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NYC_SKP

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13. Yep, catch phrases common to most every front office think tank waste of effort in education.

Reply to sulphurdunn (Reply #11)

Fri Jul 20, 2012, 01:49 PM

Jul 2012

And nobody to call them on it, to say, "Hey, do you think a fucking kid or parent even knows WTF you're talking about? Who IS your audience, who ARE your clients in this?"

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Catch Phrases and Word Salad from a K-6 LAUSD school. [View all] NYC_SKP Jul 2012 OP

Who writes mission and vision statements for KIDS?? proud2BlibKansan Jul 2012 #1

Little K-6ers walk under those banners every day and haven't a clue what they say or mean. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #3

I hear ya proud2BlibKansan Jul 2012 #4

We started that last year. mbperrin Jul 2012 #6

You end up using up all of your teaching space on the board proud2BlibKansan Jul 2012 #7

ALL stakeholders ? eppur_se_muova Jul 2012 #2

You see this crap on corporate vision and mission statements all the time eridani Jul 2012 #5

Bingo! Reader Rabbit Jul 2012 #8

This. Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #10

Mindless, sickening, bureaucratic gibberish. Smarmie Doofus Jul 2012 #9

With only slight variation sulphurdunn Jul 2012 #11

Yep, catch phrases common to most every front office think tank waste of effort in education. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #13

The same corporatists who issued the mandate that schools must have a mission statement. HiPointDem Jul 2012 #15

Seeing it posted might be even more painful LWolf Jul 2012 #12

the requirement to have a mission statement comes from upper administration. and the idea HiPointDem Jul 2012 #14

Regardless of who hung the banners, that they hang there at all proved a broken system. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #16

education deformers mandated the banners. HiPointDem Jul 2012 #17

Prove it. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #18

feds = run by education deformers. all large districts = run by education deformers. ubiquitousness HiPointDem Jul 2012 #19

What's the alternative, home schooling? NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #20

you & margaret thatcher: tina. if you're in "education" i'm sure you don't need me to educate HiPointDem Jul 2012 #21

So your response after all the namecalling is that you have no interest. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #22

I've seen your posts. HiPointDem Jul 2012 #23

Yes, I certainly do challenge the lockstepper know-nothings, don't I? NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #24

"traditional shitty school teachers". you rebel you. HiPointDem Jul 2012 #25

Oh clever you. Fox news also loves to take words out of context. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #26