Tuesday, May 12, 2015

"THE ANSWER IS BLOWING IN THE WIND" peter paul & mary

"Attended last nights Board of Education Meeting"

As I asked the board and administration about the change in the Painesville Public Schools change in the gifted program. I questioned the reason for the change, yes PCLS would lose funding for this program from the state under it's present operation.

I was told the students will be served not only by their classroom teacher at their home school but the gifted teacher will visit every school once a week. They will be served in this manner.
not only the elementary schools but the middle as well as the high school.

Seems like an awful lot to expect from one teacher as well as all the classroom teacher's. but the board as well as the administration assured me that the new system will be successful. I like the makeup of the present board as well as the administration but it seems like a heady goal we will see the good or bad results in say less than six years.

My post about this drew one of the strangest responses to a post. Many times I get this is not for publication for many reasons, but this one drew the most some from parents , teachers, even  a person that claimed to be in the administration? Don't know if there legit but all seemed unhappy with the new policy.

I met a parent at last nights meeting that was happy with the new policy? Well at least I had a face to go with their comment.

Look everyone I know that seems to want Painesville to return to somewhat of it's former glory whether it's a streetscape project, improved public services, historical districts no matter what the plan . The foundation for any successful community is a successful school system. New building are great, but the bottom line to most new home buyers seems to be the quality of education a community has that they will provide to their children. A good example might me new immigrants to the city being told the system can take care of their children. I even have been told that parents in the Riverside district send their children here because Riverside claims we have the tools to educate them.

I will admit that going to the meeting was not going to change anything that was going to happen in the next school year, only that some parents may chose other options as well as some residents watching what was going on in the district. A final thought I left them with was this policy change should have been brought to the whole community and not just a meeting with the parents of the students, a letter home to students involved even a discussion of the subject at a round table event. You have Television and web access please in the future use it. Transparency is so important.

9 Comments:

At May 12, 2015 at 5:12 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

If they are going to service gifted students appropriately, then they need to hire one gifted teacher per building. After all, look at special ed or ESL, there are teachers assigned to buildings full time to service those children. It's time gifted parents got vocal and fought for their children.

 
At May 13, 2015 at 10:45 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

The people here will end up getting what they deserve, how sad.

 
At May 13, 2015 at 11:32 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry, Special Education and Ell/Esl pays the bills. What a shame the brightest of our future get the worst of the deal. We need these kinds of students up in front not kids that cant even understand a word of English after 8-12 years of public schools and all the money that went with it.

 
At May 14, 2015 at 11:46 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Heritage School family - Students going on a trip to Chicago, this email was sent.
Kids headed to Chicago Wednesday-Friday. Pray for us.
Just how bad is it there, if so, why do they deserve to go on a 3 day trip out of school?

 
At May 14, 2015 at 2:39 PM , Anonymous TERM>> said...

Many interesting things to see in Chicago, I don't think an evening trip to the southside is on the agenda. Maybe pray for us to have a safe trip?

 
At May 14, 2015 at 3:16 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not appropriate for a school comment.

 
At May 15, 2015 at 3:03 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

11:46...it's not that bad...if would have known the person who wrote that email, that was sarcasm...something that the adults that email was sent to already know...ask any teacher in any district....May is a difficult time for teaching in any building.

On a slightly different topic, I'm not saying Heritage is great, but I am saying that too many people here think things should be how they were when they were in school. Things have changed so much in the last 10 years, it's amazing.

And yes, I think the schools can and should be doing better...it's not an excuse. It's just not what you think it was...and what it is could be better. There are plenty of good kids. People just think it's all illegals and special Ed kids....

 
At May 15, 2015 at 9:59 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

"us"? You going TERM?

 
At May 16, 2015 at 10:28 AM , Anonymous TERM>> said...

9:59 I referred to the us that were going.

3:03 With some administration practices one parent pointed out maybe her child was not welcomed here. As well as if the ESL was taught the same way as a gifted child?

 

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