Trustees for the Del Mar Union School District voted last week to cancel a fully funded Spanish program that was up and running, loved by students, and taught by a popular teacher they threw out the door mid-year. Kids first, huh?
There is great irony at the intersection of contrasting worlds.
Now that one-quarter of the school year has passed, parents and students are quite familiar with their teachers and know who’s good, bad, average or outstanding.
On the recommendation of the Associated Student Body, Torrey Pines High School offered students an incentive to do well on last spring’s statewide achievement tests by promising an extended lunch period if the school’s Academic Performance Index score rose.
Bowing to the Great Bureaucracy, I reluctantly paid the San Diego County Office of Education $1.52 to receive a piece of paper listing all the legal fees incurred from December 3, 2010 to August 2, 2011 for the Sharon McClain vs. Del Mar Union School District litigation.
Those of us out of high school will never forget Sept. 11, 2001. But what of those 18 years and under, who were at most 8 years old on that tragic day? What of the children who were babies or not yet born? How do we teach them about 9/11?
My reason for attending my first Del Mar Union School District board meeting in nearly a year last week was an item on the Aug. 24 agenda to discuss, somewhat belatedly, the $500,000 cash bonuses given last fiscal year to all DMUSD employees using Federal Education Jobs Fund money.
Feedback from a story in the June 9 issue of this newspaper disputed the charges made by the president of the Western Center for Law & Policy that the San Dieguito Union High School District discriminates against Christian students.
What happened to the contentious critics who attended all those Del Mar Union School District board meetings the past four years to lambast previous board members, three in particular, for a laundry list of charges that included, confusingly, grievances ranging from inattention to micro-managing?
With the release July 15 of the last Harry Potter movie in J.K. Rowling’s sensational seven-book series, the media are churning the story with self-generated intensity, showcasing despondent Potter fanatics weeping (some literally) over the grand finale.
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