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- Help is on the way -- out of town [ Thu Jan 27 2011 10:51 AM ]
Uh oh. If you have kids, better start investigating private schools.
- BREAK IT UP INTO DISTRICTS! [ Sat Jan 29 2011 11:52 AM ]
Being the worst (50th)education in the system, breaking up into districts would be the best thing for this valley school system. I'm not from here but your system is a joke.... you have teachers that doesn't want to teach, yes 10,00 years of experience but lazy teachers. Stop thinking about business but how to bring better education to the kids, and this will bring in better teachers. Thing of the future.....break up into districts....
- A knew districk - grate idea! [ Sun Jan 30 2011 11:25 PM ]
This sounds to me, like an awful idea. Part of the current APS problem is a top-heavy administration that bleeds the education from the students. Another is a very expensive headquarters located in arguably the most expensive part of Albuquerque - Uptown, in a tall building that was pimped-out to include a 300K executive boardroom and washroom, (borrow a key if you aren't worthy). My high school in the late 70's with a graduating class of 800+ was within a district including another ten public schools and the administrative building was essentially Abe Lincoln's one-room school house.
Do we want to split the district and hire an entirely new group of administrators and buildings, plus a new Teachers Union? The city and state have budget shortfalls as we have it now, so there is no more money for this new district; actually negative numbers.
Other than La Cueva High School, Albuquerque doesn't have a history of quality/efficiency in educational endeavors. I'm not optimistic about the potential success of a new district at all.
BTW, caliguy68, where did you learn to write? Just qurioos. Maybe you are from California and born in 1968. Just askin'
Regards
Mike
Last edited [1/30/11 11:28 PM] - Don't throw, stones Mike [ Mon Jan 31 2011 11:26 AM ]
Mikey, your writing isn't perfect either. You use commas like William Shatner.
As to breaking up the district, why would you think that every district would emulate APS's top-heavy structure? Arguably, some of the resulting districts might decide to cut at the top rather than the bottom. "Laboratories of democracy" and all that.
For now, for me, it's academic anyway. I will keep my kids out of APS's dysfunctional system as long as I can.
