The Star Tribune featured a Field School teacher in Minneapolis who was laid off but who has a great deal of support from the students and parents at the school. She had been teaching for six years in Minneapolis and a total of eight years. The last three years have been at Field…she previously was [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Working Hours
12 July 2005 – 01:48
When comparing salaries of teachers to that of private sector employees, free summers is always brought up. As well it should, it is a valuable perk of the teaching profession. But teachers feel that they work so many hours outside of the defined “eight-hour” day, that the number of hours worked per year is comparable. [...]
Cereal
09 July 2005 – 01:17
My wife brought home a new kind of cereal – Mini Swirlz. When I go, I always get Cinnamon Life, but my wife thought to herself that as long as something has cinnamon in it, I’d like it. Anyhow, they are supposed to taste like cinnamon buns, and they are shaped like them as well. [...]
Holy Angels News
04 July 2005 – 06:07
In regard to a previous post [20 June] about Holy Angels private school denying admission to a students with a physical disability (after accepting him), I found this on a local news website:
Holy Angels Controversy Update
There’s outrage over a student being rejected by a private high school.
Kevin Baxter has muscular dystrophy and just found out [...]
Frustration at Middle Schools
02 July 2005 – 02:43
In a large district, summers can be brutal to some people. With Minnesota cutting education funding (we’re below the national average “per pupil” now despite a relatively high cost of living), lots of jobs are being lost. So each summer, people get laid off, schools close, and people have to move. One of the teachers [...]
