These meetings usually start at 7:30 pm, not 7:00 pm. Change or mistake? Details, schmeetails. You say tomAYto, I say tomAHto, let's call the whole thing off?
Meeting started at 7:30 pm. The district calendar on the web is inaccurate.
Not a very exciting meeting. Mihok, Worob, Stout, and Heater were absent, as were Harm, Ruffing, and Gesauldi.
Varsity Bowling and Baseball Coaches are resigning, as is a French Teacer, but apparently another French Teacher was found, so French Teacher hiring will be on the Agenda at next Wed.'s Regular Business meeting.
The most exciting issue discussed was possibly bringing back a Bonfire the night before the Bristol football game on Thanksgiving Day. Steve Kaminsky is spearheading that effort, working with the district, fire dept., police dept., etc. No school district $$ is required. Jack Buckman recalled the unfortunate bonfire explosion years ago in the mid-1980's in which there were injuries.
Jack Buckman discussed starting to think about starting to pursue pulling the Tech School out of the academic business because it hasn't made AYP for 4 straight years (i.e. Tech focus only).
Regarding Mr Buckman's statement about the Tech School getting out of academics because they haven't made AYP.
I find that to be a very hyporcrital statement. You need to get into the detail of the PSSA scores before you make assumptions like that. If you go into the details of our Morrisville's scores this year you will find that many grades' scores have come down significantly. Yet we still made AYP. And per the Morrisville District's website we should be so proud of that achiememnt even though scores are worse in comparison to prior year(s).
If you check into the details of the Tech School it is very likely that scores increased but not enough to make AYP yet.
My point is, when is the School Board/Administration going to talk about the details of their own district's scores. NOT UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION BECAUSE THE SCORES AREN'T GOOD AND THEY DON"T WANT THE PUBLIC TO CATCH ONTO THAT. So typical of this SIC School Board.
How True. Stay on Coarse depends upon the ignorance of the public to win elections. The more uninformed they are the better for SIC. They excel in scare tactics as well.
I find Mr. Buckman's statement to be mostly empty grandstanding.
Why? Morrisville has 1 vote on the 14 member Tech School Board. Morrisville needs allies on the Tech Board to make this happen.
Morrisville deliberately not paying its Tech School bills for many months, then paying something it made up itself and not the prescribed amount under the funding formula, and forcing a confrontation with the rest of the Tech Board and the PA Dept. of Ed. does NOT help Morrisville gain allies on the Tech Board. It has the opposite effect.
Whatever Tech decides, Morrisville's role and influence will be at or near zero.
Unfortunately, there are people out there who will buy Mr. Buckman's take on it. Darn shame, I think.
Mr. Buckman used to talk about the PSSA tests being an unfair or non-representative indicator of Tech School student performance. He used to talk about the Keystone Exams possibly replacing the PSSA's as the Tech School exam for determining AYP performance. By the way, does anyone know what the status of this?
Anyway, Mr. Buckman's talk last night has me concerned that now he's content to use PSSA performance and Tech's failure to make AYP using the PSSA exams as the wedge he (and his board allies) need to pursue their agenda of pulling Tech out of academic instruction.
You should be able to have a debate about this, but here's my problem:
I don't trust this board to make rational, thoughtful, balanced, fact-based decisions on matters like this. They're too ideological and too impervious to any info that doesn't fit their worldview.
A good thing, as you said Jon, that Morrisville only has 1 of 14 tech board votes. We have to rely on the other sending districts to make good decisions.It's a real shame that I have alot more faith in other districts decisionmaking than our own.
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and since when do agenda meetings show tll 10pm? I believe someone messed up the calendar on mv.org.
Communication Breakdown, It's always the same
Having a nervous breakdown... Drive me insaaaaaaaaane!!
When did the mtg actually start? Anything notable happen?
Meeting started at 7:30 pm. The district calendar on the web is inaccurate.
Not a very exciting meeting. Mihok, Worob, Stout, and Heater were absent, as were Harm, Ruffing, and Gesauldi.
Varsity Bowling and Baseball Coaches are resigning, as is a French Teacer, but apparently another French Teacher was found, so French Teacher hiring will be on the Agenda at next Wed.'s Regular Business meeting.
The most exciting issue discussed was possibly bringing back a Bonfire the night before the Bristol football game on Thanksgiving Day. Steve Kaminsky is spearheading that effort, working with the district, fire dept., police dept., etc. No school district $$ is required. Jack Buckman recalled the unfortunate bonfire explosion years ago in the mid-1980's in which there were injuries.
Jack Buckman discussed starting to think about starting to pursue pulling the Tech School out of the academic business because it hasn't made AYP for 4 straight years (i.e. Tech focus only).
Oops. I botched Steve Cominski's last name.
Regarding Mr Buckman's statement about the Tech School getting out of academics because they haven't made AYP.
I find that to be a very hyporcrital statement. You need to get into the detail of the PSSA scores before you make assumptions like that. If you go into the details of our Morrisville's scores this year you will find that many grades' scores have come down significantly. Yet we still made AYP. And per the Morrisville District's website we should be so proud of that achiememnt even though scores are worse in comparison to prior year(s).
If you check into the details of the Tech School it is very likely that scores increased but not enough to make AYP yet.
My point is, when is the School Board/Administration going to talk about the details of their own district's scores. NOT UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION BECAUSE THE SCORES AREN'T GOOD AND THEY DON"T WANT THE PUBLIC TO CATCH ONTO THAT. So typical of this SIC School Board.
How True. Stay on Coarse depends upon the ignorance of the public to win elections. The more uninformed they are the better for SIC. They excel in scare tactics as well.
I find Mr. Buckman's statement to be mostly empty grandstanding.
Why? Morrisville has 1 vote on the 14 member Tech School Board. Morrisville needs allies on the Tech Board to make this happen.
Morrisville deliberately not paying its Tech School bills for many months, then paying something it made up itself and not the prescribed amount under the funding formula, and forcing a confrontation with the rest of the Tech Board and the PA Dept. of Ed. does NOT help Morrisville gain allies on the Tech Board. It has the opposite effect.
Whatever Tech decides, Morrisville's role and influence will be at or near zero.
Unfortunately, there are people out there who will buy Mr. Buckman's take on it. Darn shame, I think.
Mr. Buckman used to talk about the PSSA tests being an unfair or non-representative indicator of Tech School student performance. He used to talk about the Keystone Exams possibly replacing the PSSA's as the Tech School exam for determining AYP performance. By the way, does anyone know what the status of this?
Anyway, Mr. Buckman's talk last night has me concerned that now he's content to use PSSA performance and Tech's failure to make AYP using the PSSA exams as the wedge he (and his board allies) need to pursue their agenda of pulling Tech out of academic instruction.
You should be able to have a debate about this, but here's my problem:
I don't trust this board to make rational, thoughtful, balanced, fact-based decisions on matters like this. They're too ideological and too impervious to any info that doesn't fit their worldview.
A good thing, as you said Jon, that Morrisville only has 1 of 14 tech board votes. We have to rely on the other sending districts to make good decisions.It's a real shame that I have alot more faith in other districts decisionmaking than our own.
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