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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:29 AM
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What Do You Think Of This?
I'd just like your opinion. That is all.

http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2010/04/new_charter_school_coming_to_p.html


My opinion: I don't like it, most of it anyway.
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:35 AM
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1. Explain what you don't like...
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:40 AM
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2. Reading through it, it sure sounds good to me... n/t
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 10:29 AM
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3. Sounds good except for not being a public school. nt
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tonysam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 10:34 AM
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4. When it comes to education, anything that Obama is involved in, directly or indirectly,
I'm against. Even if it has his name on it.

Fuck charter schools.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 10:43 AM
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mzteris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 07:48 AM
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9. You didn't like Obama when he was in the primaries.
You've never liked Obama. You will never like Obama if he walked on water and single-handedly saved the world. And it had/has nothing to do with his "education policies" - or any other policy.


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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:03 PM
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6. Wow. Is this the first school named after Obama?
Sadly significant that it's a charter.
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:41 PM
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7. You Got That Right (nt)
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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 05:14 PM
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10. Actually, there's a "Barack Obama Academy" up in Oakland, Ca. n/t
That school is actually the first school named after the president.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 01:42 AM
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8.  "pitting it against the high school"
“Kids’ll be eating healthier,” she said. “But I don’t like the idea of pitting it against the high school.”

Plainfield students would have a choice between the charter school and the high school as they enter ninth grade.

The charter high school will have to face the board again if it wants to add an 11th grade for its students next year according to its plan.
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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 05:16 PM
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11. Good idea, but misguided.
As I usually say about charter schools. So the school system wants to get the kids off junk food--well why not just tighten nutritional standards at the public school level? And the YMCA where this school will be built is not "zoned"? I don't really feel comfortable right now about that. I guess a lot of wannabe hippies will attend this "green" charter school haha.
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 10:05 PM
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12. I like many of the concepts behind this
but I question how practical it is. As a teacher, I would have problems taking public transportation. There are a lot of days where I am bringing so many supplies or so much equipment to or from home that I can't get everything from my car to the building in one trip. If I am hauling something heavy (over 50 pounds, often) sometimes I have to go in, get a cart, and load supplies from my car to the cart to get it inside.

I would not like being coerced into taking public transportation, it would affect what I would be able to do in the classroom.

If the school is located in an area with violence (sounds like it is), I wouldn't be comfortable with my child having to take public transportation. When my daughter had to walk home from middle school, she was sexually harassed by men along the way every single day.

I don't think school officials are aware of those issues, particularly if the officials are men who haven't experienced street harassment as a routine part of their daily life.

I do like the junk food policies. I understand that you can't impose that in a traditional public school because parents have the right to pack lunches for their students however they like, but for those who opt for the junk free environment so it isn't forced on them, I think it's a great thing. Typically where there are behavior problems, removing access to junk food reduces behavior problems.
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