Comments on: iPod Touch Coming to Decatur Classrooms

By: looney mooney

looney mooney — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:47:41 +0000

Example of my 7th graders a/b students spelling. You tell me if she earned those a/b’s.
~Hert herself because she feel while trying to make a snow man fir my brother, because he said “I want a snow man taller than you, because your short”

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:00:47 +0000

Thanks ladies. I’ll look into it!

By: looney mooney

looney mooney — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:34:57 +0000

Maybe I have missed it, but DM this NEEDS it’s own thread. I have always thought my daughters grades were a little higher then her work warranted. She’s a wonderful girl, but academics aren’t her strong point. She can’t spell or do simple math in middle school but makes a’s & b’s?

http://www.3ten.org/Site/Current_Stories/Entries/2009/10/29_OPINION%3A_New_policies_don%E2%80%99t_make_the_grade.html

By: CSD Mom

CSD Mom — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:34:36 +0000

I hear you on not getting enough help with your child’s failing math grade. I am in the same boat times two. My already under-motivated high-schooler has discovered that the new grading policy works in her favor because she doesn’t have to work for anything now! Yay!

I can’t wait until we make smart decisions, like listening to students and rescinding the new grading policy at the high school. http://www.3ten.org/Site/Current_Stories/Entries/2009/10/29_OPINION%3A_New_policies_don%E2%80%99t_make_the_grade.html That really wouldn’t cost anything, but it would force the students to take more responsibility for those failing grades.

By: Gladys

Gladys — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:23:45 +0000

I wish you were the only one who got that response to a real need. And while the new building is beautiful, I have a hard time understanding that expense for 700 HS students – or what, about 2400 in the whole system? Does it narrow the achievement gap or improve student performance on the SAT?