SPEAKOUT

Saturday, September 13, 2014

For the record

SHS School records? I hope that Sikeston Public Schools keep better student records than they do historical records. During the previous decade an effort was made to determine when the high school on Tanner Street was built. The school system could not find any record of when it was constructed. Recently a Sikeston R-6 School District "Back to School Newsletter" was mailed which prominently displayed a photo with the caption "Construction of the SHS Football Stadium, Jan. 1959." In that picture there are no goal posts and the field looks as if it has never been used. The problem with the date in the caption is: The Class of 1959, SHS Football Team of 1958, was the first to play football on that field. So it looks as if the date is at least a year off. Graduates of the Class of 1958 remember the field and "stadium," i.e. metal bleachers, being under construction before they graduated. So what was my grade point average again... or my attendance record? Is there an app for creating your own transcript?

Problems hard to solve

It is 9:15 and I'm sitting here watching my television a program on Fox News about Common Core. For the love of me I cannot figure out how our kindergarteners are ever gonna figure this stuff out. You got core numbers, you gotta add and subtract these numbers to find one number. They even had teachers and engineers on there and they all didn't even know how to do it. This guy from Common Core said the schools need some money. Well, hello. I guess that's the problem. They don't care about the kids just as long as they get money for the sports. That's what matters.