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[Born-a-Panther]

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Serum coach resigned today....timing is odd

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Did you mean swim coach? They aren't cutting swimming.

[06panther10]

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They have already come out and said that no sports will be cut.

[clenz]

Did you mean swim coach? They aren't cutting swimming.

Yes swim....damn swype feature ob my phoneand me not double checking...

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[PantherChic]

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I was going to avoid the conversation but I have to chime in. While I sympathize/empathize with students and faculty at PLS, I agree with this decision. I am an educator. I went through UNI and did my experience at the Lab school. Yes, there have been many good things to come out of the Lab school system over the years. However, it just is not working in today's world. I've read things online about how the Lab system works so well at other universities, but perhaps funding is not as big of an issue there - I don't know.
It's an extremely difficult decision that had to be made. Just because something worked at one time doesn't mean it should continue. Will it be the right decision? Only time will tell.

But I do have to say something about things I am reading on the Keep Price Lab Open facebook page and other places. I am very tired of hearing PLS parents put down CF schools. I went through CF, I taught for 7 years in the CF schools, and they are doing amazing things. Amazing. And do they have professors from UNI teaching classes? No. It's just public school teachers wanting to do better for their students.

So no matter how you feel about the potential closing of Price Lab, please do not fall into the "slam the local public schools" category or the "we are better than the local schools" category. Good was and is being done in both districts. And if PLS closes, I have no doubt that any PLS student who chooses to attend CF will get an outstanding education, with plenty of research-based teaching.

[clenz]

NU people putting CF academics down? How's NU robotics team doing?

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[Khan4Cats]

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Have a feeling Hudson and Janesville are going to be getting a lot of open enrollment requests. Columbus may see an uptick. NU people are too "good" to slum it in CF public schools (despite them having one of the best reputations in the state).

Are the 'rats' leaving the sinking ship yet?

[clenz]

Have a feeling Hudson and Janesville are going to be getting a lot of open enrollment requests. Columbus may see an uptick. NU people are too "good" to slum it in CF public schools (despite them having one of the best reputations in the state).

Are the 'rats' leaving the sinking ship yet?

Having been in CF for 6 years now (well 5.5, but close enough) I've learned that there are a could school districts that have an entitlement problem....NU was one of them

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[UNIMIS2001]

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Shut it down and save money. Done deal.

[LitchMingo]

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Honestly, the lab school was a near-worthless environment to "learn" in. The students were programmed from a young age and were nothing like any of the students you would find in Cedar Falls, Waverley, Waterloo, Hudson, and any other Cedar Valley school district in the outlying community. Put the College of Education students in a real environment instead of an artificially constructed one. My fellow middle level majors and myself loved when we were assigned to the "real" schools and always hated when we were assigned to the lab school. If the same thing can be done cheaper and just as efficiently it is irresponsible to the students, the tax payers, and the donors of the university.

[PantherHawk]

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I think the Lab school is functional and a great teaching experience. Yeah its not the ghetto of east/west waterloo, but its a great school with a great faculty.

Wasn't their PE teacher selected as Teacher of the year like 3 different times? Also wasn't another teacher selected for teacher of the year a few times?? The students weren't robots, they were disciplined and respected the teachers.

Good Luck finding that now a days, kids these days are so out of whack its not even funny. No respect in the classrooms and outside the classroom, education is becoming a hard job to sell. In my school district alone we have had 3 teachers leave at semester due to students being out of control. We had one male teacher get put on leave because he broke up a fight and used force to pull one kid off of the other kid. Parents sued and he got let go. Pretty sad!

[Newsbreaker]

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It isn't UNI's job to educate K-12 kids, nor to provide a "great teaching experience." PLS is a lab school - a R&D facility. If it isn't functioning in that role, whatever its other benefits, then it should be closed.

[PantherHawk]

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I saw they were closing some museum on campus??

Never knew it was there. Do you think they could scrap that piece of crap statue out front of the REC center for some cash?? God some of the crap they put on that campus when I was there, seriously save your money instead of putting up that garbage.

[ubuntuCAT]

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I saw they were closing some museum on campus??

Never knew it was there. Do you think they could scrap that piece of crap statue out front of the REC center for some cash?? God some of the crap they put on that campus when I was there, seriously save your money instead of putting up that garbage.

I think the state has some rediculous rule that .5% of cost of new building has to be spent on "art".

[BCPanther]

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I think the Lab school is functional and a great teaching experience. Yeah its not the ghetto of east/west waterloo, but its a great school with a great faculty.

Wasn't their PE teacher selected as Teacher of the year like 3 different times? Also wasn't another teacher selected for teacher of the year a few times?? The students weren't robots, they were disciplined and respected the teachers.

Good Luck finding that now a days, kids these days are so out of whack its not even funny. No respect in the classrooms and outside the classroom, education is becoming a hard job to sell. In my school district alone we have had 3 teachers leave at semester due to students being out of control. We had one male teacher get put on leave because he broke up a fight and used force to pull one kid off of the other kid. Parents sued and he got let go. Pretty sad!

What's with the totally unnecessary dig at Waterloo?

[PantherHawk]

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The waterloo schools are failing and are horrible. I student taught there and it was horrible.