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Invest in Process Controls and See the Benefits
In this new paper, F. Greg Shinskey offers more than a dozen practical ways to reduce cost with process control. These are not theoretical examples, but specific cases from real plants. Learn from one of the masters in the field of process control and see how your plant can benefit today.08/27/2012
Unlocking Automation Systems for Higher Business Responsiveness
Every manufacturing industry is experiencing an increasing speed of business in several areas including changing schedules, customer needs, costs of materials, business models, and technologies. At the same time, many manufacturing sites - particularly in the discrete industries - have growing complexity in their operations which makes it more difficult to adapt. There are more SKUs and data to keep track of due to product proliferation, smaller lot sizes and compliance to government regulations.
The demands for improved speed and agility conflict with the plants' ability to respond. Visibility into current operations, including the control system, is the primary reason manufacturers buy Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). This visibility provides the information necessary for informed decision making in real-time by all levels of personnel - plant floor to the executives.
MES applications contain the critical business processes for executing a production schedule. These systems perform the production-centric functions of planning, controlling, operating and informing. Control systems execute these functions to produce the goods needed to fulfill customer orders. By integrating MES with control systems, manufacturing becomes more agile for responding to change in this increasingly dynamic business environment. Integrating the control system with the MES allows for more effective and broader set of production management functions to improve operational performance.
To improve their response to operational issues, managers look to technology for connecting plant floor and business systems for automated business processes. Some manufacturers have implemented point solutions on a case-by-case basis. Because of the higher development costs and support issues, this approach is not acceptable. An integration platform is needed.08/20/2012
DCS Gap Identification: Part 1 Avoid the Pitfalls of DCS Migration With Front-End Loading
An unfortunate stumble during DCS migration could trip up your career, but a clear path forward will deliver benefits for decades to come. This first of two white papers walks you through DCS pre-planning step-by-step--from generating baselines to doing gap analysis--for a successful upgrade.08/06/2012
How to Use a Regulator to Reduce Time Delay in an Analytical System
Process measurements are instantaneous but analyzer responses never are. From the tap to the analyzer, there is always a time delay. Unfortunately, this delay is often underestimated or misunderstood.
Time delay is defined as the amount of time it takes for a new sample to reach the analyzer. One way to control time delay is with a regulator. Regulators control pressure, and pressure in an analytical system is closely related to time. In the case of gas systems with a controlled flow rate, the lower the pressure, the shorter the time delay.
Delay may occur in any of the major parts of an analytical instrumentation (AI) system, including the process line, tap and probe, field station, transport line, sample conditioning system, stream switching system, and analyzer.08/03/2012
Connect Building Automation Systems to the Enterprise
Communicating To the Enterprise Isn't Science Fiction. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to transport any object across great distances almost instantly? In the building automation systems of today's buildings and facilities, real-time information does just that. A modern building management system monitors and operates all technical facilities. Managing these data sources ensures optimal building performance by enabling control of building systems in an integrated manner. However enterprise facility management requires more than just building automation control systems. Download this white paper to learn how you can improve the design and operation of building processes, reducing emissions and improving energy usage, by connecting building automation systems to the enterprise using OPC.07/25/2012
Operator Effectiveness: The Next Frontier of Process Automation
Clearly the need - and potential payoff - for more effective operators is enormous and intuitively understood. But rather than reversing course and simplifying operators' tasks, industry is only increasing the pressure. Learn how to transform your people into strategic assets.07/10/2012
Process Solutions White Paper and Literature Downloads
Learn about scalable technologies that can provide high availability and a significant return on investment. Download content on these topics:
- Achieving High Availability in Process Applications — Process industries don't have to accept one-size-fits-all solutions that do – and cost – more than necessary.
- Clean in Place Made Simple — This paper discusses an approach that makes CIP automation a straightforward task and provides ample modularity and flexibility through the use and application of ANSI/ISA-88 (S-88) concepts.
- Process eTalk — This quarterly eNewsletter will help you stay up to date on the latest trends and topics within the process industries.
