Comments by freetospeak
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Posted on May 16 at 5:23 p.m.
As a person in education, I can tell you that it is just about as bad out there as it can get. All teachers including those that teach young children are regularly abused in some way. I have been beaten, slapped, kicked, cussed spit on and had chairs and other objects thrown at me. I have had children literally rip their clothes off their bodies because they did not get their way. All of this happened in my first grade classroom over the years and I had a strong disciplinary policy. .It’s bad,,, real bad!! I have left and taken a job at a Christian school. I make about half the money, but I have a peace of mind and I am happy to go to work every day. We begin everyday with prayer, morning devotion and a Bible story. The children do not behave the same as they did in public school and it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the environment and the fact that school officials and parents will tolerate this type of behavior. These parents are not going to pay their hard earned money for their child to go to school and misbehave. It is a wonderful place for a child to be educated, have fun, and feel safe every day.
Posted on May 12 at 8:54 p.m.
I would like to know the opinion of anyone that would like to respond to something that I read today in the Miss-Lou Magazine dated May 14-27 on page 11. It stated: A new Mississippi law effective July 1 would force school districts to fire superintendents if the majority of their schools were rated Level 1 or Level 2 (underperforming) for two years. With the new law Natchez Adams School Superintendent Dr. Anthony Morris will lose his job if the local schools do not improve.
Posted on March 20 at 7:22 a.m.
To all the Taylor Family, I am so sorry for your loss of such a beautiful person. I grew up hanging out at Kay's and Charles' house with Connie. I always thought that Kay could sing just like Ann Murray and even had that same look. She was a wonderful wife, mother, sister, and sister-in-law to many. Even as Connie and I were young teenagers, Kay would always took the time to talk with us about the important things in life and I enjoyed being at her house.
Connie, I love you girl, and I know your pain is deep because of the love and friendship you shared with Kay. God has a reason for all things. I will pray for you and your family. Lots of love to everyone!
Donna
Posted on March 19 at 7:38 p.m.
Your right Lilsister, expectations has everything to do with our public education.
I taught for years in the public schools, most of which was at the first grade level. My classes were filled with all black children every year except for one. I expected the same performance out of my student’s no matter what color they were. Color has nothing to do with it. My students could add and subtract with regrouping up into the thousands, knew most of their multiplication facts, some were even dividing at 6 years old. They could read and could tell me the subject, predicate, nouns, verbs, and adjectives in any sentence I put on the board. I always believed that if you built a strong foundation, their educational “house” would withstand any storm. Every year my standardized test scores for the class average was in the 80 or 90 percentile range. I remember one year it dropped to the 70’s because I had 4 special education students in that class. Most all of my students have gone through the rest of their educational years as successful students because they were prepared for the future.
I don’t say these things to pat myself on the back, but to say that because I expected great things, they put forth every effort to perform up to my expectations. I expected this and after I met with all the parents at the beginning of the year, they also expected the same thing. Together with the parents help, we gave those children what they needed. Some of these children had educated parents that worked in the schools or in the Central Office, others had hard working parents with no higher education, while others had mothers that had six other children at home and lived off food stamps and welfare, but they all performed their best in my classroom.
This district needs a new mindset. If we expect failure, then that is exactly what we will get, but if we expect every child to learn and perform, then they will. Everyone, from the top to the bottom must have great expectations for our schools and every student that attends those schools. Only then will we begin to see a change.
Posted on March 15 at 9 a.m.
I bought some pepper spray, or it may have been mace, at the Sports Center a few years ago. It was located at the checkout counter in the front of the store. Not sure if that is still the case, but you could call and ask.
Posted on March 12 at 5:24 p.m.
With all the talk about our great country, I thought I would add food for thought from an email I recently received:
1. If you woke up in good health this morning, you have more luck than one million people, who won’t live through the week.
2. If you have never experienced the horror of war, the solitude of prison, the pain of torture, were not close to death from starvation, then you are better off than 500 million people.
3. If you can go to your place of worship without fear that someone will assault or kill you, then you are luckier than 3 billion (that’s right) people.
4. If you have a full fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are wealthier than 75% of the world’s population.
5. If you currently have money in the bank, in your wallet and a few coins in your purse, you are very fortunate because most do not.
6. If your parents are still alive and still married you are a rare individual.
7. If you can read this post you are extremely lucky that you are not among the 2 billion people in this world that can’t read.
This is a great country that we live in and we have plenty to be thankful for. No matter who our next President is, I feel fortunate that I was born the this great country and not somewhere else.
Posted on March 12 at 7:15 a.m.
I worked in this district for years and I can testify that Accelerated Reader and Community Partnerships existed long before Dr. Morris came into the picture as Superintendent. IP was one of the major adopters and look how long they have been gone. No, these things have been going on for years, he just wanted to take credit for it.
Posted on March 12 at 6:29 a.m.
I am not a diehard Democrat or Republican so I usually vote for the person that I think will do the best job for our country. This is the way I see it:
I can not vote for someone that is Muslim and has openly admitted that he will refuse to be sworn in on the Bible. I don’t care what color his skin is, this would be detrimental to the United States to have him as president.
As for a woman, I am not against a woman president, but I feel that Hillary is not the woman for us. I just can’t see Bill laying up in the White House again eating Cheetos and reading books to small children. We don’t need the Clintons running this country again. Remember the last time and the mess it was.
So in saying this, I can only see that we have one other choice. I am not saying this is the right choice, but given what we have to choose from, McCain seems to be the only logical choice. This is just my opinion.
Posted on March 9 at 10:05 p.m.
Again, I state that I have proof that he had two administrators hired in positions at Frazier and Morgantown that did not have their license or had even gotten their results on the state required administrative test. I had every thing in order and was licensed to be an administrator and he completely over looked my qualifications. I gained this proof from EEOC when seeking a discrimination suit against Morris and the district. I called a board member at the time that they were preparing to hire these administrators, but he said that he didn’t believe that Morris or the school’s attorney would have allowed this to happen. He said that they must have a license or they would not be hired. This is a very small example of the well deceptive nature of hiring in which he hires on a personal interest instead of professional requirement.
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Posted on July 11 at 7:38 p.m.
I must speak up and defend one of the private schools that you are speaking about. I personally know the facts about drugs and fighting because I am there everyday. In the past two years there have only been two fights. One involved a couple of elementary students and the other involved two high school girls. This school also has the greatest drug policy that I ever seen in any town. It is mandatory that every student from the 7th grade through the 12th grade be drug tested at the beginning of each school year. Random monthly drug test are administered each month following the initial testing. Its not that we hide it, it’s that we do not tolerate this type of behavior. If you choose to use drugs, then you have made the choice to leave our school.
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