This post is set up to collect questions people would like to ask the incumbents and candidates for the upcoming ECISD School Board election.
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Stance and rationales for either supporting or not supporting the current methods of teaching English to non-English speaking students
Bi-lingual education
Dual language
English immersion
Stance on sending "migrant" children to militant, communist-founded school in DC to learn how our government works and how to lobby
How it was possible for at least 2 members of the Board to be unaware that they had passed the motion to send migrant students to DC?
Ask them why they fired a bus driver for telling a misbehaving student to behave when they kept a Board member's son on probationary status after he was arrested on felony charges.
NEWS: A member has contacted the VP of Texas Eagle Forum. She is sending him a list of questions she thinks will be of help to us.
Mar54tin
My question is: If they (the school board members) were aware of teacher concerns over the reading textbook adoption, why did they not postpone the vote and give ALL classroom teachers the opportunity to voice their recommendation and VOTE? This was the way it was done before, why did they change the method now? The vote of 13-14 committee members does not speak for all teachers, especially when the head of the committee is influencing the vote.
Thank you, mar54tin.
How would you raise the mathematic scores of students in the school system?
Do you believe schools should give primary emphasis to teaching basic skills (e.g. reading, grammar, spelling, arithmetic) rather than social or psychological matters?
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Do you support the use of intensive, systematic phonics to teach first-grade children how to read?
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Do you support the teaching of abstinence as the norm for unmarried tenagers and as the only truly effective way to prevent sexually-transmitted diseases?
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Do you support the goal that children should be able to read by the end of the first grade?
Do you believe the topics of homosexuality and alternative liefstyles should be excluded from the classroom?
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Do you support teaching that the use of illegal drugs and the unlawful use of alcohol are "wrong?"
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Do you reject classroom instruction that downgrades American sovereignty,limited constitutional government, or private enterprise?
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Do you support local control of education, with accountability through the local school board, rather than federal and strate bureaucracies and business partnerships?
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Do you reject federal control of curriculum through the Goals 2000 and School-to Work laws?
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Note: Information on these laws is forthcoming.
Do you oppose the establishment of school-based health clinics, which may perform examinations, provide immunizations and medications, and dispense birth control devices and abortion referrals, without parental consent or knowledge?
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Do you oppose the collection and maintenance of data on student health, performance, attitudes, behavior, and family, as well as academics, in computerized databases?
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Do you oppose allowing the school district to deduct money from the paychecks of school employees and forward it to political funds without the annual written consent of each employee?
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Do you believe in the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children?
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Do you support a school board policy allowing parents the right to inspect and review instructional materials and methods?
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Do you support a school board policy forbidding psychological evaluations, testing, treatment, or physical examinations of students without prior written parental consent?
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Do you believe parental consent should be required prior to giving information and care to students regarding sexuality and reproductive health?
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Do you oppose requiring students to answer nosy questionaires about sex, drugs, suicide, and family behavior without prior written parental consent?
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Do you support the right of parents to homeschool their children?
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Would you be willing to provide extra funds for tutoring and remedial education for students who have difficulty with their studies?
Would you support the expansion of the curriculum to include subjects that would teach students how to function in society so they can deal with real life issues. (The curriculum in the public school is geared to vocational training and the learing of skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic.)
Would you be willing to insure that there is an intensive teaching of American and Texas civics, American history and the significance of the U.S. Constitution and living in a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles?
What would you do differently to address the academically unacceptable rating given to the ECISD by the Texas Education Agency? Schools singled out as unacceptable are: Permian High, Odessa High and the following junior highs: Hood, Crockett and Bonham.
Would you be willing to address the issue of whether bi=lingual classes or English immersion classes produce better classroom performance across all subect matter?
What is your position on the celebration of foreign holidays as Cinco de Mayo and Mexican Independence day with the display of the Mexican flag in Ector County schools to the neglect of Texas Independence Day?
Would you support a school board policy allowing the public the right to inspect and review instructional materials and methods including lesson plans across subject areas?
Would you support allowing teachers to evaluate their principals and policies as teachers are now evaluated by their principals?
Would you support a classroom for each teacher to teach in, be available for conference in, and to work in?
