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Comment On Pittsburgh Public Schools
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Discussion Started: 07-10-2002, 6:30 AM
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Share your thoughts on Superintendent Mark Roosevelt's right-sizing plans, "Pittsburgh Promise" for college tuition, charter schools, ideas to increase enrollment and improve academic performance, and the Pittsburgh Public Schools in general.
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bowiegirl
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07-30-2008, 8:25 PM
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When my sister asked me my opinion about where she should send her children to school...public or parochial...I responded with..."as long as you take an active role in your child's education, they will be successful." "If you don't like what you see in the school, take an active role in changing it. Get to know the teachers, administrators, and speak with your school board members...they are there to work with you. Without being a pain in the buttocks, do what is best for your child in the hopes that it will help other children too." She followed this advice and both of her children are responsible young adults going to school at Carnegie Mellon University.
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sillyideas
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06-20-2008, 1:20 AM
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Everyone wants what is right and good for the kids,education, sports, learning about how to take care of themselfs for the future and make sure that everyone can find a real job here and take care of their future family, well then please tell me why we are closing all these schools and shipping the students to already crowded schools? The teachers are not able to deal with extra students and the students are not able to handle the extra kids taking away their education from them the kind that the teachers are suposed to give the kids but there are too many around. I understand some schools need a cleaning or a face lift whatever the case but we can't do this to these many schools at once, since there are some schools that are too crowded send some of them to schools that are not as crouded. Spread them out abit so the students have a better chance in education and people have to time and patients to care for our future.
Thank you for reading this
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slparker
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04-15-2008, 7:38 PM
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I would like to know if anyone involved with the High School Play Book Athlete of The Week contest can tell me when the last time a Pittsburgh Public School Student won? It is extremely bias that the local media including this network, jumps at the chance to smear the public schools and the second something negative happens with-in City limits the news vans can't get there fast enough. How about some equal coverage guys, lest try to through a positive story in every once in a while in between the crimes that have no problem finding air time.
Thanks Tos
Thanks for your time, Tos
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PPSInsider
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04-26-2004, 12:44 AM
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(I think the opening paragraph of my comentary didn't make it to submission so I will try this again. Please post this to my "smoking gym teacher" paragraph. Thank You)
A few years ago I was a close friend to a newly hired teacher. After a few weeks working in an elemtary school she started to describe tenure abuse in great disgust. One of her co-workers, who was 2 years from retirement, basically performed the bare minimum in relation to job performance. This so called teacher would come into class late, after my friend opened her class for her and got the children setteled, give the kids a reading assignment and have them answer the end-of-chapter questions to be turned in at class end. She would then file her nails, talk on her cell phone and read magazines. Is this what the Teachers Union calls "teaching". My understanding of tenure, as explained by my friend, means that you can't be fired unless you do something extreme, e.g. sexually molest a child, hit them or something similar. My understanding of unions, as described by Union members, is do the minimum, don't exceed expectations and you are golden. I'm NOT saying, by any means, that the majority of teachers work this way, but it disgusts me to think our highest paid teachers in the country aren't policed in some manner. There are thousands of teachers, excellent teachers, that would give their left leg to work for PPS. However, if they choose to live outside the city, then they are screwed. My suggestion is to de-unionize the system to bring in hungry, hard-working, competetive teachers, regardless where they live. With droves of families moving to the burbs for a better quality of life with significantly lowe crime rates, why is PPS still living in the past? Get rid of the dead wood and bring in good teachers. In my opinion, the ONLY guarantee in life is death and taxes. No one should be promissed a job regardless of what economic turns bring.
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PPSInsider
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04-26-2004, 12:14 AM
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(I was unaware of a time limit for comments so if the following could be pasted where I left off, I'd appreciate it) Maybe I'm being overly critical, but aren't Physical Education teachers supposed to practice what they teach. If I were a parent with a child in his gym class and we whitnessed him smoking in public, how would I explain that? Shouldn't teachers be randomly tested for drug use? If they are, then that's wonderful. What I'd like to know is how can his Principal condone cigarette smoking when they are supposed to be a role model. These are just two example of what arrogance the tenure system enables the few abusers that give Union strength a bad rap. I've always believed actions speak louder than words. If these actions are tolerated in two schools, then I'm sure it happens everywhere.
