atl school days longer and no school on fridays

Murphy wrote:

<quoted text>I heard we are going to use the bible as our 6th grade reading book! Sixth grade is when our kids in Atlanta start reading. Praise Jezuz!!!! LMAO

Let's read something that was authored by people who thought the world was flat and the sun was 17 miles away, might as well read Mother Goose.

Algore wrote:

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Let's read something that was authored by people who thought the world was flat and the sun was 17 miles away, might as well read Mother Goose.

Better yet, let's read about global warming and the wonders and fairness of socialism.

just a thought wrote:

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Better yet, let's read about global warming and the wonders and fairness of socialism.

Don't be silly. Those things aren't part of the gospel according to the Big Rock Church! On the bright side, we have the largest Christian School in the county!

just a thought wrote:

<quoted text>Better yet, let's read about global warming and the wonders and fairness of socialism.

Manbearpig is a much bigger menace.

I just read online that our kids had the worst scores in every area tested on the Michigan Merit Exam of all the schools in the area. What the hell is going on at that school?

Maybe we should go six days a week!

school sould go die in a hole it is shit

I personally went to the high school when this was started. I was a senior. And i am telling you that Fridays off were great. But I would have gladly had homework, went to school all week, and had a normal schedule. There is no responsibility outside of the classroom. So grades look great at the high school level, especially when 40% of your score is attendance. But when college comes around your children will have no study skills and no depiction of responsibility when they actually have to be RESPONSIBLE for their own grades based on performance, it's gonna be a slap in the face.

Bruno Supporter wrote:

I personally went to the high school when this was started. I was a senior. And i am telling you that Fridays off were great. But I would have gladly had homework, went to school all week, and had a normal schedule. There is no responsibility outside of the classroom. So grades look great at the high school level, especially when 40% of your score is attendance. But when college comes around your children will have no study skills and no depiction of responsibility when they actually have to be RESPONSIBLE for their own grades based on performance, it's gonna be a slap in the face.

Interestingly you talk about responsibility. It is that very thing that the current system is promoting. In the past it was far too easy to have someone else do your homework. I know of cases where students graduated with honors (going to school 5 days a week). When they went to college they were totally at a loss because they never did their own work. With all the work being done in the classroom it is very difficult for someone else to do your work. You are truly responsible for your own work and grades.

If you are worried about kids cheating to get their grades, it's pitiful. 40% OF THESE STUDENTS GRADES IS JUST SHOWING UP! Truency is punishable by law, anyway. They do it because they have to. Not because they understand the meaning of responsibility. In my class of 2010, 5 kids went to university. And half of them has to come home and go to ACC because they couldn't handle it. So, excuse me if I offended your child's great grades for just showing up. You how me an amazing ACT score and then maybe I'll believe it's working.

Bruno Supporter wrote:

If you are worried about kids cheating to get their grades, it's pitiful. 40% OF THESE STUDENTS GRADES IS JUST SHOWING UP! Truency is punishable by law, anyway. They do it because they have to. Not because they understand the meaning of responsibility. In my class of 2010, 5 kids went to university. And half of them has to come home and go to ACC because they couldn't handle it. So, excuse me if I offended your child's great grades for just showing up. You how me an amazing ACT score and then maybe I'll believe it's working.

Ok, whats the difference between you not wanting to have your tax money spent at the animal shelter and me not wanting to have my tax money spent at the school? The reason kid's fail is that they too lack the drive and responsibility to succeed. that laziness begins in the home with the parents. it all goes back to a lack of self respect and respect for friends, family, neighbors and the community. Until kids learn to respect themselves and others, put down their cell phones and video games and apply themselves in their studies the cycle with continue and worsen.

First of all, "Bruno Supporter", it is spelled TRUANCY. If you want to be taken seriously, you need to pay attention to details! All of them! Secondly, counting attendance as part of is pretty standard practice in many colleges and universities. Having attendance account for a percentage of your final grade is not a new or novel idea. Yes, showing up IS important!

Showing up is important. Your right. But it's not 40% of a grade important. You are all kidding yourselves if you think this school is doing any good. At this point, I don't care if u wants to spend your money at the school. Frankly, I don't want to spend my money filling the administrations pockets when try aren't doing a good job. I'm just so furious, because I really loved our school. And I look at what linking of joke it is now. I think about the schools I went to downstate before this... And it makes me so sad for the parents and children who have to tolerate this substandard education, and substandard educational administration.

So you gradumatated in 2010. And you don't want "your" money going to the Atlanta school. You must be about 20 years old? Do you own a home in the district? If you don't, don't worry, none of "your" money goes to the school. You crack me up talking about your tax money this, your tax money that.

Actually, I do own property in our district. I am one of the most wealthy people in our community, and I pay more in taxes in one year than you pay in ten. So keep laughing.

Bruno Supporter wrote:

Showing up is important. Your right. But it's not 40% of a grade important. You are all kidding yourselves if you think this school is doing any good. At this point, I don't care if u wants to spend your money at the school. Frankly, I don't want to spend my money filling the administrations pockets when try aren't doing a good job. I'm just so furious, because I really loved our school. And I look at what linking of joke it is now. I think about the schools I went to downstate before this... And it makes me so sad for the parents and children who have to tolerate this substandard education, and substandard educational administration.

You need to realize that your perspective on education is EXTREMELY LIMITED, as you are only a recent HS grad. It is mildly amusing to read your soapbox rants about shoddy education standards at AHS when you demomstrate that you clearly can't even use proper spelling or grammar.

I'm just living proof that Atlanta doesn't teach your kids a damn thing. Besides that, it's not that I don't know how to write correctly. It is my own fault that my posts appear that way. It's the program on my browser in my phone that is messing up my punctuation. I apologize. Also, I have gone to school in 3 states, and studied at 8 different schools in my life. This school is the worst excuse for an educational institution that I have ever attended. It's even worse to consider the fact that the other school I attended were more impoverish than Atlanta is. They had less money, less staff, and excelled exponentially in student growth and test scores. I'll repeat my previous statement. Show me an amazing ACT score, and I might believe its working.