| Author | Message | ||
     james brown Citizen Username: James_brown Post Number: 1 Registered: 5-2006 |
C.H.S. IS COMING BACK! I couldn’t let this school year go by without writing in to support Ms.Pollack., the principal at C.H.S. She has done an outstanding job at bringing back what used to be one of the finest high schools in America.. Before her appointment as principal, the school was a tinder box ready to explode. The racial tension was palpable, menacing and the threat of violence were the rule of the day. I worried everyday my oldest went to school. Ms. Pollack has insisted students treat each other and the school with respect, and enforced the rules fairly and without prejudice. Only those who believe themselves to be above the rules struggle The rest go with the flow. Ms. Pollack seems to care only about what is right, not what is politically correct. From what I have seen in town, Maplewood could use her expertise both at the main library where uncivilized rude behavior is deemed acceptable and at the Maplewood Com. Pool, where chaos rules, while management stands and watches! Too bad we only have one Ms. Pollack. She is as good as it gets, and this town needs her BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope she stays James Brown CHS. Class of 71 | ||
| MSO55 Citizen Username: Mso55 Post Number: 14 Registered: 5-2006 |
Is this sarcastic? | ||
| Concerned07040 Citizen Username: Concerned07040 Post Number: 121 Registered: 7-2004 |
One can only hope so! Concerned070040 | ||
| Phenixrising Citizen Username: Phenixrising Post Number: 1634 Registered: 9-2004  |
@ James Brown  Now thats the funniest post! You made my day! | ||
| frannyfree Citizen Username: Frannyfree Post Number: 194 Registered: 1-2004 |
He's right | ||
| james brown Citizen Username: James_brown Post Number: 2 Registered: 5-2006 |
I am right and happy if I made your day P Rising. Seems like maybe you and your smiley faces need a hobby? Some professional help, a date...something. | ||
| Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 293 Registered: 2-2006 |
Frankly some of the remarks that Ms. Pollack seems to have made to students are not just politically incorrect but blatantly mean and definately racist.However I truly think they were not meant to be that but rather not thought through statements that no professional would be able to make in any private industrie. The only positive thing seems to be that the protests against her were handled by the student body and were very peaceful and unifying. May I ask where she is because she has been absent from school on paid leave for three weeks and I as a parent have not received any communication if or when she is going to come back. | ||
| jet Citizen Username: Jet Post Number: 1107 Registered: 7-2001 |
Paid leave ? I wonder were that department is in my co.. Only in the public sector does this crap go on. | ||
| Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 295 Registered: 2-2006 |
The paid leave department is generally located right next to the "you have 10 weeks vacation department" which in my company is located right next to the "Get the hell out of hear" group.. | ||
| Nancy - LibraryLady Supporter Username: Librarylady Post Number: 3435 Registered: 5-2001  |
Principals are on a 11 or 12 month year,unlike teachers. | ||
| jet Citizen Username: Jet Post Number: 1108 Registered: 7-2001 |
Maybe it's next to the get paid for unused vacation time department. Or maybe it's down the hall from the Benefits for life department. | ||
| Phenixrising Citizen Username: Phenixrising Post Number: 1638 Registered: 9-2004 |
james brown, You cannot be serious! Ms. Pollack has caused more divisiness and discourse than I can remember in her 4 years at CHS! She has lost the respect and control over her staff and students. She may have been the principal at Bushwick High in Brooklyn, but she's brought that "attitude" from the hood and presented it here in Maplewood. THIS IS NOT BUSHWICK HIGH school it's CHS. The one GOOD thing that came from the protest as Bajou pointed out, was the UNITY that I saw amongst the students and faculty and that they led a "peaceful" protest. And yes, Ms.Pollack has NOT been seen at CHS according to my teen who attends. I guess the "powers-that-be" are trying to figure out this situation. They should at least have the courtesy to inform the parents on who is running CHS while Ms. Pollack is on her EXTENDED vacation. | ||
| Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 296 Registered: 2-2006 |
The paid leave department is generally located right next to the "you have 10 weeks vacation department" which in my company is located right next to the "Get the hell out of hear" group.. | ||
| Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 297 Registered: 2-2006 |
