Virginia Department of Education’s Manifesto on School Reopenings
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20 responses to “Virginia Department of Education’s Manifesto on School Reopenings”
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We are victims of Microsoft Word. The ability to construct 1000s of pages using cut & pasted, neatly outlined, indexed, cross referenced, and illustrated can, like human reproduction, be accomplished by totally unskilled labor.
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” It defies summation “. Not true. MSWord will provide an automatic Executive Summary. It’s really good too. You could try it on this document. Saves a lot of reading.
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I hate to see Bill Gates blamed for this work.
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The Gates Foundation is atonement– maybe not enough — and it will be dwarfed by the Zuckerberg Foundation, if the little pr!ck ever grows a conscience.
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While I deplore the name calling, a genetic fallacy, and the diversion, another of the irrelevancy fallacies, it’s hard not to agree.
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Name calling? Irrelevancy fallacy?
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He meant me
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Then I stand steadfastly behind his comments. ?
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Me too. Wait. Yes, his comments are printed on my tee shirt.
The truth of my observations, however, is indisputable.
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It clearly sounds like a survey of the relevant literature. I am not sure what point sherlockj is trying to make. I can assure you based upon 20 years in public high school classrooms that the teachers and administrators will not have time to read any of it as they are too busy attempting to work out safe and reasonable actions for the fall in accordance with CDC guidelines.
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Tom, read it again. I was pretty clear about the points I made. The fact that public school teachers and administrators will not read it was not the point of the exercise. It was a virtue signal. One meant to impress the Curry School of Education and, as a bonus, get individual schools sued.
If
“Utilize Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and evaluate existing data to identify students most vulnerable to learning loss, design diagnostic systems to evaluate and monitor learning growth, consider utilizing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to differentiate instruction, and create flexible instructional/planning schedules to support vertical instruction.”
is in the relevant literature, God help our kids.-
You say that it sets up schools to be targets of complaints and lawsuits which seems to be your main point outside of criticism of the document. My experience in contract law leads me to believe that most lawsuits will be based upon noncompliance with CDC guidelines as opposed to an extensive survey of relevant literature. I do agree that businesses and municipalities should anticipate lawsuits by their employees and / or customers.
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When Public Schools are Over-Administered
Coming this Fall to a theatre near you…
No, wait… …this turkey would have gone straight to video even without the coronavirus.
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A long time ago as a doctoral student in economics, I asked my advisor to approve courses in the university’s School of Education, as teaching appealed to me more than the “publish or perish” track. He refused, saying that the courses would ruin me as a teacher. His perspective was that when teachers started referring to themselves as educators, the qualify of education began to decline. I have long since stopped expecting a lot of valuable products from Schools of Education.
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I think your advisor was a wise man.
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I am assuming that County/City School Board members and Superintendents will be getting this soon. It might be also helpful for them if they could see this analysis which would help put it in context. I plan on forwarding it to those school officials in my County and encourage my friends who I know are interested in the education of the next generation to do likewise.
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“Virginians owe it to our children to read this document. It defies summation or even polite characterization.”
I think the 12 people whose photographs are on the second page of this horrible document should each be sentenced to read it aloud to an audience of 200 8-year-old students with ADHD… …or an equal number of hungry wolverines – their choice.
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There are almost 300 names credited in the report or its various Committees as being contributors, although admittedly there is a lot of overlap with some people serving in 5-10 different capacities. None of them are listed as parent, taxpayer, or student although most contributors probably fall into at least one of those categories. The point being that this was the product of teachers and school administrators and academics. Although I may have missed it on my first read, I didn’t find much guidance for home-schoolers or that Home School Associations were included as contributors. If they had they might have caught the misspelling on Page 6. You can find it, it is on the top couple of lines.
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Mr. Sherlock I appreciate you pointing this document out. I just sent it to every member of the Fauquier School Board. They need to read this. The graphic on page 14 spells it out clearly and simply. The essence of this document is very simple really. Equality vs. equity. The document calls for the redistribution of scarce educational resources/dollars. The document asserts that successful student subgroups will receive a lesser investment. Unsuccessful subgroups should receive a greater investment.
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I didn’t see any definitions. Normally, a plan that uses lots of terms defines the key ones. Absent some intellectual discipline, how is this anything more than virtue signaling?
The photo of Northam on page 16 should be replaced by Northam’s medical school photo in blackface next to his “friend” in KKK garb. Darn, I forgot. Northam is a Democrat, meaning his past is to be ignored. A life full of mulligans.
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Too many people promulgating from Ivory Towers
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