But the evidence is not concrete on whether single-gender education offers a measurable benefit, according to research highlighted by the National Education Association.
That sounds like Bright Beginnings, so why should that stop CMS from implmenting a program and wasting tens of millions of dollars on it?
These people have nothing better to do than pull out the same garbage over and over again while taxpayers and kids get screwed.
CMS exploring single-gender schools
Can't wait for the LGBT (especially the "trans") reaction to this...
ReplyDeleteGee, these CMS folks are such tools.
ReplyDeleteI just had to comment on this article to poke some fun at them. They're so PC that they don't even realize how "discriminatory" this sounds.
Nevermind the "studies", or lack thereof, behind the idea. It's all about catering to the special "needs" of the black kids again.
My Gawd, when does it ever end? I know I've posted my experiences about the stupid "experimental" class using the Dictaphone Dictabelt technology.
At the time, they were claiming that since black kids came from an "oral" culture that they were all just outstanding students who were being held back by "western" focus on literacy instead of their "tradition" of storytelling.
So we got an English classroom full of the "latest" technology used by secretaries.
No one even considered how stupid it was to have 30 or more kids talking into their Dictaphones at the same time and how disruptive THAT was to the thought processes.
Just a year or so ago, while laughing at the stupidity behind this, I found that article in the Journal of Negro Education (no kidding!) where some teacher was just raving about how great this stuff was.
Now I know where the stupid school board and educrats most likely got that idea.
This was the era in which those same fools were experimenting with Ebonics in the classroom, too. My black English (as opposed to "Black English") teacher even gave us all a "street" test using black slang.
I aced the damned thing, while most of the black kids failed it.
Proving, of course, that if you CAN read, and read a lot, you can probably understand a lot more things than people who can't read or who don't read a lot.
Even if it ISN'T your "culture"...
Gee, I just noticed that the full-page "spread" of the CO Education section which contains this article includes a rather close cropped shot of Akeshia's cleavage as the main photo of the article on Single Gender Schools.
ReplyDeleteJust another quirk of the new software. Not sure if it is just at my resolution, or not...
I'm using 1776x1000.
Didn't realize how "patriotic" that resolution was, either, until now...
I can't get over the fact they have tried this before and stated they weren't sure whether it would be beneficial or not.
ReplyDeleteThen why the hell are you even thinking about it and spending all that money?
They probably do this because some influential person or the other "wants" it.
ReplyDeleteI think that the folks in education, in general, don't have much business sense. Especially when it comes to spending money on what they want.
In fact, I have sensed that even the kind of thinking that goes on as part of the normal business world (say cost-benefit analysis) is seen as "the enemy".
When I worked one year in China as a teacher at a private school, I was simply stunned at the number of teachers, especially those who had taught before in public schools, who just thought that they should get everything they desired in order to "teach better".
The most common complaint I heard was "I can't teach if I don't have...".
Man, you'd think they'd understand that they couldn't "teach" if the school went out of business, either. Because these were private schools in less than supportive environments and fairly risky ventures overall.
But that never really occurred to them.
I know for a fact that the school could have cut administrative overhead if so many teachers hadn't been complaining all the time about so many different things (they had several staff members whose sole purpose was to keep the staff "happy", which is a bit dysfunctional as well).
From what I saw from going to three different schools in this system, the schools with the least number of teachers did the best overall.
When there were too many teachers, the mob mentality seemed to drive many somewhat irrelevant issues to the forefront.
I don't know about single gender schools - that have a long tradition in Catholic school systems around the world - but if I had to wager a bet there is at least one CMS school with a disproportionate number of LGBT students. I housed a former LGBT Straight Alliance president from here. The state of NC gave this school a solid "B". Just sayn'…
ReplyDeleteAlicia
This goes back to the other article about Latino only schools (or those who don't speak English).
ReplyDeleteTo me, as you said, the only "other schools" we need ARE reform schools.
My great aunt and grandmother were BOTH house mothers at an all-girls reform school when I was a teen. I think they were probably the closest things many of those girls had to a real parent. Of course, even reform school wasn't so bad back then. I think today, they'd probably be extremely unsafe places to work. My great aunt and grandmother actually lived in the same building with the girls in their "house". And it wasn't like a prison inside at all. More like a college dormitory situation.
ReplyDeleteAlicia, that school wouldn't happen to be an "arts" school, would it?
ReplyDeleteThe reason I ask is that the college I attended also had a small arts high school which mostly attracted the "alternative" crowd. And, in general, they were a pretty wild bunch of kids. Generally smart, but wild.
Shamash,
ReplyDeleteThe "arts" high school I happened to attend did really "wild" things like selling crackers with caviar compete with a Shakespearean monologue as student fundraising activities. What a shame we all missed out on the annual bake sale and car wash.
This being said, my "alternative" New Haven CT school wasn't on the cutting edge of LGBT-Straight Alliance clubs - at least not in 1981. Although, Jodi Foster was scheduled to perform at my school the day President Regan was shot. I had to navigate annoying news crews on my way into school this day.
Alicia
Actually, Jodi was scheduled to rehearse a play at my school that day while attending Yale University.
ReplyDeleteAlicia
In college, I did perform an interpretive dance in a campus tree once during an outdoor concert featuring the saxophone player from Bruce Springsteen's Band. I can't stand Bruce Springsteen's music. In fact, I hate it. All of it.
ReplyDeleteTake a walk on my "wild" side…
Alicia
Not a big fan of Springsteen himself, but do like some of his music.
DeleteAlicia,
ReplyDeleteNot a big Springsteen fan myself. I can listen to some of it, but not much. I had a friend who was a Springsteen fan back in the 1970's, though. I think he was from New Jersey. He couldn't get ANYONE to listen to the albums. The stuff I listened to was considered bizarre at best. Lots of experimental electronic stuff (Edgar Varese, et., al.) I only took ONE music class, and it was an intro (like rocks for jocks for all us techie folks).
The guy who taught the class was a singer on a modern piece by a fellow named Kenneth Gaburo. The album the professor was on was Antiphony III and Music for Voices, Instruments, and Electronic Sounds. It was kind of interesting hearing him describe how that piece was made and how so many "classically" trained musicians had to re-learn nearly everything they knew to do this piece. The prof was particularly proud of his "fortissimo whisper" which he perfected during this time.
And if you REALLY want to hear Lou Reed's "wild side", take a listen to Metal Machine Music (if you can). Or just use it to scrape the old paint off your walls...