In celebration of my 3000+ blog posts I’ve decided to use Perry’s response comment as the 3000th blog post. I started blogging way back in 2007 but got pissed and discouraged and deleted my blog only to be encouraged to come back. So the + = all the post I deleted.
Comment response to Which Street is right about Delaware’e education reform; Wall Street or Jea Street ?
Looks like Perry is a serious blogger so I am adding him to my blog roll. Perry, thanks for stopping by and for the comment
Perry, on February 26, 2012 at 8:25 pm said:
Indeed, “kavips rocks.” Let us face the fact that forced busing to strive for integration is not working in Delaware.
Therefore, going back to the old neighborhood school approach, with money infusion from the State, makes a lot of sense for reasons already stated. Moreover, RTTT, while it lasts, should be focused on the inner city schools.
We should look at this as a long term investment which will probably take at least a generation before significant improvement occurs. A corollary result will be the eventual rebuilding and refurbishing of the inner city.
I also favor reducing Delaware to one school district, one superintendent, with three sub area districts each with an assistant superintendent, one per county.
This is the way the Fairfax County School District in Northern Virginia is organized, as mentioned in previous posts on Delaware Liberal. FCPS has about as many students as our entire State, organized with the neighborhood school approach. The result: high quality schools, very few private schools, and no charter schools.
I confess to not understanding the history of Delaware K-12 schools and their problems and challenges, but I see a terribly fragmented system in the northern part of our State, as described in posts here and on DL, with a plethora of charters and privates to further complicate attempts to focus on improving our public schools, as Pandora and Kilroy and several others have made their top priority.
I congratulate these people for trying to come up with a better plan for the future of our public schools. I hope Governor Markell and his DOE are paying attention!
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It is an honor, Kilroy; thank you! I can see that you, Pandora, and many commenters are struggling mightily with this extremely difficult and important issue. Kudos to all for that!
We all might not agree but through debate comes truth and compromise! Now if only we can get elected officials D’s and R’s to have honest debates and compromises. As far as public education issues it appear the D’s and R’s are in on the social train wreck that all tracks lead to Wall Street and players sowing seeds for life after elected office.
Congrats on the milestone & THANKS for the important work you do with this blog, Kilroy!!!
Whatever you do don’t tell Ted B, that you called my work important
You are a blogging god! Congratulations, old friend.
I was talking to a red clay teacher this weekend who said we have to vote for the referendum. I said in my opinion it’s a vote for segregation and elitism. She said “yup, but that’s why you live where you live.”. “no, I said, you’re why I send my kids to private school”
Thanks but no God here!
just a misguided parent
Perry,
This link – Fairfax County Schools and their
Quality Education Journey – may be of interest
to you as I shared it with Newark and Pencader Moms…
http://rube.asq.org/edu/2009/01/basic-quality/beginning-the-journey-turning-the-vision-into-reality.pdf
There are leaders that are making great progress – all since
2000. Consider, for example, that Montgomery County Schools, which began their journey in 2000, in 2010 was the recipient of
our National Quality Award for Performance Excellenc/Education.
My sense is that Dr. Lowery was recruited from Fairfax County Schools to Christiana because she had some fluency with this effort;
True?