At the very least, people who use the product are advertising the product, even if just to their coworkers.
If I install MyNewDB, and explain to my coworkers or other IT people I know why it is so much better than MyOldDB, then I am contributing by spreading the word about how great MyNewDB is.
Considering only one demographic, Native Americans in Mississippi, is under the 20, and all are above the typical age of majority, 18, what is your point about teenagers?
P.S. And autistic or learning handicapped kids don't count in the testing if they require accommodations. They still have to take the test, but they are not in the scoring average for the school
Well, as the parent of a mildly autistic kid... if he can meet the academic requirements, yes, they do. A severely autistic kid would not benefit in a charter school, since it is all about academics, so what is the point?
And at least in California, those costs are passed to/paid by the district, not the individual school.
But I did not mention the gender, so, just a clarification.
During my HS experience, which was actually a private school, the same problem occurred. First 2 years, a near retiree competently finishing out his job, then a year of a fantastic principal who really revved up the school...
Then he was in a car accident, and they replaced him with a real idiot, who made the last year a real sucky one.
Um, we do that here already. Condoms and free birth control pills are ridiculously easy to get, and even cheap if you have to pay for them ($12 for the pill at Walmart. Get them while they last, its like 2 trips to Starbucks!)
They don't cherry pick the students, the students cherry pick the school. They turn students away because there is more demand then there is supply, but school is not a "business" so there is no incentive to meet the demand.
Why bother? It is a legislated "product" that you must buy, regardless of quality or fit for purpose.
If you had to buy computers, phones, and software like that, you would be screaming to high hell about it.
I have found that what makes a good school here in a California school district is the PRINCIPAL.
Everything rolls down hill. Get good Principals and let them do something with the staff. Union Lifers who don't care are a problem at the school, but most of the teachers want to do their best and the Principal makes that happen.
My wife is the attendance clerk, our son attended, and it is amazing the transformation some kids who were "problem kids" at other schools turn around at our school. 2/3rds of the students have PERFECT attendance at mid year, and usually 1/3 to 1/2 maintain that year long. Far and beyond the average in the school district.
It is a high achieving school: President Blue Ribbon Title 1 distinguished school (NCUST) “Excellence in Education Award” 1 of 12 schools nationwide) many more that I am not listing for space.
despite being in a relatively poor area, there are kids that run the range in socio-economic and a broad multicultural background as well, roughly 50% of the kids are on some sort of assistance, 70% on WIC or similar program.
The only difference is the Principal, and yet there is never any focus on Principals
I find when I list three things, many commenters are fixating on 1 of the 3.
However, Money is the easiest to target, and it curtails the other two effectively.
Money is power. Control over money is also power, send that power back to the states and local government where we can actually pay attention and influence what government does.
And yet, the 20% want to cut is the only part that was originally intended for the Federal government to do. There is probably some in that last 20% too.
All that other stuff should be shunted down to the states, let them work out how to do it better, because they generally do.
We are a republic of republics, we should act like one.
Holy crap, you mean the truther's claim of the BBC announcing that Building 7 collapsed before it actually did is not proof of a government conspiracy... but of TIME TRAVELERS?!
You don't need to read the whole bible, you really need:
Genesis - Origin story and the 10 Commandments Psalms - Poetry and thoughts Matthew - The Beatitudes John - God as logic, Logos or the Word - The Fusion of Greek Philosophy and Christianity Romans - Salvation and taking the Word to the World Revelations: You need to understand where the idea of an Apocalypse comes from
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At the very least, people who use the product are advertising the product, even if just to their coworkers.
If I install MyNewDB, and explain to my coworkers or other IT people I know why it is so much better than MyOldDB, then I am contributing by spreading the word about how great MyNewDB is.
Considering only one demographic, Native Americans in Mississippi, is under the 20, and all are above the typical age of majority, 18, what is your point about teenagers?
Seems to be under control to me.
Thanks to zero tolerance, expelling kids is easy. Far easier than getting rid of crappy union teachers.
P.S. And autistic or learning handicapped kids don't count in the testing if they require accommodations. They still have to take the test, but they are not in the scoring average for the school
Well, as the parent of a mildly autistic kid... if he can meet the academic requirements, yes, they do. A severely autistic kid would not benefit in a charter school, since it is all about academics, so what is the point?
And at least in California, those costs are passed to/paid by the district, not the individual school.
She, actually.
But I did not mention the gender, so, just a clarification.
During my HS experience, which was actually a private school, the same problem occurred. First 2 years, a near retiree competently finishing out his job, then a year of a fantastic principal who really revved up the school...