Effective OPC Security for Control Systems - Solutions You Can Bank On
For the past decade, industrial control systems administrators and engineers wanted to believe that 'air gaps' truly existed between their systems and the rest of the world. They have also hoped that 'security by obscurity' would keep them safe from security threats. Those days are over. While the consequences of cyber attacks and malware are no longer in doubt, the question remains. "Exactly how can an engineer reliably secure his or her control system?" This white paper outlines a simple and cost effective answer - a security solution based on OPC technology that can be deployed in almost any industrial facility today.04/09/2012
Guidelines for Evaluating Control System Performance
Most plants have a huge opportunity to improve control system performance. The control system directly impacts the operation of the plant, and control loop problems lead directly to loss of efficiency, reduced production rates and other factors, affecting the bottom line. Measuring control systems performance is important and there are many ways to do it. Download this e-book to learn how ExperTune's PlantTriage software measures over 80 different aspects of control performance and to learn how you can improve control performance at your plant.11/28/2011
Upgrading That Aging DCS - New Plug-In Solution Paper
Plant managers are increasingly forced to maintain aging control systems while meeting management calls for improved productivity and quality. If you're ready for a change, this new paper was developed to help you select your best option. The paper covers: How to determine what is "end of life"; The pros and cons of different upgrade options - total system replacement, "gateway" options, I/O replacement; and the relative costs for each approach.09/02/2011
A Systematic Approach To Plantwide Control
This paper summarizes Sigurd Skogestad's struggles in the plantwide control field.
A chemical plant may have thousands of measurements and control loops. By the term plantwide control it is not meant the tuning and behavior of each of these loops, but rather the control philosophy of the overall plant with emphasis on the structural decisions. In practice, the control system is usually divided into several layers, separated by time scale.
My interest in this field of plantwide control dates back to 1983 when I started my PhD work at Caltech. As an application, I worked on distillation column control, which is excellent example of a plantwide control problem. I was inspired by Greg Shinskey's book on Distillation Control, which came out with a second edition in 1984 (Shinskey, 1984). In particular, I liked his systematic procedure, which involved computing the steady-state relative gain array (RGA) for 12 different control structures ("configurations"); the DV-configuration, LV-configuration, ratio configuration, and so on. However, when I looked in more detail on the procedure I discovered that its theoretical basis was weak. First, it did not actually include all structures, and it even eliminated the DB-configuration as "impossible" even through it is workable in practise (Luyben, 1989). Second, controllability theory tells that the steady-state RGA by itself is actually not useful, except that one should avoid pairing on negative gains. Third, the procedure focused on dual composition control, while one in practise uses only single end control, for example, because it may be optimal economically to use maximum heating to maximize the recovery of the valuable product.01/25/2011
Understanding REACH
Registration Evaluation Authorization and Restriction of Chemical Substances
It is certainly no secret to anyone that the past decade has placed a renewed focus on the environment and how all members of the world community, to include business organizations, affect it. Concerns about protecting the world in which we live have been the impetus behind such worldwide movements as recycling and renewable energy. From a manufacturing standpoint, RoHS (Reduction of Hazardous Substances) has impacted businesses as well as REACH, a more recent set of regulations that are becoming more significant to North American based manufacturing operations that are part of a supply chain that directly or indirectly supplies products into the European Union.
As with any new regulatory requirements, the initial exposure to the documentation can create a degree of uncertainty among those who will be asked to comply. From this perspective, REACH is no different from any of its predecessors. In an attempt to offer some understanding of the REACH regulations and some clarification of the requirements it places on manufacturers, C&M Corporation gathered Michael Karg, Director of Product Development, along with Randy Elliott, Regulatory Compliance Engineer, and Ariann Griffin, Regulatory Compliance Technician, to discuss some of the particulars of REACH and respond to some of the questions C&M has been discussing with members of its client base.
What is the purpose of REACH?12/13/2010
How A Biogas Processing System Manufacturer Identified the Best Flow Meter for Gas Measurement
Klargastechnik Deutschland GmbH's equipment and processes help customers address organic biomass fermentation and recovery while supporting electric power co-generation. The result is clean, green electric power that also reduces both solid waste and hazardous toxic gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, which pollute the environment and contribute to global warming.
In order to provide these benefits, the company's equipment and systems rely on highly precise and reliable flow measurement of process waste gases. Measuring biogas flow at several points in the system provides operators with critical information for optimal gas production, control, safety and reporting. However, Biogas applications present several challenges in selecting the proper flow meter.
Download this application note to learn how a biogas processinf system manufacturer can identify the best flow meter for gas measurements.10/28/2010
A Blueprint for the Real Time Enterprise
Manufacturing and production processes have had to be controlled and managed in real time from inception because they change in real time frames. This has been a natural premise of industrial systems from the very beginning.
