Help. Deaborn Public Schools.
May 11, 2008
We have been invaded by the McLennon Clones. What was supposed to be a nationwide search produced 10 applicants, 6 interviews and 3 finalists. Every single one stated that they were contacted by Tom McLennon regarding the position and he felt that they were a good fit. The public was involved. For the first round of interviews there were maybe 30 people present. on the second round of interviews for the public meeting there were between as many as 20 and as few as 8. After 3 days of brain numbing interviews. They answered the questions the same way. There was a lack of difference between the candidates. The board has let us down again. The lack of public attention to this and the lack of good candidates would lead one to believe that we are going to get another John Artis.
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The only hope is for the new super to clear out Ten Eyck, actually visit schools, talk to parents, teachers, and students, and get off the "let's try the latest educational craze" band wagon. The problems that face DPS are myriad but not insurmontable. There are good teachers, wonderful parents, and students full of potential in the district. If allowed to believe that sound rational judgement were at the heart of decisions in DPS again, rather than politcal correctness, nepotism, cronyism, and racially charged politics, they will once again create an educational system of which to be proud.
--by on 5/13/08 Lives: Detroit area
And Now one has been named. Interviews were at a time that residents, staff ect could partake.
--by on 5/13/08 Lives: Detroit area
Shows how people feel about this district. We have shown that the only way that people will apply, is if Tom Mc asks them, as they wouldn't do it on their own. Very Poor.
--by on 5/13/08 Lives: Dearborn
maybe the new superintendant will start taking a stand on the rogue principals in this district.
I simply cannot understand how a High School Principal can physically strike a student and still have a job, yet it has once again happened!
We already know Artis is afraid of upsetting the Arabic community, but to allow this guy to beat a student in school? This is no secret, there was a hearing and it happened and Artis and the board did NOTHING!
This district has gone to hell!
--by on 5/14/08 Lives: Dearborn
I could not be more disillusioned by the current state of affairs in our public schools. It's not just Dearborn either, our entire state. It's like a boat floating around with no direction or course, just floundering with the waves of contemporary and meaningless BS from Lansing.
We are told that we need to increase relevance, yet we are killing off every single elective class in each school. We are told to increase rigger but than are told to simply teach the MME test. What’s wrong with this picture? AP and Honors courses have made them so damn rigorous in the high schools that students are opting to go to HFCC and take them with unqualified part-time teachers to catch less than 5 hours a night in homework per class. The whole system has been turned on its head! The kids who are at the top of the academic scale are suffering for our grandiose view of rigger and the kids at the bottom are suffering for our grandiose view of relevance.
For the kids at the bottom, we are killing off every single program that made sense of math, and science and language arts for visual learners. When we gut out all of our vocational programs like electronics, manufacturing, automotive, welding and wood shop. We destroy relevance for kids who use the principals they learn in academic classes while learning a way to make a good living. We have slashed the graphic arts departments as and they were the biggest peddlers of language arts for kids who struggle in English classes.
We are building football complexes and I ask you, where is the relevance and rigger in artificial turf? Where are our priorities? What in the hell are we doing to our kids and the future of our state and country making decisions like this?
I am floored at the lack of imagination, not just by our own school board, but our state superintendent. I do not understand how they have allowed this abysmal state of affairs to have crippled and corrupted our educational system to the point where my, soon to be freshmen, son can’t even take a wood shop class until he is a junior. Why can’t he take a wood shop class you ask? Because some Principal in the east end has decreed that after 4 years of failing to achieve AYP every single 9th grader will have to take remedial reading classes instead of electives. This is simply insanity!
Than we have the union groping for more money at the same time that the school board is rattling their saber to slash programs like instrumental music, middle school sports, shop classes and other electives.
When is someone going to stand up and damn all of the leaders for their shortsightedness and lack of vision and spinelessness? I hope someone does it soon as it looks like another summer with the union and the administration playing chicken with our kid’s futures!
--by on 5/20/08 Lives: Michigan
I am Arabic and let me tell you Dearborn needs to be cleaned up from all of the riff raff. FHS's principal should be fired, wait he should be hung out to dry!
--by on 5/20/08 Lives: Dearborn