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Rex Henderson May 16, 2013 at 05:25 am
I hope the new principals are tough as nails on some of the local hooligans. This is where…Read More discipline begins!
Pete Karaiskos May 14, 2013 at 11:18 am
Credo is struggling with enrollment because it's a Waldorf school... and as such has no business…Read More being a public charter. Waldorf schools are built on the quazi-religious occult teachings of Rudolf Steiner. They shouldn't be publicly funded to begin with, and that's probably why they're struggling in the first place. When the article says “Happy parents and students talk to other, that’s the best form of advertising,” it fails to mention that unhappy parents and students talk too. Read about Waldorf schools and their problematic nature here: http://thewaldorfreview.blogspot.com/
LP May 10, 2013 at 01:17 pm
A lot of colleges allow alumni or other adults (using such programs as Osher's to just sit in on the…Read More class). Janette, at 63 you're not too old to go back and it can be affordable. You need to talk to the people in the financial aide departments (also check out Dominican for the Pathways Program), there is aide and scholarships available.
Janette Brown May 10, 2013 at 12:42 pm
All well and good if you can afford it. Sonoma State is not cheap.And I am sure the rest of the…Read More colleges are the same. I recently was thinking about going back to get my BA (I am 63 and retired) This was on my bucket list....
but when I found out how much its cost compared to when I went their in the 70's I about passed out. Cant afford that !
Ernest Giono May 9, 2013 at 12:22 pm
Josh Groban is not a country music singer. He is clasically trained and one of the best tenors…Read More around.
Kimberley Peterson Roberts April 8, 2013 at 02:54 pm
I completely agree James. Maybe if the phone was picked up and used a little more often then you…Read More would see more from the parents thus making it easier for the teacher.
James Gattis April 8, 2013 at 02:46 pm
Even the portals are problematic because they are not updated regularly. It is something too…Read More concrete for appropriate up to date information about our students. When questions arise about our students decline in grades it can take weeks even months to reach a teacher/counselor to get the whole story, by that time our student has failed or it is too late for make up. What happened to the old fashioned way..student is failing or needs help the teacher picks up a phone and calls the parent? Rarely happens. I experience this frequently with Windsor High and have heard the same stories from parents who have come for counseling. Communication is very poor between parents and teachers and something needs to change.
Kimberley Peterson Roberts April 8, 2013 at 02:37 pm
Dylan you are obviously a very intelligent student to which I commend you. I am linked into Aeris.…Read More I have also used engrave now and prior. I just think simplicity makes things easier. Have one portal that all our schools in our district use. With that said, after linking in and watching my students progress declining that is when I started with emails, then phone calls still with no response. I cannot help my student unless I am told how I can help my student. There were two counselors and know been informed there are three which is ok. I don't compare our district to others due to they don't run their districts like ours. For example I love Casa Grande due to the fact that they have block scheduling. They have 3 classes a day which give the teacher and the student to be able to more one on one with classes that are oversized. Casa has had great success with this.
Ralph Hutchinson April 4, 2013 at 11:30 pm
@Judd, I'm not scared I just find ur direct line of questioning disrespectful and antagonistic…Read More rather than debating issues ur attacking.
I just recently learned about STC101 while researching Darius Anderson. I support their efforts to close the RP casino. I don't know anything about the other efforts you refer to. We share a common interest. I'm a Sonoma Valley guy but shop in RP. I am not a NIMBY I don't want casinos anywhere in California but if I have to I prefer very rural isolation.
So ur answer is NO.
Judd Ames April 4, 2013 at 10:35 pm
Hey! Hutchinson! What's it going to take to get you to respond to the repeated query regarding your…Read More association with the STC101 clown car? I.e., were you an insider in on the recent FIGB fear mongering with Worthington, trolling as "Gene Ricky Shaw," and others with Stop The Casino 101 Cabal (def: conspiratorial group of plotters)?
Ref: Rohnert Park-Cotati Patch "Rohnert Park to Get $40 Million More from Casino"
http://tinyurl.com/bqy36mz
Granted, my response therein (which BTW immediately frightened you off the thread) to your prior comments was a bit harsh: "IMO, debating sociology, economic issues, racism, and perception of evil with a NIMBY credit banker is akin to discussing nutrition with an 800-pound McDonalds exec." But all I'm seeking is a simple yes or no response. So man up: Were you an insider in on the recent organized fear mongering with STC101? Yes or no?