A major shift in the business of manufacturing has occurred over the past decade which is driving the dynamics of the business of production and manufacturing into the real time domain. Business variables, such as energy prices, feedstock prices and even product prices have rapidly transitioned from highly transactional time frames into real time frames. For example, a decade ago it was not unusual for an industrial plant to establish a contract with its energy supplier that essentially set the price over an extended time period, of often 6 months or even a year. Today, in most parts of the world, long term fixed price energy contracts are not being offered and the price of energy can change multiple times in a day. The implications of this transition are clear. Industrial business functions must operate in real time to be effective and efficient. Industrial companies that do not move to real time business operations will be at a severe disadvantage in their marketplace.10/25/2010
Real-Time Profit Optimization
Distributed Control Systems (DCS) have been successfully utilized to help control manufacturing and production processes since the late 1970s. The primary function of these DCS systems has been the automatic feedback control of the various process loops across the plants and the human interfacing with plant operators guiding the production from control rooms. Although these systems have proven to be very successful at improving the efficiency of industrial operations as compared with earlier control technologies, the state-of-the-art has not grown significantly since their inception. Most plants still operate exactly as they did 40 years ago.
Considerable research and development has been invested in expanding the functionality of DCS's in the areas of advanced controls and advanced manufacturing execution software. Numerous industrial plants have started to employ advanced controls in critical or high-value process operations, with some venturing into the use of advanced application software packages, each typically designed to address a specific issue or challenge within the industrial operations. Entrepreneurial software companies typically developed the software at this level of operation, essentially between the automation and business levels, often referred to as the manufacturing execution software (MES).
Although some industrial operations implemented advanced control and advanced MES software, the vast majority of processes are still controlled by simple automatic feedback control. The efficiency and effectiveness of most plants is a function of the installed feedback control systems. As a result, many industrial managers have expressed concerns that, in spite of the huge investments made in automation systems and software, plants do not appear to be operating better than they had been 30 years ago. In some cases, the plants actually appear to be operating less efficiently, possibly due to the reduced and inexperienced work forces and aging equipment.10/25/2010
Best Practices for Facilitating Engineering Workflow
Process engineering focuses on the design, operation and maintenance of chemical and material processes in a vast range of industries. This white paper identifies process simulation tools to seamlessly integrate throughout the process design life cycle and discusses best practices for facilitating engineering workflow.08/11/2010
Evaluation of an Alternate Soft Charge Circuit for Diode Front End Variable Frequency Drives
Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) with diode rectifier front end are typically equipped with a resistorcontactor arrangement to limit the inrush current into the dc bus capacitors, thereby providing a means for soft charging the dc bus capacitors. Because of the mechanical nature of the magnetic contactor typically used in VFDs, there exists a concern for fatigue. In addition, during a brown out condition, typically the contactor remains closed and when the voltage recovers, the ensuing transient is often large enough to possibly cause unfavorable influence to surrounding components in the VFD. Many researchers and application engineers have thought about this issue and many are actively seeking non-mechanical solutions in a cost effective manner.
In this paper, a new topology to soft charge the dc bus capacitor is proposed. Other techniques that have been evaluated are also introduced. The relative advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Experimental tests to show the feasibility of the proposed idea is also provided.05/17/2010
A Hybrid 18-Pulse Rectification Scheme for Diode Front End Variable Frequency Drives
Diode rectifier with large DC bus capacitors, used in the front ends of Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs), draw discontinuous current from the power system resulting in current distortion and hence voltage distortion. Typically, the power system can handle current distortion without showing signs of voltage distortion. However, when the majority of the load on a distribution feeder is made up of VFDs, current distortion becomes an important issue. Multi-pulse techniques to reduce input harmonics are popular because they do not interfere with the existing power system either from higher conducted EMI when active techniques are used or from possible resonance, when capacitor based filters are employed.
In this paper, a new 18-pulse topology is proposed that has two six-pulse rectifiers powered via a phase-shifting isolation transformer, while the third six-pulse rectifier is fed directly from the AC source via a matching-impedance. This idea relies on harmonic current cancellation strategy rather than the flux cancellation method and results in lower overall harmonics. It is also seen to be smaller in size and weight, and lower in cost compared to an isolation transformer. Experimental results are given to validate the concept.05/17/2010
Understanding the Concepts Behind Short Circuit Current Ratings (SCCR)
The date of January 1, 2005 sits vividly in the minds of manufacturers within the industrial control panel field. That's because that's the day when the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) National Electrical Code (NEC) 2005 Article 409 officially went into effect. The code required that short circuit current rating be clearly marked on the industrial control panels in order to be inspected and approved. The markings made it easier to verify proper over-current protection against hazards such as fires and shocks on components or equipment, whether it be for initial installation or relocation. It was the beginning of an era when things would become a little more complicated, but for all the right reasons of ensuring more safety within the industrial world.
