Since the snowmageddon is upon us, I thought this might be a good time to hold the very first Exceptional Winterfest Weekend. This event will be going on ALL weekend long during the Blizzard of 2016. Below are the links to discuss education issues. I want ALL sides of the issues to feel welcome and this will be no holds barred. I encourage everyone to log in as their real name. I would avoid personal attacks for all. I would comment on this thread now to avoid your account going into moderation. If my power goes out, I won’t be able to moderate comments and release them if you are a first-time user. I would ask that if you are an elected official to send comments through your state email address to avoid any potential impersonations of elected officials.
I would love to see Governor Markell, Paul Herdman, Earl Jaques, David Sokola, Kendall Massett, Donna Johnson, Dr. Teri Quinn Gray, Chris Ruszkwoski, and Dr. Steven Godowsky come on over and comment. If any of you have the means to contact them, please invite them to this one of a kind chance to really get to the heart of the issues.
My hope is that by the end of this weekend, if this experiment doesn’t fail miserably, that maybe we can reach consensus on some of these issues in Delaware education. We are not going to agree on everything, but maybe we can understand the different sides and have more respect for each other’s opinions when all is said and done. There is no better time than a blizzard to do this, as most of us will be in our homes with our loved ones.
These are the topics, all of which will be under the title of this blog:
Delaware DOE/State Board of Education
Early Childhood Education/Kindergarten
Legislation in Education/General Assembly
Smarter Balanced Assessment/Opt-Out
All comments are now turned on. I apologize. I didn’t realize these “pages” on my blog had to be individually turned on. Thank you for your patience!
The Season Of Myths 
I think opt out is a good idea. We should allow parents to make decisions for our children. I know Jack is a good guy, but I’m a better parent.
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I absolutely agree! Every parent has their own story and reason and they all deserve respect because parents are making the choice out of love for their child.
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I Think this obsession with common core and the focus on smarter balance testing is narrowing the curriculum in public education and sucking out all the creativity and innovative thinking. My kids had 5 weeks of science last year and 5 weeks of social studies. My guess is it’s not important because it’s not on the SBAC. Being a science major myself, that was reason enough to leave public Ed.
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I think Pete Schwartzkopf is going to insert HB50 in his desk drawer. And shut it.
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Mr. Young, the comments are now up for each section. Please put all comments on the appropriate discussion page. This is not something you can opt out of.
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I Can’t comment here? Sounds fascist. 😉
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