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East Iberville and MSA East are actually the same school – probably connected by an underground metro system. My bad.
A little birdy just told me they asked Iberville about their shadow schools issue, and they were old MSA East is the same school as Iberville East (Elementary and High.) I guess I’ve just never been to a school more than 4 miles long. I suppose there could be more underground than is obvious to satellite photos. If Iberville […]
Louisiana’s Dropout Numbers Don’t Add Up
September 12, 2012
For the past 5 years Louisiana has been reporting they have steadily decreased their event dropout rate. In simple terms, an Event Dropout Rate is the percent of students in select grade levels (in this case grades 7-12 or 9-12) that are enrolled at some point during the year but then exit and are determined […]
Creationism Vs Evolution Vs Intelligent Design? Lets Solve this!
August 26, 2012
THE CHALLENGE Can we clearly and politely determine which or which combination of these three theories should be taught in a Science class and why some theories would not belong? It think it’s time someone addressed this topic rationally and maturely, and explained why Creationism and Intelligent Design don’t belong in Science classes. Until someone responsible […]
Education Related Projects – Status Report and Log
July 22, 2012
Current Education Related Projects – Intro I just realized I’ve been working on a number of different projects to expose education abuses and to improve education for the children in my state with a passion I usually reserve for online gaming and good food and drink. Admittedly I was motivated by spite as well as […]
Bobby Jindal Doesn’t Believe in Evolution, but I Think I’ve Figured Out Why
June 29, 2012
Bobby Jindal has fought successfully to allow creationism to be taught in public Schools in Louisiana. When the public schools tried to teach both evolution and creationism he realized he had to do something, so he set about privatizing the entire public school system. At first, I wondered how someone who was a Rhode Scholar with a […]
Shadow Schools: Why They Exist and What They Enable You To Do
April 13, 2012
While I was working at the Louisiana Department of Education I had a number of sources tell me about what I have decided to call a Shadow School. A Shadow School is just an unreported school that has its own students, teachers, principal, and building but which goes unreported to the State and Federal Government. […]
Shadow Schools: Does Your DOE Know Where Your Children Are?
March 28, 2012
Probably most of you haven’t given much thought to how state department’s of education collect their data on schools, teachers and students. Well having been in the biz for quite a few years, I do. LEAs (Local Educational Agencies) aka School districts submit their data to the SEA (State Educational Agency) based on requirements that […]
A Modest Corporal Punishment Proposal for Louisiana
March 27, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vt4v7KsFi8&feature=youtube_gdata_player Even though our overly politically correct society has decided that beating animals with poles can be construed as unjust and abuse of the animals (and might get you thrown in jail or beaten by an angry mob yourself) and beating incarcerated adults is considered cruel and unusual punishment and forbade by our courts and […]
September 27, 2012
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