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Topic: Title 1 shell game- where’s the money?

Author Message << Prev Topic | Next Topic >> momlovesapex Senior Member Joined: September 30 2005 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 372 Posted: May 15 2009 at 10:27pm | IP Logged It is not about "diversity" really. It is about getting and keeping title 1 funds. It is NOT about helping the low performing students. Nodes are scrutinized and students are bused out of low performing schools to the extent that the school can receive title 1 funds- but not lose the funds because it is performing too low.  The students that are bused out lose the ability to benefit from the title 1 support that the school close to their home receives. They are just plunked down into a school where many of the students greatly outperform them. They sit on a bus for long periods of time that could be spent more productively just to be shipped to a school where they perform just as badly (as shown by the scores). Additionally, they aren't able to participate in extracurricular after school activities/ sports since they live so far away and need to be on the bus. The children that live near the school go home and hang out together or participate in extracurricular activites near their homw or at school together. Then they say they are doing it for "diversity" ( a word with more magic than the words- we want more money but can't help your children) so that the parents will agree to all this craziness and maybe they won't notice that their children are doing just as poorly in the new location. Hey- their "school" is not failing after all. There is a significant amount of federal money at stake here and the purpose is to use the money so that the students who need the help can get it (I'd think without all the time consuming travel that prevents school participation). It's not intended to be a shell game. Back to Top   momlovesapex Senior Member Joined: September 30 2005 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 372 Posted: May 15 2009 at 10:34pm | IP Logged From WRAL "Nancy's Blog" 5-13-2009: "More than $31 million in federal stimulus money is expected to help boost services for Wake County’s low-income, preschool and special education students ..." Most of the funding is going to title 1 schools and will be used to hire math coaches for underperforming students at the title 1 schools among other things. This is SOOO wrong! The low performing children are being shipped away from the title 1 schools and can't use the services the feds are funding.   Then the teachers at the non-title 1 schools are expected to deal with the underperforming children on top of the overly large class sizes without any math coaches etc. The title 1 money should go with each underperforming child (so many $ per child) NOT with the entire school. What a scam. Either NO BUSSING and give it to the school or bussing and have the money go with the child.   Back to Top   aaaa Senior Member Joined: July 04 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 490 Posted: May 16 2009 at 7:19pm | IP Logged The way things are going here in the US there won't be a need for education.  We'll just be the bus boys, shoe shines for the visiting Chinese.   Maybe the very few will need it .. the ones that already are well to do and connected. We're rocketing right to being a third world nation.   Actually much of the country almost there already just spots to form a nice facade. Edited by aaaa on May 16 2009 at 7:28pm __________________ I'm aaaa and I've approved this message. Back to Top

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