@ Austintown Parent: The neighbors I was referring to are the children.... I am teaching my daughter a valuable lesson... charity. Again, it is the LEAST I can do. Maybe one day the child I help will go on to help another child and so on and so on... While I may not agree with the parent's budgeting abilities and priorities they are not the ones I am concerned with helping... see where I am going with this... it's the children. As for the sanitizing wipes... I'll buy them by the crate if it will keep my child from spending a day home sick with the flu.
I have a child in the Austintown school district and by this point I am completely used to the exhaustive list of supplies.... I always buy extra from the list and send it in on my daughter's first day of school to offset for the children that are not fortunate enough to have parents in the position to afford all the items required. I consider it a blessing that we are able to provide for our children's needs and feel it is the least I can do to buy a few extra boxes of crayons, pencils and paper. Neighbors's helping neighbors's isn't a horrible thing...
To clarify MELD/PELD calculations... this score is based on lab results, bilirubin, creatinine and INR. It does not take into account cancer versus alcoholism. Patients with liver cancer are rated by the TNM system which gives the location and invasivness of the tumor. Alcoholics are required by most transplant facilities in the US to abstain from alcohol, be an active participant in rehab and pass a psych eval... Being a nurse for over a decade I can vouch for unnecessary treatments, tests and prcedured being performed to please family members... At some point enough is enough. We need to use medical reources more wisely in the future.
I remember our driver's ed class back in 1987... we were taught back then to have our lights on in the rain and at dusk.... I have always done this. What's the big deal? It is just one more measure of safety for all drivers on the road...
Browns... the tax revenue generated funds healthcare for uninsured children... not the healthcare of smokers. If everyone that smoked decided to quit something else will get taxed... perhaps alcohol or candy. Neither of these have a health benefit and contribute to increased health insurance costs, as well. I can think of numerous things people put into their bodies that are unhealthy and they are not absurdly taxed. I think we could start with raising the taxes on all fast food.
I regularly attend the BOE meetings and I can say from firsthand knowledge that parents opposition to any and all issues are ignored. Before you start in on me and whining.... I don't have a problem with the dress code. I do have a problem with your assumptions about the posters on this thread. Unless you have attended the BOE meetings and know the posters I think it is a stretch for you to say they haven't taken their issues to the BOE. The dress code change was a foregone conclusion once OE was put on the table. I understand both sides of this argument and if the dress code had become out and out uniforms..... well, dmets, I think we know how I feel about uniforms.... The only solution at this point is to vote in new board members..... until that time it is what it is.
Well, I've read the entire dress code policy and I have to say I was poised to flip out.... I didn't really see anything to freak out about. There is a lot of flexibility in the new dress code. As other posters on here can attest to, I am adamantly against uniforms and have said that if I didn't like the new code I'd send my daughter to another school. I can live without t-shirt/hoodies and so can my daughter. For the parents that are upset over the new code.... nothing lasts forever.... help vote those in power out when the time comes and effect the change you want.
Let me start off by saying I don't care either way when the kids start. I just disagree with the reasoning for starting early and cutting the break short. I think our children should have the skills and education long before they are required to take their test. Cramming before the test is pointless. Structure the curriculum in a way that the necessary educational requirements are met long before the test... like the year before, so it's a breeze to pass this test.
One incident does not a bad child make! This child has been randomly drug tested ever since the incident occurred. I have known these parents for twenty years and was present for this child's birth.... they are not making excuses for him! He faced the consequences for possession of marijuana and it's over. This most recent incident was uncalled for. Based on the comments posted in regards to this child and his parents we should fire the parents from their jobs(last week's story) and this child should be permanently labeled as a "bad kid". It's really easy to sit in judgement when you read a small story in regards to this child. Fortunately, these incidents are a very small part of who these parents are and the great kids they are raising. I can speak from first hand knowledge... the rest of you cannot.
Posted on August 20 at 12:48 a.m.
@ Austintown Parent: The neighbors I was referring to are the children.... I am teaching my daughter a valuable lesson... charity. Again, it is the LEAST I can do. Maybe one day the child I help will go on to help another child and so on and so on... While I may not agree with the parent's budgeting abilities and priorities they are not the ones I am concerned with helping... see where I am going with this... it's the children. As for the sanitizing wipes... I'll buy them by the crate if it will keep my child from spending a day home sick with the flu.
