tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post6271817627242890766..comments2024-02-19T05:18:27.849-05:00Comments on <center>the Q at Parkside</center>: Parents of Pre-K & K kids. Don't Freak!Clarkson FlatBedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13463744536115119388noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-84650675052252164132016-03-28T13:16:46.771-04:002016-03-28T13:16:46.771-04:00Envigorated leadership at PS 375 would be worth 10...Envigorated leadership at PS 375 would be worth 10 wine shops and an equal number of bagel shops to this community. I say this as a highly interested resident. It takes serious leadership (Ms. Soto at 705 is one of them) and a cadre of idealistic and fearless parents (my kids are not zoned for 375). I'm happy to offer a discount at my store to all PTA officers at Jackie Robinson! The Snobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08651104992931398542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-27417215605150872812016-03-28T12:29:09.591-04:002016-03-28T12:29:09.591-04:00Anon 2:20.
It's kindergarten. Your child, my ...Anon 2:20.<br /><br />It's kindergarten. Your child, my child, all children, will be fine. Your baby will not be sucked down a rabbit hole of guns, gangs and mediocrity by sending your kids to your local school.<br /><br />That line of bullshit reasoning is why the schools don't integrate, and stay miserably fractured along class and race lines. You've placed all of government and society's problems at the doorstep of a bunch of 5 year-olds and their dedicated teachers. <br /><br />It can always be better, get better. But it won't, not with the likes of you, peddling alarmist nonsense based on fear and misinformation. Integrated schools are better schools, for parents AND kids, and as far as I'm concerned you can take your race-biased test results and cram 'em.Clarkson FlatBedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13463744536115119388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-34893793388555882472016-03-28T11:34:42.964-04:002016-03-28T11:34:42.964-04:00I meant pre kI meant pre kburgundynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-84367698365399676142016-03-28T11:34:12.041-04:002016-03-28T11:34:12.041-04:00I have a son at PS 375. He has Ben there since pr...I have a son at PS 375. He has Ben there since pre I.burgundynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-16815557948527237972016-03-24T14:28:33.835-04:002016-03-24T14:28:33.835-04:00Hey Q...still waiting for your series on being an ...Hey Q...still waiting for your series on being an involved NYC public ed parent!elbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673377630095173929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-43026130210682370262016-03-24T14:20:22.197-04:002016-03-24T14:20:22.197-04:00A quick look tells me that 25% of PS 375 kids met ...A quick look tells me that 25% of PS 375 kids met Statewide math standards, and 11% met Statewide English standards.<br />The NYC School rating system tries to skew ratings of academically dismal schools upward by weighting such intangibles as "leadership" and "cooperative" environment.<br />I appreciate that one may want to help a failing school, but things like a "cooperative environment" don't quite replace in my book, and I think for most parents, the fundamentals of being able to provide quality instruction. <br /><br />I also understand that there's a "you first" problem: whereby things in a failing school are not likely to turn around until a critical mass of kids from highly-educated parents go there, unless the NYC Education system is drastically restructured.<br />But being "first" comes with real world consequences.<br />Selfish? I don't know about that. Is is my job to the fireman, policeman and social worker for my neighbor?<br />There are some "jobs" (such as making a school a safe, academically rigorous environment) that I think we have a right to expect our elected government (and generous tax dollars) to do.<br />I am not necessarily required to my myself, or more accurately, my children in danger of lowering their quality of life, because my government is not doing its job.<br />Really, we should fire all the politicians until they break the unions and other political insiders who perpetuate a culture of incompetence and waste.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com