The main vision of the NFPA is to reduce or limit the burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating scientifically based consensus codes and standards, research, training and education. These codes and standards were established to minimize the possibility of and effects of fire and other risks. Due to misinterpretations, inconsistencies and advancements in technology over the years, they have had to update their codes with consistency in order to comply with existing standards.
Therefore, the focus of this paper will look at the changes that occurred due to Article 409, the impacts that it had, who was affected by the code and how to comply with the code. Precautions like this article had been enforced in the past, but they were too vague, so people found ways to get around them.
The biggest change that took place within the article was the new requirements adopted for industrial machinery electrical panels, industrial control panels, some HVAC equipment, meter disconnect switches and various motor controllers. For the purpose of this paper, we will be concentrating on industrial control panels which are specified as assemblies rated for 600V or less and intended for general use. All in all, it states that the above products must feature a safe design and be clearly marked with specific information concerning Short Circuit Current Rating (SCCR) in efforts of aiding with the designing, building, installation and inspection of the control panels. This way, the above users can both reference and apply all the needed requirements for all new products and installations as well as for modifying existing ones.05/17/2010
Seven Ways Today's Distributed Control Systems (DCS) Can Improve Your Operations
In the past, DCS systems were large, expensive and very complex. This drove many control engineers to use programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and human machine interface (HMI) in order to lower cost. Today, these implementations are consistently more expensive than DCS systems for the same process or batch application. Many forward thinking engineers using PLCs and HMI in process or batch applications have learned there are ways to significantly reduce costs, speed implementation and improve operations. Download this white paper to learn key advantages of DCS systems over PLC/HMI engineered systems and the typical value of each.04/20/2010


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Reply0#62 - luthervonappledorf (06/21/2013) [-]
Well I guess I can now get a **** ton of pre-owned games. I don't see how this does anything but help me get cheap games.
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MFW i would trade 360's 360 games for a PS4
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To who? You're selling your games to GAMESTOP, (or whichever place you sold them to). Why would Microsoft give a **** ? You're now without games (many of which you no doubt love playing), and said place is now many games richer.
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With the benefits for developers, such as Visual Studio being per-ready to develop, it's much easier and thus more likely small developers and startups like me would dev for it over other consoles, well played move on they're part, any way you slice it.
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I've listened to Rush Limbaugh off and on for 20 years now. I agree with him on most things. I wish his personal life wasn't so dramatic and unfortunate, but no one can argue the fact that he is the best broadcaster out there, bar none.
Through the years I've always been amazed how right he was, and I'm not talking about issues or personal beliefs. I'm talking about predictions and the reasons behind political decisions. He warned us during the primaries that nominating anyone but a true conservative would be the wrong candidate. I didn't believe him. Like a lot of Republicans, I thought we needed a more moderate Republican. One who had compromised with the other side. One that would bring us the independents and moderate Democrats. I thought McCain fit that to a tee. And he did. But I was wrong, and Rush was right. When we stick to our ideals and principles, we win.
But for the last year Rush has been saying something about the Obama administration that I can't wrap my mind around. I just can't believe it could possibly be true. What is it? Well, if you have been listening to Rush you know.
He believes that the Obama administration is destroying the economy on purpose. On purpose. He says that the more people depend on the government, the more control the government has over the people and it's institutions. He says this plan is a way for Democrats to stay in power…..always. If the majority of people depend on the government for their security and livelihood, and the Democrats are the ones promising more goodies from the government (not to mention ACORN type voter registration including illegal aliens voting), then the people will keep voting them in. It isn't Democracy and liberty, but in the end it's all about power.
I just could never buy that. It's too far out. Too conspiratorial. I've always believed that the road to hell is paved with Democrat's good intentions. I believed that programs like welfare and food stamps was a compassionate idea gone bad. I thought that the Democrats really did just want to help the poor, and had no idea that it would cause generational poverty that takes away the dignity of the person.
