Just wondering if any other students are having a problem with this teacher. He seems to have something against the cheerleaders in particular. The school or the teacher refuse to return phone calls to address this issue.
Yes they teach dance as an elective. It's not what you might think the kids are not dirty dancing with each other. They study different dancers and what they contributed to dance. My daughter took dance in Charlotte and it opened her world to how people used dance with dealing with the world around them. twitch
=( another dream shattered. i hate these forums now. ((thats the closest i could find to a sad quagmire.))
No i wasnt thinking dirty dancing or anything. Just thinking they might could spend more time on the 3 R's.
True. I was thinking last night that since schools now go to this, what i consider to be stupid block schedule, that when a student has math for the first semester and then no math for the rest of the year and then they go do the EOG tests......how does that student review for the test? Other than expecting them to do it for themselves at home or whatnot how does that student review for the test? Is there a class they can go to during the day? Seems to me it would be better to have the class during the entire year.
i've never heard of that extreme of block schedule anyplace. as far as i know the block schedule only applies to electives unless they changed something big recently.
High School students have to have a certain number of electives to graduate, most of them have over the amount require. I absolutely see nothing wrong with electives if the kids meet all the requirement to graduate. I can't find the study I did when in college that said kids who are involved in school activities tend to get better grades and test scores. Graduate from high school at higher rates. Are more likely to go on to higher education., are better behaved and have more positive attitudes. twitch
The EOG is given right after the class. So if a kid has math in the 1st semester at the end of that semester is when the EOG is given not at the end of the year. The only time the EOG is given at the end of the year is if a kid fails the class they have another semester to retake the class and the EOG again. twitch
Once in high school, they are know as EOC's. End of Course testing, thus it is given at the end of each semester. Also, no all classes have EOC's, many just have traditional semester end exams.
My daughter took the dance class when she was there. I find no problem offering dance, theater, music, art, anything of this nature. I think sometimes the schools have focused so much on the testing, and the three r's that the kids who excel in the arts are put to the side. Sometimes you have to feed the creative side of the brain. Dance can be an art. If it wasn't for dance my daughter would feel like a failure. She struggles in the academic classes and did excel in her dancing. She actually has started a dance team at the school she attends up here. I think West offers some excellent elective choices. I like this. Because not all kids are straight a academic allstars. Some need the arts for them to realize they are good at something. This also feeds into their general education learning. If you have self confidence because you are good at something than you will try to apply that to other school subjects. Although my daughter no longer attends West, my son does and I am glad he has choices. My daughter did. She will go to college and plans to start in summer. BTW My daughter did not have this teacher that is there now. She had some other teacher and she wasn't completely happy. But she was used to her dance teachers from Alicia's as well as Premier.
Yogi: "Just wondering if any other students are having a problem with this teacher. He seems to have something against the cheerleaders in particular. The school or the teacher refuse to return phone calls to address this issue." OK, there is more to this story... How many students are having a problem...one, two...a large group...just cheerleaders? (yeah, it's always so hard to be a cheerleader) (and, yes, I've been one...it's why I'm allowed to poke fun)
I agree with chik. Dance/srts should be offered. They work on movement in elementary school, some sorts of movement in middle schools and then...poof! nothing in high school? The 3 R's are first for me, but dance/movement/singing/art is also extremely important and I'll make sure that it is afforded to my Little One...in or out of school. Frogger
Yeah, what chik and Frogger said! Arts rule. I think it's so cool that my daughter (3rd grader) came home from school with a an art project and she said, "look Daddy, this is called 'pointalism'" (I don't even know how to spell that!) I mentioned the one artist I know of that used that technique, and she said, "yeah, our teacher told us about him." 3rd grade! I hope you all appreciate the teachers you have here, because it's not like this all over this state. Oh, BTW she is also learning her R's, quite nicely, if I say so myself. (Those times tables are a bear, though.) Snuff
Yes, let's do that because God knows we haven't made the first 9-10 years of their schooling mind-numbing enough. Let's totally make veggies out of them. HELLO! I do believe one is reading if they are studying about dancers and dances! And if they have reports to do, GUESS WHAT?!? THEY ARE WRITING! Do you not realize that a healthy body and healthy mind are closely connected.
Specifically what type of problems does he have with them? Does he pick on them, give them unjust grades...in their opinions? When I was in High School, back in the Stone Age...I had an English Teacher who constantly held the boys on the football team more accountable than the rest - she would ask a question and if no one had the answer, she'd address one of the football players and ask them if they had the answer. She definitely wasn't flirting, but wasn't hostile either. I learned later that her brother played ball in college at the time and that when he was in high school and a jock, that many teachers let him slide quite a bit and he spent more time flirting with girls and playing ball than he did learning. I suppose she wanted to make sure these guys learned something and knew that they weren't going to get passing grades in her classroom just so they could be out on a field. Course, there's always the possibility that the girls are more interested in being "Cheerleaders" and popular, than learning dance and he's keeping them grounded a bit.
okay first, you all sound like a bunch of idiots. If you didn't know dance was offered at high school you SERIOUSLY need to get more involved. I am taking Dance II at West Johnston. I took Dance I with Mrs. Bacon. Although Mrs. Bacon was a good teacher, she had no idea how to dance. Mr. Richard Patten ( just for those of you not following he is our new dance teacher ) is a GREAT dancer, but doesn't deal well with teaching teenage girls with attitudes. He does some-what target the cheerleaders when he gets stressed out, but I mean, he's not threatening them or ANYTHING like that.(and I used to be a cheerleader, since my freshman year, I am very used to being targeted by ANYONE involved in fine arts or THE BELOVED HOLY BAND!) For the parents that are clueless as to what goes on in their child's high school career we had a Fall Fashion Show tonight for a dance fund raiser. Mr. Patten put his heart and all of his time into this show and it turned out wonderfully. Honestly, whoever posted this, if you want to know something, goto the teacher, not a freaking discussion board. You are just as immature as his students. but if I wasted your time, sorry, you chose to read this
