TJUSD Board Meeting - October 09, 2014

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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - October 09, 2014

Postby shadylady » Sun Oct 26, 2014 6:43 am

Texas Rewrites History In Our Children's Textbooks
Seems that conservative politicians like to complain about liberals indoctrinating students, but here we have conservatives rewriting history in order to push their agenda. My opinion is that liberals seldom or ever indoctrinate students and to the extent they do they rely on facts to make their point. Conservatives, on the other hand, don't mind changing the facts to suit their agenda!
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - October 09, 2014

Postby surfsteve » Sun Oct 26, 2014 3:28 pm

Outrageous Homework Assignment Wants to Know What's In Parents' Medicine Cabinets - See more at: http://www.naturalblaze.com/2014/10/tmi ... kBtg5.dpuf

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Re: Texas Rewrites History

Postby wildrose » Mon Oct 27, 2014 6:49 am

shadylady: Liberals, particularly progressives, pull some pretty ridiculous shenanigans too. They usually resort to fake statistics or fake science when they want to move their agenda forward. I'm not sure which side of the fence is more mendacious, but neither side plays fair, IMHO.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - October 09, 2014

Postby cactuspete » Mon Oct 27, 2014 6:58 pm

EFF And ACLU Explain To Tennessee School Board That Its New Internet Policy Violates Both The 1st & 4th Amendments
As I understand the law, your employer or your school can not snoop on your activity while using their computer network. They may not watch your screen remotely, nor may they monitor what websites you visit. If they do and they use this information to take action against you, then you have the right to sue the living fuck out of them! (This is true even if you sign a usage agreement with them. Even one which explicitly says that they monitor your activity.)
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While the Policy may be the product of a well-intentioned effort to ensure student safety and network security, and to ensure that classrooms are not disrupted, the Policy goes too far and, as written, violates students' constitutional rights. It (a) functions as a prior restraint on speech, allowing school officials to censor student speech in and out of school, and (b) permits officials to conduct suspicionless searches of (i) any electronic devices that students bring to school and (ii) all data and communications stored or transmitted on the WCS network. In so doing, the guidelines overstep the school district's authority and impermissibly burden the First and Fourth Amendment rights of WCS students.

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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - October 09, 2014

Postby sandman » Fri Oct 31, 2014 7:12 pm

The habits of highly boring people
Being boring actually makes us more creative according to this guy. The three ideas are 1) write everything down, 2) reduce to the essentials, 3) stop and question. These ideas might be useful to students and they might be useful to adults too.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - October 09, 2014

Postby shadylady » Sat Nov 01, 2014 9:06 am

sandman wrote:The habits of highly boring people
Being boring actually makes us more creative according to this guy. The three ideas are 1) write everything down, 2) reduce to the essentials, 3) stop and question. These ideas might be useful to students and they might be useful to adults too.

Actually it's true that outwardly boring people are some of the most creative and interesting people to be around. People who have tattoos, weird hairstyles, fancy watches, and expensive or excessively stylish clothes are generally the most boring people to be around because their outward glitter and shine hides their inner emptiness. It's a compensatory kind of thing for a lack of inner depth and intelligence.
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ELECTION RESULTS

Postby panamint_patty » Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:11 am

According to the official results website at sbcounty.gov only 33 votes separated first place from last place.
Garrison 158 votes (23 percent)
Funke 137 votes (20 percent)
Celaya 135 votes (20 percent)
Darling 127 votes (18 percent)
Richardson 125 votes (18 percent)
TOTAL VOTES: 682
To put it another way, eleven more votes and the last place person would have won a seat on the school board, which means that if there are any uncounted ballots that are discovered in the near future that the results could change.
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Re: ELECTION RESULTS

Postby wildrose » Fri Nov 07, 2014 7:22 am

panamint_patty: One thing that you didn't mention is that the top three candidates all won seats on the school board. I'm sure most people realized that, but just in case there was someone who wasn't sure I thought I'd mention it.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - October 09, 2014

Postby cactuspete » Sat Nov 08, 2014 9:38 am

District Superintendent Claims 14-Year-Old Student Bullied Her By Using Her Photo In A Criminal Justice Class Project
First of all, it should be stressed that this happened in TEXAS and as we all know TEXAS (along with ARIZONA and a few other states) is famous for crazy over-reactions like this.
A 14-year-old Texas student was suspended last week after she created a diorama of a courtroom using pictures of school board members to represent various people in her project, including a prosecutor and "fake" defendant. The assignment, which was due Oct. 20, was to create a miniaturized 3D courtroom setting, she told KGBT-TV. She decided to use photos of school district personnel and elected board members, which she printed out from the Santa Maria Independent School District’s website.

I can see why someone might be offended, but the proper way to handle this type of situation is to anticipate it. Simply make a rule that the full names and pictures of people who work at or attend the school cannot be used in school assignments. If someone breaks this rule, then the proper response is to require the student to redo the assignment and mark it down one grade if it gets turned in after the regular deadline (no extended deadline for the redo). But no, that's not how this situation was handled. The superintendent herself decided that she'd been bullied as a result of her face being used on the body of the defendant in the scene. Additionally,
Chavez also claims Tovar's project caused a "disruption," which is a really lame way to shift blame to the victim. (Meaning the actual victim -- Lucero Tovar -- and not the fake victim who's supposed to be acting like an adult.) There would have been no disruption if school personnel hadn't somehow arrived at the conclusion that Tovar's use of district personnel photos was a form of bullying.

School officials like to use the "disruption" excuse whenever they don't have a real reason for complaining about something.
Maria Chavez may not have liked her face being pasted to an orange jumpsuited body, but the proper response for someone in her position would have been to tell the teacher or administrator that brought it to her attention to find something productive to do with their time. Instead, she chose to be the victim in a situation that clearly wasn't crying out for anyone to fill that role. To become the victim, she had to turn a 14-year-old student into someone capable of intimidating the top of the district's organization chart. Now, because she chose to fully inhabit the victim role, she's exposed herself as someone incapable of filling the role of district superintendent and unworthy of the trust inherent to the position.

LINK: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141101/10033929017/district-superintendent-claims-14-year-old-student-bullied-her-using-her-photo-criminal-justice-class-project.shtml
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - October 09, 2014

Postby tronagirl » Mon Nov 10, 2014 9:47 am

cactuspete: I know you men aren't allowed to say so, but it sounds like this lady superintendent had a bad case of PMS. During PMS you feel like crap and you get real irritable and you have crazy mood swings. You get mad over little things that you'd usually laugh about. You over-react and say and do things that later you wish you hadn't. Not that I've ever suffered from PMS, but there are lots of pages on the internet that give complete descriptions of it and so it must be real. The problem is that someone who's a superintendent is responsible for being fair to everyone all the time and so if she can't deal with her own issues maybe she needs to get another job doing something a little less stressful where she doesn't lash out at others as she did in this case.
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