SAH doesn't support change,

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SAH doesn't support change,
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Sat, 08-26-2006 - 4:58pm

"SAH doesn't support change, it supports going backwards to the 1950's,"

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I wholeheartedly disagree. To me, SAH is a choice. How is that going back to the 1950s, when a lot of women didn't have much of a choice.

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Registered: 04-14-2003
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:52pm

then i already answered your point. i can't imagine any reason a district would have for tallying (much less awarding) perfect attendance, and i have heard of such things being administered by teachers, ptos, and school administrators. honestly, i think my ancedotes are more credible than yours, but i'll settle for equally credible--which begs the question why are you re-asking what i just answered?

try defending your own point: exactly why do you think a school district would track and award perfect attendance for individual students? there are several specific and general measures when attendance is important to a district; why would this be one? why would a district spend resources collecting data that is useless to them, and then provide an incentive for something that they do not gain from (and if they aren't half-wits know is unhealthy)?

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:54pm

Exactly.


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-02-2003
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:54pm
IME, rewards and creative teaching are not mutually exclusive.
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Registered: 04-14-2003
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:56pm
i haven't ever suggested that all districts are the same.
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Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:58pm
Yes! Homemade stuffing!!!! I forgot about that. Now THAT'S what Thanksgiving is all about!
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Registered: 04-14-2003
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:59pm
in both states i have lived in it is tied to attendance on a few survey days during the year--day-to-day attendance means nothing. i thought that was the case across the u.s., but i might be mistaken about that.
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Mon, 09-25-2006 - 1:00pm
ot,watched live and in person the astros clobber the cardinals at minutemaid park,last night. woohoo!! :)

 

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Registered: 06-02-2003
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 1:01pm
Again I get the distinct feeling that you have already made up your mind that PTOs are the root of all evil in the world and you will stop at nothing to make that point (at least in your own mind). Someone on here already told you why the districts could have an interest (financial) and I already told you that the individual schools probably do the tracking, etc. but that the district requests that it be done. I'm not sure in what world your anecdotes are more credible than mine and why you would think that, but there are others on here saying that is how it works in their school districts too. Just because you "can't imagine" it doesn't make it a lie by any stretch of the imagination. I cannot say WHY the district does it...only that they do. Are you outright calling me a liar? I again can see NO LINK between the perfect attendance awards the the PTO...they are completely unrelated.
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Registered: 08-27-2005
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 1:07pm
As far as I know, it's day-to-day attendance that counts in California. That's a fairly recent change (maybe the last 5-10 years?). It's one of the reasons why school districts have become so extreme about any kind of unexcused absence and barely tolerate excused absences.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 1:12pm
To expaim why I was leaving the debate -- because it had, indeed, become too personal for my tastes.

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