Posted on August 19 at 11:42 a.m.
I have a child in the Austintown school district and by this point I am completely used to the exhaustive list of supplies.... I always buy extra from the list and send it in on my daughter's first day of school to offset for the children that are not fortunate enough to have parents in the position to afford all the items required. I consider it a blessing that we are able to provide for our children's needs and feel it is the least I can do to buy a few extra boxes of crayons, pencils and paper. Neighbors's helping neighbors's isn't a horrible thing...
Posted on August 7 at 7:38 p.m.
To clarify MELD/PELD calculations... this score is based on lab results, bilirubin, creatinine and INR. It does not take into account cancer versus alcoholism. Patients with liver cancer are rated by the TNM system which gives the location and invasivness of the tumor. Alcoholics are required by most transplant facilities in the US to abstain from alcohol, be an active participant in rehab and pass a psych eval... Being a nurse for over a decade I can vouch for unnecessary treatments, tests and prcedured being performed to please family members... At some point enough is enough. We need to use medical reources more wisely in the future.
Posted on July 28 at 1:31 a.m.
I remember our driver's ed class back in 1987... we were taught back then to have our lights on in the rain and at dusk.... I have always done this. What's the big deal? It is just one more measure of safety for all drivers on the road...
Posted on April 10 at 10:36 p.m.
I truly couldn't have said it better, Tyler.
Posted on April 1 at 11:55 p.m.
Browns... the tax revenue generated funds healthcare for uninsured children... not the healthcare of smokers. If everyone that smoked decided to quit something else will get taxed... perhaps alcohol or candy. Neither of these have a health benefit and contribute to increased health insurance costs, as well. I can think of numerous things people put into their bodies that are unhealthy and they are not absurdly taxed. I think we could start with raising the taxes on all fast food.
Posted on March 16 at 11:18 p.m.
MorbidCherub
I regularly attend the BOE meetings and I can say from firsthand knowledge that parents opposition to any and all issues are ignored. Before you start in on me and whining.... I don't have a problem with the dress code. I do have a problem with your assumptions about the posters on this thread. Unless you have attended the BOE meetings and know the posters I think it is a stretch for you to say they haven't taken their issues to the BOE. The dress code change was a foregone conclusion once OE was put on the table. I understand both sides of this argument and if the dress code had become out and out uniforms..... well, dmets, I think we know how I feel about uniforms.... The only solution at this point is to vote in new board members..... until that time it is what it is.
Posted on March 14 at 12:09 a.m.
Well, I've read the entire dress code policy and I have to say I was poised to flip out.... I didn't really see anything to freak out about. There is a lot of flexibility in the new dress code. As other posters on here can attest to, I am adamantly against uniforms and have said that if I didn't like the new code I'd send my daughter to another school. I can live without t-shirt/hoodies and so can my daughter. For the parents that are upset over the new code.... nothing lasts forever.... help vote those in power out when the time comes and effect the change you want.
Posted on March 5 at 10:26 a.m.
Let me start off by saying I don't care either way when the kids start. I just disagree with the reasoning for starting early and cutting the break short. I think our children should have the skills and education long before they are required to take their test. Cramming before the test is pointless. Structure the curriculum in a way that the necessary educational requirements are met long before the test... like the year before, so it's a breeze to pass this test.
Posted on February 18 at 5:31 p.m.
One incident does not a bad child make! This child has been randomly drug tested ever since the incident occurred. I have known these parents for twenty years and was present for this child's birth.... they are not making excuses for him! He faced the consequences for possession of marijuana and it's over. This most recent incident was uncalled for. Based on the comments posted in regards to this child and his parents we should fire the parents from their jobs(last week's story) and this child should be permanently labeled as a "bad kid". It's really easy to sit in judgement when you read a small story in regards to this child. Fortunately, these incidents are a very small part of who these parents are and the great kids they are raising. I can speak from first hand knowledge... the rest of you cannot.