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One of the greatest influences on students' performance is their classroom teacher.
But even the best educators are only effective when they show up, and school officials in Buffalo are raising concerns about high rates of absenteeism among teachers.
The long-simmering issue came to the forefront during recent negotiations for a new contract with the Buffalo Teachers Federation, when district leaders noted that one in four teachers missed 15 or more days during the 2015-2016 school year. About half missed between five and 15 days.
"I always try to break things down when I'm looking at a district, and when I looked at Buffalo I was concerned about the chronic absences," said Superintendent Kriner Cash. "Buffalo has some very good teachers and a lot of those were coming on a regular basis, irregardless of the contract. The issue for me isn't all the teachers, but I am concerned about the chronic absences."
The district's data mirror several national studies that suggest Buffalo's teacher absentee problem is one of the worst in the country, with one report ranking the district first for chronic teacher absences. The National Council on Teacher Quality reports that during the 2012-2013 school year, 37 percent of Buffalo teachers missed 18 or more days, compared to 16 percent nationally.
To be sure, teachers are not necessarily taking more days off than they are allowed in their contract, which grants them 12 sick and five personal days in addition to time off for holidays and summer recess. Some teachers are also called out of class to attend training sessions or meetings.
Philip Rumore, Buffalo Teachers Federation president, notes that teachers are often exposed to germs when students come to school sick. And they have the same personal obligations, health issues and family emergencies requiring time off as those in other professions.
"There are a whole lot of reasons teachers take off," Rumore said, without explaining why these factors weigh more heavily in Buffalo than in other districts. "If you're in a school building, there's usually at least one kid who is sick. What, they want a teacher to come to school sick and get the whole class sick?"
Rumore added that there are safeguards in the contract to prevent teachers from taking days off unnecessarily. For example, they can't take days off immediately before or after holidays. And if principals suspect someone is taking time off unnecessarily, they can request a doctor's note.
Still, the issue is of enough concern that district leaders wanted to both scale back the number of days off allowed in the contract and give bonuses to teachers to show up more often. Both ideas were rejected by the BTF, but Cash and some members of the School Board have made tackling the issue a priority moving forward.
"At the end of the day, I want the children to get as many hours in front of a qualified teacher as they can get," said School Board Member Sharon Belton-Cottman, who has pressed the issue. "My concern is that there are times the children aren't covered with adequate teachers."
A chronic problem
Student attendance is a central issue in conversations about turning around low-performing schools, but in recent years how often teachers come to class has also become a focus.
Some school leaders say that excessive teacher absenteeism creates disruption and drives inconsistencies in what students are learning. It also carries the cost of hiring substitute teachers. Last school year the Buffalo district allocated $7.5 million to pay for substitute teachers, up from $5.9 million in 2011.
The issue has become enough of a concern that the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights now requires school districts to report teacher attendance every two years. In 2014, the National Council on Teacher Quality also collected its own data to compile a national report comparing 40 of the country's largest urban districts.
Although that study ranked Buffalo second for teachers with excellent attendance – those who missed three or fewer days – the district topped the list for those with chronic absences, defined as missing more than 18 days.
A similar analysis by Education Week found that one in four teachers nationwide missed 10 or more days of school. The Office of Civil Rights data indicate that in Buffalo, that number is nearly three out of four.
Both studies found that teacher absenteeism rates were virtually the same for schools with high and low concentrations of students living in poverty, but in Buffalo that was not always the case.
The four schools where fewer than half of students qualified for free or reduced price lunch also had some of the lowest teacher absenteeism in the district. That included City Honors School, Olmsted 64, Olmsted 156 and Discovery School in South Buffalo.
The two Olmsteds had the best teacher attendance in the district, and both saw a decrease in absenteeism between 2009 and 2014.
Among schools with higher poverty rates, however, the range of teacher absenteeism was much wider, with some lower-income schools posting low absentee figures and others having some of the worst teacher attendance in the district.
At schools where roughly 90 percent of students qualified for free or reduced price lunch, the percentage of teachers missing 10 or more days ranged from 46 percent – one of the lowest absenteeism rates in the district – to 100 percent of the staff who missed at least 10 days.
