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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Head teacher says schoolchildren do not need books and recommends [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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The head teacher of a school in New York is facing calls to resign after he sent out an error-strewn letter claiming that children did not need books, ...
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New York Daily News has an (edited) copy of the letter, which can be found here. Either he was drunk when he wrote that or someone else wrote it and sent it out. I seriously cannot believe that anyone would be dumb enough to write that.
QUOTE(NuclearWarfare @ Fri 22nd October 2010, 12:40pm) 
New York Daily News has an (edited) copy of the letter, which can be found here. Either he was drunk when he wrote that or someone else wrote it and sent it out. I seriously cannot believe that anyone would be dumb enough to write that.
You were obviously never a student of the New York City school system. Having been there and done that, I can attest to the ineptitude of too many of the teachers.
I am absolutely convinced the letter is real, and that it was written in all seriousness, while sober.
Note, the guy is not recommending Wikipedia for his students, but for the teachers. The whole school sounds like a mess, and it strikes me that a principal wouldn't be responsible for his district's decisions to have a library-less school in its system.
Note, the guy is not recommending Wikipedia for his students, but for the teachers. The whole school sounds like a mess, and it strikes me that a principal wouldn't be responsible for his district's decisions to have a library-less school in its system.
How did he become head of a school when it's obvious in his answers he struggled through it years earlier? It appears his entire policy is based upon his own personal failures rather than good curriculum or common sense. I hope the teachers and parents remove that bozo for the children's sake.
Not only is he "struggling", he's been "struggling" since 2008. At very least.
Buck doesn't feel his letter was a problem, apparently.
The school has a Facebook. (You know what to do with that....)
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With Principal Andrew Buck at the helm of Middle School 588, seven out of the school's eight teachers left the school after its first year of existence, the union noted after ranking principals based on city Education Department surveys............The Education Department's Learning Environment Survey asks teachers to evaluate the statement "I trust the principal at his or her word."
All the MS 588 teachers who filled out the survey disagreed, 80% of them strongly.
All the MS 588 teachers who filled out the survey disagreed, 80% of them strongly.
Buck doesn't feel his letter was a problem, apparently.
The school has a Facebook. (You know what to do with that....)
My condolences to the students and teachers under his influence.
There are some simple things he could have done to fix the problems at the school.
There are some simple things he could have done to fix the problems at the school.
- Have a simple plan, worked out with the teachers and parents, to raise funds for more teaching materials and improve grades
- Rationalize the curriculum to ease the load on teachers and emphasize essentials
- Lobby higher-up in the chain for more resources
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