The paid leave department is generally located right next to the "you have 10 weeks vacation department" which in my company is located right next to the "Get the hell out of here" group.. | ||
| Chris Prenovost Citizen Username: Chris_prenovost Post Number: 900 Registered: 7-2003 |
To those who say CHS is not Bushwick: I disagree. CHS is not suburban school system, it is an inner city school. If you have any doubts, take a walk though the halls on any given day. And the student protests were highjacked by a vocal minority. Nothing was said about black on white racism, the atmosphere of intimidation that goes on daily in the halls of CHS, or the anti-intellectual attitude of most of the AA students. And you wonder why so many parents send their kids to private schools. | ||
| Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 302 Registered: 2-2006 |
Chris P: Your children seem to have a different experience then mine. | ||
| Gregor Samsa Citizen Username: Oldsctls67 Post Number: 515 Registered: 11-2002  |
Exactly...take your head out of the sand. CHS is a lot closer th Bushwick thtan you think. | ||
| jet Citizen Username: Jet Post Number: 1109 Registered: 7-2001 |
All I ever here from parents like my bro . is " I'll send them untill 8th grade then I'm out of here". | ||
| Phenixrising Citizen Username: Phenixrising Post Number: 1642 Registered: 9-2004 |
BUSHWICK HIGH SCHOOL: BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN Located in the impoverished Bushwick section of Brooklyn, Bushwick High School contends with a dropout rate close to seventy percent and a teenage pregnancy rate higher than the average in Brooklyn. Nearly all the students, who are seventy-five percent Hispanic American, twenty-three percent African American, and two percent Asian American or white, come from low income families; seventy-seven percent are eligible for free lunch. Less than one-third of Bushwick residents have graduated from high school, and just over five percent have completed college. from http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/637 BUSHWICK HIGH SCHOOL: BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN Bushwick High School has had problems with safety, overcrowding, and poor academic achievement for many years. As part of the Department of Education's "New Century High School" reform plan to replace large low-performing schools with new small schools, Bushwick.will be phased-out over the next few years. Currently enrolled students will be able to complete their high school education at Bushwick, but no incoming students will be admitted. The building will house several new small schools instead. from http://www.insideschools.org/fs/school_profile.php?id=1034 Doesn't sound like CHS to me! | ||
| Chris Prenovost Citizen Username: Chris_prenovost Post Number: 907 Registered: 7-2003 |
"Bushwick High School has had problems with safety, overcrowding, and poor academic achievement for many years." Sound exactly like CHS to me. | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 14218 Registered: 1-2003  |
Chris Prenovost wrote: And you wonder why so many parents send their kids to private schools. Chris, SO/M kids go to private schools at the same rate -- about 9% -- as kids in other towns. And I don't wonder why the rate is the same. Can you explain it? And can you explain why you thought it was different but you were wrong in your assertion? | ||
| Nancy - LibraryLady Supporter Username: Librarylady Post Number: 3437 Registered: 5-2001 |
Tom , an interesting stat whould be to break that 9% down and see if AA and Caucasian families send their kids to private schools at the same rate? And is the rate consistant over all grades or does it spike in 9th? | ||
| Chris Prenovost Citizen Username: Chris_prenovost Post Number: 909 Registered: 7-2003 |
Come on, Tom. You know the stats you are citing are very deceptive. In the early grades, few parents send their kids to private schools, because there is no need to - the SOM schools do a passable job. But when you get to the HS, people start dropping out in droves. So please do not tell me I am "wrong in my assertion." And we are getting away from the main point: CHS is in trouble. At least Pollack was trying to do something about it. Instead of pretending all is well. | ||
| Phenixrising Citizen Username: Phenixrising Post Number: 1644 Registered: 9-2004 |
Chris, My kid feels pretty safe at CHS. Matter-of-fact he's been accepted to a very good University. I can say the same for MANY graduating seniors this year! Check out last year report on out graduating seniors and the colleges that they have been accepted to. BTW… the graduation rate is FAR better than Bushwick HS. so much for "poor academic achievement!" | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 14221 Registered: 1-2003 |
OK, sorry, Chris, and thanks for the extra perspective. | ||
| fiche Citizen Username: Fiche Post Number: 140 Registered: 3-2002 |
