cust300 wrote on October 18, 2009 09:30 PM: My daughter and several close friends are all second thru fifth grade teachers. Ask a teacher what is the most difficult part of the job? Management insisting the non-english speaking students be educated with english speaking students. Nobody gets very far ahead of the slowest nonative child. All educaters must teach down(reteach parts of previous grades) during current year holding up the other children. My youngest daughter is in sixth grade getting straight A's She helps her friends "dad I point to the answer and they still can't get it They don't know things that I learned in forth grade" Over 75% of hispanic students also recieve free lunch. I don't think the problem is with the teachers

Alonzo wrote on October 17, 2009 09:27 PM: The board only thinks of themselves. You at a school board meeeting are an enemy. You might ask them a questiion of which they have no answer. I will give them some credit, however they don't appear on television so the whole county can judge their intelligence.

2zero wrote on October 17, 2009 09:10 PM: Teacher is correct. Kohut-Rost is not only the "deputy" she speaks fluent BORG she has assimilated most of the non-teacher administration. If you resist the BORG you are eliminated.

As for the newest 100k+ administrator, he was hired by Halderman who is the districts Chief lobbyist and MOUTH.

No doubt the two of them are the cause and effect of the "GAG order! Maybe the BOARD should demand an agenda item to have all the Board meeting televised?

Mr. Superintendent needs to take charge and clean house! While he is (or is not) doing that, parents must demand there State Representatives and Governor stand up to the powerful CCSD and BREAK IT UP!!!

SLW wrote on October 17, 2009 08:48 PM: To: teacher

A sincere thanks for your response, and an eye opening one at that. As a parent, I want to be well informed on the issues at hand and as I've already stated, you the teachers are the heart and soul the education experience. Thanks for your information. I am sorry to hear of your frustrations. And seriously, what's with the guy getting $100,000 to tell board members what color their brains are? I don't even understand such a study - what a complete waste!!! Do brains come in different colors? I plan on looking further into this and whether they like it or not, our board members will hear from me. Anymore info you can offer?

teacher wrote on October 17, 2009 06:43 PM: TO: SLW

You asked why I feel the way I do. I am a teacher, making some $50,000 a year and they stick 40 students in my class because they (Ruffels and his gang led by the deputy Kohut-Rost) say they have no money. Then they hire that creep for $100,000 to tell them what color the board members' brains are and he truly has nothing to do. If you knew what he does do, it would make your skin crawl. They find make up work for him - at $100,000. What does the school board do? Rubber stamp his appointment. Do they ever ask how teachers feel? Never! Ruffels and Kohut-Rost come around to tell us how badly we teach math. Like they would know. Ruffels was never an educator and Kohut-Rost was special education.I ama math teacher. Our principal tells us all about them and how the administrators have lost confidence in them not to mention the teachers at my school and I suspect all schools. And the school board? Does nothing. Spends hours discussing how to prevent the public from criticizing the school board members. Hope I answered your question. Ask other teachers, you'll get the same answers.

Abolish_public_education wrote on October 17, 2009 06:37 PM: The CCSD Board is a bunch of clowns. They remind of that that chotzkee with the three chimpanzees "see no evil .." They're just a bunch of power mongers -- the sort of folks who used to sit on DRAFT boards. These politically correct imbeciles will only choose bureaucrats like Rulffes; never anyone who actually *knows* anything. Is it any surprise that CCSD graduates can't even read their own diplomas?

Mike Ault wrote on October 17, 2009 04:21 PM: These wet-lipped liberals do dumb s#$% and then get their feelings hurt when they get called on it.

Perfect...

2zero wrote on October 17, 2009 12:35 PM: Monopoly. Not American!

BREAK up this colossal "school district"!

We need a law in Nevada that restricts school districts to a maximum enrollment of 100 thousand students, still very large but with it we get four school districts and some choice for our children!

Make it a point to ask and get answers from your State Representative and the people who are running for Governor!

SLW wrote on October 17, 2009 12:24 PM: To: teacher

First, thanks for your tireless efforts in role as teacher. It is no small task - I come from a family of teachers and appreciate what you are up against as well as your care and concern for our children's education. You are appreciated. You seem to have a problem w/our district superintendent and respective board members. I am curious about your point of view and why you feel that way. I feel like the teachers ought to have the loudest voice in matters of the district. You are the ones on the front lines. In your opinion, where are they going wrong?

To: Break up the District!

I've always been open to your alternative - most major cities have much smaller districts to serve the different needs of the communities within. Seems like some years ago this option was put on the table, but it never happened. I need to go back and understand why it was never implemented.

To: $175K no bennies

I have to agree w/most of what you said, especially that children should not move ahead a grade level until they have mastered their current grade level. It's best for the child. And if I feel like my children aren't properly educated in the classroom about the founding of this great nation and the Constitution, rest assured, they will be at home.

$175K no bennies wrote on October 17, 2009 11:33 AM: I can run this school district for $175K and no benefits! It such a simple district to management, why are these morons having such a hard time? All teachers will be put on par with firefighters pay, after all, teachers are college educated and are exposed to far more dangerous places than firefighters. ALL illegal alien children will be removed and sent back to their countries of origin (it's not the child's fault, but they don't belong in our schools taking up valuable resources that rightfully belong to our own children). There would be NO teachers' union; I'd bust that union into pieces, and there'd certainly be no administrative union either. I'd NEVER EVER allow a child to advance to the next grade level without mastering all the goals at the current level. There would be sweeping changes in textbooks, what is taught, and America would be promoted first, along with our Constitution and Declaration of Independence. GOD would be allowed back into the schools and classroom and those idiots that proclaim the Constitution expouses "separation of church and state" are flat out WRONG. Because we've removed GOD from the classrooms we now have the humanistic irrational societal behaviors we see everything day. I'd demand education comes FIRST, above all else, even salary increases. There is a lot I'd do to shake this district to its core.

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