Our Economy Now Effects Our Children's Future....

[princessturtle]

actually the teacher next door had a good point. i'm not a first grade teacher, nor am i responsible for the aims testing. so why should i care? noone else does.

[Gene]

My kids 4 and 2 can both count to 100 and know their ABC's. My son can spell & right his name. He also and knows his letters. Yea, i taught him that.

[ThePunisher95]

actually the teacher next door had a good point. i'm not a first grade teacher, nor am i responsible for the aims testing. so why should i care? noone else does.

Cuz your job is being a teacher and teaching kids whatever the school or state tells you to teach

[princessturtle]

Cuz your job is being a teacher and teaching kids whatever the school or state tells you to teach

i was being very sarcastic if u didn't pick that up. if i ever don't care, i told myself i'd find another career where caring doesn't matter.

[Jacostang]

[1966PonyGirl]

No No No!!! Do not let the "Government" do anymore than they have to.. The Senate and House are full of the worst examples that we have of social and fiscal responsibility.
Read to yor kids and teach them right from wrong and thats a good start.

Jaco is right. if anything, the government WANTS your kids to be stupid. sooooooo much easier to control the slow and ignorant.

remember folks, spay and neuter your kids if you want the system to raise them!

[IMSHAKN]

I have no problem with half day kindergarten. Hell, I think I turned out fine and that's all I went through. Took all honors and AP classes. Started freshman year of college with 34 credit hours since I took calculus and whatnot in high school. Four years later and I'm about to graduate with a BS in Molecular Biosciences and Biotechnology. Can't say it impacted me negatively as I think that kind of degree speaks for itself. Most of my friends who did well in school didn't do full day either.

I'm sorry you feel that AIMS is so damn difficult and that meeting its standards are tough. I've got news for those who've never taken those tests, educators make them up to be harder than they really are. If a child cannot pass those tests I think they should be held back until they can and that if a school as a whole is failing as a whole that they should be held accountable.

As far as the parents not teaching their kids anything goes, not all parents are like that. At the same time, it's not hard to whip kids into line. You have to be firm and it's not terribly difficult, you just have to be firm with them rather than constantly trying to be their friend and give into them like many parents and teachers do.

The whole school system is not going to fail because of budget cuts, the sky isn't falling. Honestly I think schools have needed this for quite some time as there are a lot of unnecessary costs in many of the public schools and they could use their budget trimmed. I hope that with the budget cuts that school districts take a step back and really get a hold of their budgets. (Same goes for ASU...they REALLY need to fix their shitty budget. One of the highest paid presidents for what, a crappy school)

[princessturtle]

From what I know, and I could be wrong, you didn't graduate from AZ schools... And AIMS is specific to Arizona and the AIMS that you may have taken wasn't the same as this AIMS. AIMS- ARIZONA instrument for measuring standards. AIMS was reconfigured probably after you took it, if you did. The first version of AIMS was too easy to pass, so the state decided they needed to change it. Statistics say that it should get a bell curve result on scores. So AZ made sure it got the bell curve. Yes schools should be held accountable, but more so then the schools is the individual teachers. There's some horrible teachers. For the past 2 years I've been stuck with teachers next door that can't meet standards and have a tendency to scream at their students all day.

So if schools need budget cuts, why are so many teachers barely getting paid and many schools in the phoenix metro area thinking about bankruptcy? The Roosevelt School District alone cut several teachers after the beginning of the year due to budgets and there are classes with over 40 kinder students in them. Cartwright School District is closing 5 of their schools next year, including their preschool.

You sure have a ****y attitude about how to deal with a child considering you have none of your own.

I love how people talk about shit that they have absolutely no clue about.

[princessturtle]

Honestly I think schools have needed this for quite some time as there are a lot of unnecessary costs in many of the public schools and they could use their budget trimmed. I hope that with the budget cuts that school districts take a step back and really get a hold of their budgets.

Here's the perfect quote for you.

At issue is $120 million in excess-utilities funding for school districts, which the state could tap as early as July.
Cuts would force districts including Mesa Public Schools, Paradise Valley Unified and Scottsdale Unified to make millions of dollars of cuts just to cover electricity bills. And it's likely to affect the classroom, with districts having to increase class sizes and eliminate some teaching positions and programs to make up the difference.

realize also that classrooms typically have 25-40 students depending on the budget and need of the district as well as grade level.

[Bandit]