OKC Public Schools perception

[MustangGT]

Ok teachers not only are some of the lowest paid but some of the least qualified.

[Garin]

Run down,prison looking,poor performing,free lunch,Chicagoesk politics.

[ou48A]

Some good perspective from someone who has labored a long time to improve OKCPS:
Education advocate: Site-based management is one key to improving bad schools | News OK

Until the administration of OKCPS and elected leaders give individual school principles and teachers the ability to remove all of the VERY highly disruptive discipline problems that sometime have a history of violence and serious issues of crime it's unreasonable to expect any significant improvements in test scores,,,, no matter how much money is thrown at the OKCPS district.

There are many good kids who have their own learning very seriously hindered by a very poor learning environment due to a comparatively small number of very disruptive students. Students are arrested and injured in fights frequently. Sometimes the staff is injured as well. What happens so often is the hard to deal with kids are shifted from school to school and district to district.


The state needs to put more of the trouble makers in alternative schools, but space is extremely limited. The decision to build more alternative schools space is not on the teachers, principles or other staff in the field.
The people at the top need look at the jobs they are doing first because they have dropped the ball on discipline.

[shawnw]

There are many good kids who have their own learning very seriously hindered by a very poor learning environment due to a comparatively small number of very disruptive students.

One of my daughters goes to Northwest Classen (and went to Taft). This is definitely an issue at times, according to my daughter at least.

[shawnw]

Per an OKCPS tweet this morning, 615 N Classen is being purchased for the new admin building.

Is that the old CMR building? I couldn't find a thread on this address or the CMR building. Pete, you want to create one?

[ljbab728]

Per an OKCPS tweet this morning, 615 N Classen is being purchased for the new admin building.

Is that the old CMR building? I couldn't find a thread on this address or the CMR building. Pete, you want to create one?

Oklahoma City school district makes bid on bank building to house offices | News OK