Comments on: City Work Session on CSD Facilities Master Plan Today at 6:45pm

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:33:53 +0000

Wow. Another reason to like and admire Dr. Keating, Mr. Thomas, and Dr. Lee. Not sure how to get a similar campaign going for teens–maybe it could count towards community service? Be a high school internship? Factor into a student’s “weighted” GPA? Come with iTunes credit?

By: Larkspur

Larkspur — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:19:24 +0000

I am sure it’s harder at the middle school and high school level as kids don’t use the bathroom as a class with a teacher to check it. Actually, both Dr. Keating and Rodney Thomas and the clean bathroom campaign at 4/5 Academy (when it was housed at Glennwood) were mentioned in a book I read researching my child’s health issue — it was extremely weird to read a book where a school that I’d had a child attend was mentioned.

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 01:40:35 +0000

For whatever reason, it’s the bathrooms at RMS and DHS that seem sub-par, not those in the other schools. Probably because they are mostly in old sections of the schools that haven’t been renovated in years.

By: nelliebelle1197

nelliebelle1197 — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:07:23 +0000

Just wanted to say Juval at College Heights keeps everything sparkling like a firefly. He is a sweet, wonderful young man and the second generation in his family to work for CSD.

By: Larkspur

Larkspur — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:01:06 +0000

Thread hijack continuing… Clean bathrooms at school are a good thing. Many kids will refuse to use school bathrooms if they are dirty and holding all day can cause UTIs and other problems. I had no idea until one of my own kids started having this kind of problem. So I say, good for Dr. Keating!

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:41:52 +0000

This is NOT my areas of expertise. My main reason for loving this program is that the younger and more plastic the brain, the better it picks up a foreign language. Waiting to start a foreign language until a child is in middle or high school is not strategic or efficient. Spanish is a good language to select because it is a good basis for learning any romance language because of its fairly regular grammar and pronunciation. Plus it’s a useful language in the U.S. these days. Ideally, families would have a choice of language—Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Arabic, etc. But it’s not practical to support that many languages K-12.

I’m sure Dr. Keating could present a more evidence-based rationale.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:34:39 +0000

To further hijack this thread that is focusing on one particular person: – serious question here, not intended to provoke: Why do we think the idea was “ahead of its time” or “right?” Was it because the idea was first proposed to CSD but later enabled by GA?

What are the some of the main benefits or compelling reasons for Spanish to be compulsory for ALL students K-12? What were the reasons given then and what would they be today?

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:04:16 +0000

Some things never change. I would be shocked if I ever heard CSD (or most government administrations, for that matter) ever say “You know, you guys were right….” Dr. Keating will have to write another book about CSD…..