tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141781.post7959107001290185669..comments2023-10-30T07:25:41.149-05:00Comments on The Real School Police: School Officials Call Poor Kids DumbRoxy the school police watch doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10665002851169935353noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141781.post-34932639275879479782009-03-22T15:15:00.000-05:002009-03-22T15:15:00.000-05:00My comments are well informed by you Moreno. Unli...My comments are well informed by you Moreno. Unlike you I am never motivated by irrational hatred and and my knowledge is right up there with yours old boy. So, keep on giving yourself brownie points and believe all you tell yourself. And yes I do have a particular country in mind. However I will not tell you, I'm afraid you would move there too. I stick by what I believe it takes to be a good teacher and nothing you can say will change my mind. You prove that you lack these qualities each time you comment about anything. However, you just keep on telling everyone just how wonderful you are and they can make up their own minds, just as I did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141781.post-68994831274558094822009-03-22T11:12:00.000-05:002009-03-22T11:12:00.000-05:00Your uninformed comments, motivated by irrational ...Your uninformed comments, motivated by irrational hatred rather than actual knowledge, are diametrically opposed to the reality of the situation. The kids like me, learn from me, and enjoy my instruction. All of my professors are well pleased and impressed with my abilities as are all of the administrators and teachers I've had the pleasure of working with in the local school system over the last three years.<BR/><BR/>Do you have a particular country in mind?Jay Morenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00649984712133149814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141781.post-84861154464716345622009-03-22T11:06:00.000-05:002009-03-22T11:06:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jay Morenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00649984712133149814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141781.post-25055217046763631362009-03-22T09:19:00.000-05:002009-03-22T09:19:00.000-05:00I can imagine how Mr. Moreno would be handling thi...I can imagine how Mr. Moreno would be handling this if he was a parent whos child was being bused to a school that he had not chosen for his kids. But, since Mr. Know It All is hoping to become a teacher in the near future, he is backing up any decision the BOE is making> If I had a child in this school system and bought a home in an area just so that my kids could attend a certain school, I would be just as upset as these parents. And, if I had a child that was going to be taught by the likes of Jay Moreno, I would move to another country to keep that from happening. ERGO, the arrogance that propels this man, would never make him a good teacher in any school. It takes passion and understanding and patience to be a good teacher and he lacks all of the above.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141781.post-57232643643427046912009-03-21T08:23:00.000-05:002009-03-21T08:23:00.000-05:00Madam, aparently, you do not understand the conseq...Madam, aparently, you do not understand the consequences to teachers and principals if a school fails to meet AYP three years in a row. Check it out. While your situation is clearly an exception to the rule, there is irrefutable data which anyone with common sense can readily see confirms that children from lower socio economic circumstnaces, as generally indicated by eleigibility for free / reduced lunches, on average, perform poorly in absolute terms and especially rleative to the performance of children from more affluent socio-economic backgrounds. Sad, but a fact of life. Additional inputs in terms of extra individual attention can only go so far. If mom and dad (or more often just mom or grandma) are not on board with the importance of education, there is little chance that the teachers can fully replace the motivation for success that must be instilled at home.<BR/><BR/>Let me say this agin. If you can readily see that it would not be fair to either the children or the teachers to put all highly motivated and successful kids in one school and all unmotivated and struggling-to-failing kids in another, then you should be able to see, by extension, that attempts to even out their numbers in any one school follow logically. Statistics also show that children from low income families placed into a school where the majority of the students are from higher incojme families tent to do better than they were doing in prdominantly low income populations. Unfortunately, the inverse is tru also. Ergo, the ideal school has a majority of kids from more affluent families.Jay Morenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00649984712133149814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141781.post-53892406002439458852009-03-19T11:39:00.000-05:002009-03-19T11:39:00.000-05:00I am a parent who last year had a household income...I am a parent who last year had a household income of 100,000. I was laid off and my husband was seriously hurt. My daughter qualifies for free lunch now. It doesn't mean she is not smart, it doesn't mean she is a behavior problem. To classify attendance zones by the percentage of free/reduced price lunches is ridiculous. <BR/><BR/><BR/> A large number of renters in Laurel Island will qualify for free or reduced. A neighborhood school is just that, for the neighborhood. My family is not part of this fight because the only child left at home is in high school, but for the other parents I understand the frustration. If the school system is not legally able to classify children by learning capabilities why should they be able to classify by financial status? <BR/><BR/>Any teacher who feels slighted because he/she has a more lower income students in the classroom needs to resign now. Our teachers are paid very top dollar and should not be allowed to pick and choose who they teach.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141781.post-46616214560656854812009-03-15T14:57:00.000-05:002009-03-15T14:57:00.000-05:00To follow up on my original comment, if it makes s...To follow up on my original comment, if it makes sense not to put all affluent kids in one school and all "poor" kids in another, then does it not, for the same reason, make good sense to try to even out the percentags of affluent and less affluent in each school?Jay Morenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00649984712133149814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141781.post-20808691915038970152009-03-14T21:01:00.000-05:002009-03-14T21:01:00.000-05:00Interesting study.Did you notice that less affluen...Interesting study.<BR/><BR/>Did you notice that less affluent kids do better when placed into a more affluent school while more affluent kid's performance drops if they are placed into a less affluent school.<BR/><BR/>The study touches on the problem. There is a high inverse correlation between poverty and good behavior. Ditto for he correlation between poverty and student motivation as well as parental involvement.<BR/><BR/>The poorer studebnt transferred into the more affluent millieu is suddenly exposed to better behavior and more motivation onthe part of his peers. The inverse is true for the kid from the affluent student population going to the impoverished student population.<BR/><BR/>I think you can clearly see that it would not be fair to the teachers to have a ploicy of putting ALL of the kids from affluent families into one school and ALL of the free lunch kids into another and expecting each to form exactly as well on standardized tests. With some notable and laudable exceptions, that rarely happens in the real world.Jay Morenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00649984712133149814noreply@blogger.com