Then he was in a car accident, and they replaced him with a real idiot, who made the last year a real sucky one.
If they went out into the schools, and picked students, that would be cherry picking.
If the students come to them, and they select some of them, that is not cherry picking. Public colleges do that today, so what?
See the difference?
And public schools don't have unlimited seats, you can be bused if your local school is full.
Um, we do that here already. Condoms and free birth control pills are ridiculously easy to get, and even cheap if you have to pay for them ($12 for the pill at Walmart. Get them while they last, its like 2 trips to Starbucks!)
And, as you can see here, the average is 25.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db21_table2.pdf
Maybe the problem is we have incentives to extend adolescence behavior.
They don't cherry pick the students, the students cherry pick the school.
They turn students away because there is more demand then there is supply, but school is not a "business" so there is no incentive to meet the demand.
Why bother? It is a legislated "product" that you must buy, regardless of quality or fit for purpose.
If you had to buy computers, phones, and software like that, you would be screaming to high hell about it.
Well, that does say a lot about him, just as he suggests.
I have found that what makes a good school here in a California school district is the PRINCIPAL.
Everything rolls down hill. Get good Principals and let them do something with the staff.
Union Lifers who don't care are a problem at the school, but most of the teachers want to do their best and the Principal makes that happen.
My wife is the attendance clerk, our son attended, and it is amazing the transformation some kids who were "problem kids" at other schools turn around at our school. 2/3rds of the students have PERFECT attendance at mid year, and usually 1/3 to 1/2 maintain that year long. Far and beyond the average in the school district.
It is a high achieving school:
President Blue Ribbon
Title 1 distinguished school
(NCUST) “Excellence in Education Award” 1 of 12 schools nationwide)
many more that I am not listing for space.
despite being in a relatively poor area, there are kids that run the range in socio-economic and a broad multicultural background as well, roughly 50% of the kids are on some sort of assistance, 70% on WIC or similar program.
The only difference is the Principal, and yet there is never any focus on Principals
Best history teacher I had made games out of big events:
Black Death (how to survive)
Empire building in the age of Columbus
Stock market crash of 1929
Really drove the points home.
How the hell are kids in Japan/China/whereever "beating" our children in school?
Oh right, rigorous testing.
I find when I list three things, many commenters are fixating on 1 of the 3.
However, Money is the easiest to target, and it curtails the other two effectively.
Money is power. Control over money is also power, send that power back to the states and local government where we can actually pay attention and influence what government does.
And yet, the 20% want to cut is the only part that was originally intended for the Federal government to do. There is probably some in that last 20% too.
All that other stuff should be shunted down to the states, let them work out how to do it better, because they generally do.
We are a republic of republics, we should act like one.
One of my fellow senior Architect's is going to the Watson Group.
35 years of working at IBM, starting age 17, he is Indelible Blue.
He is a hard assed, reality based, chop busting bastard, either he will keep them "real" or he will retire.
Will be interesting to see which way it goes.
The US government has never had the amount of technology, money, and laws to it's favor than any time before this, that is what is different.
"Governs least governs best" - it is time to shrink the Federal government and pull it's teeth by pulling the purse strings tight.
Holy crap, you mean the truther's claim of the BBC announcing that Building 7 collapsed before it actually did is not proof of a government conspiracy ... but of TIME TRAVELERS?!
OMG!
The radio drained the battery
Leviticus has the Hebrew law, so I guess they are fucked up too? Such intolerance.
To my knowledge, no christian sect follows the Hebrew laws, although a few like Seventh Day Adventists try.
Mostly Evangelical Christians look to the Pauline (who was a converted Jew, not the Apostle) letters, the most significant of which I listed.
Hence the observation that the tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
You don't need to read the whole bible, you really need:
Genesis - Origin story and the 10 Commandments
Psalms - Poetry and thoughts
Matthew - The Beatitudes
John - God as logic, Logos or the Word - The Fusion of Greek Philosophy and Christianity
Romans - Salvation and taking the Word to the World
Revelations: You need to understand where the idea of an Apocalypse comes from
"It Depends"
Aluminum is still very fatigue prone.
And there is nothing you can do about how it transmits vibration, they are going to have fun making the ride/noise level acceptable.
Gonna rattle like a tin can full of pebbles.
It is considerably easier with SMUD, which is not a traditional for profit electrical company.
It was a lot harder to justify Solar power however, as 19 cents a KW at tier 2 takes a long time to earn back.
Same issues with vintage motorcycles. Cleaning 4 carbs of ethanol/water "snot" and varnish every year is no fun.