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NYC_SKP

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2. A Hot Mess....

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 02:14 PM

Jun 2014

I've no personal experience with big city districts, except for SF Unified, but what I hear about CPS and NY is very discouraging.

This person, Karen Lewis, sounds like a bit of a nut with behaviors unfitting even a middle school student, much less an adult in a position of power.

I'm glad to work with schools, but just around the edges, from the outside.

I know what goes on behind the scenes and sometimes it's remarkably good and other times it's downright criminal.

K/R

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this is not my rant. this is the rant from a psyche worker in chicago public schools. karen lewis. [View all] mopinko Jun 2014 OP

I don't know enough about this particular situation to opine on enlightenment Jun 2014 #1

but i think it is important to remember this fact- compulsory education mopinko Jun 2014 #3

Like I said, I don't know enough to opine - enlightenment Jun 2014 #6

A Hot Mess.... NYC_SKP Jun 2014 #2

i think i am pretty invisible here. mopinko Jun 2014 #4

I subscribe to this group but rarely check in. NYC_SKP Jun 2014 #5

Corporate apologist bullshit. eridani Jul 2014 #7

there is no corporation here. just 2 moms on the ground. mopinko Jul 2014 #8

So your two moms don't think that poor kids deserve libraries or counselors? n/t eridani Jul 2014 #9

called a false equivalence mopinko Jul 2014 #10

Which you fix by closing their libraries? n/t eridani Jul 2014 #11

which you fix by closing half empty schools mopinko Jul 2014 #12

Baloney. Central office determines the budget for each school. proud2BlibKansan Jul 2014 #13

and what would be the percentage of teachers nationwide? mopinko Jul 2014 #14

and most librarians here are paid out of chapter one funds mopinko Jul 2014 #15

Do not agree! lunasun Jul 2014 #16

well, a slightly more in depth conversation is what i was hoping for. mopinko Jul 2014 #17