James Brown, are you Stanky Brown??? | ||
| Mr. Big Poppa Citizen Username: Big_poppa Post Number: 663 Registered: 7-2004  |
Hold on a second....is this the same James Brown who started the infamous "Maplewood???????" thread months ago? Why is your register date 5/06?Did you get kicked off and then have to re-register your username? You are an H-Bomb troll.....a troll of trolls....mama, papa and grandpas trolls rolled into one big, mean troll | ||
| Phenixrising Citizen Username: Phenixrising Post Number: 1646 Registered: 9-2004 |
Mr. Big Poppa, YOUR RIGHT!!! I think this is the same guy.  Oh LAWDY!!! | ||
| Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 306 Registered: 2-2006 |
Oh and I thought it was the dean of students. | ||
| Smarty Jones Citizen Username: Birdstone Post Number: 620 Registered: 10-2005 |
where is last years Graduation data found, that you just mentioned? Interestingly enough, if you look at the data on who goes to Private School, I believe that black families are a higher percentage of the 10% in town going to private school, than the white families. | ||
| LW Citizen Username: Lrw Post Number: 130 Registered: 10-2005 |
James Bailey and Louis Brown were deans of students at CHS. CHRISP-I'm very curious as to where you get your info on CHS, because some of your posts lead me to believe that your writing from somewhere in North Dakota. I just want to get a better understanding of exactly where you're coming from, because you seem very hostile toward CHS, particularly the Black students there. | ||
| harold Citizen Username: Harold Post Number: 371 Registered: 5-2001 |
Mr. bigpoppa, were'nt you the one that was kicked off because J.B. ? And after what he's been thru, I don't think calling him a troll is gonna make him lose sleep. | ||
| Phenixrising Citizen Username: Phenixrising Post Number: 1647 Registered: 9-2004 |
Smarty, You can call the guidance office to request the data from last year. This was mailed to us at the end of the school year June 2005. It contained a breakdown of the colleges each student will attend. I believe this will be published again at the end of June 2006. | ||
| Mr. Big Poppa Citizen Username: Big_poppa Post Number: 665 Registered: 7-2004 |
Yes, I was suspended, and proud of it!!! I don't care what he thinks. He doesn't give a crap of anyone else's opinion even if they try to agree with him. If you look back at that thread, people were agreeing with much of what he said and looking for solutions, but he wouldn't hear any of it. Instead, he started attacking people. I posted an obviously fictious (from him) remark to demonstrate how idiotic he sounded. And I was suspended because people might have been confused the post actually came from him. I hope he isn't back, but if he is....I'm gonna have me sum fun!!!! | ||
| Phenixrising Citizen Username: Phenixrising Post Number: 1649 Registered: 9-2004 |
Big Poppa, I remember half the folks trying to help this guy and he did a 360 on them! WOW…that guy is a work in progress! | ||
| Chris Prenovost Citizen Username: Chris_prenovost Post Number: 914 Registered: 7-2003 |
LW: Very Nice Try. With underhanded smear tactics like that, you should be working for the RNC. For the record: I live in Maplewood. Have for the last 16 years. Never been to the Dakotas. What about you? I have four children, three of whom are in the MSO school system, so I know a thing or two of which I speak. And you? My information comes mostly from the BOE website. The rest from newspapers, I rarely use the web - too much disinformation. And you? | ||
| james brown Citizen Username: James_brown Post Number: 3 Registered: 5-2006 |
I dont know about any schools in Brooklyn, but CHS is a much safer, functional school than it was 5 years ago. When I went to school there, people hid guns in their lockers, and the federal govt. was forced to intercede to stop the violence. As for who I am, I'm someone who cares enough to stick his neck out, and risk the wrath of those who won't even use their own names when they speak, and I'm willing to risk my neck to clean up the crap that drags us down. For all the blabbering, and hip, slick bull what do the BIG POOBA'S do for the town besides take up space? I guess we need someone to do the "You stepped on my shoe you must be a racist" thing. It's so very in!!!!!!! | ||
| Mr. Big Poppa Citizen Username: Big_poppa Post Number: 668 Registered: 7-2004 |
Good Lord how I've missed your no-spaces, run-on sentence, rambling diarrhea of the mouth (or fingers), JB!!!!! So, did you have to re-register? Did you get kicked off for something? Where did you crawl to for so long? | ||
| james brown Citizen Username: James_brown Post Number: 4 Registered: 5-2006 |
ps Mr. BIG GUY, I am back. You havin fun yet? | ||
| james brown Citizen Username: James_brown Post Number: 5 Registered: 5-2006 |
I been here all along = MAYBE you were blocking the sun? |
