[written by Ditto]
Some of the cvillain readership includes parents with young children, right? I have a question. Why is there so little mention of the great honor paid to Western Albemarle High School, Virginia L. Murray Elementary School and Greenbriar Elementary School, schools selected by Governor Kaine for the Educational Excellence Award. These schools were recognized for “exceeding minimum state and federal accountability standards” and for “students …soaring far beyond the minimum requirements of the Standards of Learning and No Child Left Behind.” I want to see the celebration…I want to see the coverage. Could it be that our local media just only want to print/talk the negative when it comes to public schools? Could it be that it is not considered politically correct to distinguish only one of our local high schools? (Only 12 high schools were chosen from the entire state of Virginia) Or, name only two local elementary schools? Or, maybe ‘powers that be’ don’t want to hurt the burgeoning private school businesses? Why the silence?
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Channel 29 did the story back in January.
Linky?
Is this a serious post?
Are we going to start listing the kids on the honor role, too?
My kid took your honor roll kid’s lunch money
As an educator I can’t help but put in my two cents here. It is a complete shame that our schools, and the teachers who bust their asses day in and day out, are not recognized for all the great work that they do. From personal experience I can tell you that teaching is an incredibly thankless job, albeit very intrinsically rewarding. It seems as if the community is always waiting to rip our public schools a new one any chance they get. I don’t expect some sort of ticker-tape parade or anything for a job well done at school, but some positive feedback from the community every once in awhile couldn’t hurt.
Sorry to get all serious here but I just couldn’t help myself. Feel free to resume the typical cVillain fare of steak tartare, donkey punching, jello wrestling, and the various forms of wit and sarcasm that we love so much.
Ditto Odie!
Our schools are committed to excellence so our children can dream of getting a good job in the future.
are not recognized for all the great work that they do.
I’d give teachers a big pat on the back if they weren’t so busy doing it for themselves all the time with their pity parties and “woe is us” postings!
(Ouch, quit it, joke! Joke!)
My eldest son attends Western and is not doing so hot. I am about at wit’s end. I don’t blame the institution, though I do wish there were some resources I could draw upon for help. I am in touch with the guidance folk, but they are hard to get a hold of, and have not been too much help. It took them seven months and many calls to start mailing me my son’s report card as well, instead of just mailing it to his mom’s.
My youngest son attend a very small private school, and is doing just fine. He will likely go public next year, and I have my fingers crossed.
Kids are a lot easier when they are just tiny little blobs. Once they are taller than you, things get complicated.
*Sigh*
Can of worms opened. Proceed to debate the merits of local public education. I’ll be in the corner talking to myself about wild salmon or something.
Here’s a story on those awards from WCAV back in January
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/13679177.html
No debate for me. I think the W.A. school system is fine. My only complaints are the bureaucracy, which is to be found in any institution, educational or otherwise.
I myself am a product of the San Francisco Public Education System, and I turned out… well…
never mind.
/salmon!
Who are the “powers that be” referred to in the post?
I remember hearing about the awards–did Waldo possibly mention them at Cville News? (That is where I get most of my local news.) My kids are in the city schools, so I don’t pay too much attention to what’s going on in the county.
“the powers that be” are those powers that be…..
Anyway, patience, Greenbriar is IN the the city…this is the point…taxpayers have some good news but its not well known..
So NBC29 did a story about this in January, as well as CBS19, it was on cville news and presumably in other news sources as well…so what exactly are you complaining about? Maybe we don’t pay enough attention to the positive news and only focus on the NEGATIVE, which includes your apparent baseless rant about this topic.
wait, aren’t those the same thing anyway
speaka de silence, where is FLOOZY???!!!!
I miss you, you tart
what the hell made ya think of flooze shen?
I’s drinking wine and running my mouth
by yourself?
no, with my 17 cats
I’m comin’ over
meeeeowww!
(15) Sounding kinda negative yourself….I’m trying not to focus…..Anyway, despite your news BRIEFS, apparently very few families at least at W.A. had heard anything. Just keepin it real…!
ditto, ditto
ditto odie’s ditto of ditto.
/just fun to type.
ditto yo’s ditto of my ditto of ditto
Is this turning into the typographical equivalent of yodeling?
(i need a towel). thanks for making me laugh. i always like that.
ditto ditto little yo wa-hoo!
Im not a wahoo. I was, believe it or not, a “Gaucho” (UCSB) – an equally peculiar choice of mascot involving a rather dapper fellow in a south american hat on a horse with a sword.
Only two more horsemen, and its the rapture!
Only two more horsemen, and its the rapture!
As long as the white horseman isn’t wearing an oversize white Tshirt – they don’t allow that at Rapture…
belmont yo,
my daughter grad. from WA, she loved it. she spent 11 years at STAB, 1 Tandem.
never having talked to guidance there, i hired R.L, school advisor. (guess you have to figure that out for privacy)
Then used C. tutoring services owned by the smart and totally FAB A. (have to figure that one of too). Close
to a fancy food store.
My daughter is in a very serious college though plans to transfer to UVA. I had heard guidance dept has very
little time, that may or may not be true. That is why i did my own thing.
gOOD luck, yes they are much easier when short than you!