Parents please know that public education is under attack and some of our elected officials are invested in building prison communities versus safe productive residential communities. Our schools have been set up to fail because education is freedom and for some reason some members of our society need to feel superior to others. limiting educational growth allows those who want to be superior the power to believe they are superior when in actuality they are oppressor. Our communities are being destroyed and the most damaging attack is closing public schools. For closing the school house closes resources that support growth of safe productive residential communities.
Parents we all want the best for our families. In obtaining the best for our families let's understand who we are partnering with and if that partnership is worth the gain. The School District of Philadelphia is under the direction of outsiders, people who could care less about Philadelphians or our future. More than anything that needs to change, we as parents and educators should be creating the direction of our public school houses. The School District of Philadelphia works for the citizens of Philadelphia, we have the power to fire those who do not work in our best interest.
The School District of Philadelphia under state control School Reform Commission has set out to destroy our community schools and set the school houses that were closed up to fail. Then misled parents with the development of charter schools. The original purpose of charter schools were to test different teaching methods in low performing school districts. If those teaching methods were able to educate the demographics then the methods would be incorporated into the public school system. New Orleans is now going back to the original intent of charter schools and their experimental teaching methods. http://forpubliced.blogspot.com/2015/02/charterschool-wars-learning-from.html
Parents we all want the best for our families. In obtaining the best for our families let's understand who we are partnering with and if that partnership is worth the gain. The School District of Philadelphia is under the direction of outsiders, people who could care less about Philadelphians or our future. More than anything that needs to change, we as parents and educators should be creating the direction of our public school houses. The School District of Philadelphia works for the citizens of Philadelphia, we have the power to fire those who do not work in our best interest.
The School District of Philadelphia under state control School Reform Commission has set out to destroy our community schools and set the school houses that were closed up to fail. Then misled parents with the development of charter schools. The original purpose of charter schools were to test different teaching methods in low performing school districts. If those teaching methods were able to educate the demographics then the methods would be incorporated into the public school system. New Orleans is now going back to the original intent of charter schools and their experimental teaching methods. http://forpubliced.blogspot.com/2015/02/charterschool-wars-learning-from.html
As a parent advocate i began advocating for resources for our schools. i volunteer in our schools because i believe that the school house is an extension of my home. we as parents educate our youth and look to educators to assist us in educating our youth. volunteering in the school house is the difference between great schools and failing schools. School budgets have always been limited, so the partnership between home and school is vital in advocating for the needs of our school house.
The charter school movement grew out of the frustration of parents and advocates who begged the school districts to provide our communities with developmentally appropriate learning facilities. The administrators ignored us for several reasons, the main reason being they were not capable of relating to the most vulnerable members of our society, their expectations for the most vulnerable has always been low. Charter schools took away the funds to provide the resources that were needed to reach the most vulnerable members of our society. Charter schools were promoted as gaining private education, gassing low income families into believing they will receive a $15 to $25,000 educational program when in actuality they were given the same educational program under private management. Charter schools don't address the needs of the demographics and are failing much like the district schools before them. We don't need fancy schools or corporate america molding the most vulnerable members of our society to slave for corporate america. We need the needs of the demographics to be addressed. We need educational opportunities that allow our students and teachers to explore and learn, not be treated as robots. Education is a human right and we should get that in law.
Using the Restroom: A Privilege—If You’re a Teacher
Educators seldom have enough time to do their business. What’s that doing to the state of learning?
Janet Bergan VanLone Pregnancy adds a whole new dimension to this!
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Michelle V Carasco I will walk to the restroom as soon as the bell rings. The students can wait at the door. I simply lock it because I'm not responsible for them until they enter my room. I used to be at the mercy of available peers. I got tired of near accidents and staining my clothes . Teachers are too passive and administration doesn't appreciate our sacrifices.
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Camilla Spadafino Now our bathroom habits will be discussed and there's no end to the humiliation
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Stephanie Casella Brennan I also have to go every hour, and we have hour-long block classes. I will have my kids lined up at the door right before the bell rings, usher them out, lock the door, race to bathroom, race back. .and I'm lucky the bathroom is a quick walk (shuffle qu...See More
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Principal Commits Suicide Because of Standardize Test
Who is controlling our Pennsylvania Budget?
The Goal Of Education Reform Is To Exert Power And Control Over All
National Parent Strike
Parents Black and White
We Have To Unite
Public Education is being attacked
Parents we are missing from this fight
We Cannot Go Back
Freedom Is Our Sight
Parents We Are Up to Bat
Education Should Be Our Human Right
Parents divided let's defeat that tactic
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Parents Teachers Partnership equal a strong PAC
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Parents lets learn the facts
Create our kites for
Education that gives life
Stop the rape on the most
vulnerable backs
Parents Let's Take a Bite
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Parents We Must Unite
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With All Our Might
Parents WE REALLY NEED To Unite
http://home.wcasd.net/pages/
July 23, 2015
Dear Parents,
Earlier this month, the PA Department of Education announced that the number of students passing the Pennsylvania System of Student Assessment (PSSA) test is significantly lower than last year. That is because the test was changed last year to reflect assessment of the new academic standards implemented in 2013 (PA’s version of Common Core). To read the letter from the PA Secretary of Education, Pedro Rivera, please click here.
I am writing to inform you that we anticipate West Chester scores to be significantly lower than last year, as well. Typically our scores are among the highest in the state, and I expect them to remain high relative to state averages. However, the state anticipates that 70% of its 8th grade students will not be considered proficient in math and 41% of its 4th grade students will not be proficient in Reading. Here is a table summarizing information released by the PA Department of Education:
Percentage of Students Scoring Basic or Below Basic on PSSA (i.e. they did not pass the test!)
When we do receive results, we will release them to our community along with our interpretation of these assessments. We anticipated the test scores to be lower due to the changes in the test, but we did not expect the PSSA to reflect as drastic a change as what has been reported by the state.
While the PSSA has been one measure of assessing student progress in PA since 1999. I believe the number of tests and the time we are devoting to them is excessive, and the manner in which the state is using them is often not helpful or fair. We need to continue to work with our legislators to make changes. I am working to do that and will continue to send our school community communications about those efforts.
Thanks for everyone’s time and patience as we navigate yet another change to our state assessment system.
Sincerely,
Dr. Jim Scanlon
Superintendent, West Chester Area School District
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Left-Right Alliance for Education
We oppose the CCSSI because it continues the failed education reforms of the past and violates privacy rights as it builds a system for centrally managed student training for the future workforce of the “Global Economy.” This central goal will dismantle liberal arts education, which most contributes to the development of mature thinkers who are prepared to thrive in any chosen life path and sustain a free civilization. http://www.lrallianceforeducation.org/p/common-opposition-on-common-core.html
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