Denver Public Schools
Quoted from your article today: “She (a former student) found solace in the shared struggle with students from Jovenes Unidos and from West and Manual high schools. Her frustration turned to anger at DPS.”
What can be said about a school district that doesn’t educate its most needy children? Saying it makes us “angry” or “frustrated” doesn’t really tell the story or express the extent of Denver’s anguish that the State’s main school system acts as it does.
Has anything changed at DPS? When Del Pueblo closed this last week, DPS announced it had “suspended its academic program.” This is not reform, it’s more of the same old nonsense.
I wish DPS admins and BOE members would understand just ONE THING, if nothing else: Denver Public Schools’ credibility is already in the toilet. Please STOP putting a spin on the facts, stop worrying whether you will get your nice pension, and TEACH SCHOOL.
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AMEN sister!
Posted by on August 24, 2007 02:27 PMWelcome to Government run Education... NOW SIT DOWN AND DON'T MAKE WAVES.....Sheesh, they might have to send her off to the re-education camps.
Posted by Dravur on August 24, 2007 07:17 PMand there are people who want the government to run our health care system.
Posted by on August 25, 2007 09:03 AMVouchers...choice...competition. Otherwise its nothing more than a consumer-hostile monopoly, something that we attempt to outlaw in business and industry.
Commissions like Ritter's "Blue Ribbon " commission have been controlling the educational agenda for generations. All we ever get are the same old mistakes, made by the same old people, with the same old excuses, followed by more commissions, over and over again. There are never any solutions, just more commissions.
We're DPS, and we don't have to care.
Posted by Hank on August 25, 2007 09:46 AMI went to DPS, Montbello High, the issue with the schools isn't the school district. It is with the students that are in the classroom. The students that pay attention & do the work make it. Have you heard the old saying; 'You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.' & with all this complaining about the government, why don't you goto another portion of the world; where education isn't free.
Posted by Steven on August 25, 2007 06:28 PMHey Steve, hate to burst your bubble but education here is not free either! We just get brainwashed by liberals into thinking it is free as they reach further into our pockets to steal money.
Posted by on August 26, 2007 09:46 PM