The problem with that is that it's been clear for years that it did cause generational poverty. It's clear that these programs, full of fraud and waste, have had disastrous effects. In the black community it has caused 70-80% of black children born into unwed homes, children raised without fathers, increase in crime and incarceration, despair, and drug addiction. When it comes to welfare in the white and hispanic community the statistics aren't much better.
Yet, with all the evidence around us, the Democrat still insist on more and more dependency on the government. They still push for more programs, more money for these programs, and more big government.
Could Rush be right again? Could it possibly be true that all this is on purpose?? Could it be possible that this is all about power? That the bigger dream is that those like Obama, who see themselves so much smarter than the rest of us, who know better than even our founding fathers, who see themselves as our parents who need to guide us and show us how to live, actually sees a economic morass as a perfect opportunity to take more and more control so they can implement their version of their liberal Utopia?
It boggles my mind. I can't accept that.
But then, I was wrong about McCain too.
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You need to get out and meet some more homeschoolers. We're a very diverse community now days. The reason MOST homeschoolers begin their journey is because they've lost faith in the public school system's ability to meet their child's educational needs. Public school protectionist would like people to believe it's about religion and not their performance.
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(link...) "No matter what we're going through in life, if God has called us to homeschool, He will give us the grace, wisdom and strength!"
(link...) "Listen December 22 to hear Jim Bob and Steve address the importance of the father's role in home education. (What? You mean homeschooling isn't just a mom thing?) Listen as they share a biblical vision of rebuilding a Christian culture through godly families led by godly fathers."
(link...) "Barb Shelton offers advice to Christian parents who are frustrated either with their children's school situation or with burnout with their curriculum choice."
(link...) "Sonlight has been serving the Christian homeschooling curriculum audience since 1990. Sonlight's four- or five-day per week complete curriculum packages enable you to…"
(link...) "Christian Homeschool Community is an online community of families who desire to serve the Lord. Some are in the process of homeschooling, others are grandparents and others are just considering home education as an option."
These were just from the first page on Google - Results 1 - 10 of about 902,000 for homeschooling christian.
The Metro Council voted her into office by the slimmest of margins, 18-17, despite the fact that she possesses few, if any, qualifications normally associated with running a billion-dollar corporation, which is what the Metro school system is.
Brooks doesn't even have a college degree, let alone a post-graduate degree. She's a stay-at-home mother who home-schooled her four children—not the strongest endorsement for public education. She's been married to somebody named Jon Brooks for 20 years and she's a "good Christian mother," according to Craddock's endorsement to the council.
With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
Key words: lost faith Okay,
Key words: lost faith
Okay, so we latch onto one word and discredit the entire rest of the statement? And the Nashville Scene is all you could come up with about Kay? Andy, you could have just clicked her name in the message above and found out more about what Kay does than the alternative newsweekly you linked to.
Kay is right, that we are a diverse group now, and if the truth be told, the original families that started homeschooling were not doing so for religious reasons but were being forced to step in and rescue their children from institutions that were just not interested in helping their children.
The loudest voices seldom speak for the whole, and that's where homeschooling is today. The face of homeschooling you seem to see most often is that fundamentalist, young earth creationist, quiver full type, and it's just easier to assume all homeschoolers are like that. Maybe you just haven't met my family.
Homeschooling For Religious Reasons
OK, all you non-Christian homeschoolers, raise your hands...
(As it turns out, there are Jewish and even secular home schoolers, but I suspect they make up just a tiny fraction of the tiny fraction that home schools...)
Two hands raised..........
Two hands raised.......... and I, as a liberal, pro-public education, non-Christian homeschooling parent have many friends in the greater Knox County area who are just like us. We don't ask for much, so you simply don't know we are out here raising happy and successful kids.
Re: Two hands raised
I'd be curious to know what your reasons are.
Long story short
It is not what the reasons are, rather it is what the reasons were. It was what was best for the boys. That is all that matters in the long run. Younger kidlet is in '11th' grade carrying a full college load. Mission Accomplished.
I never suggest this path for anyone. The reasons families make the choice to homeschool or send their kids to private schools or use the public school option are as varied as why people pick any given church. All them churches gots religion, but which is best for you?
Note the headline:
Note the headline: Homeschooling for "religious reasons". Then note the irony of the story.
