Comments for Chartered bus at http://tracypress.com , comment 1 to 12 out of 12 comments http://tracypress.com Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:45:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15437/2255/#comment-58156 fortheunderdog, Your kids are all adults - Lucky you! ;) I do know a lot of other parents at NJ (now Delta) who were unhappy about what went on, and they left too. I think ultimately that Thoming didn't want Parents in the quiet room waiting for children to finish classes, so he made it painfully uncomfortable for mommies there. Mary Vink always worked with the parents. High percent of home-schoolers. Most parents drove their children to school and waited on site, for their children to finish classes. Those parents didn't ask for buses. That's why I said he lost more than three students. The article quotes Thoming, who mentions that the bus service will help him by gaining 'three to four new students'. Refer to the article. My comment was just a reference to what was quoted in the article. ;) Cheers! - Tracy RealNews Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:44:26 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15437/2255/#comment-58111 "written by fortheunderdog , August 07, 2008 "I know that they lost more than just three students, over the years." Well, if they're that careless I'm going to have my kids transferred out." TRN, I was making a joke from your sentence saying the school "lost more than just three students". My kids are all adults, although there are times when I think they're still in grade school. ;) - fortheunderdog Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:21:44 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15437/2255/#comment-57966 fortheunderdog, We already did. From what I understood part of the school was doing well. There's the Public school, and the HS-Charter part. I think those were ok - just based on what I heard from others. You may know. I guess that two out of three ain't bad. Perhaps... Anyway, the third part was the NJ-Elementary-Charter that part lost a [b]LOT[/b] of students. I guess there a few still left there. But, the fun started when Dave Thoming got rid of Mary Vink. And continued when he started getting rid of other teachers; one at a time. One of them (a math teacher) happened to be right as school was starting. That was fun. (sarcastic). The mothers of some of the students said that there was a quiet room where they could stay, until Thoming put up cameras to keep eyes on the mothers. I guess he had his priorities straight - spending money on cameras to keep eye on mommies??? Then he put up a sign that said something like, "Be careful what you say: Ears are watching you". It was fun watching him try to explain that one away at a meeting. Yeah! I heard there were other choice statements made, but we don't go there anymore. Just glad not to have to deal with it anymore. Just hope you children don't end up walking home. Good luck! I mean it. Hope the school works out for you! I just wish there was a good charter school (locally, in town) for our children to attend. My sentiments: maybe TUSD will take over soon? Hope so! Good luck, fortheunderdog! Cheers! - Tracy RealNews Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:18:59 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15437/2255/#comment-57960 TRN, "I know that they lost more than just three students, over the years." Well, if they're that careless I'm going to have my kids transferred out. ;) :D - fortheunderdog Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:42:46 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15437/2255/#comment-57920 Oh, I think they've heard it before. [quote] “Even if we just get three or four more students, it’s worth it to us,” Superintendent Dave Thoming said. [/quote] I know that they lost more than just three students, over the years. And in case they haven't heard it yet: They probably should have focused on keeping the teachers and students in the K-8 Charter. Hope that helps them, over there. ;) - Tracy RealNews Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:40:14 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15437/2255/#comment-57916 Tracy RealNews Different public entity. Need to direct that question to the NJ school board to get that answer. Dave Hardesty - Dave Hardesty Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:14:13 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15437/2255/#comment-57891 Just one question. Which teacher will NJ lay-off next? A one way ticket, eh??? Where's the math teacher that got laid-off when they opened last year? And all the others? Did someone call the state to get more involved in what is going on, over there, yet? Who's running this school anyway? - Tracy RealNews Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:52:44 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15437/2255/#comment-57887 fortheunderdog, forgot about that! That is right! Just a joke, perhaps it will give them the incentive to behave if they want to spare themselves of the looong walk!?;) After school actitivies?... same problem... got a point there. Hope they get that figured out before school starts. -amy - amy Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:09:55 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15437/2255/#comment-57884 amy, If they don't make the change to round-trip shuttling for students, some students are going to have a long walk home if they have after-school detention and miss their bus. - fortheunderdog Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:54:45 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15437/2255/#comment-57857 One way? Guess it must be getting harder to get the kids TO SCHOOL? Easier to let them out and walk home? Ever see any students enthusiastically walk fast to schools? Not me. But I have seen them walk back home fast to their beloved computers at home! ;) -amy - amy Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:22:51 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15437/2255/#comment-57802 "Thoming said the district is still debating whether to make the new high-school route round-trip." What? A one-way trip to school? Now how many parents are going to cheer for that? ;) - fortheunderdog Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:11:13 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/15437/2255/#comment-57759 And the question is, are they going to charge the parents/students like TUSD does? Had to ask. Dave - Dave Hardesty Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:38:47 +0100