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Monday, September 7, 2009

(Updated 3:00 am)

When: Tuesday, beginning at 6 p.m.

Where: Boardroom of the administrative office, 712 N. Eugene St., Greensboro.

On TV: Guilford County Board of Education meetings are broadcast live on GCS Cable Channel 2, with replays aired the next day at 1 and 7 p.m. and the Saturday after the meeting at 1 p.m.

On the agenda: Board members will discuss and review several issues including:

A report on the school system’s pandemic flu plan.
An update on Oak Ridge Elementary School.
Budget discussions.
The possible renaming of Madison Elementary School.

Want to be heard? Those wishing to address the Board of Education should call 370-8100, before 5 p.m. or at the meeting site 5:45 to 6 p.m. Sign-up sheets may also be filled out before board meetings.

Full agenda and live video: http://gcsnc.com/boe/agenda.htm

The board will next meet Sept. 19 for a fall retreat.

The Chalkboard: Read more about K-12 education and share your thoughts at the News & Record’s blog The Chalkboard at http://blog.news-record.com/staff/chalkboard.

— Staff Reports

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stafford5465

September 7, 2009 - 10:55 am EDT

What should be on the agenda is the use of tasers on the school grounds. We just had a killing in the jail by a taser. The inmate was a lot of trouble but he did not deserve to die.

Garth

September 7, 2009 - 2:55 pm EDT

I wonder why we see a taser as such a threat when SRO's already carry live amo and are trained to use both? I know, we do not have kids bring weapons to school, well at least nothing worse than an assault rifle. We do not have gangs anymore, just groups of kids that need a better social worker or good after school programs. I am a bit more concerned about finding our AL (Advanced Learner) program, it is MIA, possibly KIA but as we have seen in an earlier article it is hardly supported and when we find a teacher actually doing a credible job at it we toss them ASAP. I guess like our so called gangs, disruptive classrooms, drugs and drop outs we have solved all the above and we no longer need AL because we will designate our regular program as an AL inclusive program, thus assuring ourselves we now have an entire district of advanced learners some of whom just happen to be testing impaired.

We solve many problems like this principal I have heard about. When a teacher tried to tell a student to sit down and pay attention the student told teacher to kiss my then dropped pants and “turned the other cheek”. Teacher, realizing they needed help sent the student to Principal’s office for appropriate action. Shortly there-after teacher is disciplined by Principal for poor classroom management skills. End of story? Teacher threw in towel as kid was back in classroom next day meaner than ever, therefore teacher babysat class for rest of year while other kids were bullied and disobedient kid learned valuable lesson on how the system works.

dcolin

September 7, 2009 - 8:57 pm EDT

Are you serious?
Is this confirmable?

Are you the school board Garth?

angie123

September 7, 2009 - 7:20 pm EDT

Yes, AL has been dead for a few years now - at least in my children's middle school. The only AL class there is the AIM math class - thank goodness for that, but nothing more. In the other classes, teachers have the AL kids lead groups of struggling students for group projects and then the AL kids are graded differently from the others. It's enough to make some kids "opt out" of the AL program - more work, more responsibility, but not more challenging educational requirements.