Hey... money alone won’t solve this.Speaker to Animals wrote: ↑Tue Sep 25, 2018 1:04 pmThey probably need more money to get it right this time.
50 is passing now?? i r confused.DBTrek wrote: ↑Tue Sep 25, 2018 1:00 pmTEACHER CLAIMS SHE WAS FIRED FOR VIOLATING 'NO ZERO' POLICY BY NOT GIVING CREDIT TO STUDENTS WHO DIDN'T TURN IN PROJECT
...However, she said the school wanted her to automatically input a grade of 50 percent, despite having no assignment to grade, as some kids didn’t turn the project in. Tirado said she expressed her opinion about the policy with the teacher’s union and her assistant principals.
“If we are creating people of entitlement to the point where they’re expecting something for nothing what kind of world do you have?” she wondered.
In a statement to Newsweek, St. Lucie Public Schools rebuked Tirado’s claim that there is a policy that prevents teachers from giving students a grade of zero if no work is turned in. The school added that the zero on the grading scale in the handbook is there to indicate work “not attempted” or “incomplete.”
When Tirado was told to input the minimum grade before the marking period was over, she argued that if students got 50 percent without turning the assignment in, a student who received 50 percent for completing the assignment should really be given 100 percent.
“Why should they work hard when they know they’re going to pass?” Tirado told Newsweek. “A kid looks me in the eye and says, ‘I don’t have to do anything and you have to give me a 50.’”...
https://www.newsweek.com/teacher-claims ... 7573?amp=1
Cornell University researchers and Planned Parenthood are collaborating on a new program to help target “masculinity” in boys as young as 12.
Funded by a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the experimental project is led by Cornell University researcher Janis Whitlock, and hopes to explore if “early intervention” can help reduce toxic and unhealthy masculinity in boys.
The program enrolls boys ages 12-14 in small groups of 8-10 kids during an after-school program where the boys meet with a “male role model to focus on activities and discussions that define that it means to be a ‘real man.’”
PJ Media reached out to Whitlock to ask if the program is mandatory for certain boys, as well as for more information on the project, but she declined to comment. Instead, she told PJ Media to contact the NYS Health Department, which did not respond to media inquiries.
According to a Cornell University press release, Whitlock aims to enroll at least 700 boys for her research, and throughout the program, the boys will take multiple surveys to assess their views towards women and healthy relationships.
“This is a perfect time to be giving [boys] a variety of [masculinity] models to choose from, because boys in particular face fairly narrow models of what it means to be a man,” said Whitlock.
Planned Parenthood is also helping with the research. According to a job advertisement posted last week, Planned Parenthood of Buffalo, N.Y. seeks to hire a Data Collection Coordinator to schedule and administer “data collection sessions” for boys in the program.
Notably, it appears as if the project is targeting boys from lower-income and racial minority households, but nobody involved with the research would respond to a request for comment on this.
Teachers have more than enough time off... as for the rest, smaller classrooms, ok. Better pensions... yeah, right... outside of the union's control perhaps, the same with the majority of the money they take in.DBTrek wrote: ↑Tue Sep 25, 2018 1:06 pmHey... money alone won’t solve this.Speaker to Animals wrote: ↑Tue Sep 25, 2018 1:04 pmThey probably need more money to get it right this time.
They need smaller classrooms (again), better pensions(again), more days off (again), and absolutely no employment metrics tied to the performance of their students. That’s just for openers...
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