Private Sector Unions = Based.

Public Sector Unions = Meh.

At a certain point the students and parents need to be accountable for this. But sure, let’s blame the teachers and curriculum for the 5,000th time.

It's been a few years but I got rejected multiple times from the Sisson St dropoff for all of the "construction material" in a few black bags in my sedan. They had me pop the trunk and felt them/looked in them and then handed me a flyer about going to Quarantine Rd.

Quarantine Rd has been pretty great in my limited experience, though. If you're not driving a truck they don't seem to care about doing weigh-in/weigh-out and charging per weight, and you can take concrete and everything.

Many application schools don't have any testing criteria to get into, particular on the Middle school level.

Furthermore, parents of elementary school kids can apply to have their kids go to schools outside of their zone.

Seems like only one person here has given you a reasonable answer.

https://publicworks.baltimorecity.gov/solid-waste/drop-off

The real answer is you can take it to the northwest transfer station on Reisterstown road. It costs $67.50/ton and you need to be weighed in and weighed out to dump there.

The city specifically seperates construction trash because if they didn't the other drop off spots would be a mess of contractors dumping construction debris from everywhere for free when they are meant as resident household trash dump spots.

Alternatively you can break it down into smaller pieces and throw it out in bags in your trash. Might just take longer depending on how much you can fit in a can.

Your last choice would be to get a [bagster](Your friend has shared a link to a Home Depot product they think you would be interested in seeing:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/WM-Bagster-Dumpster-in-a-Bag-Holds-up-to-3-300-lb-775-658/202228840) from home depot thay you fill up and call to have hauled away. It's more expensive than dropping yourself but easier. This does require space to sit the bag, space for a truck to get to the bag and you need to make sure they pickup where you live first as well.

How do the parents feel about this? My parents were always hyper focused on grades, and I can't imagine them being okay with me failing math.

Man, it really is at home, isn't it.

There are like 6 places to drop off bulk trash. You just can't take construction trash to them all. You have to go to the northwest transfer station if you specifically have construction trash.

I have trashed yes, tables, chairs, scrap wood, and all sorts of other things at 2 or 3 of the drop off stations and it cost $0. Just had to show a city address.

So taxes cover a vast majority of your trash.

Illegal dumping is often from shitty contractors who don't want to pay for their construction waste. The city charges $67.50/ton of trash for construction specific trash.

These is the "English-Alternate" " and the "Mathematics-Alternate" exams; whatever that means.

Just for context it seems like essentially no one took the "Mathematics-Alternate" exam anywhere in the state (no school had more than 58 tests taken most had none).

Hardly surprising no schools had anyone proficient if no one actually took it.

>there’s no interventions that can break that

Then how the hell did I get out

>I'm not sure how these products get purchased and approved, but if there's public or in-house comment available, we've never been made privy to it.

Very interesting. Slightly surprised, but not completely, to hear that input isn't sought from teachers on curriculum selection. Thanks again for these details.

This is true. Shame when you got folk trying to play by the rules.

Word.

>I truly love teaching math to SWD

Keep fighting the good fight, you are a better person than I.

When the contractors who worked on my house left their trash behind (a hodgepodge of roof shingles and things, a bucket of dried out concrete and sticks, it was just a mess), I took their construction trash to the dump on Reisterstown Road after I called 311 and researched how to access the dump online. Pretty sure either 311 or the internets told me not to get in the long line if I am a resident of the city. Indeed, there was a long line for actual contractors, but when I arrived near closing time, I did not get in the line but drove to the left of the line to the woman standing there, and told her I was a resident of the city with stuff some contractors left at my house. I was the only person in the line. I showed my ID showing I actually live in the city, and they sent me back to dump it. It was very anti-climatic. I basically got to the place and it was just a humongous dumpster that I put the stuff in. Very easy for me.

I was just in my regular Subaru, and it was a pretty smooth, simple interaction for me.