Anyway, I've only ever known one family of homeschoolers personally (well, two now counting Mello). Their motivations had nothing to do with religion or lack thereof in schools. There are lots of valid reasons to homeschool.
But anyone with a lick of common sense has to know that many homeschoolers are all about the lack of religion in schools (sorry to stereotype, because there are plenty of exceptions as noted, but just check Andy's links).
That's what I found ironic about this story.
One thing I note about this
One thing I note about this whole discussion is that not one bit of data is provided either way. I don't plan to change that much but I did note this interesting bit of info:
The Bob Jones University (BJU) Press Testing and Evaluation Service is the largest and oldest of four organizations providing home school families access to standardized achievement tests.
Bob Jones U...Really? And looking at the acheivement score of homeschooled kids they are quite high compared to the general population, only they aren't the general population. There's no comparative data to show how these kids would have performed in Public school. A couple of things are alluded to though...They are great spellers and memorizers and not so good at critical thinking. This is not universal and may, once again, be related to the demographics of who gets home schooled rather than any fault of the scenario.
(I kept mine in public school and just talked with them and helped with homework a lot. They seem to have good social skills, diverse friends, and one is one track for Magna Cum Laude. The other is a scholarship athlete on the dean's list. Purely anecdotal and of no value to the discussion, except for bragging rights. We homeschooled in the afternoons and weekends on canoing, kayaking, camping, and social activism.)
I think you've hit on
I think you've hit on something here. For most of the last 8 of the last 10 years I've taught freshman English at either a four-year college or a community college. The two years that I didn't, I taught high school journalism at an Episcopal high school.
Almost to a kid, the ones who did best -- thought critically and had curiosity and flexibility -- where the ones who had a strong parental support, but not helicopter parents, and were acquainted with a cross section of the world, not just everyone just like them.
In my current work, with students who score low on the ACT and need remedial work before going on, there is a very large proponent of conservative religious background, so that even if they weren't homeschooled they have a narrow view of the world. The exceptions are kids who were bored in school because they didn't see a connection between what they were doing and what they were interested in re the real world.
Interestingly, I'm in the midst of end of the semester grading right now. This semester I had a homeschooled girl take two of my classes as part of her curriculum. One was college reading, the other a study skills course. The 16-year-old regularly was in the top 5 percent in both classes in large part because she was a proactive student, not a reactive one.
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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut
if more of Knox County
if more of Knox County Schools were accredited by SACS, maybe less people would pull their kids out. Maybe that's more important than religion. Good to see, though, that Dogwood, Copper Ridge, Gap Creek, Inskip, Rocky Hill, and Karns elementary schools, among others, FINALLY got accredited...in 2007.
That's just a sad commentary on the priorities of our school system and our County government. Comparatively, West High was accredited in 1951. Good to know these schools followed, only 56 years later.
What happened in between?
I wish my son would have had
I wish my son would have had you for a teacher Pam. At 16 the kid did incredibly well on the ACT but his um, whatever English 101 thingy teacher was not a Vonnegut fan. :-)
Our biggest problem is simply that the kidlets had planned on attending UC Santa Cruz or Cal Poly, which sadly won't happen. Pelli and UT here they come.
I have a former student at
I have a former student at UC Santa Barbara. She wanted to go to Standford, but didn't make it and was determined to go to California. Santa Cruz is great.
The thing is there are very good teachers at both P-zippy and UT. The problem at the community colleges is that you've got a mandatory five-course load fora semester and in the writing classes -- especially freshman comp and the developmental classes -- they make the classes too big and the teachers are just plain worn out. They can't give everything to there students that they need, and sometimes even want. Or, they have adjuncts who are the most underpaid people in the academic world, and then they are trying to make up for it by doing other work or adjuncting at other places -- I've known adjuncts to teach eight courses on three campuses. It's insane.
At UT, they only have to have an interesting cross section of folks teaching freshman comp. The one thing they have done which is actually forward thinking is that Comp is no longer based on literature. Instead it's rhetoric based, which actually helps the students when they are writing in their field of study. And, they have some great people teaching it.
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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut
Small classes at UT
"The problem at the community colleges is that ...in the writing classes -- especially freshman comp and the developmental classes -- they make the classes too big. At UT, they only have to have an interesting cross section of folks teaching freshman comp."
