Kansas City Public School officials PROMISED that they would soon regain accreditation and now those words seem like so much empty hype . . .
Today's bad news . . .
KSHB: Missouri Commissioner of Education Chris Nicastro says the department will not recommend changing Kansas City Schools' accreditation.
Fox4: Mo. education commissioner recommends no accreditation change for KCPS
KSHB: KCPS doesn't regain accreditation
KCUR: Reaccreditation Hopes Dashed For K C Schools
Reality check . . . This bad news will conclude the term for School Board Members Crispin Rea, Kyleen Caroll and probably Airick L. West . . . And while their efforts have been valiant, the reality is that the KCPS is OBJECTIVELY IN WORSE SHAPE then when they started . . . Having lost provisional accreditation.
Shut this fucker down and take over damn it! Getting tired of paying these losers with my tax dollars!!!
ReplyDeleteCrispin Rea, Kyleen Caroll and probably Airick L. West . . .
ReplyDeleteAre not as bright as they've been hyped up to be?
Kyleen already resigned. She's obviously smarter than Rea and West.
ReplyDeleteKCMO schools are wrecked beyond repair. All that's left is for the City Hall gang to wreck the rest of the city to pieces.
ReplyDeletePoor decisions, inept planning, ludicrous, ill-conceived concepts, total absence of creativity and imagination, over inflated salaries, . . . . .etc, etc
ReplyDeleteWhat else is new?
Keep it clean now 5:45
ReplyDeleteKCMO will be a big overcrowded ghetto overpopulated with uneducated thugs and drunks pretty soon at this rate.
ReplyDeleteThe toy train is gonna fix this just wait!
ReplyDeleteKCPS baby sittin nigglets 4-EVER ! 4-EVER ! GET IT ?
ReplyDeleteWorld class city huh?
ReplyDeleteAbout the only thing City Hall is world class at it bullshitting people.
ReplyDeleteRelax secret business's are going to pop up along the toy train routes and train everyone for jobs.
ReplyDeletePeople are not stating the obvious-Bad black "parents" raising bad black kids. Show me a shitty school district and I'll show you a district full of black kids.
ReplyDeleteKansas City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil--more money per pupil, on a cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers' salaries, 15 new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any major school district in the country.
ReplyDeleteThe results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration.
Fast Forward - For Sale - Wal Mart Welcome!
Where do our overlords the Polsinelli's send their spawn to school around here? Anyone know?
ReplyDeleteTheir testing scores are still dismal. Did they really think they had a chance at provisional accreditation?
ReplyDeleteThe Kansas City School District hasn't had anything to do with educating kids for decades. It's just been a trough for grifter consultants and contractors and an employment agency for unqualified family and friends. Way past time to pull the plug and start over again.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, is this the kind of failure Crispin Rea hopes to run for city council on?
What is it now these days third grade speaking and reading level and you get your High School Diploma?
ReplyDeleteYes all you need to know is shit, fuck, dude, gimme a beer and your prepared for college.
ReplyDeleteEvery one of you is an out of touch dumb ass. You don't have a clue what is going on with this District. I'm convinced all these comments are actually Tony himself - that is the only explanation for the raw stupidity. - Jewell Scott.
ReplyDeleteThen Jewell Scott please tell us what's going on with the district.
ReplyDeleteI don't have to do a damn thing for you. It is your job to be informed. Do your duty - go to meetings and get involved. Sitting behind a key typing away doesn't cut it. You are what is wrong with this country.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to Niggerville.
ReplyDeleteGotta agree with 827 on this. You all are nothing but outcasts that have no legit voice...which is why your last resort of influence is the comments section of a blog.
ReplyDeleteAlright alright you two break it up.
ReplyDelete8:25, what is your name? - Jewell Scott
ReplyDeleteSuck a tittie 830, Jewell Scott started it. I will repeat my question, tell us what is going on in the District that we are all missing...
ReplyDeleteKeep it up 8:34 and it's Room 101 for you.
ReplyDeleteUh hope, dream, and wish I think 8:34. You know all that we can do anything we want just by thinking we are doing it!
ReplyDeleteNo you slap inspirational quotes on FB while collecting a salary off the taxpayers so they think your really special and getting real work done.
ReplyDeleteThis comment above doesn't make any sense. Someone please make some sense of this inarticulate rambling.