Karina Wilcox April 5, 2013 at 05:27 pm
OK, first it is hideous that you would outsource a LOCAL employment position to the tune of 30,000.…Read More Secondly I'm sorry I have had "truancy" issues in my household for both personal and severe medical issues. When my children were in the elementary school medical documentation was provided showing that missed days were out of our control due to there illness. Once they hit middle school we went through some very trying times. The funny part about our wonderful system is the district or WHOEVER lost the medical documentation. I ended up in a SARB meeting, signed contracts, broke down crying telling complete strangers of my hardships, and was only offered help that would cost me money or time off work neither of which I can afford as a single parent. THANKS GUYS!! The real kicker was during the summer I was ordered to court for it. Thank god after providing the courts documentation and my child proving she is a straight A student they dismissed everything. Kids need to be in school to learn I agree 100%, but our system needs to work with the families and the parents need to be involved. I have great communication with my children's school now I learned the hard way PARENT INVOLVEMENT everyday. Reinforce our kids with positives for perfect attendance
Kimberley Peterson Roberts April 5, 2013 at 01:27 pm
As I said above, my children do not miss school due to a fever or throwing up. Well I got a call…Read More from LJMS to come pick her up. She was running a fever. I asked if this would ruin her perfect attendance and I was told they no longer keep track of it. They no longer acknowledge perfect attendance because it there were so many kids leaving for dentist appointments or dr. appointments. I told them have them sign the slip and then it should be excused and not ruin there attendance record. I was told there were to many and they just don't acknowledge it. This is backwards. The district want to enforce truancy and the negative impact but doesn't want to acknowledge the ones with Perfect Attendance and the Positive. My daughter has always been recognized with perfect attendance before and was upset she just lost it because she has a fever and I cannot even get a Dr.s Note to fix it. What's wrong with this picture. Recognize the negative and not Promote the Positive! Really?
Kimberley Peterson Roberts March 28, 2013 at 08:12 pm
My daughters literally have to be throwing up and have a fever to not go to school. It's called…Read More responsibility. If they don't learn they have to go to school how are they going to hold down a job. I don't think high school teaches them enough about life in general. You can't just decided to not go to work and if you do there are consequences. And the consequences that they have in place now are not working. I know of many students that miss at least once a week and nothing happens. There is a meeting and they get a fresh start. So much for implementation.
Concerned Resident March 21, 2013 at 10:58 am
Thank you thank you for re opening the schools. Very important with all the children in town. And…Read More most important I see that the electives are in place as well...band art etc...Love It! These are what helps give the children some meaning and connection in there lives. Good job city! Hope it pans out to what the new project wants to accomplish.
Kimberley Peterson Roberts April 5, 2013 at 01:59 pm
Absolutely they are. I think all of the recent articles are linked in many ways. It give you a…Read More sense that there needs to be some major changes in our schools and hiring and firing of teacher, hiring of more counselors and or therapist. Look at all the articles together and you get the big picture. RCHS Confessions article, New Schools to open in the Fall of 2013, District enforcing truancy. And you wonder why the parents are taking their kids out of the district to go to another school. There's your sign~
Jake Mackenzie March 9, 2013 at 01:15 pm
Just saw class in action on our G section walk-looks like hard work! Nicely done!
Dr. Lois Merriweather Moore February 25, 2013 at 12:22 pm
Information is power. Hopefully we will hear from other colleges and universities on their plans for…Read More graduating students in four years. Parents and students should check directly with the Admissions Department for colleges and universities in which they have an interest in attending.
Tina McMillan February 24, 2013 at 11:54 pm
Here is another article about UC coaches salaries.…Read More http://www.ocregister.com/articles/coaches-316441-nobel-laureates.html
"The top UC coaches earn, on average, three times more than the system’s full-time Nobel laureates.
The top eight coaches earned an average of $1.2 million in 2010, while UC’s eight full-time laureates earned an average of $403,000."
http://www.dickmeister.com/id117.html
"Hard times continue at the University of California - except, of course, for UC's very well cared for administrators.
