tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post3572491812143233818..comments2024-03-28T16:54:44.319-07:00Comments on The Emeryville Tattler: Follow Up Schools Report: High School "At Risk"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-37696486654527566852012-08-30T10:24:51.854-07:002012-08-30T10:24:51.854-07:00I like the idea of completing college level classe...I like the idea of completing college level classes during high school. I hope that Josh Simon and the other board members explore that idea. It would make Emery Secondary much more appealing.<br /><br />I continue to worry about moving Anna Yates over to the Emery Secondary campus. The much larger 7th and 8th grade students are already making an impact at Anna Yates (used to be K-6, now K-8). If you have smaller kids in school - I have 2 in Anna Yates now - you worry about such things.<br /><br />~Michael <br /><br />P.S. - when are you going to post an article on the new school board member?Michael Webberhttp://www.conditionemeryville.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-57657171802938119162012-08-29T13:59:12.049-07:002012-08-29T13:59:12.049-07:00Hah, the lower suspensions is BS. The only reason ...Hah, the lower suspensions is BS. The only reason they are lower is because they decided to hold 'in-school' suspensions, where the student are removed from class, but not sent home and suspended officially for offenses that should get them sent home. Just another case of Emery trying to work the system instead of improving processes and culture of the school.<br />Sadly, I think the district needs a clean sweep of administrators, and they need to start over to get the cancer out of that system.<br />I watched as employee after employee came in bright eyed and hopeful with the ideal of changing students and school culture only to be beat down by the over riding culture of not giving a shit about doing your job well, of cost and corner cutting, and cronyism.<br />It was hard to stay there when you would ask time and time again for resources to serve the students and be told 'no', while you watched them piss money away on hiring friends, putting a vinyl floor in the atrium, and buying a $10,000 greenhouse that never got built. I really loved when before the 2011-2012 year they spent thousands of dollars painting and rebuilding the offices in a building that was getting torn down in a little over a year. Or the 9 Million they spent on an Elementary campus, to build 20 new classrooms, that was slated to be abandoned in 3 years.<br />Malfeasance should be one of the schools guiding principals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-72428001686270820002012-08-28T15:20:08.222-07:002012-08-28T15:20:08.222-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-70878989856651679912012-08-28T15:19:28.960-07:002012-08-28T15:19:28.960-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-85503745665674989972012-08-27T17:24:12.795-07:002012-08-27T17:24:12.795-07:00I should add Dr. Johnson was careful to make the p...I should add Dr. Johnson was careful to make the point that it was not the STUDENTS that were in danger of failing, but the SCHOOL. This means that we can have examples of students who are doing exceptionally, but that we don't have a system or a plan in order to support these efforts and make them more widespread and sustain them over time. The students are not at fault, and their own unwillingness to recommend the school to other students underscores this--it's not about their individual will--this is a systemic problem that we are very far from addressing on a district and policy level. Our individual students are not at fault.Brian Donahuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12705682112476904502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-36091262477970767912012-08-27T15:04:58.709-07:002012-08-27T15:04:58.709-07:00Ahhh, the mantra of all those in power, be they pu...Ahhh, the mantra of all those in power, be they public or private: Why won't the media stop printing news of our malfeasance and incompetence? Why won't they do our PR Department's bidding and help us out for a change? After all, the public needs to know what a great job everyone is doing....that's the media's job f'christs sake.Brian Donahuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12705682112476904502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-7195895046452549122012-08-27T14:48:04.750-07:002012-08-27T14:48:04.750-07:00Instead of posting all of the negatives of the hig...Instead of posting all of the negatives of the high school why are their achievements not posted. Boys soccer, gils basketball Champions. The kids with 4.0's and involved in extracurricular activities. Post some positive and not all negative. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com