Well, I see the interim candidates were announced today. Hard to believe the committee or whoever chose these three. I don't know two of them, but Stan Rounds took down the Alamogordo and Hobbs districts before retiring. He needs to stay retired and Las Cruces sure doesn't need another mistake such as this. Looks like someone needs to talk to the staff still left in those districts who can tell you the facts. After the mess with Diaz, I can't believe better reference checks are not being done.
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Does anyone know....1. Why were the names of the candidates for the Interim Superintendent position have been kept a secret?2. What the results of the opinion poll taken on the Options of when to hire the Interim Supt were? 3. When is something going to be done to stop Briseno from pursuing his lopsided personal agenda?
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I just read in the Sun-News this morning about the 3 candidates for interim super. I could not believe my eyes when I saw Stan Rounds name in there. I know school board members read this so they need to do a little more research on him. When he left Alamogordo, there was over $100,000 dollars in federal monies missing. The man is a crook. He sold off school land, again, the money was "lost". I know Hobbs wants to get rid of him so asking them may not be much help. I was glad to see that Phil Knight from Alamogordo wasn't in the top 3, he's just inept.
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Why would the Sped dept. even get an opportunity to interview Mr. Zamora’s wife? Isn’t there a screening committee that checks past employee’s personnel files? I think that would be enlightening in her case. Is this just more example of the good ole gal syndrome? Or simply what everyone pretty much knows… a director in the Sped dept. that lacks competence and ethics in equal amounts?
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Whomever keeps blasting Onate High School must be a disgruntled employee or someone who has never been inside our building. Since the departure of Aranda, the stress level has dropped, everyone is happier, and this leads to a great atmosphere of teaching and learning. Come to our school and and visit with faculty, staff, and students. It is once again a great place to work and learn.
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The reason people aren't more forthcoming, and the reason this blog exists is because when bad things are said about those in charge, they tend to lose their jobs. That's why whoever it was won't tell Sheryl White things to her face, we like our jobs, even though our central office is easily the worst I've ever encountered
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Kind of off topic, but can someone tell me why staff pay a dollar more for the same amount of food students get? Are we richer? We sure don't get any more food for that dollar! And what exactly is the limit on the number of jalapeno slices one can take? My child and I both got chewed out for taking too many, so if anyone knows the magic number, please let me know.
posted by LCPS1 @ 8:09 PM
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The other evening, at a local store, I happened to meet, and visited for a long while, with an old friend who's worked for many years in this school system... in a non-professional position. He's a very intelligent older gentleman, quite personable, and continues his interest in the school district... and in its service to our young people. At one point in our conversation, he asked, "Why don't they teach the kids to read and write, anymore? Why, when I was in school, I had to learn about the parts of speech, and how to put sentences together. The kids, now-a-days, have no idea about those things, anymore."
My friend also expressed concern about our younger generation. "These kids," he said, "have little knowledge, and no skills, to make good lives for themselves."
In this school district, he's absolutely right. Maybe it would be good if the teachers would learn, and be able to teach, parts of speech, declension of the personal pronoun, conjugation of verbs, and a lot more good, necessary stuff about our language. But then, of course, at this time in U.S. history... we're not even sure if we have one language that we can all agree to use.
So many children are lost in the system. They have no motivation to learn, and little success in acquiring essential skills.
What has happened to basic, necessary skills in teaching... and in helping kids to learn? Have we forgotten that we must teach each child at a level at which he can learn? Why can't we motivate kids by creating pride in learning? A good teacher capitalizes on any bit of positive learning that a child achieves, and praises the child's effort and success... in order to build the kid's confidence and eagerness for learning.
In order to gauge the success, or failure, of the educational process in this school system, all one needs to do is to observe the large percentage of reluctant, non-learners that populate our high schools in Las Cruces.
Guided Reading? If it's 'Back to Basics', it's a great idea. If it's another Foolish Fad... forget it.
We realize that many young ?teachers? haven't been taught the content and skills that are necessary to succeed at teaching. What's going on in our teacher preparation programs?
School principals find a great opportunity to enhance their own security... by exploiting this field of uncertain, ineffective, insecure young teachers. "How," you may ask, "could ineffective, insecure teachers help a principal to build his/her own security?"
Very simple, and widely practiced in this district. The principal builds a power base by giving lavish, but superficial, attention and a feeling of security to the least effective teachers. This disastrous process leaves the experienced, effective teachers far out on a very loose limb. Such a principal says to himself/herself, "Gotta get rid of those old so-and-so's... they may know more than I do."
Have you noticed, in the past few years, the unusually large number of experienced, excellent teachers who have retired, or left our district? Now, you know why.
It's truly sad, but this district is hopelessly in shambles right now. The board and those downtown have proven that they don't care what their employees or the citizens of Las Cruces think, central office has proven their incompetence in everything that they've done, and now we're facing candidates for superintendent that, if you google each one, aren't exactly top choices.
Let's just say that I would welcome a state takeover at this point, how much longer can we work under such idiots?
Guided reading has changed me as a teacher for the better. I had no idea how much I didn't know about my students reading abilities until now. There are a few teachers in my school that are still complaining about having to do guided reading. They are the same people that HATE everything new, and just want to teach the same old lessons for 25 years. I honestly think some people are afraid that they don't know enough about reading to do guided reading. I hear you say that you have asked for research and have been denied it. Have you heard of the internet? How about the library? I googled guided reading just now and pulled up over 2.5 million sites. Our PLT always give us articles and things to read, so I don't know why you haven't gotten any. You really need to just jump in and try it. I think that is what the PLT meant by "fake it". I think they meant that you try it and do it until you get good enough at it to really be a reading teacher. I don't think anyone can honestly dispute it balanced literacy the best thing for students. It is more work for teachers, but it is necessary.
If my kids are required to do research on a paper they are turning in, shouldn't the school board do their research before choosing someone? If the earlier blogger was correct about Alamogordo and Hobbs, isn't the district moving backwards instead of forward? This school district is in shambles, I for one hope that the state takes notice and takes over SOON!!!
Well, here we go again! The new board members are in a conspiracy with the old ones. They went along with hiring Mr. Rounds who is obviously in the pocket of Mr. Briseno. I say we start the recall of the new board members.
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