Comments on: Norwalk: Teachers Suggesting Corda Is Failing His Job

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:23:57 +0000

The title of this thread says it all, but only to those who care about education and I am not sure they do.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:09:50 +0000

West Rocks Middle School

http://www.yourct.com/newzee/2007/11/25/norwalk-new-boe-post/

By: United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:54:14 +0000

Jersey Girl is copyrighted.

By: Maribeth Becker

Maribeth Becker — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:18:48 +0000

No relation (as far as I know). Becker is my married name. I’m originally a “Jersey Girl”, but Norwalk has been home for the past 14 years.

This is such a great city and I really enjoy living here. Of course there are lots of things that can be done to make things better, but that’s why I just roll up my sleeves and get involved.

I’m off to another meeting…

By: Norwalker

Norwalker — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:02:08 +0000

I remember Harry Becker!

By: Maribeth Becker

Maribeth Becker — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:59:07 +0000

I did – Mr. McGinley. But only because we had a “pancake breakfast” in my first grade classroom and he was the one that I was assigned to serve pancakes and bacon to. I do remember asking “what’s a superintendent?”. (I was actually kind of bummed out because our custodian was a nice guy and I wanted to be assigned to him. Oh well.)

Ten years later my dad served on our town’s school board for 2 terms and I got to hear ALL about him (a different guy by then – and a very controversial one at that).

Memory lane…

By: anon for now

anon for now — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:32:44 +0000

I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I was in elementary school I had no idea who the superintendent of schools was, what he (or she) looked like, or what they did. Let’s not spin out of control here. Teacher and principal is pretty much the entirity of the child’s school world…and that’s OK.

By: Elaine Bennis

Elaine Bennis — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:32:45 +0000

Aunt Bertha,

You’re absolutely on target! No, most children cannot identify Corda, nor do they even know that he is the superintendent, or what that even means.

In fact, an elementary school child asked me earlier this week if the “guy” pictured on the home page of Norwalk Public Schools was the custodian at his school.

Elaine Bennis

By: Problem Solved

Problem Solved — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:59:06 +0000

Put some putting greens inside the classrooms.

Class Dismissed

By: NoName

NoName — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:05:45 +0000

Bruce Mellion cites surveys showing teacher dissatisfaction. I think we would all like to see the questions and responses. It would be interesting to see how many teachers responded to the surveys. Something this important should publicized.