ANTI asserts: Gibson's son used LMB to learn to read

Below in red is an ANTI pro-Gibson post after the article in the North County Times entitled:

VISTA: School board balks at reading program

http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_669d07a7-14a4-5f7d-9983-fd7f45ce7227.html?mode=story

I think it is important to get to know the enemy of public education by reading their words every once in a while.

CAUTION ANTI BILE TO FOLLOW. YOU MAY NEED EYE PROTECTION.

As usual most of the comments are from Con No More with the blarney he distributed while with VUSD and now pleasantly retired with VUSD $$$. All that aside he is incorrect in the statement that Gibson knows nothing about the success of LMB. Gibson's son used LMB to learn to read and COMPREHEND what he was reading and to this day thanks LMB for that ability. It DOES work and has been proven time and time again. On the agenda of Thursday's meeting it was stated that the DAIT team accepted LMB as a program for use in the schools which had requested its use. This is purely a union backed effort to thwart actually teaching poor and slower students from learning to succeed in all the venues necessary to become a successful student. By doing this the teachers (union) can ask for more teachers and consequently more union dues. It's as plain as the nose on one's face! More teachers, more money - forget the children! The union bought board saw that the program could succeed and have been busily concocting some method to route it out of the lineup of intervention. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Aren't you proud of yourselves!

I do not know if the LMB program acceptance by DAIT was on the school board agenda. I presume it was from this ANTI post. I was not there.

Even if it were, it does not change my statement in a previous post that teachers at schools that have not chosen LMB have been told not to use it when the DAIT team arrives.

I was given that information by a teacher in this district. This teacher like ALL teachers in the district had been trained at a Buy Back Day before school opened last year (August 2008) in the use of LindaMood Bell. Last summer she also had been given very expensive LMB materials purchased by the district. Last year she had been directed to dedicate at 30 minutes a day to the LMB skills of Verbalizing and Visualizing. When she and and another teacher asked two weeks ago about using LMB in their classrooms this year, they were told that they did not need to bother and certainly should not be using it when the DAIT team showed up.

My posted replies in the North County Times to the above ANTI attack:


So mis-lead. So full of hate. You have my sympathy.

My $2100 a month retirement comes from a state fund called STRS, not from district funds.

There are more than five elementary schools is VUSD. Has DAIT accepted the use of LMB at those schools?

LMB is NOT on the state approved list for helping students with remedial reading.

LMB is a fine program. It helps kids learn to read. The question we should ask, is it cost effective? Are there other remedial reading programs that are cheaper and just as effective programs?

Also why shouldn't the parents who ACTUALLY HAVE THEIR CHILDREN in OUR VUSD SCHOOLS who are on the School Site Councils and the teachers and administration at a site be allowed to pick a program they think is more effective?

AND

You said that one of Jim Gibson's children had used LMB to learn to read. That's great. I am so glad. Are you implying that his child used LMB at one of our fine VUSD schools?

Just one question, which VUSD school did that child, that YOU BROUGHT up, attend?

I do not want to pry or give away any secrets that should be kept but I have been told that all of Jim's children have graduated from high school so it should not be any problem naming the VUSD school his child attended, should it?