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Denver Comic Con Troubles

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  • RickMRickM Posts: 407
    Was the concept behind CBC "if we build it, people will definitely use it"? Or was there an understanding with a large number of schools that they wanted something like this and would incorporate it once it was developed? I think developing a curriculum, no matter how brilliant, and just assuming people will adopt it is fairly naive. There could be teachers who simply dislike comics and would never use it, there could be teachers who find other tools pedagogically superior, and there could be teachers who simply have no wiggle room in their schedule to add another curriculum unit. Not sure if that is the case with what's happening in Denver, but I get the feeling that today's teachers have much less freedom than teachers a couple decades ago.
  • hauberkhauberk Posts: 1,511

    hauberk said:

    I think you may be onto something with it being a Common Core issue. Someone sent me one of their 3rd grader's math assignments which was common core compliant. After looking at it, I wonder if maybe this is the type of math the DCC has been using and Mr. LaGreca wants no part of it.




    The answer is {c}, of course.
    It's not like that's the first time that math strategies have been revised. I know that my parents hated the "new math" that I brought home with me and I had similar misgivings about the way my kids were taught.
    So you agree, that {c} is the right answer.

    They also sent this, but it baffled me. I never knew you rounded down EVERYTIME now and came to reasonable answers in math:

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    All kidding aside, I'll refrain from taking this issue lightly. More responses are sure to unveil more of what's really been going on, and it looks pretty bad from here.
    I suppose that depends on who filled in the responses. I would have rounded to 350 and 300 and gotten a very reasonable estimate of 650. Given that both of those images have shown up on conservative blogs railing against Common Core, I'm going to withhold judgment on whether or not the pedigree of the images is actually only on degree of separation from you.
  • mwhitt80mwhitt80 Posts: 4,638
    645 is a terribly unreasonable answer for that estimate. I use estimating all the time in grocery stores, walmart, and work to come up with reasonable totals. It's a great way of checking your work, but at least teach them to estimate right.

    Ugghhh.
  • bralinatorbralinator Posts: 5,967
    hauberk said:

    Given that both of those images have shown up on conservative blogs railing against Common Core, I'm going to withhold judgment on whether or not the pedigree of the images is actually only on degree of separation from you.

    Hmm. These were from a teacher. Don't know her political leanings. I think she has an Obama sticker on her Prius though. Are conservatives railing against Common Core?

  • RickMRickM Posts: 407
    Conservatives rail against Common Core because Obama. Liberals are starting to rail against Common Core because several teachers have come forward and shown how much of it seems to have been written by chimps.
  • bralinatorbralinator Posts: 5,967
    RickM said:

    Conservatives rail against Common Core because Obama. Liberals are starting to rail against Common Core because several teachers have come forward and shown how much of it seems to have been written by chimps.

    It's starting to make sense now. Common Core is bringing America back together :)
  • i_am_scifii_am_scifi Posts: 784
    edited February 2014
    Charlie's response can be found here. There is also a town hall scheduled for Sunday to discuss the issues at hand.
  • fredzillafredzilla Posts: 2,131
    We're talking a lot about Common Core Standards and CBC as though this stuff was used within the actual classroom. While I think that would be ideal, I was under the impression that CBC classes were done outside of the regular school day as a type of after-school enrichment in low-income schools. If that's the case then CC integration in the CBC isn't really an issue when it comes to the actual classes being taught. CC could enhance the enrichment curricula as a way to provide actual classroom application, but I don't think it's necessary (I could be wrong, I've never designed after-school curriculum).

    As a high school teacher I can also attest to the fact that CC Standards were being implemented in public high schools as early as 2009-2010 school year because Colorado needed to jump on an Obama initiative that would proved extra Federal funds to cooperating states. The CC Standards was something CO was headed for anyway so the adoption of them "early" in English/Language Arts classes was not really an issue--at least in my school.
  • hauberkhauberk Posts: 1,511
    fredzilla said:

    We're talking a lot about Common Core Standards and CBC as though this stuff was used within the actual classroom. While I think that would be ideal, I was under the impression that CBC classes were done outside of the regular school day as a type of after-school enrichment in low-income schools. If that's the case then CC integration in the CBC isn't really an issue when it comes to the actual classes being taught. CC could enhance the enrichment curricula as a way to provide actual classroom application, but I don't think it's necessary (I could be wrong, I've never designed after-school curriculum).

    As a high school teacher I can also attest to the fact that CC Standards were being implemented in public high schools as early as 2009-2010 school year because Colorado needed to jump on an Obama initiative that would proved extra Federal funds to cooperating states. The CC Standards was something CO was headed for anyway so the adoption of them "early" in English/Language Arts classes was not really an issue--at least in my school.

    Thank you sir! Your info is both insightful and from a more qualified perspective. I work with school districts and my wife taught, before motherhood became a fulltime job, so we're following Common Core closely here in Illinois, but Illinois shouldn't be taken for representative of much of anything.

    I understood that it was intended at least in part to be a before and after program, but thought that I read somewhere in the website that it was also something that could be integrated into the classroom and know that the website indicated that it was standards based - just not what standards.
  • bralinatorbralinator Posts: 5,967
    This ->

    Charlie's response can be found here. There is also a town hall scheduled for Sunday to discuss the issues at hand.

  • PeterPeter Posts: 470
    edited February 2014
    The tax filing for August 2011 to July 2012 is available.
    https://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/eo/2013_06_EO/45-4798723_990_201207.pdf

    Right away it is very clear that other members of the Board WERE "compensated" which goes against their "official release" stating otherwise. Charlie, Frank, Illya Kowalchuk and Bruce MacIntosh were given $2000 each. Christina Angel was given $2125. I find it VERY hard to believe that this is for actual receipts. Clearly, along the way, it was agreed that everyone was to get paid for their time, again, something that the "official release" stated wasn't the case.

    Also curious to note. Way at the bottom is an extension notice: "Not all books and records are available in order to file a complete and accurate tax return at this time".

    I can only image what will be left off the books if the 2012 and 2013 come available.
  • The issue is, for now, resolved. Charlito is reentering mediation with the board, so hopefully there will be an amicable agreement and all misconceptions or actual issues with the CBC will be worked out.
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