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We've Got Lots & Lots of Courses

Saturday, 06 March 1999 07:32 Last Updated on Friday, 29 April 2011 19:32 Written by The Editor

Courses. We've got Courses. We've Got Lots & Lots of Courses.

The following sorts of offerings have been available at Ward Melville High School in the past. Keep an eye out for absurd offerings and see to it they are eliminated:

Capitalize on the Foolishness

Friday, 27 June 1997 10:56 Last Updated on Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:06 Written by The Editor

Time's Up! Let's Capitalize on the Foolishness of the Selfless

One of the grand arguments offered by those advocating ever more increases in educational spending is that fiscal conservatives are nought but miserly, anally retentive, children hating, selfish baffooons. Well, The Waking Bear© proposes we test the allegedly well intentioned and apparently unalterably altruistic resolve of the Three Village Selfless.

"Whatever it takes!" - A Proud and Costly Motto

Friday, 11 April 1997 11:10 Last Updated on Sunday, 07 November 2010 19:04 Written by The Editor

In the last editorial of The Waking Bear©, teachers were advised that they could not treat the present contract negotiations as though things are as they were. We explained that the harder they pushed, the greater would be their long-term loss. That they were in a "loooz-loooz sitchewation" from which there would be no extrication. But, alas, even the intelligent are not as often smart.

Suffolk's Special Education Populations

Friday, 07 March 1997 11:01 Last Updated on Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:03 Written by The Editor

District Student Population Percentages

The following illustrates the percentages of Special Education student populations in each listed school districts, in 1996:

Information Retrieval to Computer Floppy Disk

Wednesday, 05 March 1997 13:22 Last Updated on Monday, 27 September 2010 13:59 Written by The Editor

Recommendation: Change the provision of District rules so that records stored in digital format be made available on floppy disk for a fixed fee per disk and, whenever possible, in a computer format most compatible with the objectives of the party requesting the information.

Background: With database and spreadsheet information already stored on computers and with the likelihood, in time, of many text documents being stored as part of a Management Information System, providing data in the limitedly useful text format- at .25 cents per page - is archaic and an environmental nuisance.

With many programs capable of outputting documents to disk in various formats friendly to someone requesting such information, it is time to change the present district regulations to reflect a preference for distributing information digitally rather than as pages of text.