Excellent questions and I'll do my best to answer.

>do you and other educators who feel similarly about the excessiveness of the curriculum have any means of advocating for streamlining it?

No, not really. Or if there is a way, I'm not aware of it. The district uses a curriculum called Eureka which, like most things in education, is purchased via a contract. We often comment on how difficult and bloated it is, but even our department leads aren't really able to enact change in this regard. I'm not sure how these products get purchased and approved, but if there's public or in-house comment available, we've never been made privy to it.

We just do our best to make our own choices about how to adjust it. I personally have to trim tons of fat, and I have to do it unofficially because there's no way for me to fit it all in without completely killing my students' interest in math.

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>Is this an issue that's generally tracking with parents?

Alas...in my 4 years in the district I have never once talked with a parent who asked about curriculum or how the provided curriculum is taught. I don't get the impression most parents would even know to ask about this sort of thing. Because I work with SWD, I also tend to work with some of the poorest, least equipped parents, and I just think that questions surrounding curriculum rarely rank on the list of primary concerns for their kids.

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>does the Kirwan/Blueprint plan address this issue?

I...don't know. I know I SHOULD be up to date on this stuff, but I'm just not because it's hard to be on the ground and reading about the ground. Something I need to be better about! But as far as I'm aware, I don't believe this is addressed.

Just got his voicemail and left a message about your situation. If you leave a message I'm sure he will get back to you.

I teach in Baltimore City too and the ELA curriculum is just at complex. More than half my kids are below grade level for fifth grade, so I don’t know how they expect them to grapple with the curriculum as it is.

There is no magic bullet to fix the issue unless everyone plans to take their kids out of public schools. However, the frustrating parts of this are:

1. The school districts are actually lowering standards.
2. Baltimore City traditional schools are held to an even lower standard
3. Baltimore City Charter schools often perform better than traditional and BCPSS has AND ENFORCES stringent standards, which results in the better schools being shut down.

Wow. That really deters us from doing things on our own. Maybe call a junk haul company. Sucks that you have to pay but it will get done. I've used Big Blue Hauling for household stuff. Maybe try him and if he cant he can steer you in right direction. ( Darius Johnson - 443 873 3353 or 443 410 9583). Super nice cat too. Let me know if this helps. If not, I'm in 21218 and we will do a bonfire protest!!

I made an account just for this comment. At a quick glance, the budget is 73% salaries. It's pretty easy to pinpoint where you need to reallocate.

I would start with luxury programs such as the Equity Unit and College Readiness. Equity unit, not sure what that's doing in a school system that is primarily comprised of minority students.

I would then move on to the College Readiness initiatives because BCPS students attend college at abysmally low rates and graduate college at even lower rates. It's better to give students a good high school education and no college than a shitty high school education followed by, again, no college. College is for when your students can pass basic proficiency tests, until then it's money down the drain.

I would then start an internal RoI review of highly paid personnel, starting with administrators first and leaving academics for last. Does your work product justify your salary? If not, there is someone out there who will do it for cheaper.

This is one of the highest funded education systems in the country per student. The issue is clearly not a lack of money, it's in how the money is spent.

Looks like you do this kind of thing a lot, whether as a joke or seriously. Can't honestly tell if trolling or not, but would genuinely like to see a source on why you think it's a slur.

Oh that’s unfortunate, so much of the city is in disarray and then adding the state as another layer of bureaucracy never seems to help.

You lost me with your example, Edmondson-Westside is an application school, students apply to go there.

My point is that students from a bad area have less opportunity during elementary school, test lower, and are less likely to be accepted into better middle and high schools. These students then have to go the middle and high school in their catchment area. So those schools that didn’t meet AYP can’t improve averages by bringing in students from out of the area, and also have the students from the lower performing elementary schools. It’s a downward spiral, that’s my point.

I've tried this in the past since that's my closest dropoff. If you have anything that looks like building debris, you're booted out immediately.