Bob Braun, veteran education reporter, says that Barringer High School is in chaos, due to poor planning by the district leadership, i.e., Cami Anderson.
The school, intended to hold 600 students, has been divided into two schools, each with 700 students.
The principal of one school was fired by Anderson, and the principal of the other quit before school started.
He writes:
“Barringer High School in Newark was in chaos today after scores of students and parents marched out of the North Ward school–the oldest high school in Newark–to protest teacherless classrooms, foodless lunch hours, and class sizes reaching into the sixties….Wilhelmina Holder, a parent leader who is head of the Secondary School Coalition, said Barringer has been in a state of “chaos” since school opened Sept. 4. Many students sent there under Anderson’s “One Newark” plan either have no schedules at all or temporary schedules that are changed every few days.”
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These parents & community members need to take this to their state legislators & when the legislature is in session, the Statehouse.
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When politicians run school………
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This is by design. Cami intends to break the people of Newark until they BEG for Kipp’s charter schools.
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Why don’t existing public schools ever seem to benefit from ed reform? One would think they would occasionally actually improve a public school, if only for PR purposes and some shred of credibility on claims of “agnostic”.
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I think this is a classic of ed reform.
I repeats every trope, beginning with how wage stagnation and erosion are the fault of the lazy, poorly trained US workforce, moving directly to how public schools suck, then to the joys of the union-free workplace, and ending with the same tired, carefully cherry-picked examples of national charter school chains.
It’s like a template for lobbyists or politicians or pundits. Just jam your state or city into this formula and you could write one too!
I give it an A+
http://online.wsj.com/articles/al-hubbard-liberating-indianapolis-schools-from-district-control-1410562744
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Just one more example of US education in chaos destroying the youth of tomorrow. Too many adults now have already become dysfunctional from our declining society. Until we get a strong president and leaders who will get rid of DOE and give education back to the communities where it belongs, this insanity will continue. George Washington’s education was in his garden, and centered about botany and literary classics. He was our smartest and greatest president, but how quickly we forget. Schools today are producing robots, not leaders. Too many people think PhD or MD after a name makes one smart. It is the opposite. What makes people smart is their childhood environment. Our method of warehousing children in daycare and institutional abuse from harsh boring school environments is producing a society of deranged people. We have become a society of workaholics with social and emotional dysfunctional. We need to get back on track and restore authentic learning like Montessori, which is the same as George Washington’s school. Everyone needs to burst the little bubble they are living in and notice that our country may claim to be great, but actually it is a ghetto of dysfunction from traumatic grief and betrayal trauma: loss of trust in government, fear and insecurity, lack of respect for differences in race and religion, and corruption from the wealthy and powerful. We do not need war machines being sent to communities all over the country from the Dept of Defense, we need that money put into healthy schools to nurture our children rather than abuse them. What will it take for people in this country to wake up, another Civil War?
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barb: if it is not too presumptuous of me, I would like to change one of your sentences a little bit.
Channeling the academic merit of “Dr.” John Deasy and “Dr.” Steve Perry and “Dr.” Terence Carter, I would rewrite it as—
[start cage busting innovatively disruptive rewrite]
Too many people think “PhD” or “MD” after a name makes one smart.
[end cage busting innovatively disruptive rewrite]
Just, you know, to distinguish a real PhD or MD from a Rheeal “PhD” or “MD”—¿?
“I reject that mind-set.” [Michelle Rhee]
😒
I knew she would say that. But then, as she would say, she “sucks” at education reform, although she’s great at “education reform.”
😎
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The people of NJ can thank Cory Booker (with Chris Christie and then DOE head Chris Cerf) for planning and bringing the privatization of schools and chaos to Newark while he was mayor.
Booker is currently running to retain the Senate seat he filled by special election (before his love of privatization was widely known.)
What stand will Booker take on public schools, expansion of charters, privatization, testing, data collection, student privacy and amelioration of student poverty if he is sent back to the Senate?
Will he continue to advocate for turning public funds, over to private chatter companies or will he stand for the children of this state? Will he speak truth to Arne Duncan for students or will he continue to push for destructive federal policies?
Tell Cory Booker you will not support him unless he supports public education.
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“Round up the usual suspects”. We all know who is to blame for the current chaos in Newark. Let’s shift our focus to the public acts of resistance of parents ans students. They are the ones stepping up and ‘taking on ‘Cami Anderson. and the power crew. Let’s talk about resistance and opposition; the old and usual analysis is tiresome, even if correct. Anyone in the NY?NJ area who who believes in resisting and opposing the ‘deformers’ should get themselves over to Newark and stand in alliance with parents and students. Now that would be a meaningful .act: from blog to resistance.
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http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/search.html?keywords=newark&sortBy=1
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“Many students sent there under Anderson’s ‘One Newark’ plan either have no schedules at all or temporary schedules that are changed every few days.”
Hmm, “temporary schedules that are changed every few days” sounds an awful lot like Bronx Prep charter school when my ex was working there some 15 years ago. Those scheds often changed every day to accommodate the changes in the daily monitored math and language arts scores of the students. Students who fell below a specific mark were scheduled extra time on either subject and taken out of other courses in order to do this.
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Social vandalism, pure and simple, in service of greed and the will-to-power…
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This is what we have to look for in the future if/when these politicians take over our public schools.
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