proceedings, including the use of videotaped depositions or testimony by closed-circuit television. This is currently allowed in 36 states. The worst type of crminals are not being punished because parents refuse to allow their children to be victimized all over again.
Meet the candidates for school board TONIGHT at 7:00 PM at District-Topton. Each candidate will give a brief statement and following the meeting there will he a reception to ask further questions.
So if you are interested.
"Todd Oppenheimer, author of “The Flickering Mind,”was among the first journalists to leave print to explore computers, CD-ROMs and online delivery, here at Newsweek. But what he saw of the cyberworld clearly didn’t sit well. After a few years he returned to the realm of print to produce his first book—a carefully researched and scathing attack on computers in education stretching back to the early Eighties. His subtitle says it all: “The false promise of technology in the classroom and how learning can be saved.”"More :
" 'If the Sox go all the way this year,' he said last week, 'maybe we'll put `cowboy up' in the next edition.'" More:
"“Around the World in 18 Holes,” an ornate miniature golf course built by high-school art students, will be open for play today through Sunday at the school in Longswamp Township.
"A teenager was disciplined for sharing medication used to treat asthma, but he said it saved his girlfriend's life, News2Houston reported Wednesday. " More :
"'A high-school student has the right to wear a T-shirt to school with the face of President Bush and the words 'International Terrorist' on the front, a federal judge ruled.
Amazon.com: Books: No Excuses : Closing the Racial Gap in Learning: "The Thernstroms, senior fellows at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, deliver 'a tough message' about how 'to close the racial gap in academic achievement.' Although the 48 graphs and tables, 566 footnotes and statistics galore may muffle the work's polemical aspects, the Thernstroms produce a case for standards-based testing and charter schools. Despite caveats (e.g., 'Not all Asian parents and their children fit the stereotype... and Asian Americans are not actually one `group' '), the authors' assessment of success and failure attributes much to ethnic cultural factors. Family expectations and hard work lead to success for Asian-Americans, who embrace 'the American work ethic with life-or-death fervor,' while 'the limited education of many Hispanic parents' and 'their propensity to work in unskilled jobs that don't require a knowledge of English' underlie the poor performance of Latino students. African-American failure rests in 'the special role of television in the life of black children and the low expectations of their parents.' 'Conventional wisdom' about improving schools (more money, improved cleanliness, smaller classes, etc.) is inadequate, they say. Title I and Head Start appear to have accomplished little, they lament, but Bush's No Child Left Behind (and its mandatory testing program) gets high praise"
Meet the candidates next Wednesday Oct. 15 at 7:00 PM at District-Topton. Each candidate will give a brief statement and following the meeting there will he a reception to ask further questions.
PROPERTY COMMITTEE AGENDA: "PROPERTY COMMITTEE AGENDA
Congraulations to the Brandywine Flag and Drum Corp for being selected to be present at the relocation of the Liberty Bell. They will be on Good Morning America Thursday between 7:00 and 7:30
Article in the Morning-Call concerning the high tab for unused sick time.
The sinkhole that wasn't there cost $25,000 of real money to repair. They did ask the builder if maybe it was his fault since the hole was under a joint in a waste water pipe. He said it wasn't so we are paying. A parent questioned why Mr. Gilly started a program for learning impaired at Rockland but didn't fund any money for material or curriculum. She removed her child and is now paying $12,500 for a private school in addition to the highest tax rate in Berks County. She wanted to come to a board meeting but Gilly said she couldn't until she had a meeting with him. When the meeting was unsatisfactory she was told she still couldn't bring her problems before the board.
Why don't we just do away with this committee it very seldom meets and it is not like education is a priority item for the school district.
Popular Science | The Worst Jobs in Science: "Ah, science! Ennobling. Fascinating. Deeply challenging. Also, dangerous, gross and mind-bogglingly boring. We at Popular Science are sometimes brought up short by the realization that there are aspects of science—entire jobs, even—that, when you strip away the imposing titles and advanced degrees, sound at best distasteful and at worst unbearable."
Good ideal for a web site.
