Eye exams on hold
A judge today ordered a delay in requiring comprehensive eye exams for all students entering kindergarten.
Judge Leon Stanback signed a consent order Tuesday disallowing any additional court proceedings until October and preventing the state from enforcing the requirement until at least July 1, 2007, the Associated Press reported.
About a dozen school systems - including our neighbors in Alamance-Burlington and Winston-Salem/Forsyth - joined a lawsuit last month protesting the eye exam requirement. Eye doctors have argued the more extensive exams are not warranted unless a child fails a prescreening.
Should the state be allowed to require these exams? What about families who can't afford them? Or those in rural areas who have to travel a long distance just to access a doctor who can conduct the exam?
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I think we should require the exams in High Point but not in Greensboro. It's been proven that both children and eyes are inexplicably different in High Point. Don't ask why. (as Anita Sharpe was quoted; "no one can explain")Though one can understand that in High Point, they only see red. (possibly resulting from intolerably toxic levels of bovine waste)
Posted on March 14, 2006 3:47 PM
CBOY,
EXCELLENT IDEA!! But let's NOT do the eye exams in High Point. I think there are more qualified Opthlamologists in Greensboro.
Load every High Point Kindergartener on a bus and it'll be a CONVOY to the Gate City. ...Walter Childs can drive...Dotty will point the way!!!!
Who's paying? TAXPAYERS OF COURSE!!!...just the High Point taxpayers...dah!!!!!!
LONG LIVE SOCIALISM!!!!!!!!!!...just in High Point of course.....
Posted on March 14, 2006 4:52 PM
While we're at it, let's check the "vision" of our board members.
Posted on March 14, 2006 9:24 PM
Yep Hindsight is 20/20!
Posted on March 14, 2006 10:33 PM
Jenn, we know you don't write editorials, but somebody at your paper either a reporter or editor has got to question Grier about his butt- covering guest column in Mondays' paper about the things he is doing at Smith and Dudley which included no mention of "diversity"- which he has stated repeatedly is important for other areas, citing studies that showing this is so, and unhesitatingly dividing and demoralizing other communities as collateral damage for such doctrine.
Why even have a newspaper, if you are going to let public officials slide on stuff like this. You're selling out all your readers and your community to turn your paper into nothing more than a propanganda sheet for corrupt public offiicals. We don't understand it. That would have been the first thing a real reporter would have gone after. Don't allow yourself, as your editors have, to become nothing more than a powdered lackey for this pack of wild dogs.
Posted on March 15, 2006 8:58 AM
C. Boy,
Thank you for having the ambition to attempt to bolster some enthusiasm for this tired ol' topic.
I've lost faith in my school system.
I've lost faith in my local paper.
I've lost faith in my city officials.
I have absolutely NO RESPECT left....none.
I'm NO dummy. You don't have to walk over me too many times before I see the light. I no longer waste my time trying to fix corrupt officials. My children are too important.
Good Luck to all of you who continue the daily struggle of trying to make sense of the "Grand Injustice of POO" that is being forced on only High Point schools--while Dudley and Smith get real solutions.
I've had all the POO that I can swallow. I don't care anymore the backward reasoning that is candy-coated and spoonfed to the High Point communtiy. I don't care anymore about any of it. I pray for the kids that are getting lost in the shuffle.
I'm done caring. You can thank the Guilford County Board of Education and the Superintendent for all the apathy that is lingering. You can thank them for the low teacher morale in High Point. "Thank you BOE and TERRY, YOU all have created quite a big mess. I hope you all realize that you WILL REAP WHAT YOU SOW."
Going now..I'm done caring about my community. My family comes first. Yep, MY CHILDREN FIRST. THIS IS THE NEW MENTALITY AND I HAVE NO GUILT, NO REGRETS. IF THIS BOTHERS ANYONE, CALL YOUR SCHOOL BOARD AND COMPLAIN TO THEM. I'M NOT THE ONLY MONSTER THEY HAVE CREATED.
Bye-bye!
Posted on March 15, 2006 9:37 AM
Pierre, wait up. I'm coming...
Posted on March 15, 2006 9:55 AM
Can you get to that Grier guest column on line?
Jennifer, can you post a link?
Posted on March 15, 2006 12:33 PM
Manning,
Here's the opinion piece you requested. I couldn't find it online, so I copied it from our archives.
Posted on March 15, 2006 5:14 PM
Thankyou Jennifer.
Very weak and lame is his response. The schools have been failing for five years. Who knows beyond that! He is talking in some instances of improvements made in the last couple of months and some proposed improvements.
He didn't mention our favourite solution of diversity. Diversity Dot must be turning in her grave...I mean bed!
Posted on March 15, 2006 7:50 PM
I talked to a friend today that is being redistricted from Welborn/Andrews to Ferndale/Central. I asked if she was upset by this change and she emphatically said NO. She said it didn't look like Andrews would ever be fixed so she was happy about her move to Central. It seems to me that there are many people happy with the new maps. I know I am!
Posted on March 15, 2006 8:57 PM
Great reading today in "Yes Weekly", 3/15 edition page 10
Lots of great information on Fullen, STAR teaching, results, etc.
Posted on March 16, 2006 1:31 AM
The only eyes that need examined are the public's.
They need to be opened to the shananigans that go on in HP.
NO STUDENT should be redistricted to a school where state teams are in place.
Students who are there should be given OPEN CHOICE to any school they wish.
Andrews is on record as a failing school just like Smith & Dudley.
Put resources there too.
Andrews should be fixed FIRST, then redistrict.
You don't see any new students being sent to Smith or Dudley.
Bring back neighborhood schools.
Repair our torn communities in HP.
Posted on March 16, 2006 1:49 AM