Schools

Warning to Parents

Alvin Lee — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:34:12 GMT

Be careful parents and students. Taft City School District will hold it against you if you keep your child home sick. Even if your child takes a doctors note to school. So if the School Attendance Review Board (SARB) thinks your child has been home sick too often, they will require you to attend a meeting. During that meeting they will treat the parents with no respect and probably make the child cry. Roland Maier, the president of this board will not care if you have copies of the doctors notes or any other paperwork. He has an agenda and no-one else on the board will disagree with him. So once again I say be careful about keeping your kids home when they are sick. Taft City School District can't afford to have a child missing from class. Apparently someone on the SARB board can't make a luxury car payment if your child is absent.

School Funding

Dianna H — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:04:30 GMT

My kids attended a Panama-Buena Vista junior high school a few years ago, and I remember that junior high graduation was a very big deal to both of them. If the administrators had chosen to cancel graduation while sending all the administrators to Las Vegas (yes, I understand how the budget works; but get a clue about perceptions, people!) while my kids were there, we would have made a statement. I don't do picket lines. I would have kept my kids out of school on days scheduled for standardized testing and we would have gone to a movie instead. If enough parents show their displeasure by boycotting the tests, it will get their attention.

Graduations don't have to be expensive. They could be held at the school or on a high school athletic field.

Educational funding

Cathie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:20:34 GMT

News producers and news casters should have a basic understanding of school funding issues so that they do not give the public the wrong impression regarding how schools allocate their funds. Much of the funds schools receive are called categorical funds and can only be used for the purposes for which they are intended. Such is with the federal Title II funds that Panama-Buena Vista (PBV) is using to pay for a professional development opportunity for its teachers. Those funds may only be used for professional development and to help teachers become highly qualified. Your newscaster stated that PBV had "earmarked" funds for a professional development opportunity for its teachers when it had cancelled the 8th-grade graduation. This implied that the district chose to use the funds for the professional development instead of other educational issues, such as an 8th-grade graduation. I hope that this was truly a misunderstanding of how these funds can be used and not an intentional method of raising the ire of PBV parents.

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jane johnson — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:26:15 GMT

My thoughts about the schools, especially PBVUSD is that all the administrators, from the board of trustees to all the administrators take a 20% pay cut. Instead of cancelling 8th grade graduation and diplomas to save money. All the parents should go to the schools and picket on the sidewalk until school administration takes notice. I for one am ready to pull all my kids out and look into home schooling or private. This state will not ever touch the Holy Grail of all the giveaways and social services it constantly doles out. Arnold should have to come and teach school for a week where my kids attend. My husband and I constantly stretch to pay for school lunches and breakfasts to the tune of over 1200.00 a year. How much does the state pay for free lunches and reduced? Maybe school should only teach Math, Reading, and English for a while and let the kids go home at noon to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Saturdays should be reserved for Art, Band, History of Muslim countries and China which noone cares about. This is nonsense, we need to elect some sensible people who actually send their kids to school everyday. The PTA needs to tell the Board of Trustees and the State Board of Education what to do not the other way around.

Jane

MiRa MoNTe

samantha22 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:59:17 GMT

Well mira monte has been doing fairly this year lots of clubs and school work is good, the football team is fantatstic as well has volleyball and all of our other wonderful sports. I Samantha Barraza am the ASB President and i am looking for more and more activites to do on our school campus i want this year to be a blast, I want it to be the greastest year in Mira Monte history. Not only that but i am also looking for more communtiy service acts for our school's key club and we also need many sponsors for our wonderful clubs besides key club. Our school at times lacks school spirit but we all hope for the best espically those of us who put in the extra time just to make them happy. So please if anyone has any ideas ,knows any sponsors that might be willing to help...etc please if you will contact our highschool or myself. Thank you for your time. =]

Samantha Barraza

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FRONTIER HIGH SCHOOL

khannaman — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:51:14 GMT

Frontier High School is now in its third year--with all grades of students. This is Frontier's first year with seniors, and the school has been working hard the last two years to raise the funds necessary to put lights on the football field--especially for the seniors who have been waiting two years to have a home football game under lights on their own field. Enough funds were raised back in May to pay for the lights. But we have been informed that due to circumstances beyond the control of the Kern High School District, our lights may not be installed until the end of the football season. I think if a human interest story is done, maybe someone could put some pressure on someone else to get our lights. Our seniors deserve to have lights their last year of high school--especially since they raised a good portion of the money to put in the lights but may not be able to actually enjoy their benefit.

If you would like more information, please feel free to e-mail me back. I may not be exact with why we still do not have our lights, but I know for a fact that its NOT because we haven't raised the funds. The funds were raised last May!!!

Distinguished School Award

mamak — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:28:20 GMT

Columbia Elementary School was one of four local schools honored with the Distinguished School Award. Congratulations to all of the schools!!!

CSUB

newsjuls — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:51:53 GMT

I just enrolled at CSUB and had a tough time paying for all of the books, parking fees etc.... not because they were so expensive but because I had to use different methods of payments at all of the offices I visited. What's the deal? Why is it cash only payments for the parking permit?

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lianahmae — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:01:26 GMT

EVEN if you are a graduate of public schools since elementary to secondary level, do not be intimidated if you want to enroll in a business school. After all, succeeding academically doesn’t depend on the school where you came from, it depends on the determination of the individual student. There are lots of students out there who graduated from private schools but who have later on dropped out from college since they can’t cope with the lessons and the pressure. But there are very diligent graduates of public schools who have persevered their way through college and lead satisfying lives.

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Required Reading

creepycat — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:20:24 GMT

When my girl was in 6th grade I began reading books she was required to read. I got reintroduced to classics & books I'd never read. We had short discussions of the material, I got involved in her school work (some of it, anyway), and in class discussions she could make intelligent comments about the book. When her required material got more complicated in high school--what was Hemingway's motivation, what was he really saying--we both relied on pinkmonkey.com, great student site that explains books. Taking time to get involved with kid's schoolwork takes time from things I'd rather be doing, but take my word, it pays dividends.

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Warning to Parents

School Funding

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MiRa MoNTe

FRONTIER HIGH SCHOOL

Distinguished School Award

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