It was over thirty years ago that I took freshman comp at UT, but I landed in an honors section with just 12 or so kids in our class. More often than not, we met outside the McClung Tower, under a tree. Another honors English colloquium, of probably fewer than 12, met inside the Tower, sprawled on sofas in our professor's office. These settings and others equally relaxed were grand venues so far as this former freshman was concerned, and I dearly loved my classes from the start.
A couple of years back, though, I was alarmed to learn that my daughter's high school honors English class had 28 enrolled! I phoned the number for UT's honors program, to recount my experience there years ago and to ask if the classes were still as small (and nomadic). I was told yes, that classroom size averaged about 15 students in the program.
(Once my daughter was a high school sophomore and taking her first AP classes, though, I noticed they do run about 15 to a class, at least at her high school. She reports that it's because about half the students enrolled in the honors/AP program as frosh are gone, now that they're all juniors...)
But I'm veering way off topic. Just meant to suggest, Mello, that depending on where your kids land at UT, they may yet receive that close attention of the sort you gave them. Carry on.
How do I say this
How do I say this without appearing to insult anyone? We have no complaints and nothing but praise for Pelli. Certainly the pre-calc class which dwindled down to a very small handful of students would never be considered overcrowded. I said I wished the kidlet could have had Pam as a teacher because I am at least somewhat familiar with her perspectives from her writings on here.
The vast majority of students in the kidlet's E-1010 class came in with a shared experience via high school. They had read the same books while in high school. Those books are not the same books which influenced my kid so he has an entirely different perspective and that shows in his writings. He went in thinking he would get a chance to discuss everyone from Edward Abbey to KV. That did not happen but they did talk about Toby Keith a great deal.
As I said, I don't ever suggest to anyone that they should homeschool and I most certainly would not say don't do it. We have lived in 5 states in the past 11 years and this afforded us the opportunity for the kids to have accumulated friends and experiences with great cultural diversity. This first semester at Pelli has shown that we as parents have failed in one aspect of raisin' the kids. Somehow, some way, our open minded and rather liberal philosophy created a couple of kids who are rather bigoted against southern white men. Go figure.....
I can assure you that Toby
I can assure you that Toby Keith's name has never come up in any of my classes.
However, I did use the Dixie Chicks once in how to deal with a title because the name of the CD and the song are the same, and I was trying to distinguish how to treat titles of different types of things.
And, Tamara, is right that at UT the honors program is good. And, my guess, is that even regular Comp is 20-22. It's the community colleges that go with larger numbers.
Pam Strickland
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut
The medieval adjunct teacher scam...
Most universities have fewer and fewer regular staff and more and more adjuncts. Don't even get me started. I was an adjunct for years. REALLY bad pay. You can't even survive without teaching 4 classes. More than that, and you ought to be in a mental institution.
Most universities and colleges have a rule that adjuncts can only teach 2 classes. That's to keep from having to pay them well or give any medical benefits. So most adjuncts drive between two schools, using up time and gas, to just make a bare living wage. My students were making more at Papa Gino's.
I quit being an adjunct because I felt I could no longer be a part of such an archaic system. It was originally designed for housewives, retired people, or experts with other income who enjoyed teaching. I forget what the figures are but many, many schools only hire a few full time teachers with adjuncts making up the rest of the staff.
I loved teaching. My classes were packed, but I hated the adjunct role. The universities I worked for really liked me, but they only had a few full time or tenure positions and they were filled by teachers who weren't leaving. When a professor died or moved away, the waiting list of adjuncts who had been teaching at that school for years and deserved to be hired first was usually lengthly. Parents and self-paying students keep seeing tuiton rise, but that's seldom reflected in instructor pay.
Many of the adjuncts I worked with were spectacular teachers. Some far better than the tenured old toads who had long forgotten what it was like to have enthusiasm for the subjects they taught. It's a hard slog for adjuncts. I admire their desire to teach, but abhor their treatment.
It is heartening to know that as a group adjunct professors are beginning to understand how critical they are to the university system. They are beginning to stand up for themselves.
The whole system as my granddaughter would say: SUCKS BIG TIME.
That's great. It's happening
That's great. It's happening more and more across the country, but given the labor attitudes in Tennessee, it could be a while. I'm friends with the union guy with Campus Workers United at UT and I know there are discussions about doing work with the community colleges and other educational institutions in ET. Fingers crossed.
Pam Strickland
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut
We're -considering-
We're -considering- homeschooling our son, at least for the first few grades. Not for religious reasons but for educational.
