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Waldo · **Joined:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:00 am **Posts:** 258

what a piece of community news it is huh? Here was an update on their front page online version today:

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Schools closed
Published: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:51 AM EST
Eastbrook, Madison-Grant, Mississinewa and Oak Hill schools are closed today, Wednesday, Feb. 10.

That was about 10 minutes before they were to start after having a 2 hour delay today. :roll:

The 3 Indy TV networks had the delays on last night why couldn't the c-t have reported the delays when they print or upload about 2am?

Oh BTW WBAT just annouced all those county school listed above are on a 2 hour delay for Thursday Feb. 11th. Nothing on the c-t page updates for that. :lol:

Waldo · **Joined:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:00 am **Posts:** 258

Let me see a show of hands on how the C-T has helped it's city school. Other than sponsoring the annual spelling bee which they no longer do.

The key to Indiana's education problems are to cut superintendents, principals, admin staff's salaries! Then use that excess money for educational/teaching materials or programs for the students. Put a little shaking in the teacher's boots that they can and will be replaced if they are not teaching with positive results. Stop the "no child left behind" law we've pushed them through now they can't graduate because they can't pass a 10th grade test! :roll:

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We will still get to the top
http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/articl ... 835498.txt
Published: Monday, March 8, 2010 1:09 AM EST
Indiana was not chosen to be among the 16 states that made the cut to receive Race to the Top funding from the Obama administration.

It would have been great to have rated better with the U.S. Department of Education for the work of reforming public schools. A portion of $4.6 billion was at stake. Indiana was one of 40 states to apply in Phase 1 of the competition. The announcement was made Friday.

The effort of Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett to reform Indiana’s public schools, however, has been good and has included many actions that the administration in Washington has given lip service. They include developing a common evaluation form for teachers, removing low-performing teachers and evaluating schools based on the performance of their graduates.

We are moving to a real-world model of success, and our children will benefit.

Bennett said our effort at reform will continue, unabated by the lack of federal support.

“Indiana’s Fast Forward reform plan is more than just our Race to the Top application — it’s our reform agenda for the next three years,” Bennett said. “My goals have been the same since I took office. Race to the Top doesn’t change those goals. The scope and trajectory of reform will remain aggressive despite the results of Race to the Top.”

We agree, and believe that Bennett has set our state’s schools on a path that, if we are consistent in pursuing the goals over years, will lead us to the top in education, current school funding issues notwithstanding.

Now, we have been presented with the challenge of getting there faster than those states deemed more deserving by the administration.

We’ll take that challenge and believe we will win.

innocentbystander · **Joined:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:09 am **Posts:** 450

PARENTS are the first line of defense in our children's education. Many forget that and the state has continually lowered the standard of excellence.

Indiana has fallen behind many other states because they still cling to a deep south Jim Crow mentality right here in the midwest. I have said before that IN would sit nicely right between AL and MS. Check out their education statistics. It is rampant even more so here in Grant Co. Keep folks poor-it is much easier to control the masses that way. Education geared to a career in the fast food industry.

No matter what comes of this Fast Forward idea in the state, Marion's education results have been such a disaster, they may never catch up. No one has actually cared about its failure in a long, long time. It is much easier to blame teachers.

A good start would be to hold parents accountable for their responsibility in seeing that their children are on the right path to becoming productive members of society.

joefansler · **Joined:** Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:07 am **Posts:** 564

it is no coin-inky-dinky that the areas that are highly conservative and highly faith based are the poorest economically and have the least education.

Marion Indiana was given the opportunity to bring in high grade PHD students from some of the best Universities in the world-to adress the problems in education---BUT---
the city and those who are paid by the city made a deliberate effort to kill any opportunity of letting this happen-even to the point of calling local businesses to avoid any business with us--.

in the end--it is the people's fault for hiring these scumbags who cannot get a job at burger king--yet they get paid 6 fgures to rob the coffer~!

but again---the greatest burden on America are the areas that 'claim' to hate government most--and yet take the most from it and give the least to it!
marion's education system was good at one time---when the city is led by the ignorant and least educated---why should we expect them to be able to do more?
what do you want from a pig but a grunt?

Waldo · **Joined:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:00 am **Posts:** 258

innocentbystander wrote:

A good start would be to hold parents accountable for their responsibility in seeing that their children are on the right path to becoming productive members of society.

You are correct but what are we going to do when the parents are not productive members? They can't teach something they have never had a desire to learn.

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