Saturday, August 02, 2008

CCSD Says It All

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Posted by Babbie at 12:48 PM
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for the laugh

2:03 AM
Anonymous said...

If there were any doubts about who and what John Emerson was, it should be pretty clear by now what he's all about. Did this really come out as a directive to the employees? I believe I hear overtones of Newspeak and 1984. Perhaps this is just Joseph Goebbels or the founding editors of Pravda attempting to channel themselves through CCSD's new in-house attorney.

1:13 PM
Anonymous said...

This is exactly what we need. Another highly paid executive totally committed to maintaining the status quo, who comes in from outside, who has nothing personally at risk, especially no kids in the regular system. Now that's a person we should trust to know what's best for the rest of us. Who is this person? Based on what I've seen and heard so far he's a total jackass, but I'm still willing to keep an open mind if someone has a different perspective.

7:28 PM
Anonymous said...

Well then, how are "THEY" going to explain going from 27 failing schools to 35????????

6:57 AM
Anonymous said...

They do it like this. Just say we went from having 27 failing schools to having 44 non-failing schools. That would be an improvement, right? Only if CCSD was trusted to do their own math.

7:50 AM
Anonymous said...

Emerson is far from a total jackass. I've worked alongside him personally since he arrived two months ago, and have found him approachable and wise on many legal issues, and eager to absorb every kind of law he does not already know. I would peg him currently as the smartest person on the payroll... McGinley included. He thinks at such a higher level - it's refreshing!!! He's also really funny.

5:27 PM
Anonymous said...

Hey, we're not alone as other school administrators try to spin their way out of failure. This is from the Save Seattle Schools blog.

An official report came back with a very harsh assessment saying the District's program was:

"Ad hoc, incoherent and directionless."

"Highly fragmented, weakly defined, poorly monitored, and producing very unsatisfactory academic results."

"The school district has not articulated a clear vision for what it wants to see in its English language learners and possesses no strategy or coherent program that would boost the academic chances of those students."

These quotes are from the audit of the district's bilingual programs. Blunt is the word for it. Both the Seattle Times and the PI ran stories on it last Thursday, August 7.

Here is a notable quote from one of the usual suspects.

Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson said, "If you want to go from good to great, you have to look at the brutal facts."

Sounds like CCSD's Emerson and Seattle's Goodloe-Johnson are reading from the same play book.

10:14 PM

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