ReplyDeleteWho collects a salary?
ReplyDeleteHaha. Sounds like its safe to say you don't know what's going on with the district either J Scott. Just keep talking in circles. Something tells me your job is in politics or with the district. Lol.
ReplyDeleteFREE MAURICE COPELAND!!!!
ReplyDelete855, again, what is your name? -J Scott
ReplyDeleteWho is Maurice Copeland?
ReplyDeleteHey Crispin, still think you are City Council Material?
ReplyDeleteHahahahahahahahahaha!!!
WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!
KING. What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say “To-morrow is Saint Crispian.”
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say “These wounds I had on Crispian’s day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
O, wait, our SCHOLARS don't get around to Shakespeare in KCPS
Is your manhood cheap if the only way you are brave enough to express your opinion is through anonymous blog comments? -Dr. B Eddy
ReplyDeleteyo 829 how about you take your 47% bullshit somewhere else. most americans are pretty disaffected right now, with the top tax bracket taking all the income gains and then socializing losses on their investments out of the public trough. its hard to argue anyone but the megarich and their assorted cronies feel like "insiders" in the kc political game right now.
ReplyDeleteWhat language are you speaking???
ReplyDeleteThrowing the children to the wolves? Who are the wolves? Poor Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteCarroll was the smart one like Richey it will be interesting to see how tony spins this for nacho and black jesus when they run for shitty clowncil kc is broken Detroit part 2 a democrap wasteland. ..
ReplyDeleteI love when people who have no idea what's going on choose to comment on issues... especially regarding education or a school district that they have no personal experience with.
ReplyDeleteIt's all politics. Accreditation is a "gray" decision, and improvement was shown regardless of provisional accreditation or no.
And furthermore, the low results are not a reflection of the quality of the staff. Teachers are forced to spend much of their time dealing with issues that should be dealt with at home. Many kids in the district don't speak English, they don't have two parents at home, they might not be eating regularly, they might witness horrible things, or they might just have uneducated or uninterested parents.
I have three children enrolled in KCPS, and have had mostly positive experiences with four elementary schools and one high school in the district. For all the drama that goes on downtown, the real problem the district faces is attracting more families back into their schools.
The neighborhoods surrounding the schools are unsafe, some of the schools are still not equipped with A/C, and extra curriculars are often taken less seriously than the suburban districts. It's hard to compete with schools that have better reputations, more money, and winning sports teams.
KCPS really needs positive press. It shouldn't constantly be about accreditation or gang rapes. And the city should do more to improve the infrastructure, beautify the surrounding blocks, and create a safe zone around the schools.
That kind of commitment and care is what families need to see before they reconsider charter, private, or suburban schools and put their kids back in KCPS. Once they feel safe with their kids in the district, the accreditation will be restored.
10:37...lucid comments, thanks!
ReplyDeleteYes, KCPS has been an easy "whipping boy" for quite some years now and I'm not sure how you reverse that after so many people have given up and left. Perhaps one school at a time, if you can get the involvement and momentum started.
This is the best we can do? So many meetings and specials and elections and still no accreditation after all these years?
ReplyDeleteWe've got to do better!
@7:13 All that deseg. crap was close to 20 years ago. Have you been to any of the suburban high schools lately? They make the improvements made to Central look modest. Furthermore, the deseg. money was never tied to student achievement. It was all about bringing white people into the city which was a retarded idea in the first place. The black kids couldn't even get into some of the improved schools to keep the white black ratio in check.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the latest news, the district delivered the numbers it promised and got about 10 percent more than expected. Nicastro is worthless. She screwed up St. Louis and has accomplished nothing thus far here. She has had years to come up with a plan for KC. What did she do? She hired a consultant a couple months ago. The state is equally inept. We have one year left to make some progress before the busing disaster takes place. Then our neighboring district will know the joy of our kids.
Put down the bottle, 12:10- an entire string of non-sequiturs.
ReplyDelete12:19, rather.
ReplyDeleteGive taxpayers a refund for all they've poured into this miserable shithole of a school district in a miserable shithole of a city.
ReplyDeleteJewell Scott of the Civic Council understands what's up next. It is the out migration of black students to Lee's Summit, North KC, and Independence school districts. She knows the transfer issue has not gone well in St. Louis.
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