California is sue-happy. It is near impossible to fire a teacher and/or then get them off the payroll. Agreed. I certainly don't advocate...
Don't apologize. Repeats are great and welcome! I hear from my daughter about classmates who show up completely unprepared. Fortunately with...
Kharma in college football is like the "over rated" chant. It doesn't make sense. But that's just me.
No I don't hate VY. He was definitely pivotal but he had some help....our play calling (thank you Lane) when we handed Lendale the ball was...
January 4, 2006 National Championship, USC had a 38-33 lead with less than 30 seconds to go. Yea. I facking hate Texas.
I would say it's a bit different. For history's sake...."The first tenure laws in California were enacted in the 1920s to defend teachers against...
After you recommended those before, I did use IXL with my son. I liked it. Sometimes jumping in for 20 questions is all we have time for and...
Yes and no. Depends on where exactly in Chula Vista. We recently spent a weekend there for a soccer tournament and the first field we played had...
Okay, good to know. Ever been to the Sleep Train theater in Chula Vista?
Opinions please.....Dickey Betts and Great Southern are touring nearby. Anyone seen them or recommend attending?
This has not proven to be a smart move recently....."The Islamic State fighters have captured armored vehicles and other military hardware from...
And this is where the implementation was a massive fail. There was no effort to include, teach, provide direction to parents who have to support...
It's the view I have formed over the last 7 years and when teachers can count on job protection via tenure, it's entirely predictable. Every year,...
Here's another person who helped develop the standards...."Jason Zimba, one of the three drafters of the CCSS math standards, as admitted in an...
That is highly dependent on the teacher. Thank God CA recently had a judge rule against tenure for public school teachers. There are far too...
How many "anecdotes" are you willing to dismiss? I picked that one because it was local to La. It would be simple to find many, many more. I...