Their six-figure salaries continue to grow handsomely while the pay of those who teach and do most of the university's other work remains stagnant, and even as student tuition and fees increase and qualified students are being turned away."
I am not sure when government jobs began earning at the same level as private industry jobs. The difference in pay use to be justified by the better retirement and benefit package. Now it seems they get a private industry salary and all the other perks that go with a tax payer subsidized job.
At the very bottom of the pyramid are the students. If we can't cut back salaries to increase classes and give students what they need then our system is failing.
Tina McMillan February 24, 2013 at 11:40 pm
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It is so frustrating to see kids work their tails off and then not have a clear track…Read More to a degree because too much money is going to top tier staff in the UC system.
Here is a link to an article by the teachers union. http://www.cft.org/universities/394-uc-budget-qa.html
"Possible Salary Reductions"
"Q: Is it true that we are going to have our salaries reduced?
A: It is very possible that the UC may decide to cut all salaries 5% or use a furlough system to accomplish the same thing. However, in the case of lecturers and librarians, the university has to negotiate any salary reduction.
Q: If the UC is broke, why would the union resist a 5% salary reduction?
A: We do not think the university is broke, and we want them to prove to us that they need to make these cuts.
Q: Why do you think they are not broke?
A: The university brings in billions of dollars every year in profits from medical services, extension programs, parking, housing, research, patents, and fund raising. They are just trying to maintain a high level of disposable income, while they claim they are poor. (see http://universityprobe.org/2009/04/budget-lies-a-letter-to-the-president-of-uc/)"
I don't know who is telling the truth and who is lying I just know that kids that are a hairs breath away from a degree can no longer get classes in impacted schools. I thought the JC path was a way to insure success but it looks like that is broken too.
Alex Horvath January 27, 2013 at 11:32 am
Wow -- great reporting. As an SSU alum, I find this to be outrageous. I hope that Shepherd Smith is…Read More reinstated and that the adminstration finds more like-minded sources for funding opportunities.
Sierra Salin January 17, 2013 at 06:44 pm
Yes, and.....
What ARE we creating in this world of grades and academics? Grades are not the only…Read More judge or value of a human, regardless of the focus on "grades."
Are not creativity, aptitudes, and social/emotional education and mastery just as important?
Lest we forget, education is not all about grades, colleges, and fitting into a stressed performance box.
Life IS happening. What are we creating? Is it whole, balanced, creative, folks which can judge any situation and act accordingly, or is it folks which can fill in a bubble and memorize factoids?
Grades and homework are but one part of the whole equation......
Shripathi Kamath January 16, 2013 at 06:40 pm
"I am responding to Shlripathi Kamath's post of January 15 which..."
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Sylvia Jones January 16, 2013 at 06:24 pm
I am responding to Shlripathi Kamath's post of January 15 which takes exception to a teacher who…Read More receives a 78% pension for 12 years of teaching based on a salary in her/his last year in the classroom of $78,912. The writer cites no source for the information, and as a retired teacher I am concerned that readers will take this claim as fact.
Please consider the following: teacher retirement in the State of California is administered by the state, not by school districts. It is based on teacher age at retirement, number of years taught, and birthdate.
Here is an estimate of what a California teacher might receive based on the profile the writer uses. It is based on the formula as I came to understand it in going through my own retirement process.
Using the writer's data, here is what a California teacher might receive If she/he
retires this June with 12 years of experience, a birthdate of 1946 and an age at retirement of 64 years and seven moths, her/his retirement stipend would be approximately $1,869.89 per month or $22,438.68 per annum. That equates to 28% of final compensation, not the 78% that the writer decries.
Tom January 16, 2013 at 04:26 pm
Good teachers of course matter and I think most of them are quite good. I have kids at SRVHS and…Read More CWMS and for the most part am pleased with how professional they are. Sometimes though we do run into a bad one. When that happens my kids are strong enough to work through it and be fine but the weakers ones suffer.
In our school system it is MUCH easier for the teachers because you have VERY involved parents. We are a team and work with eachother. I hate the teachers union but respect the teachers. I also think there are many things we could do to improve things for students and teachers but we lack the backbone to do it.
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