Sincerely,
Disgusted in PPS.
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Michele13
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04-01-2004, 8:27 PM
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Well the meeting this evening was a total snoozefest! They talked of nothing of importance, at least nothing to do with the "Redistricting". I was appalled that Mr. Daniel M. Romaniello thought that having more open hearings was a waste of time, on his part that is. He doesn't see a need for us to voice our opinions on the redistricting of our kids, because he thinks we said all we needed to say. I hope to see many parents from all the schools there on the 19th of April, just so we can make sure HE hears ALL WE HAAVE TO SAY!
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Michele13
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03-29-2004, 10:12 PM
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Well we are having a rally outside our school (Horace Mann Elementary) this Wednesday @ 2pm to show our support. And the word from the Board is that there is another meeting this Thursday, but it still has not been comfirmed. So for all of you out there, stay strong, and keep fighting for our kids!
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eAsT hLlS
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03-24-2004, 12:14 PM
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I think the Pittsburgh Public School Superintendent is a joke. He sits on TV and acts like he doesn't care with his hand on his head and he acts like he has no time. The school that I'm commenting on is Belmar Elementary school in Homewood. One of my family members work there as the Music Teacher, but it will not only affect her it will affect the children as well. No Belmar is not a big school, but you want to put our children in a bigger school, so that they can get lost in the crowd and act up. I think not. Some kids need individual attention. Especially in the Urban community. I live in East Hills. But I don't think the School Superintendent will be there for his next contract, if he is, PPS are going to the dumps. It seems to me that he has not a clue on how to run a school district. But let's get back to the children, the children that live in East Hills, & Homewood, are going to have to go to another school, then the parents are going to move out of the district. Most of the kids walk to school, so now they'll have to walk farther. This is a complete outrage. But you know what as my Pastor says. The same door that he has constructed for the children and the parents will turn around and smack him in the face, and will be his own demise and destruction. He's messing with God's children and it's not right. The Lord says "Touch Not my annointing", and that's what he means. So stay strong my Pittsbugh People.
Tre' from East Hills
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Michele13
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03-23-2004, 8:50 PM
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I have to agree with everyone on how incompetent the school board really is. I sat there last night at the meeting to save our schools, and watched the reaction on their faces. Well almost all their faces, Mr. Thompson looked as if his mind was elsewhere than where it should be. I would think that as a Superintendent, he would pay attention to our concerns and ideas. Boy was I wrong! I am a parent of 2 little girls who attend Horace Mann Elementary, both are High Honor. I am very upset with the idea of my school closing, it is a great school, with excellent teachers, who I may add actually CARE. But what I am most upset about is the fact that they give us no idea of where our children will go, oh it will be either John Morrow or Manchester, but will we ever get a feeding pattern on the streets, or do we have to wait 2 more months? Well all I have to say is that we should be able to decide where our children go to school, not some board member who most likely doesn't even live in the city of Pittsburgh! No Child Left Behind they say? Well what do you think they are doing by taking away neighborhood schools??
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THETRUTH5
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03-23-2004, 10:19 AM
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I recall when I was in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. (not that long ago) My friends and I have since gone and graduated from college. We are teachers, electrical engineers, computer programmers and Executives in corporations. Why were we so successful in such a place as the "Lowly" PPS. Well, I'll tell you gymguy it wasn't the school board the superintendent or even the principals. Two groups of people. First and foremost our parents would not settle for anything less than our best or we would be punished severely, we were not given a playstation and sent away. Second, the teachers (which you incorrectly characterize as making 80K and working 9 months they make 65K and work 195 days to your 205 days granted they make more than you gymguy but you should have listened to them they have Master's Degrees you have a Degree in Gym) the teachers that I had were exceptional. Was there a bad one, of course but I am pretty sure there are bad Doctors and Lawyers too. Let us put the blame squarely where it belongs, on the parents that do not have any interest in raising their children. If they did we would not have the problems we have today. There is an erosion in the moral fiber of society and we just want to point at the school and say it is their fault. It is not. You cannot teach someone that does not want to learn. Don't kid yourself into believing you can.
The Truth Hurts
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