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LMC reduced at 5/6 Super Schools; LMC time getting slashed too!
Topic Started: Jan 9 2006, 09:21 PM (1,012 Views)
Rose
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Hopefully those on the teams will not do their dirty work. Because some of the forum members signed up for teams and/or focus groups, I am sure they will not have a problem stirring up the poo if need be.
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Grant1
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Rose
Jan 10 2006, 02:23 PM
Hopefully those on the teams will not do their dirty work. Because some of the forum members signed up for teams and/or focus groups, I am sure they will not have a problem stirring up the poo if need be.

Do I need to go back to the can of poo avatar?
I just got Moe, Larry & Curly ( aka Leipa, Lessard & Whitehead ) working right yesterday.
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Elisa
Jan 10 2006, 02:08 PM
I just put in a call to Mrs. Alles. She will be in a meeting until 4:00. The secretary said she would give her the message if she comes out of the meeting for a break but wasn't sure she would get back to me today. The secretary who took my question started to give me the "nothing is final yet" speech. So we'll see what Mrs. Alles has to say.
Grant1, I have the same suspicions about the transition teams, that they will be the ones to break a lot of this news.

Wouldn't it be just ducky for the BOE and Administration if the transition teams do all the talking to the public in the future?
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Jane
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Wait to verify this information. They can't take away a teacher prep time without union approval. So I would guess this is just a rumor.

To answer Grant1 - in Plymouth-Canton, students go to library 1 day a week for 45 minutes. Kindergarten goes 1 day a week for 30 minutes. That is classroom teacher release time.

How often students are in the computer lab in Plymouth-Canton is controlled by the librarian during this "library" time. Then teachers can take their class into the computer lab...and that varies by grade, teacher, and building. Plymouth-Canton elementaries are K-5. That is what I am speaking to. I don't know what 6-8 does.
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Rose
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Grant1
Jan 10 2006, 03:14 PM
Rose
Jan 10 2006, 02:23 PM
Hopefully those on the teams will not do their dirty work. Because some of the forum members signed up for teams and/or focus groups, I am sure they will not have a problem stirring up the poo if need be.

Do I need to go back to the can of poo avatar?
I just got Moe, Larry & Curly ( aka Leipa, Lessard & Whitehead ) working right yesterday.

You might have to. I smell plenty of poo in the near future.
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loyaltolivonia
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Rose
Jan 10 2006, 05:11 PM
Grant1
Jan 10 2006, 03:14 PM
Rose
Jan 10 2006, 02:23 PM
Hopefully those on the teams will not do their dirty work. Because some of the forum members signed up for teams and/or focus groups, I am sure they will not have a problem stirring up the poo if need be.

Do I need to go back to the can of poo avatar?
I just got Moe, Larry & Curly ( aka Leipa, Lessard & Whitehead ) working right yesterday.

You might have to. I smell plenty of poo in the near future.

Too bad you can't have the Stooges and the can of poo :lol: They DO go hand in hand, don't they???

As for smelling it? I've been smelling it for a while now and it's turning my stomach!
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The more of this that gets out before the recall, the better.
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Elisa
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I spoke with Mrs. Alles today. She explained that they were working on the "school day" issue this week. She explained that they were determining the minimum general education requirement versus specials. They are looking at how the day will be divided accordingly-40 min periods or 50 min periods. She described a whole proccess that must trickle down from admin to principal to specific teachers and parent focus groups. Since Principals for the 5/6 buildings won't be chosen until later this month, she said that news should come out in March about the student schedules. She added that the frequency of specials previously discussed were "possibilities" She would not commit to the frequency of any special.
District transition teams will meet later this month. According to Mrs. Alles they will publish a newsletter within a week of their first meeting. This "Transition Newsletter" will be sent home with our kids. Newsletters will be ongoing. The district website will also have information.
I hope that helps. I strongly encourage people who have questions to call them. The telephone seems, to me any way, the only way they will communicate. I have never had an email answered. <_<
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Elisa
Jan 11 2006, 05:48 PM
She added that the frequency of specials previously discussed were "possibilities" She would not commit to the frequency of any special.

That didn't take long.
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loyaltolivonia
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Elisa
Jan 11 2006, 05:48 PM
I spoke with Mrs. Alles today. She explained that they were working on the "school day" issue this week. She explained that they were determining the minimum general education requirement versus specials. They are looking at how the day will be divided accordingly-40 min periods or 50 min periods. She described a whole proccess that must trickle down from admin to principal to specific teachers and parent focus groups. Since Principals for the 5/6 buildings won't be chosen until later this month, she said that news should come out in March about the student schedules. She added that the frequency of specials previously discussed were "possibilities" She would not commit to the frequency of any special.
District transition teams will meet later this month. According to Mrs. Alles they will publish a newsletter within a week of their first meeting. This "Transition Newsletter" will be sent home with our kids. Newsletters will be ongoing. The district website will also have information.
I hope that helps. I strongly encourage people who have questions to call them. The telephone seems, to me any way, the only way they will communicate. I have never had an email answered. <_<

How come when they discuss the kid's schedules or start times or specials or bus ride lengths or anything that has to do with the school day, it's like a puzzle with missing pieces??? Tell me, would you EVER buy a puzzle with missing pieces??? I would not :(
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