How many times have we heard this crap from CMS? Six year low in growth and look where the growth is coming from. Even Black enrollment is declining, which I've been saying for over a year.
Yet, stupid voters in this county continue to blindly vote for bonds like the good little brainwashed soldiers they are....
CMS enrollment growth falls short of projection, hits six-year low
The official tally is 146,140 students, up 777 over last year. CMS had expected to add 2,400 students.
The growth was largely fueled by a steadily increasing Hispanic population, with black and white enrollment declining slightly. That’s a national and statewide trend outlined at a recent school board forum, where a UNC professor said immigration and higher birth rates among Hispanic families are changing the face of public education. (That's bullshit. Just because Hispanic birthrates are up contributing to the increase in enrollment for that race segment, it doesn't have anything to do with the decline in Black & White student enrollment.)
▪ Projection was 147,769
▪ Down 843 students
▪ Down 598 students
▪ Up 1,650 students
▪ Up 629 students
MORE: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article45195345.html
The growth was largely fueled by a steadily increasing Hispanic population, with black and white enrollment declining slightly. That’s a national and statewide trend outlined at a recent school board forum, where a UNC professor said immigration and higher birth rates among Hispanic families are changing the face of public education. (That's bullshit. Just because Hispanic birthrates are up contributing to the increase in enrollment for that race segment, it doesn't have anything to do with the decline in Black & White student enrollment.)
CMS enrollment
Total
▪ 146,140, up 777Total
▪ Projection was 147,769
Black
▪ 57,957, or 40 percent▪ Down 843 students
White
▪ 42,934, or 29 percent▪ Down 598 students
Hispanic
▪ 32,119, or 22 percent▪ Up 1,650 students
Asian
▪ 8,966, or 6 percent▪ Up 629 students
MORE: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article45195345.html
The thing is, my "crap" opinion (due to needing male attention and lack of truck driving skills) represents about 51% of "community as a whole" white families in Charlotte who don't give a rats crap about CMS.
ReplyDelete226,378 kids in Mecklenburg County under 18 years old. 147,000 in CMS. Only 29% of the kids in CMS are White or 42,600.
Delete60% of the County is White.
Well, in the past when the mostly white suburbs complained about assignment issues we were told by the Observer and the "caring community" that we were all selfish and racist. Same cast is back again, basically singing the same song. So many are bailing out. Who needs the grief?
ReplyDeleteWe have a President that will go to his grave never saying the term "radical Muslim extremists". It's a liberal DNA thing, just like the status quo liberals in education will never acknowledge the root causes of why many minorities perform poorly in school.
ReplyDeleteDo you think families with children in private schools, charter schools and home schooling who are committed to helping their children grow up to become successful members of society and contributing members of the modern American workforce spend anytime focused on the never ending diversity discussion in CMS? I can assure you the answer is "No". No, no, no. They don't care. And the more of these kinds of families who leave CMS - or never bother to enroll in the first place - the less likely the "community as a whole" is likely to care about traditional public education. And if the CO and those pushing for another round of Diversity Wars think otherwise, they need not look any further than every other urban school system in America.
ReplyDeleteThe recent "diversity" map that was just released is all the input CMS needs to have in order to know exactly where the so-called affluent community stands. And they can take this community into the battlefields once more but I think even they know they will loose and then everyone looses even more. Shoot the messengers.
Again, keeping and accepting things the way they are and then making a concerted effort to improve successful C and B magnet schools that are VOLUNTARILY diverse is really the only option CMS has left - short of breaking the system up. Adding additional magnets at D and F schools won't solve a thing and neither will a major boundary assignment overhaul that is certain to divide the community as a whole even further.
Agree 100%!
DeleteThat "diversity" map looks like the crime map for murders and the precinct voting results, map, too.
ReplyDeleteSo, apparently high crime, diverse schools, and voting Democrat go together.
I kid you not.
The maps look the same. And have for years.
I think these people need to put up or shut up.
ReplyDeleteLet them take ONE SCHOOL.
K-12 (or birth to dropout) whichever it may be...
Throw everything they can at it and see if ANYTHING works.
If NOTHING works, then stop the crap, distribute the money evenly among all schools and let the schools fall where they may.
If they find something which works, duplicate it in other schools.
Just focus on getting ONE SCHOOL right with all those people they are so concerned about before messing with everyone else.
If they cannot do that with all the resources they need, then it's time to admit that they can't do it no matter what kind of budget they have and get on with our lives.
