I love education and educators, but what we have here in Huntsville City Schools seems focused on wiping out both.
Stephen King writes, “Truth is in the details.” About this he is correct; I’m afraid that’s why the administration of our system seems hell bent on obscuring the details of nearly everything they do. For that, I’m trying to call them out.
As I tell my students every semester, I’ve got the greatest job in the world: I get paid to irritate you. Irritation is necessary. If we’re not irritated, we fall asleep and miss everything that’s going on around us. I don’t get paid to irritate the HCS administration. It’s just an added bonus to letting them know that we’re awake. And we’re paying attention.
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Oh, and thanks for reading!
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Thanks for your effort to spread the message. Have you seen the movie “Waiting for Superman?” I encourage you to watch it ASAP and this will bring understanding where there seems to be little sanity at this time. It doesn’t mean that things will be any better but you will have a clearer undestanding about the true root causes and not just the symptoms of the $20 million dollar shortfall. Watch it and get back with me with your thoughts and then maybe I can share some more behind the scenes information that could give inspiration for futhre post!
Richard Reynolds M.Div.,M.Ed.Ed.S.
Huntsville Achievement School
Director and Principal
P.S. Here is the link on Amazon and you can rent it for $3.99. If you find it as worthwhile as I did please let others know about it. I feel like the Lone Ranger in this matter. This movie does not address Special Needs students but if the needs are so great for these students it must be exponentially greater for the children with Special Needs and learning differences. Also our local Republicans will be sponsoring a Charter school bill in Montgomery next week that is why David Blair said what he did last night.
Richard,
Thanks for the link and the recommendation! Interestingly enough, I checked this out last week from the library, but with all the events, I didn’t have time to watch it before I had to return it.
I will check it out again and give it a viewing.
Thanks,
r
http://www.amazon.com/Waiting-Superman-Geoffrey-Canada/dp/B003Q6D28C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302295632&sr=8-1
I will try one more time …here is the link for the movie that I encourage you to see. You can speak with Keith Kizer for a recommendation for the movie and its impact on he and his family.
Richard Reynolds
Check out the article “Got Dough? How Biillionaires Rule Our Schools” at http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=3781
Thanks for the link. This is a frightening article. I’ll do a post on it once I’ve digested it a bit more.
I can’t believe we have not met.
I am a former teacher now teaching teachers at UAHuntsville. I also write on corporate corruption of schools.
Last year I published a volume on the Gates Foundation. I was asked to do the same with the Broad Foundation, but I was so disgusted that I turned the offer down.
I appreciate you doing this work, and I’d like to buy you lunch…ASAP.
Best,
Philip
Thanks for the kind words; I’m just a dad looking out for his kids, though. No need for a free lunch for that!