TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK & CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEE WEEK
John Briscoe, elected Trustee to the Ocean View School Board, provided a written statement of his enthusiastic support of Teacher Appreciation Week and Classified Employee Week at the specially scheduled meeting held on May 4, 2007. When the original motion was considered, Trustee Briscoe requested the Board recognize ALL teachers including private and home school instructors. He reminded the Board that recent demographic data suggested only 75% of children attend OVSD public schools. One in four children have a teacher that is not a government employee. The Board refused to expand the resolution forcing a negative vote. Classified employee recognition was a separate resolution rolled into a single agenda item, but was never in contention.
There are astounding trends afoot in public education. A measure of how well schools serve their constituents can be measured by the percent of children that actually enroll in the public schools. While the Ocean View School District participation rate of 75% is surprising, Trustee Briscoe was shocked to discover the Huntington Beach City School District only enrolls 63% of total children aged 5 to 14. And the HBCSD is projecting this to decrease further to only 59% in 2011! Yes, over FORTY PERCENT of children in the HBSCD are projected to be schooled elsewhere. If these trends continue there will be mass school closings and long drives to the remaining few open public schools.
We can do better! Trustee Briscoe has proposed school districts take an immediate look at what their parents really want and deliver those services. The objective is simple: provide curriculum so compelling that parents wait in line to enroll their children! Lessons can be gleaned from nearby public and private schools. These actions might include total campus security with staff and child ID badges and controlled campus access. Most private schools require standard clothing and provide a rigorous physical education that monitors improvement over multiple years. Private schools publish Internet lesson plans, semester syllabi, and grades for parents to track student progress; and children are taught how to take class lecture notes. These are just a few of the many aspects missing from public schools that drive parents to private and home schools. There is much to be done to bring back the increasing tide of parents leaving public schooling.
My written statement provided to the OVSD School Board Meeting is attached HERE.
The opinions herein are the sole responsibility of John Briscoe and do not reflect the views of any school board. By John Briscoe, Elected Trustee Board Member of the Ocean View School District. You may contact John Briscoe at John@Crestwave, or phone: 714.903.8774. His web site is: www.Vote4Briscoe.com
John Briscoe, elected Trustee to the Ocean View School Board, provided a written statement of his enthusiastic support of Teacher Appreciation Week and Classified Employee Week at the specially scheduled meeting held on May 4, 2007. When the original motion was considered, Trustee Briscoe requested the Board recognize ALL teachers including private and home school instructors. He reminded the Board that recent demographic data suggested only 75% of children attend OVSD public schools. One in four children have a teacher that is not a government employee. The Board refused to expand the resolution forcing a negative vote. Classified employee recognition was a separate resolution rolled into a single agenda item, but was never in contention.
There are astounding trends afoot in public education. A measure of how well schools serve their constituents can be measured by the percent of children that actually enroll in the public schools. While the Ocean View School District participation rate of 75% is surprising, Trustee Briscoe was shocked to discover the Huntington Beach City School District only enrolls 63% of total children aged 5 to 14. And the HBCSD is projecting this to decrease further to only 59% in 2011! Yes, over FORTY PERCENT of children in the HBSCD are projected to be schooled elsewhere. If these trends continue there will be mass school closings and long drives to the remaining few open public schools.
We can do better! Trustee Briscoe has proposed school districts take an immediate look at what their parents really want and deliver those services. The objective is simple: provide curriculum so compelling that parents wait in line to enroll their children! Lessons can be gleaned from nearby public and private schools. These actions might include total campus security with staff and child ID badges and controlled campus access. Most private schools require standard clothing and provide a rigorous physical education that monitors improvement over multiple years. Private schools publish Internet lesson plans, semester syllabi, and grades for parents to track student progress; and children are taught how to take class lecture notes. These are just a few of the many aspects missing from public schools that drive parents to private and home schools. There is much to be done to bring back the increasing tide of parents leaving public schooling.
My written statement provided to the OVSD School Board Meeting is attached HERE.
The opinions herein are the sole responsibility of John Briscoe and do not reflect the views of any school board. By John Briscoe, Elected Trustee Board Member of the Ocean View School District. You may contact John Briscoe at John@Crestwave, or phone: 714.903.8774. His web site is: www.Vote4Briscoe.com
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