#FullSTEAMahead - http://www.ed.gov/stem
Grants like this one from the NJSBA are totally ignored by EPSD. We pay a healthy salary to an Administrator supposedly to write Grants for the District. When is the last time we actually got a Grant that benefited all of Englewood's children?
Why do we continue to allow EPSD to avoid STEM Education? Last year, the idea was proposed by the DMHS Principal and a backlash ensued that created such an uproar, from out of town parents, that we had to re-focus our attention on preventing the Superintendent and the BOE from transferring this Principal to the Elementary School. All he did was make a proposal that benefits all Englewood children. That my friends is called "intimidation" in the real world.
Is EPSD a failure Factory? The entire Educational World is embracing STEM/STEAM Education, yet Englewood plods along using the same old failing strategies as for the last 15 years educating only about 15% of the children. Are your children in that 15%? Google STEM Education and you will see that I am not exaggerating.
Where does that leave our children?
It is time to demand STEM Education for children pre k - 12 for ALL Englewood children.
Everyone fights for a raise. Who fights for our children?
Answer: There is no invisible force out there fighting for our children. Parents cannot depend on EPSD employees to fight for our children. When one stands up one is put in a room with no windows (with the objective that one will quit and go away) and told to shut up and use some tact. Do we need tact or Academic success for all children? If we don't fight for our own children, no one will.
Grants like this one from the NJSBA are totally ignored by EPSD. We pay a healthy salary to an Administrator supposedly to write Grants for the District. When is the last time we actually got a Grant that benefited all of Englewood's children?
Why do we continue to allow EPSD to avoid STEM Education? Last year, the idea was proposed by the DMHS Principal and a backlash ensued that created such an uproar, from out of town parents, that we had to re-focus our attention on preventing the Superintendent and the BOE from transferring this Principal to the Elementary School. All he did was make a proposal that benefits all Englewood children. That my friends is called "intimidation" in the real world.
Is EPSD a failure Factory? The entire Educational World is embracing STEM/STEAM Education, yet Englewood plods along using the same old failing strategies as for the last 15 years educating only about 15% of the children. Are your children in that 15%? Google STEM Education and you will see that I am not exaggerating.
Where does that leave our children?
It is time to demand STEM Education for children pre k - 12 for ALL Englewood children.
Everyone fights for a raise. Who fights for our children?
Answer: There is no invisible force out there fighting for our children. Parents cannot depend on EPSD employees to fight for our children. When one stands up one is put in a room with no windows (with the objective that one will quit and go away) and told to shut up and use some tact. Do we need tact or Academic success for all children? If we don't fight for our own children, no one will.
- Failure is inevitable. It is already upon us. Our high school is still a FOCUS SCHOOL.
- Next step on the failure trail is to become a PRIORITY School.
Becoming a PRIORITY School moves away from the positive, which is to become a Reward School.
PRIORITY SCHOOL DESIGNATION means the state may come in and break up our high school like Weequahic in Newark. Last I heard, Weequahic is now 4 Charters. Students living across the Street from (Weequahic) their former high school must now apply to the charters. If refused, they must find another school someplace else to attend. Charters may refuse students. That is the main reason that it is unfair to compare Charters to Public Schools. Public Schools cannot refuse students who satisfy resident requirements. How many Charters do you think Dwight Morrow High School can accommodate? Does anyone within yelling distance want DMHS to be taken over and divided into Charters?
Next Englewood Public School District
Demand that our BOE support Success and NOT Failure.
https://www.magnetmail.net/Actions/email_web_version.cfm?publish=newsletter&user_id=NJSBA&message_id=10720501
Next Englewood Public School District
Board of Education Meeting
Thursday, August 13, 2015
8:00 pm
Grieco Elementary School
STEM Education for all. Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
Thursday, August 13, 2015
8:00 pm
Grieco Elementary School
STEM Education for all. Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
Demand that our BOE support Success and NOT Failure.
https://www.magnetmail.net/Actions/email_web_version.cfm?publish=newsletter&user_id=NJSBA&message_id=10720501
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