Thursday, April 19, 2012

Still too many schools?

On another post Anonymous wrote: "NEW POST from Today's PG: Her ( J. French) educated answer isn't about money April 19, 2012 12:00 am By Brian O'Neill / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/brian-oneill/her-educated-answer-isnt-about-money-631987/"

5 comments:

Questioner said...

"She figures if the system can save a million bucks, it can better spend that elsewhere"...

They key words are, "the system"; when you do something in one part of the system effects are felt elsewhere. Like kids choose charters and the PPS system loses money.

Questioner said...

And anyway, who's to say that money isn't best spent on a schedule that will make teens healthier, happier and more alert in school because it is better aligned with their biologic clocks?

Anonymous said...

Gotta wonder if the $ spent fighting fadzen could have been better spent elsewhere.

Anonymous said...

We can save thousands by terminating the contracts of useless, needless staff members like her. She has no impact on teaching and apparently has one role: to critique teachers.
Let me get this straight: this is an individual who never spent a second in front of a classroom and who learned all she needs to know about teachers from her mother.

How pathetic.

Pittsburghers, this is your tax dollar at work.

Anonymous said...

I bet Dr, French is re-evaluating what she said over while having that cup of coffee. It's amazing that folks who had no or minimal experience in the classroom yet alone in a school as a VP or Principal have all of the answers on what constitutes quality teaching. If they are master teachers, then let each one of them teach a specific class in a challenging school with average students and let's have them be RISE'd by a their colleagues. I know that would never happen because none of them would be up for the challenge and their would be no class that a school psychologist would be authorized to teach in our schools. Okay then, let's assign Dr. French to Westinghouse, UPrep, Faison or MLK as principal and see how she tackles the issues of low academic performance, student attendance, school discipline, staff development and teacher evaluation. I'm betting she would not be one of the top performing principals on pay for performance. They say wisdom comes with age and experience. Too bad our leaders lack significant classroom and school administrative experience. And they're leading us?