Swimming in the Pensieve

2005.08.25, Thursday

Steinhauser is Too Afraid to Call Parents Himself

Filed under: Long Beach Unified SD, Domesticity, Education — Allan @ 21:24:42

2005.08.25 - 21:24

I received a couple of interesting phone calls today. One was from another Jackie Robinson parent, and the other was from Dr. Gwendolyn Mathews of the LBUSD K-8/Middle School office. (more…)

2005.08.23, Tuesday

Robinson Calls to Say, “Huh?”

Filed under: Long Beach Unified SD, Domesticity, Education — Allan @ 13:10:21

Kellyann Garcia just called-over from Robinson to ask if she really should un-enroll the girls from the school. With palpable ambivalence, I told her that she should.

This is definitely the best thing to do for the girls. LBUSD has sold, and will continue to sell, them short because of their giftedness–along with some insane pseudo-policy which forbids grade-skipping. While I won’t miss the larger, and very lumbersome, entity of LBUSD at all; I will miss certain people employed by LBUSD quite a bit. (more…)

2005.08.21, Sunday

Skipping, The Father’s Choice

Filed under: Long Beach Unified SD, Domesticity, Education — Allan @ 13:04:48

Last week, we received confirmation that the enrollment process is complete, and requests went straight to LBUSD for our two youngest daughter’s Cumulative Academic Record folders. It’s nice to know that history won’t repeat itself (more…)

2005.08.10, Wednesday

The Question Brick-N-Mortar Schools Never Ask…

Filed under: Long Beach Unified SD, Domesticity, Education — Allan @ 07:58:58

These folks seem to follow-up with parents very well.

I’d like to point-out, to those who run across this, that we have been involved with LBUSD for more than 5 years, now; and, until we received a recent phone call from Stephanie Sosa, not once were we ever asked what we considered to be the best thing for our child. Ms. Sosa asked me that very question (more…)

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