TJUSD Board Meeting - August 13, 2015

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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - August 13, 2015

Postby wildrose » Wed Sep 02, 2015 4:26 pm

Google Classroom: Mission control for students and teachers :thumb:
I would have loved to have something like this while I was teaching. It looks like it would be a lot of fun to work with!
Google Classroom Launches Chrome Extension So Teachers Can Instantly Share Links With The Entire Class
Google calls Classroom a “mission control for teachers,” allowing them to access all of Google Apps for Education within one central place. Teachers can use the product to chat with students, help students with their work and keep track of the daily goings on in the classroom.

LINK: http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/02/google-classroom-launches-chrome-extension-so-teachers-can-instantly-share-links-with-entire-class/
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - August 13, 2015

Postby CactusHugger » Wed Sep 02, 2015 8:23 pm

Teacher Uses Strippers, Stalin, And JFK To Teach Grammar
The teacher deserves to be praised for delivering a great lesson, but the dimwits among us are outraged because that's what dimwits do, they get outraged over stupid, trivial little things and completely miss the point of everything.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - August 13, 2015

Postby twister » Sat Sep 05, 2015 6:35 am

Are school lunches nutritious for your child?
There's lots of hidden sugar in these school lunches and the brain functions best when sugar content is kept under control.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - August 13, 2015

Postby wildrose » Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:43 am

Charter Schools are Cheating Your Kids: Report Reveals Massive Fraud, Mismanagement, Abuse
Most people by this time are aware that privately owned corporations have been using the media and the government at both the state and federal level to brainwash the public into believing that public schools are doing a poor job of educating children. What they want is to privatize education so that they can rake in the big bucks. They'll force families to pay them directly for the services they provide and the government will enforce laws that require parents to pay these companies to educate their children and the education that will be received in this scenario will be far inferior to that currently provided in public schools. It's a dystopian future that is foreseeable if the public doesn't recognize the anti-public school propaganda for what it is... pure and undiluted hogwash!
While there are plenty of other troubling issues surrounding charter schools—from high rates of racial segregation, to their lackluster overall performance records, to questionable admission and expulsion practices—this report sets all those admittedly important issues aside to focus squarely on activity that appears it could be criminal, and arguably totally out of control. It does not even mention questions raised by sky-high salaries paid to some charter CEOs, such as 16 New York City charter school CEOs who earned more than the head of the city’s public school system in 2011-12. Crime, not greed, is the focus here.

LINK: http://www.alternet.org/education/charter-schools-are-cheating-your-kids-report-reveals-massive-fraud-mismanagement-abuse
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - August 13, 2015

Postby twister » Sun Sep 06, 2015 6:55 am

Paws on the ground parents wondering about post-recess routine
When I was a kid we called the bell that ends the recess periods in the morning and at the end of lunch the "freeze bell" and everyone froze the second it rung and waited for a signal from the yard duty ladies indicating that we needed to go to class. Maybe it's calling it "paws on the ground" that has parents upset. That name implies that the kids are supposed to touch the ground with their hands and that's not such a great idea. It sounds like simply renaming the procedure would take care of the problem.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - August 13, 2015

Postby sandman » Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:06 am

Bigots At High School Protest Transgender Student
Until they are eighteen and while at school children should not be allowed to pretend to be anything other than the gender which matches their biological sex. After they are eighteen they can decide to do what they want, but biological boys should use the biological boys gym/restroom and biological girls should use the biological girls gym/restroom. It's that simple. The gym and restroom used by a student should be based on biological sex and not on their so-called gender identity. Additionally, except for cases where children have birth defects pertaining to their genitals, no child below the age of eighteen should be allowed to have sex reassignment surgery.
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Re: Transgender Students

Postby twister » Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:24 am

sandman: Waiting until they're eighteen makes sense to me. They are too young before that to make such an important decision. They can't drink or smoke or consent to sex and so they must also be too young to make such a monumental decision as switching their gender. We need to be consistent on these things and boys will be boys and girls will be girls until they reach legal adulthood and after that they are free to play these gender games all they want.
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Re: Transgender Students

Postby tronagirl » Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:37 am

Weak parents are the cause of this sort of issue. Strong parents guide kids through these phases and keep them from embarrassing themselves when they get crazy ideas about their gender identity. Teenagers are too emotionally immature to be allowed to declare themselves to be a girl trapped in a boy's body or vice versa. Besides that there's no reason why a confused kid should be allowed to disrupt the lives of other kids at school with this gender-identity nonsense. Drama queens can wait until after high school before engaging in these theatrical stunts. Oh, but wait, after high school they no longer have a captive audience to annoy with their drama!
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