This idea that they can just take as much money as they think they need and pass it around wherever they wish without any accountability for results should stop.
But, remember, Peter St. Noodlebrain has all the answers starting with holding hands and singing Kumbaya.
ReplyDeleteWe shall overcome? Yeah, my family overcame two hellish reassignment controversies within a four year period aimed at helping "those" kids but not my kid with a learning disability. CMS diversity is limited to nothing but skin color. Nothing else really matters. And that's fine because skin color diversity in CMS will eventually cease to be a problem as long as the system continues on the same 40 plus year course.
ReplyDeleteYep....
DeleteThe sad thing is that we now have these "privileged" minorities trying to disrupt the universities with their "demands".
DeleteI guess after raising a generation on Free and Reduced Lunches and a Free Education, and passing kids who should have failed in order to meet "requirements", it should be no surprise that they are "demanding" free tuition at universities that probably should not have admitted them in the first place.
Yes, I mean UNC-Chapel Hill.
If I were in charge of UNC, I'd give them free tuition to Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte.
That way they won't be exposed to "microaggressions".
I hope the Asians and others win their lawsuits to have non-racial based admissions to these schools.
Asians will be the next "wave" of immigrants and they deserve a "fair" shot, too.
Only they won't need help except to remove the deadwood that is blocking their entry.
Alicia, did you have a stutter fit?... LOL
ReplyDeleteSort of. Lol
ReplyDeleteThe long and short of it:
ReplyDeleteI decided it wasn't worth expressing an opinion on Lake Lure Classical Academy's decision to temporarily suspended all student clubs after a Southern Bapist minister accused the art teacher of promoting "Acts of Satan" after she agreed to sponsor the school's first LGBT club. The art teacher's daughter had a lead in my 5th grade production of Shakespear's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" last year which was an age appropriate modified version. Or, so I thought. Thank God I wasn't accused of promoting beastiality. My guess is beacause this gay phobic group was too stupid to read it let alone comprehend it. All 5th graders were required to read this Shakespear play as part of this school's Core Knowkedge curriculum - funded by a billionaire libertarian.
The CO wrote an opinion piece on the controversy this week - without going into any detail.
LLCA is the school I taught at last year. You bet. And no, I can't make this stuff up. Nope.
If I'm going to burn in hell, it will be in my own terms.
So this is a LGBT club for 5th graders?
DeleteLLCA is a K - 12 school. No, the LGBT club was limited to high school students.
DeleteI'd send my kids to a school which promoted "Acts of Satan".
DeleteAll in the interest of "diversity", of course.
It would probably be more interesting than the types of "diversity" most schools promote.
Shakespeare spelled with an e.
ReplyDeleteActually, your original was acceptable a few centuries ago...
DeleteThis may help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_Shakespeare%27s_name
Yes. Shakespeare's own spelling was highly inconsistent. Spelling only came into vogue with the invention of the dictionary. Shakespeare would likely score way below grade level on a modern spelling bee.
ReplyDeleteI feel better.
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!
Oh, and we're skipping Thanksgiving this year.
DeleteDarned Turkey dinner for a family of four costs $300 in most restaurants if you can find it.
We're going to take a hint from that Christmas movie classic, Christmas Story and look for some good ol' roast duck.
With the head, of course...
Back on spelling again...
DeleteWhat's really peculiar is that it's actually EASIER to spell Mandarin words in Pinyin (which is based on Russian sounds using a Roman alphabet) than it is to spell English.
Pinyin is fairly simple since the letters pretty much correspond to one sound in Chinese (unlike English).
I find Pinyin a breeze to use and am probably as good at it as my wife who is a native Mandarin speaker. My son struggles with it (he's 10), but my six year old daughter seems to find pinyin simple, too.
I think it's because she has learned Pinyin at about the same time she learned English spelling and phonics and just knows that there are two sets of different rules for the letters and combinations of letters.
Still, Pinyin can get a bit weird for English speakers because some of the sounds just do not exist for us natively.
(Oh, well enough geekiness on language...)
Not to mention the number ol' Noah Webster did on all us 'Mericans by "simplifying" English spelling.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform
I have to live with that one daily here in HK.
And that biscuits are called scones and cookies are called biscuits.
Rooms are halls and halls are corridors.
And you don't "pick up" your children after school, you "collect" them.
I used to collect stamps and coins, but never children.
Shamash,
ReplyDeleteYou quack me up.