The high number of teacher absences is driven in part by the terms of the BTF contract, which is widely regarded as one of the strongest in the country.
The National Council on Teacher Quality maintains a database of contracts for 114 urban school systems, across which teachers get an average of 12.7 days of leave each year. The number ranges from 8 to 25, putting Buffalo's 17 days at the high end.
Academic impact
This isn't the first time the issue of teacher attendance was part of the conversation in the Buffalo Public Schools.
In 2010, the district released a report on employee absenteeism that found that on a typical day more than 10 percent of school employees were absent. School officials decried what they called a "culture of absenteeism" and suggested a correlation between the number of days missed by a teacher and a student's academic performance.
Rumore criticized the study because it included days teachers missed class to attend mandated meetings and training sessions.
"The last time they did a study like this they included days that teachers were out for in-services, chemotherapy and workers comp," he said, referring to the 2010 report.
Regardless of the reason, the district's study found that the more often teachers missed class, the more their students' performance suffered.
At the time, the district noted that students whose teacher missed five to 10 days scored an average of three points lower on the state English assessment than students whose teacher missed four or fewer days. Students whose teachers missed 11 or more days scored an average of eight points lower.
In math, students whose teacher missed five to 10 days scored an average of six points lower than students whose teacher missed four or fewer days; those whose teacher missed 11 or more days scored an average of 11 points lower.
The district has taken some steps to ensure teachers are in the classroom more often. For example, it has tried to schedule more meetings and training at times outside of the school day so that teachers do not have to miss class when they are required to attend.
Cash said the next step will be collecting more data to get a better handle on which teachers are chronically absent and looking for any particular trends at schools or among groups.
Another step will be improving the culture in buildings so that everyone – teachers and students alike - want to come to school.
"Culture is absolutely important," Cash said. "There's a lot of work I've done since I've come here to make these cultures stronger, quicker. As we stabilize the schools and the district culture here in Buffalo, I expect that these numbers will go up."


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Instagram just announced its latest feature: Instagram Stories.
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As users choose to share a photo or video to their story, the content is strung together in slideshow form and posted in a special bar at the top of their feed.
That's the beauty of it, these story posts won't clog up your aesthetically pleasing profile grid--and poof, after 24 hours, the content is gone.
With stories, text, paint and emoji can also be added to spice up each picture or video.
Sound familiar? It should-- as it's pretty much the same feature that Snapchat made popular. You know what they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?
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Sri Lankan rupee (LKR)
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The New Nintendo 2DS XL is an interesting proposition. This new version of Nintendo's marquee handheld comes a few months after the launch of the Switch. In a world where the Switch exists, why would you go back to the old form factor? Well, it's still easier to transport with the smaller form factor and the Switch cannot currently compete with the extensive game library available. There are many Nintendo titles, fantastic RPGs, and other fun surprises that make this is one of my favorite systems ever. The bigger question is not why a new version exists, but if this is now the new entry point into the Nintendo ecosystem.
From a design perspective, I absolutely love the New Nintendo 2DS XL. Our unit, sent over by Nintendo, is a beautiful ice white with orange accents. (The only disappointing thing about this model is that this version won't be available in North America.) The buttons and the ring on top make the handheld spark without the slippery edges of the New Nintendo 3DS XL. Sure, it is a cheaper material, but I feel more happy to wrap my hands around it. Despite using less premium parts, the handheld feels better built to last. The hinge feels more fixed than before and the shoulder buttons are more sturdier as they require a firmer push.
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An exploration by Rolf A. F. Witzsche
Sex is a strange subject. Sex is a feature of our humanity that civilized people are not supposed to look at, or even think about. Still, people go out of their way all over the world to make themselves sexually attractive to one another. The world is full of such paradoxes. In the social context the subject of sex is almost taboo, if not forbidden for the sake of civility. Nevertheless, we human beings, are sexual beings with sexual needs which we need to satisfy and always have to some degree, apparently for as long as human beings graced this planet with their evermore complex culture.
