Re: Still grinning...

[Karen Canty <kscanty@PACBELL.NET>]

Carol,

I'm not sure I have the patience either, but we're not doing that--yet and I
actually had a conversation with another board member the other day and she
and I are going to suggest putting the whole testing thing on one of our
agendas because we're getting the feeling that folks "think" that the board
wants them to "teach to the test."  So we can at least have a conversation
about our expectations and mine is certainly not to have teachers teach to
the test.

So I do understand how you feel but wish people like you could hang around
because it's going to take a while but I'm convinced it will get better -
maybe that's why I've been able to stay on a board as long as I have and you
know what, it is better in our district for lots of kids that it was when I
started.

Karen

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My satisfaction with this article is not because I want anybody to look
silly. I'm elated that the Houston Chronicle *finally* printed an
article that implies that things might be a little strange. Who told Rod
Paige to overrule the school board's decision?
The Texas Education Agency, maybe?

My elation is due to the fact that parents in the
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area may read the article and start asking
questions, which would lead them to the Texas chapter of the Resistance.
So many people I have approached with the testing issue have said "I'm
not worried, my kid did just fine." Hopefully they will start thinking
about this, maybe just a little...

Keep up the good work, Karen. I wish I had the patience to try to ride
it out with the school system. But I can't teach to a test given once a
year. It's wrong.

Hey, I just gave the propane guy one of our cards. He seems interested!
Wow!

Carol
Parents Against TAAS Testing

Karen Canty wrote:
>
> See, we school board members are always the "last" to know.  I don't
> think that this would ever happen in my community (we're much much
> smaller than Houston and I would hear about it in the grocery store so
> our supt. knows that she has to come to the board with something this
> important!)  but I have heard from friends on large boards that it is
> much more difficult to stay in the loop.  Course, then you end up on
> the front page of a major newspaper and doesn't everyone look
> ridiculous then???!!!  Keep grinning, Carol!
>
> Karen Canty

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