Tag: Education
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How heavy is that water you are carrying?
In the latest case of sock-puppetry, the bad Kathy Cox, made comments after Sonny did what the Georgia General Assembly needed him to do… You and I both know that the legislature did NOT do everything they needed to do. They could have come back. They could have cut corporate graft, er, tax cuts. They…
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Beth wants to be Super.
Beth Farokhi is throwing her hat into the ring for the upcoming State School Superintendent election in 2010. Join her on July 6th for her kickoff announcement at the Square in Marietta at 11:00 am. If you care about education in Georgia and are looking for a candidate with the qualifications AND common sense to…
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I am going to reinvent the wheel and patent it…
I will call it the roamer. I will insist that everyone around me refer to these new wheels as roamers. People will get their degrees on the efficiency, synergy, and collaborative effort of multiple roamers working together, thereby investing themselves in the concept. Those who refuse to use the proper jargon will be ostracized, get…
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Teachers: No thanks needed… or coming.
The school year is over and we teachers are decompressing… if we can afford to. As for a job well done, well, according to Kathy Cox, we just needed a little focus for success… and it was the administrators who led us there. Or did they??? In other news: It is bad enough that they…
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Another Black Eye for Georgia Education
Between one of the state’s largest school districts temporarily losing its accreditation, to our inability to implement an evaluation system that actually works, to our inability to keep track of the students that we spend so much effort and energy trying to evaluate, to a financial crunch that will leave many teachers, administrators, and other…