2005.11.15 - 20:52
This year, LBUSD lost between $9,324,000.00 and $10,635,576.00 because of an enrollment drop of 1,554 students–last year. This year, LBUSD isn’t out any money because of a loss of 2,534 student enrollees; but they’ll lose something between $15,204,00.00 and 17,342,696.00 out of next year’s budget. (more…)
2005.11.02 - 12:39
OK kids. Phillip’s books came to the door yesterday afternoon, along with a microphone for use in his Elluminate! sessions. Nothing worth much note (CAliVA has already proven themselves competent in my book); which is why I didn’t bother mentioning it last night. Phillip has been using his CAliVA-provided computer since it arrived, and catching up on his school year. The girls are waaaay ahead in their respective studies…life is pretty-much normal.
Then the UPS guy showed-up at the door–I mean literally seconds ago. (more…)
The kids are up and at their classes this morning; as I swill coffee, waiting for the caffeine to work its physiological magic on my grey cells. (more…)
I forgot to mention that, back on Thursday, after we got home from signing contracts on the new house, Phillip’s CAliVA computer arrived via FedEx. (more…)
Lia just finished-up her assessment for her semester 1 math. She’s now on semester two math in her 8th week of school, this year.
Robinson would only have held her back from realizing her potential, and I have LBUSD to thank for teaching me that public school is just about the worst way to educate a child (more…)
We, the family, have been holding our collective breath over the possibility that we might be relocating. Not far. Just around the corner, as a matter of fact. The problem, in today’s market, is obviously one of pricing. Real estate (to buy or let) is ridiculously priced in California–moreso in Long Beach–and one finds oneself emotionally contending with others for a particular property when one crops-up that is about as close as perfect for one’s family as reality will permit. (more…)
It’s time to set the story straight for those who depend too heavily on what the school district has to say to you.
Back on the 9th of this month, I noticed the following bit of Rah! Rah! text on the LBUSD website. (more…)
2005.09.20 - 17:35
Only today did it occur to me that, at our last parent-teacher, face-to-face meeting, Lisa Watson–our assigned teacher for the girls–asked what size CAliVA polo shirts to order for the girls. She presented lucid safety reasons for the school-affiliated shirts to be worn at school outings and functions, but never asked us to pay for the shirts. (more…)
The lesson I was teaching my two youngest daughters, about René Decartes, was interrupted by a phone call from Guillermo Jimenez, of Millikan High, at 12:03 this afternoon. Permit me to tell you what another one of LBUSD’s “good, little, policy-drones” has to say about the provisos and quid-pro-quos of a FAPE in LBUSD; while he waits for a pat on his head from the table scrap gods. (more…)