Failure Factories by Dr. Leo Nesmith https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk Your Thoughts en-us 2018-03-24 05:34:35 UTC 2018-03-24 15:36:33 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png 8 out of 10 children fail reading dchase2017 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245733761 9 out of 10 children fail math]]> 2018-03-24 14:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245733761 Teachers/Staff rlampe1 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245733824 Teachers walked out of the classroom, more than half asked for transfers. Some classes had more than 12 teachers in a single year.]]> 2018-03-24 14:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245733824 Findings Maestro101 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245733867  Ninety-five percent of black students tested at the schools are failing
reading or math, making the black neighborhoods in southern Pinellas
County the most concentrated site of academic failure in all of Florida.]]> 2018-03-24 14:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245733867 where is the oversight on the school board? jmayall https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245733890 Current superintendent seems to understand need for change with programs/initiatives he has added

]]> 2018-03-24 14:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245733890 Teacher turnover... atrimble2017 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245733989 is chronic]]> 2018-03-24 14:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245733989 Funding rlampe1 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734108 Erratic and the "failure factories" received less money than at least 50 other in district elem schools.]]> 2018-03-24 14:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734108 Every time we fail one, the criminal justice system is a winner. dchase2017 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734187 2018-03-24 14:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734187 atrimble2017 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734196 Fifty-seven of 67 school districts in Florida recorded better reading
scores, putting Pinellas in the same league as the poorest, most rural
counties in the state.]]> 2018-03-24 14:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734196 What makes them succeed? esalgado2 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734313 In Palm Beach County, at Belle Glade Elementary — in one of Florida’s poorest places — black children are passing reading at three times the rate as at Melrose. ]]> 2018-03-24 14:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734313 Broward County Maestro101 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734365 Broward County created a
computer system that assigns a
“risk level” to every student
based on whether the child has been arrested, suspended, failed a class
or referred for social services. Teachers use it to keep tabs on their
classes in real time.

]]> 2018-03-24 14:51:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734365 Palm Beach County Maestro101 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734444 Palm Beach County trains principals and district administrators to be
mindful of ways schools might unintentionally discriminate against
black children.]]> 2018-03-24 14:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734444 Scores dchase2017 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734464  In 2014, 964 black children were tested in reading and math at the five schools; 912 failed one or both subjects. ]]> 2018-03-24 14:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734464 1930's Maestro101 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734524 Colored Zone - Thoughts?

]]> 2018-03-24 14:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734524 Cayton atrimble2017 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734549 Scared to go to school: yelling, fighting, rookie teachers with zero classroom management. His B's and C's soon turned to F's.

]]> 2018-03-24 14:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734549 Funding discrepancies clemke1 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734675 district gave some schools less state and local tax money than other Pinellas elementary schools.

Took federal money that was to be used for extra staff and additional teaching time

]]> 2018-03-24 14:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734675 integration in Pinellas has been fought for decades jmayall https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734679 School board member limits need to be set.  3 of 5 voting members in 2007 are still on board

]]> 2018-03-24 14:55:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734679 Bias dchase2017 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734800  “It produces schools that teachers don’t want to teach in and that are branded as failures by our state and national governments,” Orfield said. “When you go to neighborhood schools, whites and Asians get schools that function well and blacks and Latinos get schools that are impoverished and fail. “This isn’t a secret.” ]]> 2018-03-24 14:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734800 Why is Pinellas County not taking action? atrimble2017 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734929 Broward County created a
computer system that assigns a
“risk level” to every student
based on whether the child has been arrested, suspended, failed a class
or referred for social services. Teachers use it to keep tabs on their
classes in real time.]]> 2018-03-24 14:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734929 Where's the action? esalgado2 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734987 Five of seven board members voted for the plan anyway. 
Three of them — Carol Cook, Peggy O’Shea and Linda Lerner — still sit on the board today. 
]]> 2018-03-24 14:58:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245734987 Thoughts... clemke1 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735064 Have other districts gone through court ordered busing?

No one else played a role, except School Board members? Superintendents hire staff and establish curriculum]]> 2018-03-24 14:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735064 Population atrimble2017 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735179 Among Florida’s most populous counties, Pinellas is the least diverse.
Blacks make up only about 10 percent of the population.]]> 2018-03-24 15:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735179 Access to Teachers and Counselors esalgado2 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735232 Before, the area’s most disadvantaged children, including the relatively few with serious behavior problems, were spread among a large area, mixed in with more afluent classmates and given access to several schools’ worth of teachers and counselors. Now they were all concentrated in a handful of schools. ]]> 2018-03-24 15:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735232 Resources and Professional Development esalgado2 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735442 “Teachers were saying, 'I don’t have the resources and training that I need,’” recalled Kim Black, former president of the Pinellas Classroom Teachers Association. “It was a terrible snowball.” ]]> 2018-03-24 15:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735442 Changing Population clemke1 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735515 Lower overall enrollment; Fewer whites over the years in Pinellas]]> 2018-03-24 15:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735515 Same old system? esalgado2 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735671 Another Campbell Park teacher wrote of students: “They don’t care about anything or anyone! They trash the building and their neighborhood. Need to teach these children a trade!” ]]> 2018-03-24 15:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735671 Does it help? atrimble2017 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735782 "They could have carefully constructed magnet schools and special
programs to attract more white children to schools in black
neighborhoods."

Magnet programs innately segregate students within academic classes and most electives. The only time they interact may be in the hallway or during lunch. ]]> 2018-03-24 15:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735782 While Horrible, Not Unique clemke1 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735788 New York City’s five boroughs are about same size as Pinellas. Washington D.C. is just 68 square miles. Neither is noted for getting it right for all the students in all their schools.]]> 2018-03-24 15:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245735788 Southside Fundamental Closed clemke1 https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245736038 Is now charter school: University Prep Academy with 95% minority enrollment

]]> 2018-03-24 15:09:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245736038 Where is the accountability? sfarenga https://padlet.com/lnesm70/8asjj0l80dyk/wish/245736239 The School Board has done everything in its power to ensure failure. How are they still in office and not in prison?

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