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LenMullen
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 Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:16 am Post subject: Timberlane Sets Summer Priorities |
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NEW! TRHS Summer Camps for Kids 2009 (21 sports camps)
Ultimate Frisbee Summer Clinic
No time for academic clinics? Not exactly. Wellness and Computer Applications are offered as credit courses, there is a math camp for incoming freshmen, and students who got 50-59 in math, english, or history classes can participate in a remedial program...
Algebra I
Algebra II
Geometry
English 9
English 10 -- World Lit
English 11 -- American Lit
English 12
US History
World History
These courses are $125 each.
I think this is reflective of TRSD priorities -- take care of the athletes, musicians, and underachievers while ignoring our academic superstars.
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TRHSparent
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| No summer math packets this year? |
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LenMullen
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| TRHSparent wrote: |
| No summer math packets this year? |
Summer camp instead. I take a little credit for that as trsd has addressed 100% of my complaints about that program.
My beef was that there was no help, no answer guide, and no support. If the student and the parents were not able to do the math, the student got a poor grade for the packet and a poor grade for the ensuing test.
I talked to Mr. Woodworth about this and he promised to fix things. Summer camp fixes things, IMHO.
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Lfrancoeur
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 7:38 am Post subject: |
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AP Calculus has summer work.
Last year a few students had some problems completing the work. Their Pre-calc teacher met with them one night during the summer to help them complete the work.
There is no Math packets for the other grades? So the fact the school board voted 2 years ago for CCP to have summer packets not just ACC means nothing? Is this the administration telling the School Board that they have no say in what happens at the schooL?
Or is this more of the silent move to block scheduling? No doubt that math packets will go away with block scheduling. If a student is taking their math class in the spring semester when could they do the math packet? |
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NWhitman
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| LenMullen wrote: |
| I take a little credit for that as trsd has addressed 100% of my complaints about that program. |
Could you be my spokesman?  |
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LenMullen
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:54 am Post subject: |
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| NWhitman wrote: |
| LenMullen wrote: |
| I take a little credit for that as trsd has addressed 100% of my complaints about that program. |
Could you be my spokesman? |
I thought I was 
I've had some conversations with Mr. Dawson about all this. The math classes are kind of assisted self-learning using novanet. I think they should augment their summer program with student teachers to help kids use novanet to preview upcoming courses. You just need a syllabus and a couple smart kids to proxy the material -- they do this with music lessons.
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LenMullen
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| Lfrancoeur wrote: |
There is no Math packets for the other grades?
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Not that I am aware of.
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So the fact the school board voted 2 years ago for CCP to have summer packets not just ACC means nothing? Is this the administration telling the School Board that they have no say in what happens at the schooL?
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The school board and budget committee have no say. It's in Roberts Rules.
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NWhitman
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| I like the summer math packet. I've also helped my girls complete the summer packet and they have always done very well. As far as testing, well, that's a different story. I believe that it's a good review before the coming year. Maybe the school should not weight the packet so high. Instead of a quiz or test grade, it could be weighted as homework or extra credit. |
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LenMullen
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| NWhitman wrote: |
| I like the summer math packet. I've also helped my girls complete the summer packet and they have always done very well. As far as testing, well, that's a different story. I believe that it's a good review before the coming year. Maybe the school should not weight the packet so high. Instead of a quiz or test grade, it could be weighted as homework or extra credit. |
What about parents who cannot help their kids?
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NWhitman
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I don't disagree with you but I like the summer math packets. I might be alone on this opinion and that's ok.
I don't believe in block scheduling and non-level classes but it'll be implemented before we know it. It's happening now...self-instruct in the classroom and blocked science courses. I prefer that students should have options for placement but the powers will experiment and whatever happens.....happens. |
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PBealo
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:59 am Post subject: |
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Nora!!
Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!?! HECK NO!
There is no way parents and kids will put up with non-leveled classes. The SB doesn't back it, parents and kids don't back it. School district emplyees studing how to get it by us are wasting time and money. The money I can forgive, wasting time however can never be recovered.
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LenMullen
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:00 am Post subject: |
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| NWhitman wrote: |
| I don't disagree with you but I like the summer math packets. I might be alone on this opinion and that's ok. |
You're not. I'm with you. I just think the packets alone are insufficient. You'd think a school with 21 athletic camps and a dozen remedial programs could hire a couple smart to answer questions for a couple hours a day or provide annotated solutions to the summer packets. It's just not where their heads are at.
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Lfrancoeur
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| LenMullen wrote: |
| NWhitman wrote: |
| I like the summer math packet. I've also helped my girls complete the summer packet and they have always done very well. As far as testing, well, that's a different story. I believe that it's a good review before the coming year. Maybe the school should not weight the packet so high. Instead of a quiz or test grade, it could be weighted as homework or extra credit. |
What about parents who cannot help their kids? |
My biggest issue with the summer packet is the kids should be able to do the work without parental help. It should be a learning tool to allow students and teachers to realize weakness from the previous years.
One year, there was a major section of the packet the students did not cover. I was lucky enough to be able to teach my student. I addressed my concerns with the teacher the next year, as I would be seeing the same packet the next summer with child #2. Teacher assured me that they covered the material during the year. I knew they did not, again the next summer I was teaching my child.
MS child has math work this summer. All basic math but looking at it, I bet some percentage of parents will not be able to help their children. |
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PBealo
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My MS child has some math for the summer. All had been done in 7th grade EXCEPT some matrix addition and subtraction. They had not even touched matrix math all year in 7th, so I too had to teach some basic stuff to my child...
Not too frustrating, but mostly because A) it was only 2 or 3 problems out of 10 or 11 pages and B) I knew this math, lots of parents do not!
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LenMullen
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:59 pm Post subject: Wellness |
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#1 took Wellness this summer. It's taught by a gym teacher and 60% of the class is phys ed -- tennis, kick ball, basketball. The rest is kind of health/hygiene. They went hiking, but kayaking was rained out.
One of the requirements was a community service project. Just to annoy me, I think, he signed up at the library. Monday was his first night. Dottie was out, so they sent him home. Today he got to clean books. There were already three librarians and only a few books to shelf, so he spent a couple hours cleaning the jackets of books.
What a waste of time. I had hoped he'd spend some time at a hospital or soup kitchen.
I was able to coax some practice problems for Algebra II out of Mrs. Daneau and I have the Freshman packet from two years ago if anyone is interested...
http://danvilledelivery.com/documents/algebra1/
http://danvilledelivery.com/documents/algebra2/
happy learning!
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