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Alexander Ooms, wrote in the Denver Post on Monday, September 14, a Guest Commentary, about Denver Public Schools, entitled “Playing games to sneak kids into good schools” in which he asserted:
“The vast majority of public schools are far worse than most people know. But Denver’s public schools are not quite bad enough, as savvy middle-class parents can still game the system to get their kids a decent education. This paradox perpetuates a failing system and inhibits meaningful reform.” Link to the article:
http://www.denverpost.com/opin…
Question for the DPS Board of Education candidates: Do you agree with Ooms?
Why or why not?
of playing some elitist shuffle game to get their kids into the ‘right’ schools.
Of course if this is allowed, it would be a competitive tool that provides at least some school choice within the system.
Its too bad you assume those below middle class would be too ignorant to make the same choices.
Did you read the article? Your opinion, of course, would be respected. But, you should read the article and address your comments to the either the author of the article or to anyone who posts in response to what was WRITTEN in the article.
There is a link to the Denver Post. It is in blue script. If you click on that link, L, than you will be able to read the article and respond after READING the article.
I have not posted an opinion. I have emailed the candidates for the Denver Board of Education and asked them to respond.
either from within the system or other districts such as Cherry Creek.
My comment stands and I’m sure other schools besides Brommwell are experiencing similar levels of choice-in or choice-out.
After all, all he has to do is stop hiding behind his lawyers. He should release all of his criminal records, with all of his aliases, and the matter will be cleared up.
Your reply is confusing here. I, for example, do not defend Glenn Beck and nobody here has mentioned him. Thank you.
I’m trying to approach his answers with the same level of logic and understanding that he does.
Dan was replying to Libertad. If there’s ever confusion over who is replying to who, you can click on the “parent” link under any reply comment, and it will show you who the person intended to rely to.
I was just concerned that any candidate who tried to reply might think the reply was directed towards me. That was confusing.
I don’t know much about DPS or school switching therein, but I seriously doubt this:
“The vast majority of public schools are far worse than most people know. “
is true. I haven’t noticed the average parent to be slow to notice when their children are shortchanged or uninterested in their education. Sure there are cases of single parents who are working two jobs and don’t have a drop of energy left, but I’d really doubt that the “vast majority” of schools are “far worse” than we know.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32…
Just how they’ll attack Fox and others following the termination of many internal people remains a mystery.
See the videos and more: http://coloradopols.com/diary/…
So, ACORN finds out what was going on, took immediate, drastic action, and you can only point the finger? Oh, to wish our previous president and most Republican scandals would do so.
And chances are, those employees were short timers doing nothing but voter applications. They had no loyalty to ACORN or integrity.
You are too weird. No, that’s not in the book, is it. After watching you get beat up for all the time you have been posting here, my partial diagnosis is masochistic.
I’ve never even heard of ACORN apart from wingnuts like Libertad complaining about them. Who cares? Why do conservatives think that blackening their name will be to their advantage?
Big bad Acorn. You sooo scared.
Give us a break. Find something more scary and influential to attack. Like PETA.
….which is found here: http://march.dav.org/
Two years ago, the DAV leadership couldn’t be bothered with this “intewebz” thing – now it seems they’ve listened to us goofy websurfers, and they’re embracing the technology full-bore.
We have a Second LIfe island where the fullly-disabled vets can have meetings, chat about problems and interact with vets of all eras. They fully supported reaching out via social media, and now lots of DAV Chapters are popping up on Facebook. (Thru my chapter’s Facebbok page, I connected a female vet in Seattle with a DAV Service officer who helped her get her claim unscrewed.)
Now, all we have to do, is convince these young punks and punkettes that they need our help dealing with the VA…
Today’s Post carries the story that the DOC doesn’t know exactly how many felony inmates will actually be eligible for release under the Guv’s cost-savings measure, but it looks it may be twice as many as earlier announced.
This doesn’t look good. Dick Wadhams is no doubt already recycling those Willie Horton commercials from Daddy Bush’s ’88 campaign, but photoshopping Ritter’s face in place of that of Dukakis.
O.Q.D. does have one suggestion for how the Guv could handle this problem. Simply place all of these inmates on electronic home detention but require them to live in Mesa County.
Matt Latimer worked as one of Dubya’s speechwriters during the president’s final twenty-two months in office. He was there to help sell the surge to a skeptical public. He was there as we pretended that the fundamentals of the economy were strong. And he was there to see a president who failed to grasp his own $700 billion bailout package-even as he was pitching it to the American public on live TV. A disillusioned insider reveals for the first time just how messy things got…
http://men.style.com/gq/featur…
I think I might have to get that book
DEFINITELY will have to get a book. My god W’s White House held bigger fools than we ever thought.
Because prior to this, you’ve never addressed Glenn Beck’s silence on this issue, clearly indicating his guilt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Looks like Bennett’s got himself a challenger.
The Huffington Post has a new Denver/Colorado section featuring posts by Gary Hart, Bill Ritter, and Jared Polis.
Polis writes on detention reform.
The whole thing is worth reading. Good for him, especially on something like this that affects a lot of “invisible” people: too many think the only people around are either citizens or illegal immigrants. As someone who knows a lot of legal immigrants, I have some personal experience with just how intimidating and oppressive our immigration system is. The slightest mistake gets you sucked into a very nasty system, where you’re subject to quite arbitrary whims of bureaucrats.
Rep. “Joe” Wilson’s outburst during the President’s joint address to Congress last week has just earned him a Resolution of Disapproval, the most mild act of rebuke possible in the House. The vote was 240-179, with 5 “present”. Only 7 Republicans voted in favor, despite the GOP leadership calling for an apology from the Representative.
Wilson was offered a deal to go on the floor to issue his apology, but he turned it down. House rules prohibit certain expressions during official House business; calling the President a liar (verbatim – other wordings aren’t prohibited) is one of them, considered an official breach of decorum.
By the standards of 7 years ago, anything more than 50% along with a single vote from the other party is an overwhelming bipartisan majority.
For some inexplicable reason, I discovered a letter from Jon Caldera in my mailbox today. It contains the usual shit trashing the stimulus bill, cap and trade, and health care reform. (But no mention of death panels, birth certificates or Nazis.)
Someone probably sent my name to the Independence Institute as some sort of practical joke.
Not even “The Freeperson.” Or “The Freeman/Freewoman.”
Is it true that you can glue a brick to those postage-prepaid envelopes and send ’em back – and then they’ll get stuck paying the postage? ‘Cause that would be righteous.
PS: It’s Caldara not Caldera. Caldera is one of those things that Bobby Jindal says we shouldn’t bother monitoring.
One is a hole emitting hot noxious vapors.
The other is a volcano.
Carville can’t stop laughing, Gergen mouth drops open to catch flies as tea, what do these guys call themselves,… tea baggee leader defends his racist comments (called the President an “Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
What a douche.
Josh Penry drew 300 to 400 for his announcement depending on who counted.
Jane Norton would not have drawn double digits if her family had not come along.
Andrew Romanoff needs a big crowd tomorrow. I predict somewhere between Norton and Penry for Andrew in Pueblo. Probably about 125. On his home turf in WashPark he will draw a big crowd
I thought people were beating the bushes down there?
Always hard to draw a crowd at ten in the morning. If he can draw more it will be very impressive.
…a puny 125 will be sad, for his much announced, inaugural entry into the race for US Senate. no?
I’mma let you finish, but Sarah Palin Resigns had one of the best Hitler Reacts videos of all time. One of the best Hitler Reacts videos of all time!