Funding Education

[SXSW]

A solution that could be looked at more closely with TPS and other districts is have local corporations adopt schools and 'endow' faculty positions.  Adopting a school could also mean buying materials for students, assisting the PTA, and providing mentors.  I know Williams has done something like this at Roosevelt, not sure to what extent though.  The same thing in Denver: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_15116576

There are plenty of local corporations and foundations that would help out if TPS reached out to them, if they haven't done so already.

[Conan71]

There's been an adopt-a-school program in the past as I recall.  I think the Zarrow Foundation was at the forefront of it.  When I was in the SE Tulsa Jaycees we adopted Hoover Elementary.  Some members volunteered classroom time, some of us built a new playground on the south side of the school.  Sounds like a great TYPROS activity to me.

[TURobY]

There's been an adopt-a-school program in the past as I recall.  I think the Zarrow Foundation was at the forefront of it.  When I was in the SE Tulsa Jaycees we adopted Hoover Elementary.  Some members volunteered classroom time, some of us built a new playground on the south side of the school.  Sounds like a great TYPROS activity to me.

Indeed, there is. When I went to Foster, we were "adopted" by State Farm.

[custosnox]

sorry, I've gone toe to toe with the union (transport not teachers) and the process of having someone fired that is in a union is far from the process of without the union.  The steps that are taken at other places are at the discression of the employer, and do not have to be adhered to.  When the union is involved, however, it is a process that becomes more of a battle than anything. 

[shadows]

Show us one teacher that can instantly produce or recall any one segment of knowledge that is stored in the cheapest of computers and I will produce the recording of the buggy whip industry and its demise.  In the WWll Walt Disney was called on to produce animated cartoons to train the soldiers where they were more efficient than live teachers and could cover classes in greater numbers.  It is most difficult to accept generational changes but although we have been a progressive nation in changes we are on the threshold of another change we must accept or slip further into a 3rd world.  Thousands of nations through the centuries have had to accept to be progressive as they created new societies.  We are able to challenge in words of deceit as we step into the foot steps of the hundreds of nations that have came before us. Thus as our generation passes we can and will continue to flounder in the dark ages as progress moves on.  Not in their wildest dreams would the past generation believe that at this time a very small box, smaller than a package of cigarettes contained a telephone, camera, recorder, satellite connection, road maps as well as is location.  Thus the teaching profession is by each day becoming more obsolete.

Tulsa has the states a larges school district and is rated in the lower class of performance as far as the score test show.  It is time for a change and by the common factors in the society when in any performance of a given task over staffing curtails performance expected but when reduction of staff is implicated we find those remaining with a job do have an initiative to increase production with less employees.  This apply to the Nation as a hold as we become a nation of all chiefs without warriors.   

[Conan71]

Anyone else just hear the "Twilght Zone" theme song?

[rwarn17588]

I'm surprised shadows hasn't started complaining about the storm sewer system at a time in which we're getting heavy rain and Mingo Creek is high, high, high.

[Hoss]

I'm surprised shadows hasn't started complaining about the storm sewer system at a time in which we're getting heavy rain and Mingo Creek is high, high, high.

Makes me wanna go check and see if it is right now...be right back!

[shadows]

I'm surprised shadows hasn't started complaining about the storm sewer system at a time in which we're getting heavy rain and Mingo Creek is high, high, high.

It is easy to understand where the 62 square miles in the Mingo basin which the total rainfall for the year is equal to the rainfall in 24 hours of in the storm of '86.  The stage is set we have only to wait for the action.

It is indicated that the TPS is lacking in math.  Try the computer calculator and put a 4 inch rainfall in 3 hours that flow into the creek near 8 times faster than can exit down the creek.  When we have a reoccurrence of the '86 flood, it can be justified as a 1,000 year flood but it is recommended that everyone carry flood insurance.  Only in Tulsa can one fool most of the people most of the time.

It is time to update the school system in order to compete with a changing world and realize that schools were established for learning not playing games.  We cannot continue to increase spending to educate where all are CEO's and no workers.    

[shadows]

Anyone else just hear the "Twilght Zone" theme song?

Some need hearing aids to hear the twilight introduction theme but be assured that it is being played.   The diversion of the possible faulting of the government of Greece is being promoted as a cover up here where we are in the same condition as we have no metal backup of the tons of paper we are issuing. We await our government to print more cheap money to increase debt to be distributed to the teachers.  Everyone is waiting for their share of the money as soon as the ink dries on it.  Remember the dark ages follow the twilight zone.     

[Townsend]

  Remember the dark ages follow the twilight zone.     

No, I think it was "the Nightstalker" and "Outer Limits".

[Hoss]

No, I think it was "the Nightstalker" and "Outer Limits".

X-Files maybe?

"The Truth is Out There"....

[dbacks fan]

No, I think it was "the Nightstalker" and "Outer Limits".

Rod Serling's "Night Gallery"

[dbacks fan]

It is easy to understand where the 62 square miles in the Mingo basin which the total rainfall for the year is equal to the rainfall in 24 hours of in the storm of '86 1984.  The stage is set we have only to wait for the action.

Fixed that for ya. The flooding in '86 was along the river, not Mingo Creek. They were well into the building of retention basins and widening Mingo in '86 from the Admiral Mingo traffic circle down to the BA and 169.

[Hoss]

Fixed that for ya. The flooding in '86 was along the river, not Mingo Creek. They were well into the building of retention basins and widening Mingo in '86 from the Admiral Mingo traffic circle down to the BA and 169.

Correct.  I lived behind the Vegas Club (and actually live there again) during that flood.  Mingo Creek from 11th to Admiral used to look like a jungle and was VERY narrow.  Best thing they ever did was to dredge it out and create all the retention ponds throughout that watershed.

My parents when they bought that home were required to carry flood insurance.  After the flood management was completed and proved that it mitigated the worst of it, they were no longer required to carry it.