tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post7365269730206651860..comments2024-03-14T13:50:26.981-04:00Comments on Chaz's School Daze: Bringing Back The Neighborhood High Schools Is The Only Answer In Improvimg Our Struggling Schools.Chazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-19563397375550042922015-06-09T01:26:30.758-04:002015-06-09T01:26:30.758-04:00I agree, also. I have been saying this for years. ...I agree, also. I have been saying this for years. Take Beach Channel for instance, had a great oceanography program, the only crew team in the city, various activities and programs. Student population was mixed and it felt like a real high school with homecoming dance and game. Funding cuts, far rock closes which leads to an excess of knuckleheads to Beach Channel and now you have a recipe for disaster. I saw all of this coming after beach channel was slated to close who was the next target well go up the coast and you get John Adams and so forth. What a sham and what we have now is quantity of students graduating, but they are lacking quality. The business model gone awry, what happens when you mass produce a product, it becomes crappy and no one wants it anymore. Crappy analogy, but I hope people get my drift.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-71007693686278922182015-06-07T20:58:15.158-04:002015-06-07T20:58:15.158-04:00Christopher Cumbus High School in the Bronx was ru...Christopher Cumbus High School in the Bronx was ruined. So many extra curricular activities gone. 75 years of neighborhood graduations gone. For what? Look at the data of the schools that replaced them. Scroll to page 16 on the performance piece of QR for Bronxdale HS and Language and Innovation HS. Regents pass rates of 15%, 22%, 27%, 34%, 37%, etc etc. These schools replaced Columbus? Why?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-90766139575508573742015-06-06T13:21:54.384-04:002015-06-06T13:21:54.384-04:00Chaz...
The "Queens HS for Teaching" ha...Chaz...<br /><br />The "Queens HS for Teaching" has two-way mirrors , and no one is saying anything......for years!<br /><br />Will you at least post my comment? Expose this! Report this! I have pictures!<br /><br />GuiermoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-82059366607970343562015-06-06T11:35:42.424-04:002015-06-06T11:35:42.424-04:00100% agree with you. Many ATRs grew up in the neig...100% agree with you. Many ATRs grew up in the neighborhoods they taught in before being excessed, including myself. The families I knew in the neighborhood would come to me and ask me to get their kids into my school because it was close and I would watch out for them. The spring before I left I interviewed for a position in a new school that was coming in. The principal told me he wanted it to be a community school and I explained I knew many people in the neighborhood and could be a liaison for him and his school. He went on to tell me that the periods would be 90 minutes long, that the preps and professional periods would be for group planning, that all teachers would be expected to stay until 5, and that 2 Saturdays a month were mandated. I asked if per session was to be paid, he said unfortunately no - the budget didn't allow for it. He also said there would be constant observations to ensure that the vision of the school was being upheld. I politely declined the position by telling him he really didn't want teachers, he wanted slaves. All the 8th grade kids from the neighborhood I sent him he refused to admit and worse had them sent to different boroughs. I had screaming parents calling me all last fall while I was being shuffled weekly all over the Bronx. Bronx ATRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08787717237141454628noreply@blogger.com