[Grovenet] Mario Alba NAMS principal resigned last night?????

[Lisette Romig]

Hi Holly,

I was at the School Board meeting last night. I came late and left early, 
but I did not hear anything about Mario Alba resigning.

I only came for the TAG parents group statement in favor of honors classes 
at NAMS. The TAG group postponed their statement presentation to the next 
Board meeting.  Naomi  (Dilley Principal) did report on what the group has 
been doing. Some parents were present and made similar comments like yours. 
Honors contracts do not work at the middle school level. Bring honor classes 
back for Language Arts and other subjects at NAMS. TAG kids are not served.

The TAG parent group will make an official statement next Board meeting. 
Come if you can.

Lisette Romig

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Holly Di" <redhead854 at msn.com>
To: <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:23 AM
Subject: [Grovenet] Mario Alba NAMS principal resigned last night?????


>
>
> Greetings all, I heard something that happened at the School board meeting 
> last night and I am just wondering if
> anyone has any information.
>
> Mario Alba Resigned Last night.  Mario is Neil Armstrong's Principal.
>
> Does anyone know why?,  What direction the school is going?,  What 
> timeline for replacement?  and IF and HOW
> parents can become involved in helping the district choose a new 
> principal?
>
> It seems to come out of the blue,  At the last Community hall meeting he 
> seemed resolute that he was going to
> be there next year.  We were discussing having some kind of advanced 
> Language Arts classes instead of the
> "Honors Contract".
>
>
>  IMO Math at the JR high has been divided and kids put in a level that 
> challenges each student
> instead of all the kids sitting in the same classes with the teacher 
> challenging them to the level of the lowest student.
> However currently Social Studies & Language Arts have not.  Our Teachers 
> are great, but the district cant really expect
> them to teach to all levels by using the technique differentiation.  We 
> have too many students in each class room for that
> to work.  We have too many students who are in need of something to help 
> them behave better in school.
>
> My daughter had a Honors contract in each of these classes, but became 
> very disgruntled and upset and mad because
> the teachers only had time to teach the non honors items, and then just 
> "toss" the honors kids their extra work, or in
> Social studies - the non honors kids had more choices of topics to write 
> about and the honors kids were forced to
> choose from three obscure and topics (that my daughter had no 
> interest-when she wanted to write about a non honors
> topic she was told she couldnt and it KILLED her interest in the project).
>
>
> Anyway, my daughter is now going to a school near her Dad, its a Charter 
> School that has about 20 8th graders in it.
> Its very sad for me,  But, my daughter seems happier in that atmosphere so 
> far.
>
> Regards,
>
> Holly
>
>
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