So last night’s meeting brought many wonderful insights. Perhaps the most interesting took place after the meeting when Dr. Wardynski was being interviewed by WAFF about the 81 arrests being made in Huntsville City Schools during the first nine weeks of the school year. According to Dr. Wardynski, having numbers that are twice a [...]
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81 Arrests in 53 Days “A Sign o...
So last night’s meeting brought many wonderful insights. Perhaps the most interesting took place after the meeting when Dr. Wardynski was being interviewed by WAFF about the 81 arrests being made in Huntsville City Schools during the first nine weeks of the school year. According to Dr. Wardynski, having numbers that are twice a [...]
District “Doesn’t Have Ti...
A Huntsville City Schools spokesman said they didn’t have time in their schedule to comment about the disciplinary report numbers and arrest numbers.
In the past 51 days of school, Huntsville Police Department School Resource Officers have made a total of 81 arrests according to a report yesterday, and updated today, on WAFF. While HPD [...]
Imagine Huntsville…Imagine Hunt...
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from my good friend David S. Imagine what it would be like to have a school system that actually listened.
Imagine Huntsville:
I was recently browsing AL.com and ran across an article discussing Huntsville’s plans for renovation of John Hunt park. Many of the ideas the city proposed were fabu [...]
43 Resignations and Retirements and C...
Since the beginning of school on August 20th, 43 people have retired or resigned, and excluding a single comment by Mr. Blair at the September 4th board meeting, the board has been silent about these numbers. Of the 43 who have resigned or retired, 19 were teachers and an additional 4 worked directly with students.
This is just the beginning [...]
Updated: Huntsville Council of PTAs R...
Update: So you know those visits to the classrooms that Mr. Robbins took today? He visited Columbia, Weatherly, and Davis Hills to see the digital curriculum in action. Well in case you were wondering, I’m hearing from parents that those visits were planned for and staged. Parents were told to make sure the laptops were charged and rea [...]
Love For Jacob
My little boy goes to school with some amazing kids. They’re cute, funny, vibrant, and astonishingly joyous little boys and girls. They’re honest and direct. And when they love you, they love you with the whole force of their will and their being.
One of those amazing kids is Jacob. Jacob is 9 years old, he’s on the autism [...]
Updated: Privatizing Alleged Child Ab...
Update: If you want to read much, much more about Pinnacle and Planking as a form of restraint (many states have outlawed its use), go read the Merts Center Monitor’s “The Pinnacle Schools: What Are We Waiting For?” Redeye has also written about the use of this school on several occasions.
When a school system closes public [...]
Why Wardynski’s “Efficien...
Last week when Challen Stevens of the Huntsville Times reported that Huntsville City Schools had cut special education too deeply, Dr. Wardynski responded with a typically anti-government (and completely unfounded) response. This response led to a logical fallacy:
“This is why the United States is going bankrupt,” said Wardynski, [...]
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