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alohabear
November 3rd, 2005, 06:29 AM
Read in this morning's Advertiser, this story (www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051103/NEWS01/511030315) on the new report cards for Elem. schools. It says that the HSTA is not happy about the new cards. IMO... not only is your child being graded, but so is the teacher. :)
Glen Miyashiro
November 3rd, 2005, 08:05 AM
The new report cards suck. They look just like job performance appraisal forms.
alohabear
November 3rd, 2005, 08:40 AM
The new report cards suck. They look just like job performance appraisal forms.
They are......For the Teachers! Why do you think HSTA is against them? :p .
Glen Miyashiro
November 3rd, 2005, 08:56 AM
Report cards are not about teachers, they are supposed to be about the students. I want to know how my kid is doing. If the principal wants to know how the teacher is doing, then do a separate appraisal, don't go and muck up my kid's report card with bureaucratic bullshit. :mad:

Alohabear, I know you're down on the teachers, but I am down on the #$%@ DOE bureaucracy that thinks grading kids like they're employees is a good idea.
Kilinahe
November 3rd, 2005, 08:56 AM
I hate them. They're the most utterly useless, doublespeak-laden, bureaucratic pieces of paper ever produced. They perform absolutely no function whatsoever.
Glen Miyashiro
November 3rd, 2005, 09:01 AM
I read that Advertiser article a little closer, and it's clear now that the new report cards should be blamed on NCLB and the whole damned standard-based curriculum idea. :mad:
Glen Miyashiro
November 18th, 2005, 07:43 AM
And now DOE is backpedaling and saying that the new format is optional. :rolleyes: (Read it in in the Advertiser (http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051118/NEWS07/511180346/1001/NEWS) and the Star-Bulletin (http://starbulletin.com/2005/11/18/news/story03.html).) At least they're listening to the criticisms and attempting to respond. That's something.
alohabear
November 18th, 2005, 08:08 AM
And now DOE is backpedaling and saying that the new format is optional. :rolleyes: (Read it in in the Advertiser (http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051118/NEWS07/511180346/1001/NEWS) and the Star-Bulletin (http://starbulletin.com/2005/11/18/news/story03.html).) At least they're listening to the criticisms and attempting to respond. That's something.
Da Union made thm do it.... When are adminatrators going to learn they have a UNION too? They not in HSTA anymore... They HGEA! They don't owe thier former teaching peers NOTHING because they decided to BETTER themselves. The DOE leadership needs to get a spine and SHOW leadership ... Stick to your guns HAMAMOTO! :mad: