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SomeDAM Poet says:

November 18, 2019 at 2:25 pm

Must not be very elite if only 95% of grads enter Kindergarten.

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April says:

November 18, 2019 at 2:58 pm

I have never heard of a child being denied admission into kindergarten if they had not attended preschool. Can we then say that 100% of children attend K that have not attended this school?

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Joel Herman (@jwherman11) says:

November 18, 2019 at 3:50 pm

The Onion slipped a piece into the NY Times today by Cory Booker.

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- NYC public school parent says:
  
  November 18, 2019 at 4:17 pm
  
  Booker is clearly worried about standing out and remaining a favorite of the pro-charter anti-public school billionaires who were so generous to the rabidly pro-charter Democrats like Booker. Now Booker has competition with new pro-charter candidates Bloomberg and Patrick.
  
  Perhaps Booker believes if he debases himself enough and embraces the “we must suspend many African-American 5 year olds because they are so violent in nature” charter schools that his billionaire supporters adore, that they will keep donating to his campaign when very few voters want to.
  
  I find it quite telling when Democrats like Booker pretend that magnet schools don’t exist so that they can promote the “high performing” charter schools that work to convince the public that huge numbers of African-American children are irredeemably violent and deserve to be suspended. I wonder, has Booker no shame?
  
  Why aren’t people like Booker supporting putting a magnet school that can pick and choose to teach the most motivated students into those communities? Magnet schools also have excellent results, and I have no doubt that the parents that Booker claims to care about would be happy to have a public school like the ones his parents chose instead of the no-excuses high suspension charter schools that Booker wants poor children in Newark to be stuck with after he and his pals have undermined their neighborhood public schools.
  
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  - Joel Herman (@jwherman11) says:
    
    November 18, 2019 at 7:47 pm
    
    NYC public school parent
    
    Yes
    
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NYC public school parent says:

November 18, 2019 at 4:05 pm

If the preschool was a charter preschool that served a predominately poor and non-white population, then it is quite possible that the CEO explained that the 5% of four year old students who didn’t graduate were incredibly violent by nature and had to be frequently suspended and sometimes even arrested and they were now in the place where the charter preschool CEO believed they properly belonged — preschool prison. One can’t really blame a charter preschool CEO for not being able to graduate the 4 year olds that the charter preschool CEO wants the public to believe rightly belong in jail.

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Arts Smart says:

November 18, 2019 at 5:49 pm

And every one of those graduates is college and career ready!

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- bethree5 says:
  
  November 18, 2019 at 6:27 pm
  
  Or how about this: 75% scored proficient in Pre-Reading. and 79% in Pre-Math!
  
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  - ciedie aech says:
    
    November 19, 2019 at 1:45 pm
    
    we laugh, but the test companies and silicon valley techies are likely trying to figure this one out: anything to make the money
    
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- Bob Shepherd says:
  
  November 19, 2019 at 12:11 am
  
  LOL, Art Smart. ofc!!!
  
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- Bob Shepherd says:
  
  November 19, 2019 at 12:13 am
  
  Waiting for the Pearson test of the college and career readiness of zygotes.Oh, yikes. There I go, giving them ideas–the new Pearson Eugenics Division.
  
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  - SomeDAM Poet says:
    
    November 19, 2019 at 7:16 am
    
    College and Career Ready
    
    College Ready sperm
    Zygotes with a Master
    Doctorate, third term
    Push the kiddies faster!
    
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LeftCoastTeacher says:

November 18, 2019 at 7:12 pm

I scrolled down and… I think we missed this one too: https://local.theonion.com/flu-outbreak-reduces-class-sizes-to-level-appropriate-f-1839892824

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retiredbutmissthekids says:

November 19, 2019 at 2:35 am

This is way off thread, but you must watch the Monday, 11/18/19 NBC Nightly News w/Lester Holt: there is a segment–about 15 minutes in–on teachers being trained to shoot in Utah, that being one of the states which voted for arming teachers. Honestly, esp. if you are an active teacher, you MUST watch it. One of the teachers was asked if he isn’t afraid that one of the kids would get his gun, & he answered no, he would always be carrying it–concealed–on his person. He also expressed his feelings that his job, being a teacher, was to protect students, because that’s what teachers should do.
Just yesterday, 60 Minutes (the first segment, approx. 19 minutes) had a story on “Red Flag” Laws; ours, in IL, is called the Firearms Restraining Order (F.R.O.), & deals w/anyone who is considered in a dangerous place (mentally) can, through someone’s intervention (family or friends), have his/her gun(s) temporarily removed by court order. They have found that this intervention has prevented at least 10 deaths in one state (had
his neighbors known about this law–as they saw their neighbor become more & more unhinged–they could have prevented the deaths of 5 of the neighbors (others were wounded). This piece is esp. interesting as some law enforcement in CO (one of the first states to pass the R.F.L. &, of course, home of Columbine H.S.) are very against this, & would refuse to seize guns from unstable persons, on their beliefs that they are not, in fact, breaking state law, but that they are upholding the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution! (I would hate to live under their jurisdiction.)

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- SomeDAM Poet says:
  
  November 19, 2019 at 7:26 am
  
  I lived in Utah for 15 years.
  
  By and large, the general public don’t question anything. They do as they are told by their “leaders”.
  
  Every once in a while they elect a good public official like Rocky Anderson, sho was mayor of Salt Lake.
  
  But most of the time they elect extremist wackos like Orrin Hatch.
  
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drext727 says:

November 19, 2019 at 7:49 am

Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.

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