Comments on: School Reformers Tinker Around the Edges http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/05/school-reformers-tinker-around-the-edges.html Advancing liberty with responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:56:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sarah Brodsky http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/05/school-reformers-tinker-around-the-edges.html/comment-page-1#comment-2635 Sarah Brodsky Tue, 26 May 2009 15:39:10 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=4357#comment-2635 There are great teachers in SLPS--the system just doesn't use them effectively, like the math teacher who was told he couldn't expand his successful math program: http://www.showmedaily.org/2008/02/sol-stern-and-s.html And the schools already do provide food to students. I can see that ending the free lunch program would hamper student achievement, but I doubt a slight change in menu would have an effect either way. There are great teachers in SLPS–the system just doesn’t use them effectively, like the math teacher who was told he couldn’t expand his successful math program:
http://www.showmedaily.org/2008/02/sol-stern-and-s.html

And the schools already do provide food to students. I can see that ending the free lunch program would hamper student achievement, but I doubt a slight change in menu would have an effect either way.

]]> By: Chris Cleeland http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/05/school-reformers-tinker-around-the-edges.html/comment-page-1#comment-2604 Chris Cleeland Tue, 26 May 2009 02:09:12 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=4357#comment-2604 How on earth can you not expect food to affect student achievement?! Quality food made with quality ingredients fuels the body and the mind. When you say that successful schools are built...on great teaching, you seem to imply that SLPS does not have great teaching. It does. And it also has bad teaching. Just like charter schools and private schools. What urban public schools DO NOT get to do is choose their students--some of whom do not get any good except what they get at school. Would it not make sense, then, to insure that the food that they get at school is *quality* food. Still trying to figure out why you bothered to fire a salvo at the "locavores"...makes no sense in this context. Perhaps you have something against local food? How on earth can you not expect food to affect student achievement?! Quality food made with quality ingredients fuels the body and the mind.

When you say that successful schools are built…on great teaching, you seem to imply that SLPS does not have great teaching. It does. And it also has bad teaching. Just like charter schools and private schools.

What urban public schools DO NOT get to do is choose their students–some of whom do not get any good except what they get at school. Would it not make sense, then, to insure that the food that they get at school is *quality* food.

Still trying to figure out why you bothered to fire a salvo at the “locavores”…makes no sense in this context. Perhaps you have something against local food?

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