tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post8718686416013813471..comments2023-08-24T05:24:51.011-04:00Comments on PURE Reform: Instability in school leadershipQuestionerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349071186140766778noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-32085671483301758262015-02-03T07:43:47.696-05:002015-02-03T07:43:47.696-05:00
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And your energy,ideas, beliefs, commitment...<br />11:07<br /><br />And your energy,ideas, beliefs, commitment and actions have produced what exactly ?<br /><br />Criticism is often times advocacy if one is receptive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-20820985144989426072015-02-03T07:20:44.945-05:002015-02-03T07:20:44.945-05:00Would there be A Samuel Adams or a John Hancock, w...<br />Would there be A Samuel Adams or a John Hancock, within the small black community, willing to put there names in signature to a"Declaration for Education" detailing PPS's failure to do so for the last 15 years. Question mark.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-64995284880669992382015-02-03T06:19:12.109-05:002015-02-03T06:19:12.109-05:00
Obviously there is a problem within the Black com...<br />Obviously there is a problem within the Black community 12:08 and until they are able to raise there voices publicly to address the failure of PPS to educate the under-served children, their silence will be deafening to all. The courage to move beyond blood ties is the stuff of Leaders.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-89914380509839206692015-02-02T15:04:13.625-05:002015-02-02T15:04:13.625-05:00Whose "playbook" must be "thrown ou...Whose "playbook" must be "thrown out"?<br /><br />If you are not PPS, you can't throw out the PPS playbook?<br /><br />Same is true of any other group with a playbook!<br /><br />When those who have a "playbook" that benefits them (not their constituents) they will not throw it out.<br /><br />It can only be thrown out if it yours to throw out!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-71363604110142666652015-02-02T12:08:39.779-05:002015-02-02T12:08:39.779-05:00Thank you 11:26 for being unassuming.
11:07___ As...<br />Thank you 11:26 for being unassuming.<br /><br />11:07___ As long as there is an 'unwritten' playbook that silences the folks that can best speak for the under-served children it will be what it is. <br /><br />Solution: Throw out the playbook. Exclamation point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-22748107627254137302015-02-02T11:26:43.331-05:002015-02-02T11:26:43.331-05:009:24 may well be taking action in addition to shar...9:24 may well be taking action in addition to sharing thoughts and information on the blog, just as 11:07 is presumably doing.Questionerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04349071186140766778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-63950639195108026942015-02-02T11:07:06.316-05:002015-02-02T11:07:06.316-05:009:24, no one is disagreeing with you, not at all, ...9:24, no one is disagreeing with you, not at all, but WHY? Where are you? What are you doing? And don't come with a problem, or complaint, or dire prediction . . . .COME WITH A SOLUTION!<br /><br />Or get on board with someone else's solution?<br /><br />The lack of energy, ideas, beliefs, commitment, action are counterproductive. Get out of the words on this blog and DO SOMETHING! Don't be part of the problem!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-24135991672889693152015-02-02T09:24:12.745-05:002015-02-02T09:24:12.745-05:00Lots of folks, lots of voices, lots of actions hav...<br />Lots of folks, lots of voices, lots of actions haven't amounted to any significant, substantive , meaningful opposition to the agenda at hand. Period.<br /><br />It will be another 15 years and more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-15851812212653485032015-02-01T14:06:31.177-05:002015-02-01T14:06:31.177-05:00Hope that you are right 11:30. It's hard to b...Hope that you are right 11:30. It's hard to believe that no one has emerged over the last 10 years. <br /><br />Leaders have been needed for the last 15 years. Why have they not emerged? Are YOU saying they were NOT NEEDED?<br /><br />Hmmm???. "Learders . . . .emerge when needed" ?????? lAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-34213648802589772122015-02-01T13:37:20.431-05:002015-02-01T13:37:20.431-05:006:39 - Not sure where you are coming from, but whe...6:39 - Not sure where you are coming from, but whether you know it or not, there are folks, lots of folks, engaged in the struggle, with lots of voices, and lots of actions. As has been repeated here many times, the PG is not likely to cover any of this because the PG is a part of the PPS PR machine that is so generously funded by Gates & Broad.<br /><br />Where is your voice, 6:39? Sorry, it here! Right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-77386469258737226172015-02-01T11:30:39.370-05:002015-02-01T11:30:39.370-05:00
Leaders are born not trained. They emerge when ne...<br />Leaders are born not trained. They emerge when needed. When they emerge the followship/fellowship will appear and form the frontlines.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-87341678410065590022015-02-01T08:17:25.957-05:002015-02-01T08:17:25.957-05:00In "The Sons of Liberty" ( relevant curr...<br />In "The Sons of Liberty" ( relevant curricula across all content areas in this Blog ) Samuel Adams, John Hancock and their like were' willing to lose their moneys and positions of power and life itself ' for the right to decide their own path____free from the British Empire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-15296914397567597662015-02-01T07:29:45.723-05:002015-02-01T07:29:45.723-05:00Take the 'struggle' out of the communities...<br />Take the 'struggle' out of the communities that struggle to exist and you take from them the very thing that will motivate change. Broad, Gates, The Promise , free community colleges , the sheer excess of money flowing has tainted any hope of 'pure' reform. If there are leaders out there....they will emerge from the 'struggle'...or not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-30497222060062642022015-02-01T06:39:27.743-05:002015-02-01T06:39:27.743-05:00Outside ( of PPS ):
