If you take the Prairie Star you will see the great job West Elk is doing Educating the students. There are lots of articles on this. The 11-12-2014 Prairie Star has an article where West Elk Students beat out six schools to take first place in the Math Contest. Another article in the 11-19-2004 Prairie Star where West Elk High School Math team took first place in the Dexter invitational Math relays. I know that several West Elk students have gone on to Major colleges and have done very well in Engineering and other studies. Accolades to the West Elk School Board and Teachers for a job well done.
Some can't make change ,had couple at my yard sell that told me Cuba was in Russia.
Frank, West Elk is doing well. I wish the other area schools would put more in the paper. Love read about all the students.
Pro, I agree with you, I have had several relatives that graduated there and they have gone on to do very well in College and working at jobs. It is a great run and well kept facility and providing an excellent education to the students.
There will always be a few students who will struggle for many, many reasons. Kids are not produced by machines churning out identical kids with identical brains, natural interests and home situations.
A good teacher will take whomever they are assigned and take them from whence they came, as far as they can go in a school year, taking into consideration all the side bar issues that some kids have.
I have no idea what has happened to American spelling and grammer.There are so many rules that now the teachers don't even seem to know. If ya can figure out what the person is trying to say, that's good enough? In beginning whole language that is fine, but by third and fourth grade that should be gone ,gradually replaced by proper grammer,spelling and dictionary use. Cell phone "spelling" isn't helping.
I was taught to spell the word grammar with no e. ;)
HA! That's the point exactly.That's your "grandma" not your grammar.
Yes, I spell checked it and left it just for "annoience" value. ;) Now I know who reads me. :angel:
Seriously though, I don't understand either why certain spellings and grammar forms have gotten so lost. I understand typos...With my hunt and peck typing, it's bound to happen. But usually one can figure out how they happen. I know these things are still taught in school so why doesn't it stick with some?
My particular pet peeve is apostrophe use and the various there, their, etc. problems. Perhaps it's too much technology and leaning too much on e-programs to pick up errors? The wrong word spelled correctly is still wrong. Now I see more and more ''are'' instead of "our." I'll bet some of you notice even more too, and I don't mean just in people who are truly dyslexic.I catch errors in printed materials that at one time would have never been tolerated. It just doesn't seem to have any importance. Even on here, if one can eventually figure out what is meant, certain ones will defend the lack of effort as being acceptable and nobody's business.Will they pass that attitude along to their kids? I still see even in the older kids' fire prevention essays "u" for you and "r' for are. Now why in the world would those kids expect that to be acceptable? ..and they write them and draw their posters in school, not at home.
Not a convincing dodge ::). By the way, people don't come here to read "you". So, don't flatter yourself.
The use of letters for words is the result of texting. It's not likely to change. As long as you think you can make excuses for poor spelling you have no business questioning others.
Says you. I'm underwhelmed. >:( No dodge needed .If I really make an error, I'll say so, always have. Why not teach some grammar and spelling to your pals since they weren't about to learn it in school?
Mentiroso.
Oh my, such class. I've caught some of you all in really nasty lies and "creative" posting and you dare to judge me? HA! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
West elk seems to be an ok school, but I wish they (and all other schools) would teach history from more than one viewpoint.
You have something there, Varmit. American history should be taught right from the Revolution up, including all of the papers generated by it. Re: The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, etc. Our children should be familiar with all of the reasons we needed to be a free nation, not dependent on a Mother country. They should know why our wars were fought. Our history didn't start in the middle of the 20th century.
I agree Wilma. But I was thinking that more emphasis should be placed on the subject of history overall, not just American history. And that emphasis should include varying viewpoints of certain events. For example, Christopher Clombus is given credit as the firstdiscoverer of America, when in fact we know that other Europeans were here way before him. It also needs to be taught that he was a genocidal madman. That's just one example of one area that most schools gloss over. Slaverey ,wars, political exploitation, these things should be looked at from all angles, not just the "red, white, and blue" perspective.
I think most of us have picked up on the fact that Columbus was not the first European to land in North America. Are they still teaching it that way? I know there needs to be an explanation as to why there is a Columbus Day, especially if the school kids get a day off for it.
I was going to say that some of the political stuff should be left for college, but so many of our young people do not get to go to college that it might be better to get into it before they leave high school. Something needs to be done to reduce the hatred, racism and bigotry that exists. Maybe it needs to be done with the older generation so that it won't be taught to the young 'uns at home.
I remember the segregation days in Sedgwick County, even though it didn't exist in the small towns where I grew up. There were no black families in the small towns. There were no black children in all the schools that I attended until we moved to Piedmont and there was a black boy in the freshman class. We tried to treat him the same as the white boys, but he held back from any association with white girls. Our young people today are much more familiar with other races and for the most part, are handling it very well here in Elk County. I wish it were so in the rest of the country.
I think the political stuff should begin around the 6th grade. I also believe that elementary and especially high school students should be taught the truth about our founding and the people who lead it; As well as the backers of both sides. As for the founding papers, the truth is that they are not as special as they have been made out to be. Let's be honest here, at the time of their writing they only applied to basically rich white men.
Our children are not being taught the truth about this or any other country.
I agree that something definitely needs to change. We have entirely way to much ignorance in this country and it will only get worse as children watch and hear their parents speak and act negatively about other cultures. How many times have you heard people around hear talk about "them Damn wetback Mexicans" or "lazy niggers" ...all the while waving a flag that is supposed to represent freedom and equality? I don't get it...they complain about people coming here illegally which is exactly what our ancestors did.
I would like to see our children be taught the truth about wwII, we were not the great saviors we are made out to be! We turned away boat loads of Jews seeking asylum, our president was one of the biggest anti Semites in the world!
I don't mean to go off on a rant but I am sick and tired of all the lies.