Classroom shenanigans in Sweetwater school district?

The charter school is in debt, it borrowed startup funds from the district. The only way the charter can pay back the money to the district is if it increases enrollment. If it does not increase enrollment, the charter will fold. If the charter folds another of Brand's ideas will blow up in his face, Mitchell will be out of her consultant job, and Bleisch has been telling people if the charter does not go through he will lose his job also. It only makes sense if you look at it through the perspective of self-serving SUHSD administrators.
— January 28, 2014 10:37 p.m.

Classroom shenanigans in Sweetwater school district?

This idea is interesting, but why is McCann in favor of it? http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Proposal-Co…
— January 28, 2014 10:25 p.m.

Few details on Sweetwater district's student-data-sharing deal

Although I am sure all of the people involved in all of these shenanigans in the South Bay started with some sort of good intentions, why have they all become so self-serving? And how have they all found each other? Is there some sort of social networking site where like-minded individuals can connect? SelfServingRUs.com? If these people could simply put as much effort into the helping of others that their organizations say is their mission and less time trying to recruit people to perpetuate their systems and programs, everyone would be better off, even themselves.
— December 31, 2013 1:07 p.m.

Santa and Grinch visit Sweetwater District meeting

I am not sure how Grossman would qualify for 6 out of 7. •The ethnic, age group, and socioeconomic composition of the District. Grossman is White, in his forties and is a former professional football player who made more money in one season than most people who live in the district will make in their lifetime. Unqualified. •The business community, such as store owners, managers, or supervisors. I am unaware of Grossman being a store owner or a member of the business community. Unqualified. •Landowners or renters, with preference to be given to representatives of neighborhood associations. The Grossman's were renting a house in Otay Ranch, they no longer live there. Grossman was not a representative nor involved in the neighborhood association while there. Unqualified. •Teachers. •Administrators. Is neither. Unqualified. •Parents of students. As far as I know his children are in elementary school, he is not a parent of a student in the district (please let me know if I am wrong here). Unqualified. •Persons with expertise inenvironmental impact, legal contracts, building codes, and land use planning, including, but not limited to, knowledge of the zoning and other land use restrictions of the cities or cities and counties in which the surplus space and real property is located. I do not know his background in any of the above. So how is he so qualified?
— December 12, 2013 5:24 p.m.

Sweetwater district spent big for Arne Duncan visit

Knowing the truth is one thing, but seeing it in writing is something else. Why do people put things in writing? Oh, that's right, because they are so much smarter than everyone else they will never get caught.
— December 3, 2013 10:11 p.m.

Mar Vista Middle School on the cheat?

There are a lot of different things going on here so let’s break this down a bit. Mar Vista Middle is now called Mar Vista Academy after its restructure. The same principal is still there. During the restructure the staff was all let go and then teachers could choose whether they wanted to apply for their old job or they would be transferred to another school. My first question would have to be what happened to the teacher who made a study guide from current test questions, are they still at Mar Vista or are they one of teachers who were transferred? How about the other teachers who used them? It is fairly common prior to the Spring standardized testing window to see teachers using the released questions from old tests to get their students ready, the District endorses this practice, whether it follows state guidelines is debatable. It wasn’t acceptable until the current head of Curriculum took over, then it was game on. What we know is that the principal went to the District with his concern, which is what he was supposed to do. Was this one of the teachers he already wanted to get rid of, only the principal knows. Since the restructuring was going to happen anyway did the scores matter to the principal? I know of principals who would never have gone to the district and risk losing their scores, but in this case the principal did. Do we see this as an honest principal in a sea of dishonesty or a principal clearing out some of the teachers they didn’t want? Or could it be both at the same time?
— September 27, 2013 2:38 p.m.

Sweetwater school district backs off on Alliant International University plan

What I read is "; Tom Hassey ( ______________ ); The blank space between the parentheses must refer to Tom Hassey since it falls between the semi-colons that break up the recipients of the e-mail. I don't see it as a missing name but a missing description of Tom Hassey.
— September 8, 2013 11 a.m.

Sweetwater school district backs off on Alliant International University plan

Here is a link to Arne Duncan's bus tour. http://www.ed.gov/blog/topic/bustour/ Looks like SUHSD is the only district putting on a show (pep rally), the rest of the visits are focusing on real world, every day activities. I just heard this morning that on Thursday, the day before the visit, the students will take time out of school to practice marching around and chanting slogans. But remember, it is all for the kids. Also, I heard something that I will not believe until I see it. What I was told is that recently at CPM, they were having some sort of assembly with the students and as they were waiting for all the students to show up, one of the administrators starting having one group of students chant "Castle" and the other half chant "Park", but right in the middle the administrator said instead of "Castle Park", he said "Impeach Obama". Then he said just kidding to the students. I was told that students had their iPads out and someone must have this recorded. Can anyone confirm this? I know there are a lot of strange things happening there, but this can't be true, can it?
— September 8, 2013 10:43 a.m.

Sweetwater school district backs off on Alliant International University plan

And on Friday Arne Duncan will be on the campus because of the Promise Neighborhood grant and every one of the people who are mentioned in this article are going to be there to shake hands and have a photo-op after they have all been in collusion to misuse those same Federal monies, what gall!
— September 7, 2013 9:40 p.m.

Chula Vista school hurries to get ready for Arne Duncan

But the API went up 6 points!!!
— September 7, 2013 3:14 p.m.