Yeah, the one skeevy thing bout the $125K teachers is the projected class size is 30 kids. Which...ew. Even if they're awesome teachers, I feel like that's not that great for the kids.
The whole earth may be sucked into Hell, and you want my help 'cause your girlfriend's a big ho?
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Mar 08, 2008 5:32:23 pm PST #3781 of 10001
megan walker - Mar 08, 2008 5:33:22 pm PST #3782 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
From Kat's link:
In place of a menu of electives to round out the core curriculum, all students will take music and Latin. Period.
Love this. Although this is probably my favorite quote from that article:
Ernest A. Logan, president of the city principals’ union, called the notion of paying the principal less than the teachers “the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.”
Kat - Mar 08, 2008 5:34:00 pm PST #3783 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I LOVE that idea, Allyson. I think I will have paper so people can just write them on the fly here.
Maybe a poem... this is cribbed from somewhere else:
Noah and Grace have stuff galore
In our house we can barely fit some more
They'll be grateful when they turn 18
If you'd like to donate some college "green"
Steph L. - Mar 08, 2008 5:34:59 pm PST #3784 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I think my blonde, pale-assed self would have difficulty blending in.
Dios mio!
One of these days, I swear I will fucking learn to eat before my blood sugar goes crashing through the floor.
You know what's fun, in a totally NOT kind of way? A full-on, got-the-shakes, sweating-and-pale blood sugar crash *during sex.*
Ayup. Last night, as a matter of fact, if I may overshare.
Worst. Timing. Ever.
Pix - Mar 08, 2008 5:36:13 pm PST #3785 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Yeah, the one skeevy thing bout the $125K teachers is the projected class size is 30 kids. Which...ew. Even if they're awesome teachers, I feel like that's not that great for the kids.Sadly, that's a small class size for many public schools.
Kat - Mar 08, 2008 5:37:36 pm PST #3786 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I was just going to say that 30 kids, at least for 6th and 7th where there isn't class reduction in CA, is a totally manageable small class. 35 is the norm. 38 isn't unheard of. And in PE, 60-80 kids is usual.
meara - Mar 08, 2008 5:40:51 pm PST #3787 of 10001
...yeah, and that's too many!! I had a lot of classes in even high school that were so much better with 20, or 25. (And the best were the random advanced level classes with like, 12 people in them, but i realize that's not frequent or likely...) And that was high school!
Laura - Mar 08, 2008 5:41:05 pm PST #3788 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
The poem is quite cute, Kat. It was wonderful to read earlier that Grace is spending time off the vent. Go Grace!
Soothing thoughts for all the swollen and bruised folks.
I'm watching Graham Norton. I really should turn off the tube and go to bed. Risking odd dreams for sure. I've only seen him a couple times before. Just too lazy to channel surf after Torchwood.
Kat - Mar 08, 2008 5:43:28 pm PST #3789 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The reality is, though, that a shitty teacher with only 16 kids (and I know of one who is teaching that many kids now) is actually much worse for those kids than a very skilled teacher with 30.
Pix - Mar 08, 2008 5:45:54 pm PST #3790 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I am so glad that I spent eight years in public school before switching to private. I get paid less, but in a school where we teach four classes as a full-time load, people fret at their "big" classes...of 18 students. Very glad I have some perspective.
There's a reason parents pay such a ridonkulous amount of money to send their kids to private schools, but it make me crazy that they have to do so. The thing is, as a high school English teacher, I have never been able to be the reading and writing teacher that I am now. Having a total student load of 60-80 allows me to give writing feedback and individual attention I could never have done when I was still teaching in public school. We teachers (and I am no exception) get scornful about how easy private school teachers have it and how we can handle huge student loads when we have to...but if everyone English teacher could have this situation, imagine what a difference it would make to literacy in America.
Sorry, ranting.