tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post3646461522418426096..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: Stop La Guardia HS for Arts Principal Lisa Mars From Changing Culture of Schooled notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-44027090223447069702016-08-19T18:34:19.306-04:002016-08-19T18:34:19.306-04:00This principal could not pass an audition at the s...This principal could not pass an audition at the school she runs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-24675400629815796192016-08-17T14:32:23.427-04:002016-08-17T14:32:23.427-04:00Laguardia Principal Lisa Mars last position was as...Laguardia Principal Lisa Mars last position was as AP at Townsend Harris HS with the arts in her portfolio. As a musician myself I was extremely disappointed with her direction of the music program there at the time:<br /><br />She hired an orchestra director who was let go very shortly after being hired, for good reason.<br /><br />The quality of the school band was clearly inferior to that of the neighborhood middle school that my children attended, both in the material presented and in the execution.<br /><br />Though the school was about 70 per cent female there was no dance program. There was dance at our middle school and, of course, at LaGuardia.<br /><br />She changed a course called "Chamber Music" so that it was clearly not chamber music by any definition in general use. In my opinion (and I retained a video) it was something of a mess.<br /><br />I believe Lisa Mars was completely tone deaf when it came to the music curriculum. When I heard that she got the appointment to LaGuardia I could hardly believe it. I could not, at the time, have imagined a worse choice. Those who appointed her were, in my opinion, either incompetent or they wanted someone to do what she is doing and who cared so little about the arts so as to cause the least amount of friction or push-back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-90563446707875503172016-08-17T10:08:31.798-04:002016-08-17T10:08:31.798-04:00The exact same process has happened at my school. ...The exact same process has happened at my school. This is not accidental but planned. The administrators are following the chancellor's formula as described in her NY Times article from 1999. And what is the UFT doing about it? "They have a list of principals who are doing this and it's being watched carefully". How is that helpful to the pedagogues whose lives are being ruined. How can this be Legal?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-22815565809013760492016-08-16T16:38:56.054-04:002016-08-16T16:38:56.054-04:00It is important to note that this shift has occurr...It is important to note that this shift has occurred during the de Blasio administration. If de Blasio does not rapidly change his tune, it doesn't matter if a Republican takes the throne. This mayor is driving the final nail into the school system's coffin. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com