Monthly Archives: February 2018
SHOW UP AND PROTEST AT THE ABC MEETING WEDNESDAY 3
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO SHOW UP AT THE ABC MEETING ON WEDNESDAY. THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT IF PARENTS AND STUDENTS SHOW UP WITH PROTEST SIGNS TO HOLD UP TO ALL THE ABC MEMBERS IT WILL MAKE AN IMPACT. SIGNS SHOULD INDICATE THAT PAM MUST GO! PLEASE SPREAD THIS AMONG YOUR FRIENDS. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE SHOW UP WITH SIGNS AND HOLD THEM UP AT THE MEETING, IT WILL MAKE AN IMPACT.
JUST SAYIN’! 6
The Wrong Person Has Resigned In Region One Reply
Pam, can you please follow suit? (the wrong person has resigned)
Dr. Jose Martinez announced his retirement as principal at Housatonic Valley Regional High School at the Region One Board of Education meeting Thursday night. His retirement will become effective June 30, 2018. Dr. Martinez explained that this decision was made in order to spend more time with his family.
Prior to his retirement, Dr. Martinez will remain highly committed to the continued success of Housatonic Valley Regional High School. His main focus will be ensuring the completion of the NEASC accreditation process, as well as working closely with teachers to support the achievement of their stated professional goals. Dr. Martinez also plans to ensure the timely completion of teacher observations and evaluations, while fully supporting the school’s transition to a new principal.
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Pam Vogel And NYPs: How Housy Is Falling Apart Save Housy 2k18 Reply
A terrific blog posting from Ashlee Baldwin….
I hear things from my sister and some friends about how things at Housy are going these days, and I have to say that I’m so glad I graduated when I did. Between student protests, NYPs, and a quasi-authoritarian administration that has actually banned students from saying Housy, it seems like a real shitshow these days. Yes, you read that right. The Region One administration has decided that students shouldn’t be using the word Housy to address our school because apparently students from other schools use it as an insult toward us. Newsflash, Region One: Housy sucks regardless of what you call it. We’ve been using Housy as a shortened version of our school’s ridiculously long name for years.
That isn’t the issue with Housy I want to discuss though. No, the issue we need to talk about is NYPs. Housy has implemented a new grading program that, quite frankly, is going to leave its students underprepared for the real world. When I was a student, athletic eligibility was based off of your overall class grade; if you had two Ds or one F as a class average, or a failing GPA, you weren’t eligible for sports. Under the new system, two NYPs takes you out of the running. Roughly half of our student athletes are at risk of losing eligibility due to two bad grades.
Not Yet Proficient grades, or NYPs, are being awarded this year is lieu of Ds and Fs. Students with NYPs can resubmit the assignment at any point until the end of the class. If a student has a single NYP grade at the end of the course, they have to take the entire course over. This is obviously wildly different from the grading practices of the past, and the grading practices used at colleges.
Let me give you an anecdote. I am horrifically bad at permutations, so I had a number of bad grades during this unit of Algebra 2. However, because I’m good at math overall, I still did well in the class despite that week’s worth of D-level grades. I didn’t repeat the class, and I shouldn’t have because I understood 99% of the material. Those few grades weren’t worth the blemish on my transcript, and the school recognized that.
(For full article click on link below, it is not a pay site so you will be able to finish the whole article)
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/pam-vogel-nyps-housy-falling-apart
IS IT TIME FOR THE REGION 1 BOE TO CONSIDER FIRING PAM VOGEL? 4
Now that it has become apparent that the schedule at Housatonic will be changing next year to the 4 x 4 block…….and the reluctance of Pam Vogel to answer that question at last weeks meeting, now leads to this question:
Is it time for the Region One BOE to fire Pam Vogel for incompetence?
We say yes, it is time.
Vogel turns a deaf ear on parents, students, taxpayers and even teachers.
Pam Vogel is the defacto principal of H.V.R.H.S. leaving the principal and assistant to clean up her mess.
Pam Vogel does not understand, or even try to understand Region One as a whole, and especially its teachers, students, residents, its history, and its taxpayers.
Pam Vogel operates a closed administration, wielding her power without forethought, consultation, and patience.
In her short time at the helm the region as a whole is in turmoil, teachers are excluded from decisions, and a more urgent matter…NO TEACHERS attend public meetings to voice their concern over her actions in fear of losing their jobs.
It is time tnow for the taxpayers, students, parents and grandparents, brothers and sisters to resist… it is time to go to the local boards ..now is the time to demand accountability for the superintendent to do what parents and students and teachers want done …if not then it is time for the boards of education to relieve her of her duties as superintendent of schools .
If the board fails to act, then it is time to organize in every town to defeat the Region One Budget until the taxpayers, parents, students and teachers are heard. It is time for the Region One board to do what their only real job is…supervise the actions of Pam Vogel. It is time for them to say enough is enough. It is time for them to say good-bye to Pam Vogel. There is an assistant in place who knows the region, the teachers, the students..and the history of Region One…..Lisa Carter.
No action by the board should lead to action by taxpayers and their only recourse…defeat the budget until the board acts.
inaction by the board should result in action by the community.
Region One Report has obtained a written summary ( from a reliable source) from a STUDENT meeting last week. 1
Region One Report has obtained a written summary ( from a reliable source) from a STUDENT meeting last week. This handout is a culmination of the student’s comments/opinions/suggestions of the new system. Please read this list of comments closely as the students are asking for MORE responsibility and TOUGHER deadlines. The redaction’s in this memo are handwritten notes which we did not want made public. We hope the BOE, administration, and Pam Vogel will read this and work with the students…once again, the students at H.V.R.H.S. show what they are made of, and show how to react to an administration, superintendent and board to let them all know that this new system is detrimental to their current and future educational goals…