Narcisse under fire from school board
For a full report on the February 19 school board meeting, visit Around Des Moines.
Take 13 minutes and watch this whole school board discussion about Jonathan Narcisse’s frequent radio diatribes about the quality of board leadership.
Video from Channel 12 Educational Access, posted on the Register’s website:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080220/VIDEO01/80220033
Superintendent Nancy Sebring begins by taking issue with Narcisse’s recent [...]
Harding Middle School is 2007 NASA Explorer School
We attended a program at Harding Middle School Monday night (11/5) which launched (ha) the school’s participation in the NASA Explorer Schools program. Retired astronaut John Bennett Harrington gave a stunning multimedia presentation about his life-journey through public school, college and the US Navy/NASA. The program is a NASA effort to encourage math, science and [...]
North High seniors work hard, strive for college
Although North High had a tough year in football (bright spot: victory against Hoover!), the point tally doesn’t even begin to tell the story of how hard these kids have worked, athletically and academically. Our daughter had the opportunity to play with the North High Marching Band on Friday Night, so we trekked over to [...]
Mom’s crash course in writing a research paper
When you’re in 12th grade and you have to write a research paper, chances are you’ve progressed through the grades and learned all about finding sources, gleaning relevant quotes from sources, writing a bibliography, etc. But what do you do when you’re in 8th grade and you’re taking 12th grade government, and you have to write [...]
Des Moines schools to require ACT exam for high schoolers
I support the Des Moines Public Schools’ decision to require the ACT college entrance exam for all high school students, and I support the district’s decision to pay for the costs associated with taking the test. I’m a little confused about when the test will be administered (the Register article on this topic reports both [...]
Universities deny Regents’ request to see contract for student credit card agreement
Can you imagine any corporation saying to its board of directors, “Yes we’ve entered into a private agreement with a company that uses our customers’ private identifying data and stands to be profitable for our business, but no you may not see a copy of the contract we have with that company” ??? That’s just [...]
‘Something not right;’ what would you have done?
Have you ever dropped your kids off at school and noticed someone hovering around the area, or perhaps even entering the building, who just looked out of place? That’s just what happened to us this morning - my husband dropped our daughter off at her middle school and when he came home, he described having [...]
Report on school board meeting
M.R. Field has a fairly detailed report on the first school board meeting attended by new members Patty Link and Jonathan Narcisse. It’s interesting that Narcisse had his first “argumentative moment” already - and even more interesting that the board used procedural rules to shut him up. I wonder if that’s how they handle all [...]
Central Academy is challenging all of us
We have been struggling a bit to get into a new homework habit so my daughter can get her Central Academy work done in a timely manner, but overall I think she is doing well. (Monday night this week was horrendous, with 3-1/2 hours of volleyball followed by 2-1/2 hours of intense homework and a [...]
I’m an armchair quarterback for girls volleyball!
When I was in the Des Moines public school system, I did not participate in athletics. So on one level it’s amusing that I now find myself the parent of a middle school volleyball player, who likely will become a high school volleyball player. And more power to her - if she enjoys it then [...]
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