My wife has many cousins out in California who were homeschooled (also not for religious reasons) and who've turned out incredibly well, including one award-winning filmmaker who is now 19 years old ((link...)).
We're considering it as
We're considering it as well. Not for religious reasons either. My wife is a certified teacher. She's currently of the mind that if she is going to be at home, she might as well school the kids. We have a couple of years yet to decide.
When I was in high school
When I was in high school and college I dated a guy from a homeschool family for about four years. I got to know them and the other homeschoolers in the association with which they were involved. I can say for certain that the difference between successful homeschool families and iffy ones is intent. The guy's mother homeschooled her kids because she could give them a better education at home. She did not do it to hide her children from the rest of society, which was the case with so many other homeschoolers I met. Her kids were hooked into their peer groups through outside activities like Boy and Girl Scouts, karate, soccer and more, while other families were getting all their outside social interaction from church.
That really made the difference for her kids. They worked better in society and made a better transition to college than the "hiding" homeschoolers. It's important to realize that school isn't just about academic learning. It's about learning to socialize, learning to work and live with people who are different from you, learning to adapt to changing situations. If you do homeschool, please get your kids involved in outside activities. It really is the key.
Lots of reasons to homeschool
My friends who did delivered an education without wasted admin time and BS in the government schools. Simply takes less time out of the day, leaving time for music, art, sports. There is quite a large homeschool population in Knoxville who meet regularly for group activities. The kids are not isolated in any way. I was very impressed with the maturity of their kids.
It's funny that we turned
It's funny that we turned this thread into the merits and demerits of homeschooling when it was originally about protecting one's children from a school system that allows other people to push their religion on them without the parent's permission.
The "Praying Parents" should be renamed th "Preying Parents." They were claiming their religious rights were being infringed, when in fact they were the infringers. We have no right to proselytize our religious views on other's children without their permission.
Irony is an illusive thing sometimes.
Raising My Hand
Religious homeschoolers get all the press, but there have always been many of us who homeschooled for other reasons, including a basic disagreement with the 'read and regurgitate' philosophy of education.
Homeschooling or unschooling was a great experience for my family; my kids are closer because of it. Some years the kids went to public school, many years they did not. John Holt's unschooling network was a big help; we networked with liberal homeschoolers in Knoxville and all over the state. It's not for everyone, but for my family, it was a wonderful experience.
Homeschooler here!
We do not homeschool for religious reasons.
The strength in homeschooling lies in the ability to customize your curriculum to the kids' learning style and interests. I have 2 very different kids and I use completely different methods and curriculum for each. So far, our test scores are out the wazoo - post high school level for our fifth grader, and many homeschooling friends achieving the same or better results. Lots of the high schoolers wind up earning dual credits at community colleges, as I think many public school kids do.
I don't think it is what it might have used to be, judging from the funny looks people give me when I say I homeschool. There are stay-home dads taking on the home education while the mom works, and there are many, many former public school teachers (several who moonlight at Pellissippi teaching college-level courses). Homeschoolers are rich and poor and everything in between. I know lots of folks who homeschool their ONE kid, and quite a number who homeschool four, five, and even eight kids.
I think people assume homeschoolers don't get out enough or are "over-sheltered," but really, that just isn't the case. Even the very fundamentalist ones I know are very busy - and not just with church. There are clubs, weekly classes, lessons, field trips, socials, teams, bees, contests, field days - you name it - for homeschooled kids and parents to be involved in. My family spends a lot of time on the road, and lots of time with other kids. We also have the flexibility to take the children on lots of trips, to expose them to many cultures. This has been a priority for us.
Here's an interesting tidbit for you, though. The state offers 3 ways to homeschool. Option 1 is to sign up with the Local Education Association. The others both require specifically a "church-related" school. Parents without a 4-year college degree cannot homeschool without the aid of a church-related school. So you might say that non-religious, or atheist parents wishing to homeschool are discriminated against in the state of Tennessee. At least the ones who didn't get a degree.
Student Teacher Ratio
It seems you can't beat a low student teacher ratio to produce extraordinary results. If we fought to have our school system lower the number of students per class, could all the students benefit from a better education?
Some of us are not gifted, talented or have the patience to home school our children.
I'd all but guarantee it. I
I'd all but guarantee it. I know there's a different in my classes when they are small and when they are bursting at the seams. A really good size for the courses I teach is 14-17. The official cut-off is 25. This semester two of them had 28 enrolled.
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