There is seemingly no lone voi...Outside ( of PPS ):<br />There is seemingly no lone voice in the wilderness...not even a faint drum beat for change from two or more persons...not alone a united Pittsburgh to set education right for all the children. Other than this Blog there has not been anyone or group of persons, willing to make the case in any meaningful way for public consumption and debate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-58204374098795216622015-01-31T12:29:39.017-05:002015-01-31T12:29:39.017-05:00The straight-forward honesty of Anonymous' ope...The straight-forward honesty of Anonymous' opening comment posted 1st by Questioner is refreshing! <br /><br />BROAD, as well as Gates, are a problem that is much deeper and more serious than anyone imagines.<br /><br />What, specifically, gives the poster hope that PPS is beginning to recognize the problem; and, it is a Pittsburgh problem that the BROAD infiltration is it seems subliminally undermining all efforts to restore this District to one that serves ALL children better than charters--- and even private schools in times past. However, those times are clearly the PAST and there does not seem to be a united effort from the outside (of PPS) to set education right for Pittsburgh kids.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-32894627005585239992015-01-25T15:08:32.458-05:002015-01-25T15:08:32.458-05:00A year or two later when they get to college or a ...A year or two later when they get to college or a job and they zone out it will be their problem. It is the rare college professor or employer who will feel they need to be more entertaining than a video game or a soccer coach (that's why work is work- it can be fun sometimes, but it's never going to be play).Questionerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04349071186140766778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-25419785856209813172015-01-25T14:59:59.994-05:002015-01-25T14:59:59.994-05:00PAY ATTENTION PPS BOARD, SUPERINTENDENT, and DEPUT...PAY ATTENTION PPS BOARD, SUPERINTENDENT, and DEPUTY!!! and TAKE HEED!!!<br /><br /> “Walk through a typical public school and you see students sitting in rows of identical desks listening to teachers talk. Unless the teacher is particularly inspiring, half of the students are zoning out. This isn’t just a problem for teachers, half of whom leave the profession within their first five years. It’s also a problem for their pupils: Disengaged teenagers do not make the best students.” by David Osborne<br /><br /><br />http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2015/01/25/Let-teachers-run-the-schools-they-engage-the-students-and-show-results/stories/201501250070<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-86464046748544152532015-01-24T16:54:55.095-05:002015-01-24T16:54:55.095-05:00Curious postgazette yet report when a PPS STUDENT(...Curious postgazette yet report when a PPS STUDENT(S) fight,beat up teacher or principal any VIOLENT they always say stop the PRESS HOT NEWS ARTICLE happen at PPS this situation would never happen at any other major cities now have the BROAD/Gates GAZETTE<br />PAPER that is amazing article keep disappearing we should BOYCOTT the Post Gazette <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-18281164498155959992015-01-24T12:27:07.238-05:002015-01-24T12:27:07.238-05:00The best thing to do would be to contact the lette...The best thing to do would be to contact the letters page (E-mail: letters@post-gazette.com) and let them know about the problem.Questionerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04349071186140766778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-38540764589012723612015-01-24T12:12:00.775-05:002015-01-24T12:12:00.775-05:00@11:14.... It is gone now@11:14.... It is gone nowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-47056547268777632842015-01-24T12:01:51.781-05:002015-01-24T12:01:51.781-05:0011:14
It's gone. Everything you post to it di...11:14<br /><br />It's gone. Everything you post to it disappears.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-28815377716464089152015-01-24T11:14:04.940-05:002015-01-24T11:14:04.940-05:00My comment posted.My comment posted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-36410292659193742122015-01-24T09:59:34.961-05:002015-01-24T09:59:34.961-05:00An 'opinion' piece citing the evidence wou...An 'opinion' piece citing the evidence would be powerful...but again a signature is required. Anonymity validates nothing. Courage is needed here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-8073026598732427742015-01-24T09:49:16.864-05:002015-01-24T09:49:16.864-05:00Don't forget that PPS Director of Human Resour...Don't forget that PPS Director of Human Resources is married to a Post Gazette front office person!<br /><br />That would seem to be why the PG is less than objective in what is reported about PPS-----and especially anything about personnel.<br /><br />All of this is being OVERSEEN by Broad/Gates! PPS confers with them on a REGULAR basis!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49258804305307213.post-57819881217368575972015-01-24T09:35:13.298-05:002015-01-24T09:35:13.298-05:009:04
Does anyone have the courage to put this info...<br />9:04<br />Does anyone have the courage to put this information into a 'Letter to the Editor' or an Op-Ed piece and summit it to the PG ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com