School Hot Topics

[Sandi Ploetz <EPloetz195@AOL.COM>]

Shonda--

    If these are education students, some of the more controversial areas we
see in  schools up my way:

Corporate Sponsorship Deals--- If Pepsi buys you a scoreboard and they want
to put
                                                   a soft drink machine in
your cafeteria that                                     students can access
at lunchtime.....

                                              If a computer company donates
hardware/software
                                                    should they be allowed to
run a screensaver
                                                    ad on all your equipment

Downsizing of  Vocational Ed. classes because of increased standards

Social promotion- I'm sad to say it still exists

Homeschooling/charter schooling
    and the fact that in some states/districts they are
  not accountable to the same standards.  A colleague from another part of
the state had a "horror" story this year of a 5th grade boy who moved in in
February and had supposedly been homeschooled out-of-state  for three years
by the custodial mother.  The boy was 11 years old and had the reading skills
of a 6 year old.

What to do with those students that need longer to reach the increased
standards

What to do about sick children that have no one home to come and get them or
their parents work jobs that don't recognize sick children as a legitimate
reason for missing work.

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