Tempe school takes 'no excuses' approach to aiming kids at college

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• AZMomma posted at 5:13 pm on Sat, Jan 22, 2011.

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  Humm.. seems my comments about the Administrator and her bias against kids who should NOT go to college (trade schools and training instead) got wiped from this site.
  Ah well, can always post again.
  She is a over-educated elitist and shows her inability to address the lack of true education in her field.
  Not every child can - or should go to college. To push her agenda is harmful to the majority of children and serves only to enrich the tuition coffers of colleges who have already lowered the standard to that of 8th graders (50 yrs ago).

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• Tookie88 posted at 10:45 am on Sun, Jan 23, 2011.

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  Isn't this what schools are supposed to be doing? Getting students ready for life and possibly college? We (teachers) spend so much time on these "pet" programs from administration that it is getting hard to find time to actually dow our job and teach!

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• azhix posted at 1:43 pm on Sun, Jan 23, 2011.

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  So sad! Only in AZ can someone be called an "elitist" when they proclaim that every child can achieve a college education. What are we coming to when striving for excellence for all is seen as a harmful "agenda"?

  Citizens like AZMomma are the primary reason our state is in the bottom in education. People like her vote for the anti-education morons in the state legislature, who pilfer from public education so they can subsidize private education, all under the name of "school choice". Then she has the nerve to complain when public schools make a bold move towards educating ALL students with high standards.

  Want to solve problems in public education? How about offering some ideas of your own, instead of criticizing what you clearly don't understand.

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• kgplum posted at 4:45 pm on Sun, Jan 23, 2011.

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  [rolleyes] My father was the only one of 12 to finish high school, and my mother dropped out of school in the 10th grade. We lived on a farm, and Dad logged. They always told my sister and me that we had to go to college for at least one year. Then if we chose to quit we would know what we were giving up. We worked hard and paid most of our own college costs. I had a scholarship to help. We both became teachers, and all of our children earned college degrees. All of their children are either in college or know they are expected to attend when they're old enough. Parents should take the major roll in instilling those expectations. However, schools need to fill in when that doesn't happen. As a teacher, I thought it was important to help students understand that there is also the option of vocational schools.

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• AZMomma posted at 8:54 am on Mon, Jan 24, 2011.

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  Bottom line: "High Expectations" are one thing, as are "High Aspirations", BUT we have produced at least one (maybe two) generations of 'takers'. Unable to actually produce any worthwhile product. Can't wire a lamp, read a blueprint, minor car repairs or even cook a basic meal from scratch. Drive a nail? Nope ! They CAN however text, tweet, twitter and go into toxic shock if unhooked from their electronic umbilical cord for more than a new minutes.
  Giving kids all the tools they might need for EXPANDING their post-HS education is critical.
  Balance a checkbook, Credit vs. cash, getting up in the morning to go to a JOB, rather than sleeping in, catching an easy-peasy class at 11 am.
  Forcing them to attend college when it is not a good fit for them/their plans or skills is just another example of elitist parenting. It is the ultimate cruelty for your child, because you have taught them nothing toward surviving as an adult.
  Those will be the boomerang kids, back living with Mommy & Daddy at the age of 40. Failed relationships, broke, no skills and sneering at learning something where they had to get their precious little hands soiled a bit.
  BTW - raised my kids in local Public schools beginning in 1965. Saw the early damage the "college bound" structure caused.
  Social butterfiles and Good ole boys prevailed.
  Mandatory 2 yrs of PUBLIC service before any young adult can enroll in a college/trade school. THEN only those who can pass a strict literacy exam can get in.

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