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[wahoo]

I'm being extreme. I can't even spank my dog when she ruins a good cup of coffee with her dirty tongue.

And having core classes that weren't a joke would help. Making English a priority would help. We can't even get the higher level kids to do all of the work in core classes. Adding another required class for kids to fumble through and teachers to water down, so kids will pass so their record stays clean isn't going to help.

Everyone wants to add, add, add...but we aren't even successful with what we have now. Sometimes a conservative approach works. Not the political conservative, but the real definition of conservative.

Just because there's icing on the cake, doesn't mean it's going to taste good!
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[iteach]

To be quite honest, I do think this is a good class, but it would be better for those who are learning disabled, etc. More of a life skills class.
I didn't have to take a personal finance class. My parents sat down and taught me how to write checks, balance my check book, etc.
It's just another scenario of teachers having to do what parents should do.
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[jinglebellrock70]

I think it's great he's doing anything at all. I have also heard through the grapevine of little South Boston that he has been doing some serious investigation into the budget. I also know that he is going to be talking with teachers and PTOs in the next month or so. I for one would like to understand more about the way things work.

From being at the meeting and reading the accounts of it in the papers, the personal finance class was one of only two things the whole board agreed on once the meeting got rolling. I think they are going to have to work together in order to be successful.

[haligirl]

I have mixed feeling about the Personal Finance class. I do feel that many students could really use this class; but if it's not offered with college credit, any student working for an advanced diploma won't take it. They need/want to keep up their GPA. The CL (or whatever they are calling them these days) classes or dual enrollment classes carry that extra weight. A student working for an advanced diploma could lose out on being one of the teop 10 by taking a no college level class. Even PE is classified as CL. That was done so that folks could get a 2 year degree while in high school. It was explained to me that not everyone who takes PE gets the college credit; not real sure how that is determined. And while I'm standing on the soap box, Halifax County is one of the few schools in this area who are on block scheduling. GWHS and both Heritage and E.C. Glass chose to not go that route. GW and E.C. Glass both tried block and went back to 6 or 7 classes per day. And for the person who asked someone about implying that HCPS is at the low end of the totem pole, they aren't far from the bottom in my opinion. And I said IN MY OPINION.

[Tarheel]

[wildhandyman]

[wildhandyman]

I hate to play hall monitor, but this thread started out with Joe Gasparini (sp?) laying out his excellent plan to teach the "skulls full of mush" some practical skills they will use their whole life (unlike algebra). I think if you want to argue about whether or not you should label a child or use the word dumb to refer to a child you should bring that discussion to another thread. I would rather not see this one discarded in the Hall Of Stupid.
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[iteach]

Well, they started it.
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[AndyR]

[AndyR]

Can we try a little harder to stay on topic? Please? Pretty please?
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[Tarheel]

[johnny reb]

Are you folks still for this class, not that is going to cost so much?
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[1093ras]

A big chunk of that is one time costs...books, calculators (which I don't understand why the student is not responsible for buying his own, I remember buying one for my daughter for one math class or the other).

I still think it is a very worthwhile project. Implementing it in stages is better than doing nothing at all.
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Posted by Bunny Propst

[millworker]

Anybody,

Why do the taxpayer have to pay for the stuff? This free and appropriate stuff has gotten out of control. Put the brakes on, somebody.
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[1093ras]

Read the obituary for this wonderful idea on today's GV front page.

Joe, you have my condolences...and my gratitude for proposing it and for voting for it.

Funny thing, on the same front page was a picture and story about the Culinary Arts students.

So now some can cook, some can fight fires, some can fix a race engine, some can study horses or horticulture or nursing or college prep...
but not all of them will have to learn to balance a checkbook, manage credit or invest their money.
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Posted by Bunny Propst