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jop
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You know all the time i read something ridiculing the charter school. I have a sister that attends this school and she has a very unique personality and in any other school she would be treated bad even assualted in some cases but this school gives her a sence of hope and happiness that she isnt able to have else where. If you guys want to spend your time writing about schools then try spending your time writing about fitchburg high school which is full of drugs and fights and who needs security and a cop almost all the time to keep the place on a level note. The charter school gives people a better opportunity that fitchburg cannot offer so try using your writing skills to voice on something else like killings and murder and how to fix the town of fitchburg rather than kids who are happy in a school.
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Riley Martin
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Boo F-ing Hoo
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Paul from Leominster
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jop: Enough of the sob stories. Charter schools take money away from town public schools which hurts everybody! The solution to fixing public education does not lie in removing money from town public school budgets and funding charter schools. It is a catch-22 situation. The more people take children out of public town schools and place them in charter schools, and taking the associated "tuition" dollars with them, the harder it is for town public schools to function, so next year you will have more kids taken out of these town public schools because they don't have the dollars to "perform". Given a long enough window it could destroy public education as we know it today.
The probable reason why you have "less problems" in charter schools is the tendency to take the cream of the crop from more affluent families and send them to charter schools, thereby increasing the proportion of "trouble makers" in the public schools. The higher ratio of trouble makers to "normal" kids only makes the situation worse in public schools, thereby "justifying" charter schools. And the problem is not unique to Fitchburg...ALL towns suffer because of charter schools taking money away from town public schools!
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not suprised
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Paul from Leominster wrote: jop: Enough of the sob stories. Charter schools take money away from town public schools which hurts everybody! The solution to fixing public education does not lie in removing money from town public school budgets and funding charter schools. It is a catch-22 situation. The more people take children out of public town schools and place them in charter schools, and taking the associated "tuition" dollars with them, the harder it is for town public schools to function, so next year you will have more kids taken out of these town public schools because they don't have the dollars to "perform". Given a long enough window it could destroy public education as we know it today.
The probable reason why you have "less problems" in charter schools is the tendency to take the cream of the crop from more affluent families and send them to charter schools, thereby increasing the proportion of "trouble makers" in the public schools. The higher ratio of trouble makers to "normal" kids only makes the situation worse in public schools, thereby "justifying" charter schools. And the problem is not unique to Fitchburg...ALL towns suffer because of charter schools taking money away from town public schools! Agreed.
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Charter vs Public
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Paul from Leominster wrote: The probable reason why you have "less problems" in charter schools is the tendency to take the cream of the crop from more affluent families and send them to charter schools, thereby increasing the proportion of "trouble makers" in the public schools. The higher ratio of trouble makers to "normal" kids only makes the situation worse in public schools, thereby "justifying" charter schools. And the problem is not unique to Fitchburg...ALL towns suffer because of charter schools taking money away from town public schools! The Sentinal needs to work on new material. The story was orginally run in February 2007. How many times are they going to run it. I have noticed it on-line numerous times over the past year as an exact duplicate with nothing updated. It appears to me that the paper may have an issue with NCCES as it repeatedly runs this article. Paul, all I would ask is that you do some research on the demographics of NCCES before you make a generalized comment about charter schools being for the affluent. Some schools may be, but others, such as NCCES do a good service for those lost in the area schools systems. Those who you might consider "trouble-makers" or would have turned out that way if they had stayed in schools such as Fitchburg High do well at NCCES and become self-confident hard-working students. One of my children was not able to get the help he/she needed at the local public school. Believe me we pushed to get the help that was needed to no avail. My other children still attend public schools in the local area. NCCES has been able to fill the gap and my child is doing much better. I guess we need to think what is more important, the opportunity for our children to recieve the educational support they need, or maintaining the status quo in our public schools. Maybe with the challenge placed by charter schools against public schools, the public schools will step up to the plate.
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Mom of children in NCCES
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My two children have attended NCCES for the past 4 yrs, before there they went to Gardner public. My children have a sence of security there. They aren't sent to sit in the back of the class because they have to have something explained to them more than a couple of times and be made that no one cares. They have done better grade wise and have the self confidence they did not have in Gardner. If a problem arises it is taken care of the first time unlike Gardner Public. My daughter was harrassed and bullied in Gardner and nothing was ever done after the first time or the 20th. The teachers and students at NCCES have this awsome connection with each other, you walk in and you feel like its a big family. Everyone listens to everyone. The teachers take each student as their own and do what they can for EACH student. The kids that go to NCCES have a chance of a better education because the teachers care and take the time with each student. Like I said I have an older son who after the tenth grade quit Gardner High because the teachers set him in the back of the class room because it took him longer to understand something and forgot about him. He felt like noone cared so why should I. NO CHILD SHOULD EVER FEEL THAT WAY. Shame on them..... What would they say now to know that he is now a college student without their help.
WAY TO GO NCCES: KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!!
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Jane Rattray
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This article does not show the whole picture at NCCES but it quite adequately demonstrates the downfall of the Massachusetts public education system in general, a system that is more concerned with testing than teaching! My daughter graduated from NCCES in 2006 and is now a successful student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has already completed a Disney co-op program in addition to excelling as a student. Her experience at NCCES fostered confidence in her as a student and as a person that has motivated her to set difficult goals and accomplish them.
"The kids were talking about math ... my son was distraught. He said,'Mom, I don't know what they're talking about; we're not doing that.'"
That was one of the turning points that led Thomas and her husband to pull their son from NCCES. "
This quote is a repeat from a similar article on NCCES that was printed last year so to say this occurred "last fall" is an inaccurate statement. Much of this article is a repeat from that previous article and does not show the progress that has been made at NCCES this year.
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gloria
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I think the people that run fitchburg schools all should go back to school, they dont know what there doing,why I say that . My family whent threw hell . When your child steps on that bus you would like to beleive there safe, NOT TRUE. My son was raped at Reingold. they took the person out of Reingold and put him in Crocker. I was called in because Mrs Papas thought my little boy was having problems at home.I told them so many time nothing was wromg at home COULD it be school? My family has never been the same..But school went on .My son was sapose to be SAFE, My little boy was cut and raped in the boys bathroom. Thats first grade,I hate to think about the other 11 grades. the first thing I did wrong was thinking my child was safe, hes in school. Please dont make my mistake
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Dorion
AOL
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Charter vs Public wrote: <quoted text>
The Sentinal needs to work on new material. The story was orginally run in February 2007. How many times are they going to run it. I have noticed it on-line numerous times over the past year as an exact duplicate with nothing updated. It appears to me that the paper may have an issue with NCCES as it repeatedly runs this article.
Paul, all I would ask is that you do some research on the demographics of NCCES before you make a generalized comment about charter schools being for the affluent. Some schools may be, but others, such as NCCES do a good service for those lost in the area schools systems. Those who you might consider "trouble-makers" or would have turned out that way if they had stayed in schools such as Fitchburg High do well at NCCES and become self-confident hard-working students.
One of my children was not able to get the help he/she needed at the local public school. Believe me we pushed to get the help that was needed to no avail. My other children still attend public schools in the local area. NCCES has been able to fill the gap and my child is doing much better.
I guess we need to think what is more important, the opportunity for our children to recieve the educational support they need, or maintaining the status quo in our public schools. Maybe with the challenge placed by charter schools against public schools, the public schools will step up to the plate. You are right. They run stories over, sometimes mixing it up. I cannot believe this is what we get from new management. Sometimes the editor takes a brandon butler story and makes it an editorial.
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