Best laugh I have had in a while.. regarding the Evansville School District.

THEY really have to stop picking Kim Katzenmeyer to lead any discussion on good behavior. She does not know the definition.  I have included part of the Evansville School Boards agenda packet.  Read what good old Kim had to say .  Evidently Kim is part of the employee compensation committee.  The question was asked  ” What makes a good educator? ”   This is what this committee put together in regards to that question. ( see inserts above.” Its all laughable because Kim in particular does not know or follow some of the talking points that put into answering that question.

 

Like ‘ treating students with dignity.”    She is a horrible teacher,  and very disrespectful to students.   She is known as the ‘ bitch’ around school because of how she treats students.    AS for motivation ?   NO she tells certain students they will never graduate when they do not do what she wants them to.  She bullies them.   That is not motivation.

The teachers in the E.S.D. are very frightened by merit pay.    It will eventually happen and they know it.

Quite of few teachers in the E.S.D. would never make it in a larger school district, example.. .like the Madison School District.   In the Madison School District teachers are held accountable for their words and actions .  Teachers in the Madison School District have to show results and excuses are not tolerated.   Kim Katezenmeyer would never last in a district where teachers are held accountable.  I think that is why she and others stay in the E.S.D. as they know they would be fired in any larger district.  The Madison School district, high schools in particular rank high in state standards academically and well the Evansville School district??   You can not even find them on the map to academic success.

 

You can find the full school board packet  at  http://www.ecsdnet.org/documents/Board%20Meetings/2014-2015/January/Janaury%2028%20Board%20Packet.pdf

Family wants MMSD to pay former principal’s benefits | News – Channel3000.com

 

I am sorry.   HE died.      No one ever really plans on dying.

What a horrible , horrible way to treat his family after he gave 40 year and 40 fantastic years of his life to this district.

I will say the M.S.D.   should be very ashamed of it self.

 

They need to fix this.  Administration needs to fix this.

 

Good Grief.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Family wants MMSD to pay former principal’s benefits | News – Channel3000.com.

Security and communication from the Evansville School District.

 

 

One of the questions on the recent survey was about how you feel the Evansville School District does a good job communicating.  I believe it also asked how you would want communication from the Evansville School District.??   I think it asked how,  its been a while.

I was telling a friend that I have been absolutely shocked at how  well Madison Schools communicate with parents compared to Evansville.  When there is some thing they want us to know they  email the information to us,  put out a robo call with the information, and mail us a letter.    They are doing their best to miss no one.  Because sadly not everyone has a phone or internet connection.  So they cover it all the way around.  They try to miss no one.

I giggled when I first get the email, then robo call, then a day or two later a letter in the mail.   But at least they are trying.   The Evansville School District has done a poor job of even trying to communicate with parents.

One of the last things that happened while our son was going to McKenna Middle School was it was time for parent teacher conferences.  I had no idea.  Why?  Because we had gotten nothing from them.   When I asked about why I never got a letter I was told  ”  ______ is doing really well , we do not need to see you.  ”    I was stunned.  What if I had questions and wanted to see them?   Parents had no say in this ?

But the point being is I did not even know about parent teacher conferences because no letter came home , no email,   no phone call.

Schools can not just trust kids to bring things home.  They know better than that.    They need to make more of an effort.  It’s not a hard thing to do. They have just never felt the need to do it.   The attitude seems to be the less parents know the better.

 

I am hoping with a new board members , to back up some of the board members  who have tried to bring change.    It will finally happen.

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Recently while talking with one of the principals at Madison West I told them that I feel that my kids are as safe at Madison West  as they ever were in Evansville.

Madison West High School is a school of over 4000 students,   and my kids are as safe or safer than they were in Evansville.

Quite simply they are.    Madison West and other Madison schools put a lot of time and money into security.

From the survey results we know people in Evansville would back security up dates.

What I do not understand is why so many adults/parents have such a hard time of understanding they have to check in at the office before walking any where in the school.

I absolutely hope that the Evansville School District does put in some sort of buzzer/security system so know one gets in to the schools with out some one knowing there is a non-staff/student person in the building.   There are several other security issues they could implement that would not be that expensive .

Like locks on all classroom doors.   When my son and daughter were going to J.C. Mckenna I was surprised to learn teachers could not even lock them selves in their own classroom’s if there was an emergency.

Security is so important I hope if this question ends up on the referendum the people of Evansville fully support it.   How can you not?

 

School Scoop: Update to the School Perceptions Update

School Scoop: Update to the School Perceptions Update.

I am so excited for Melissa Hammann.. Evansville Education Association endores her for school board.

 

So Excited!!!!  Congrats Melissa!!!

February 26 Board Packet.pdf

 

Already seeing teacher resignations coming in for the end of the year.

 

 

February 26 Board Packet.pdf.

Coaches Claim School Board President Bullied Them | Watch the video – Yahoo News

 

Coaches Claim School Board President Bullied Them | Watch the video – Yahoo News.

Did you get your survey from the E.C.S.D.? Why a referendum when you have a MILLION plus in the fund balance.

 

 

Oh my goodness, where to start.

I got a chance to read this survey over the weekend.

It’s funny how they do not even put an estimate in for the costs of 4k.   They did for other things they want.   But not for 4k.

Every  thing that I read on that survey, with the exception of the junior high is a want, not a need.

Yes the curriculum is a need as are the updates to computers and software.   But these things need to be paid for out of the budget.

The last time I knew they have a MILLION plus in the fund balance.   They could pay for 4k out of the fund balance.   They could upgrade the curriculum and computers and software through the fund balance.  They have the money.

More pay for teacher’s and to attract good teachers? Well maybe you could keep and attract more teachers if administration treated them better.

I know for a fact the moral at the junior high and high school, the moral has been awful for a long time.  It’s not all about money,  it’s about how they are treated.

I also think Evansville does need to implement merit pay,  pay the teachers who really deserve it more and let the others work for it.  But regardless it needs to come out of the budget.

The majority of the questions on this survey shows they have serious budgeting issues.

Why go to referendum and raise taxes when you have the money.     The Evansville school district is the highest taxed district in the county and they want to add more?

 

Throwing money at this district is not going to help it.  The things they need to fix are internal things and only then will real change happen.

 

The link below gives more information on this survey as well.

 

http://schoolscoop1.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-tone-of-ecsd-survey-is-disappointing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SchoolScoop+%28School+Scoop%29

 

Oklahoma City School Board concerned over third-grade reading requirement | Oklahoma City – OKC – KOCO.com

 

The question is in years past when 3rd graders were not reading at grade level.  What did they do?   Do they promote them regardless of their ability to read?

Evansville has this same program.  Promoting kids that can not read or do math at grade level.

What services do schools offer to discuss the issue of children not reading at grade level?    What about math?

Math and reading are core subjects and no child should be passed along who can not read or do math at grade level.  It only gets harder with each year.

 

 

Oklahoma City School Board concerned over third-grade reading requirement | Oklahoma City – OKC – KOCO.com.

NY teachers union pulls its support from Common Core, urges removal of state ed chief

It does not matter what the government comes up with.  Teachers are never going to like it.   They got away for years without being held accountable and they do not like it one bit,  having to show they are actually earning their pay checks.

It sounds like they want more time to get ready for Common Core.  How much more time?   They also wanted more time for N.C.L.B. , and they never could get that right either.  Time did not help them.

NY teachers union pulls its support from Common Core, urges removal of state ed chief.