About: Lindalyn Kakadelis

Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools allow high schools to change grading policy in individual schools.  The change simply continues the lack of confidence in classroom grades, but also confuses what a grade means school by school. Mallard Creek High School outlined the change in the school newsletter last month, writing “This quarter we are eliminating zeros…. 50Continue Reading

Education Week reports today on  ‘sequester’ pain being felt by the “Great Society Relic” Head Start.  Head Start is a federal preschool program to prepare low-income children for kindergarten readiness.  Head Start and Early Head Start serve nearly a million children and families. The programs were funded at nearly $8 billion in fiscal 2012, markingContinue Reading

Today the Times editorial board speaks out regarding the consequences of pushing national standards when the schools simply are not ready. The new Common Core State Standards are supposed to be implemented in schools in 2014. But the state is far from ready. . . .Though the Obama administration couldn’t legally force new standards onContinue Reading

This past weekend, John Stossel compared the increase of K-12 students to the increase of personnel in schools during 1950 till 2009. The show aired on Fox Business. The education BLOB— that immovable jelly-like ball of teachers’ and janitors’ unions, the school board bureaucrats, PTAs, etc.—just keeps growing. As the number of students increased 96%,Continue Reading

State School Superintendent June Atkinson titled her April 15th blog “Common Core – It’s about Reading and Math.”  However, many folks believe “It’s About Control.” She stated: There are some who are making wild claims about the Common Core and what it is. I can tell you, because I was there at its very beginning,Continue Reading

Michelle Malkin’s commentary today talks about the massive database tracking that comes along with those states invested in the Common Core Standards. These systems will aggregate massive amounts of personal data — health-care histories, income information, religious affiliations, voting status and even blood types and homework completion. The data will be available to a wideContinue Reading

Over the last few weeks I talked with parents  who are ready to pull out their hair trying to help their elementary child with math homework.  It all became understandable when I read Mark Rice’s (a college professor and father), experience with his 8-year-old daughter: My daughter — a bright, fun-loving 8-year-old who isn’t easilyContinue Reading

An advisory committee for Wake County School System recommends the school board to enact district policy to ban the sale of unhealthy foods for any fundraisers, and activities OUTSIDE of school hours.  Now PTAs and Booster Clubs attention quickly turns to where they get money to help with school activities.  Of course, the “Food Police”Continue Reading