Hot dog! Look at the questions coming in! We're going to probably reword these into some kind of format that will not be cumbersome to answer but will allow voters to knowledgeably vote. We're also working on a page for each candidate - with their pictures so you can see what they look like and we'll try to get some input from them to go on the page also. We're open to suggestions so if you have any ideas to expand/improve, please be sure to log them in as a comment.
http://www.oaoa.com/news/div-45246-none-display.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6938846.html
"Hammett said in a brief phone interview this week from her Odessa home. 'I thought of it standing here washing dishes.'"
They might be finding "Truth", and thought of the same question because of their search for "Truth". Now, go eat your pudding.
I would like to know more about how it’s going to work after the lawsuit. Have we settled a lawsuit only to be held hostage by CRUCIAL and two supervisors, one of those being associated with MALDEF? This is beginning to look like the 100 Year War.
How many questions are we aiming for? It looks like we're only going to ask about abstinance. What about asking about the other programs available? And I'm not sure about the Judeo Christian thing either.
One cannot eat dessert without having finished the main meal and the meat was missing. Therefore, there will be no pudding.
Talley, I'm not sure how many questions there will be. A member is still working with a couple of teachers. When we get all the questions, then we'll reword and format them. During that process we can evaluate each question and see if we can present all sides so we'll know where the candidate stands.
Yeppers. That was a strange meal. First the meat disappeared, then the entire 2 plates disappeared.
So I didn't get to eat my pudding.
Dear Pat, (Carlson, President of Texas Eagle Forum)
We are working on compiling a questionaire for our upcoming Ector County Independent School District (ECISD) Board of Trustees election on May 8, 2010. One of our members contacted... he only said "VP of Texas Eagle Forum.... and obtained the list of questions being put forth by Eagle Forum. One question asks the candidates if they reject Goals 2000 and School to Work. I have been researching this question and found that Goals 2000 was a program instituted in the 1990's under Clinton which has now been replaced by / morphed into No Child Left Behind. School to Work also seemed to be a 1990's creation.
If I put the question out as it exists, there will be an objection that this no longer exists and our organization will just look dumb. I think the objective to the question is to call into question the education being provided, the teaching to TAKS, the funneling of children during early childhood into vocational educational tracks instead of preparation for college, the lowering of standards which has continued under TAKS and NCLB which will evitably lead to more lowering of standards under the more stringent STAR soon to be initiated, and the subsequent dumbing-down of our children.
Can you, or will you guide me to someone, explain the wording Eagle Forum has used in this question. It looks like deep water to me since this involves federal encroachment into a state responsibility via funding mechanisms and requirements to be met in order to obtain those funds, failure of schools to meet the requirements and subsequent closing or take-over by the feds, and State Board of Education members being unable to attend closed door meetings at the federal level and being denied information even through FOIA. This is a current problem which needs to be addressed.
evitably should be inevitably.
That was fast. Here's Pat's answer:
I agree with you, including Goals 2000, School-to-Work or outcome
based education in any question would be a mistake. It is outdated and has morphed into something else. I am going to forward your email to MerryLynn Gerstenschlager, VP TEF. She covers education for TEF and has for many years. I believe she will be better able to give you up-to-date language.
Pat Carlson
It seems to me that so much emphasis is place on TAKS,or STAR or whatever in the future. Since state mandated testing begins in the 3rd grade why don't we put a cap on kinder - second grade at 15 students. It seems logical to me that primary teachers can't teach "reading, writing, and arithmatic" when the have so many students. There is no way in the world basics can be taught with 20 students in a classroom. The range of learners is so wide teachers have to be able to spend time with slower learners. Why can't ECISD hire more K - second grade teachers?
Why does ECISD rehire retired principals? Schools need principals that care about teacher and students, not people that are just there drawing a paycheck, which some of them are proud to announce to anyone that will listen.
This is a question you can ask them. Good question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Dt2qQohF8&feature=related
Yes. "They" like to clown downtown. This is not funny.
This is funny. You can watch this while you eat "air" pudding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QhuBIkPXn0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVcUuTg5oSc
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/011208dnmetkinderprivacy.2c1f955.html
School has become more than it should be. Funding is not spent on intended targets. Budgets are not BUDGETS. Do all teachers teach the same number of academic periods(not athletics or other UIL activites)for their teaching salaries? Move teachers to the schools where/when needed rather than bussing students all over the place.
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