Parents Poised to Take Over Failing SoCal School: Best for Kids?

by Fef Posted 2012/07/24 20:00:00

Related Topics: Weird News, Gloria Romero, Public School, parents, Teachers, Public Education, Education

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California's public schools have faced serious operational challenges due to the state's budget woes. The parents decided they had enough with the poor performance of their local public school. They filed enough petitions under the "parent trigger" to take over the school.

The judge accepted the petition and ordered the school district to hand the school over to the parents. State Senator Gloria Romero (Democrat 24th District) drafted the "parent trigger" law in 2011 to help families in "chronically underperforming" schools.

KTLA.COM reports:
ADELANTO, Calif. -- In an historic move, parents in the community of Adelanto will become the first in the nation to seize control of a failing public school under a controversial "parent trigger" law.

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ray 2012/07/24 11:38:21

Yes

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What a great Idea ! Home Schooling with the resources of the government .
The "EXPERTS " have failed , results based education similar to free market forces .
Deliver superior service or be removed from the position , It's all good.
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the fuze 2012/07/25 18:59:51

Yes

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Hope they can turn it around.

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Michaelene 2012/07/25 18:27:13

Yes

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That is why we have charter schools in Philly, 238 schools and only a handful of average performance.
The public schools system has lost 37000 students while the charters gained just as much.

Cut the administrators who do nothing, keep only the staff that has direct student contact, get rid of the top heavy education which sucks the money staight from the top.
As both a teacher and parent, the biggest difference in education is parental involvement.

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Mel 2012/07/25 18:24:09 (edited)

No

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many of these parents do not have the qulifications to teach. How many of them are skilled in sciences, biology chemistry political sciences, mathematics> Not many

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marcuss... to Mel 2012/07/26 02:44:34

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Seems the teachers have worse qualifications than the parents.

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Mel to marcuss... 2012/07/26 05:39:28

Of course there are bad teachers, however I'll bet none of those parents can do a tough algebra problem

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sometal... to Mel 2012/07/26 05:44:23

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Since you know them all personally. There are over 100 separate homeschooling and other math programs with answer sheets, too. What do you think the teachers use, exactly??? Please educate yourself before you open your mouth, or in this case, type and remove all doubt.

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Mel to sometal... 2012/07/26 17:53:53

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I was a teacher years ago and still familiar with teach protocol. Home schooling is a joke.

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sometal... to Mel 2012/07/26 05:42:04

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Ok, so let's let the teachers and system do what they have been doing and cross our fingers. Brilliant plan. They DO make textbooks, dear.

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Mel to sometal... 2012/07/26 17:54:26

Textbooks are not a sub for live teachers. U was a teacher.

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SoapBox... to Mel 2012/11/18 04:43:16

The parents do not teach. It will become a charter type school and the parents hire the teachers. This is why the CTA (California Teachers Union) is SO against this. Non union teachers can teach in these schools!

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SebaTheSociallyAwkwardPenguin 2012/07/25 17:57:35

Yes

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finally something good happening

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John Storz 2012/07/25 17:42:40

Yes

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They probably can't do any worse than the board of education

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santa6642 2012/07/25 17:06:15

Yes

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parents rule

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bunny.elgato 2012/07/25 17:00:30

Yes

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The first 'teacher' a child has is the parents.

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Angelatxpatriot 2012/07/25 16:51:30

Yes

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You don't need a degree to know what's best for your kids. You don't need a degree to teach. We as a community, as parents should have the power over the schools, not the other way around.

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Mel to Angelat... 2012/07/25 18:26:25

I would not trust ant of them to properly teach sciences or advanced math. In fact I'll wager they cant even answer most algebra exam questions

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Angelat... to Mel 2012/07/25 21:57:30

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Please, with libraries, the internet, not to mention community members. This knowledge isn't exclusive to teachers.

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Mel to Angelat... 2012/07/26 01:24:39

Bit they're not substitutes for teachers. Good teachers offer a vital service, and BTW it doesn't say in the article that the parents will be doing the teaching and that's good.

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marcuss... to Mel 2012/07/26 02:45:27

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OBVIOUSLY there were no GOOD TEACHERS.

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Kat to Mel 2012/07/26 14:10:15

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If they had good teachers they wouldn't be taking over. I homeschooled 9 years I could teach, it's not difficult. If you watch teachers now most take everything they put on the board and do orally right out of the books. They used to be much more intelligent and qualified than they are now. They teach here the whole year for 1 standardized test and they screw that up.

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Mel to Kat 2012/07/26 17:55:03

There are serious problems with hime schooling

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Kat to Mel 2012/07/26 17:57:20

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There are serious problems with public schooling too. Too many agendas not enough education.

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Mel to Kat 2012/07/26 18:00:50

Home schooling might have just as many agendas but you'll never admit that.

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Kat to Mel 2012/07/26 18:04:44

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You aren't informed enough to discuss the issue with, you have your own agenda and it's more than likely in line with the public school ones.
Public schools are failing the children they are supposed to be educating, most home schools aren't.

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Mel to Kat 2012/07/26 22:16:52

Home schooling was started by religious fanatics because they wabt nothing but right wing christianity taught to their children, and BTW I was a teacher.

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Kat to Mel 2012/07/27 01:03:31

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Most teachers don't like home schools because they think that is their domain. I disagree and so do a lot of others more qualified to decide what is right for our children. If public school teachers were doing their jobs and educating instead of indoctrinating it would be different. Most of us want our child in a safe environment without the BS.

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Mel to Kat 2012/11/19 04:55:50

Qualified as how?

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Kat to Mel 2012/11/19 04:58:21

Qualified as in knowing what the children should be taught. There is too much liberal PC garbage in the schools being taught. When they are taught at all. They teach here to pass the standardized test, little else.

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Mel to Kat 2012/11/19 05:03:55

Soi this is just a matter of politics. IC you actually have a hidden agenda then.

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Kat to Mel 2012/11/19 05:07:18

No, it's a matter of education.

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Mel to Kat 2012/11/19 05:16:12

No it's a matter of your personal politics being taught as fact. Sorry, your previous answer gave it all away, so admit it.

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Kat to Mel 2012/11/19 05:21:10

No that's your political bias. Schools are being filled with liberal PC garbage and that is destroying their ability to educate the children. That's reality, if you are liberal you won't see it or admit it.

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Mel to Kat 2012/11/19 06:30:21

You're the fool who said Liberal bias, remember? *LOL*

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Kat to Mel 2012/11/19 06:31:20

Now you're down to name calling, yeah. That's a big part of the problem with liberals.

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Mel to Kat 2012/11/20 01:50:14

I'm simply telling you to own up to what you said. Apparently you can dish but can't take.

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Kat to Mel 2012/11/20 02:09:54

You're losing and trying to change what it's about. Go away.

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Jiorgia 2012/07/25 16:45:51

No

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Do these parents have any qualifications or atleast experience in running a school, no.
running a school is hard.

I agree that something must be done to fix the school system, but putting schools in the hands on people who are not qualified for the job was how you got in this mess in the first place.

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relic to Jiorgia 2012/07/25 18:00:05

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Dump the teacher's unions. Simple fix.

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9th of 9 to Jiorgia 2012/07/26 13:11:18

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Are you that hard on new parents? Guess the government should take their kids until they "learn from a government agency" how to parent their child/children.

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Jiorgia to 9th of 9 2012/07/26 13:18:35

the parents wont be parenting, they will be running a school, very different.

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