Comments for Alternate Universes at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.theind.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:41:00 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/4330#comment-1099 How about we shut down the Cajundome and fire Greg Davis. We have to foot the bill for the cajundome this year to the tune of $300,000. The man can't do his own job, he has no business telling other people how to do theirs. The Lafayette City-Parish Council voted to give the arena up to an additional $250,000 for the 2008-09 fiscal year, which ends Oct. 31. LCG already gives the Cajundome up to $500,000 per year as a subsidy, but the arena typically uses only about $300,000 of that amount. - citizen Tue, 19 May 2009 14:31:17 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/4330#comment-1018 If you want to see improvement, you must lower student teacher ratios in poorer performing schools. It is that simple. Down to 10 to 1 or lower in elementary schools. Nothing else matters more. Not computers, not smart boards, not school hours or length of the school year. And it certainly isn't private schools causing the problem. All the best, Soop - Soop Mon, 11 May 2009 08:39:34 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/4330#comment-1003 The calendar is arranged this way so the High School teachers can give mid-year finals before winter break. It's required by the state to have a certain number of days in school and a certain number of hours in class (called Carnegie units). It's not some goofy random school board thing. The Chamber must have a lot of members who don't actually spend time in schools here or even go to or watch school board meetings. Since Easton left the 11:30pm board meetings are a thing of the past. The facts are presented and the vote is taken. It's not the "we can't vote on this because we don't have any information" thing any more. Thing is there are a lot of great things going on that just don't qualify as "news". Every single one of the annoying problems we have in our system are because the state is micromanaging. From comprehensive curriculum to the calendar to food choices the state mandates total control in many ways. Just take a look at the next year's calendar... the spring break is messed up because of LEAP testing dates the state won't change. - NoWhining Thu, 07 May 2009 20:19:42 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/4330#comment-996 Why doesn't the Chamber keep its nose out of the School Board business. I think it should try to look inward before being so critical of the LPSS. Do the financial problems with the Cajundome come to mind? - Bruce Bernard Thu, 07 May 2009 12:15:39 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/4330#comment-984 Neither the Chamber, nor State Superintendent Pastorek, nor Walter Pierce who wrote this article, has even attempted to explain how lowering school board members' pay or instituting term limits might improve student performance. Everyone wants our children's scores to go up. Why don't we look at programs that have worked in other places, such as lowering the number of students per classroom, instead of turning down this dead end? - Layne St. Julien Wed, 06 May 2009 14:57:14 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/4330#comment-983 Maybe if the "private" schools would buy their own text books and pay for their own transportation i.e. buses etc., maybe the school system would have a chance. - Rationalist Wed, 06 May 2009 13:58:15 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/4330#comment-975 I think we should reduce the number of teaching days by two weeks and begin school in September ! The extra days have done absolutely nothing to better test scores or increase the number of graduates, so give us our summer back. In addition, it would save school systems so much money! Since it hasn't produced any measureable benefits, give us back our two weeks of summer! - Only3togo... Wed, 06 May 2009 08:50:59 +0100