Across the space of the last two million years mankind's development took place primarily against the background of long periods of glaciation -- the cyclical Ice Ages of the Plistocene epoch of geologic history -- typically 100,000 years in duration, interspersed by warm periods in the range of 12,000 years. Thus, 85% of mankind's journey through the ages took place in the cold periods of the ice age cycles. We know from archaeological discoveries that many human settlements during the glaciation periods, of not all of them, were primarily in the form of coastal communities.
The extend of the typical Ice-Age deep-freeze is illustrated by the huge ice sheet that is known to have covered much of the North American continent reaching as far south as the State of Wisconsin. The ice sheet is believed to have been several thousand feet thick and may have carved out the Great Lakes in its flow. The English Channel is also deemed to have been carved out of the ground by a similar large ice mass. These long cycles of extreme glaciation are evidently not conducive to the massive plant-growth that is typically necessary to support large animal populations. Mankind's food resources were therefore mainly derived from the sea during the glaciation cycles, with a few exceptions of course.
The evidence for this is found in the ruins of ancient villages that are presently several hundred feet under water, but which would have been located at the coast during the Ice Age when enormous volumes of water were stacked up on land in the form of ice. The villages appear to have been fishing villages. Under Ice Age conditions the biotic world would likely have been severely depressed so that the oceans would have been the major food resource, if not the only food resource, which also would likely have been depressed by the cold. It is not unreasonable to assume from that, that the fishery during these cold times was rather meager. It might have required the men 'hunting' the fish to have have been away from their villages for long periods of time in the likely necessary process of searching for the ever-moving fish stocks. As a consequence the men and women would likely have been isolated for long periods and thereby left alone to deal with their sexual-biological needs.
Here a range of biological factors come into play, inherently different ones according to the male and female biology. Over the millennia many religious myths were spun about human sexuality that have pushed a number of the built-in needs, and also qualities, far out of sight.
Modern medical research tells us that sexual activity is essentially a necessary requirement for the male biology for the maintenance of a man's prostrate. We are told that the prostrate gland performs the vital task of providing the seminal fluid that supplies the nutrients for a man's sperm and also the transport medium in which the sperm is forced out of the body through the penis during ejaculation and is sent on its way to reach a woman's egg cell. In order to be able to perform this dual function the prostrate collects all the special materials that its task requires. It collects especially zinc, citric acid and potassium. All of these are drawn from the blood. Research tells us that the prostrate then concentrates this 'heavy' mix 600 times. Any carcinogens that are found in the blood are likewise captured and concentrated. So it is now deemed medically wise not to let this potentially dangerous mix hang around for too long, causing trouble. Sexual activity, of course, gives men the means to flush out the system, and biological impulses make sure that this happens on a regular basis. One might say that men have a service cycle to tend to just like the women have their menstruation cycles to contend with that flush out the uterus in order that its tissue can renew itself.
Thus, with the men being alone with themselves for long periods and with their built-in biological requirement for regularly flushing out their sexual system, homosexual action of some sort, and most likely also homosexual interaction, would surely have occurred and been an intimate aspect of people's lives under those circumstances.
The women under such circumstances might have had a similar social requirements for self-sexual actions or interacting with each other sexually. A woman's cyclical renewal of the uterine lining is often painful. The biological system appears to have created a built-in remedy for the pain. It is unreasonable to assume that this natural remedy had not been discovered, even in early times. We are told by medical researchers that during the build-up towards orgasm, the body levels of the hormone oxytocin increase up to five-fold. Then, as the hormones build up, the body releases more endorphins that alleviate the pain of everything from headache to arthritis, including migraine and of course menstrual pain. Sex is also known to boost the production of estrogen in women of a type that specifically reduces postmenstrual pain. In a primitive society in which the task of the women were many and often urgent, especially with children to look after, benign sexual action, or sexual interaction between women living largely with themselves, might have been a critical necessity in those early times, and this possibly more so and more often than we might think.
Of course when the men came home with their catch of fish, their arrival would start a time of celebration with the isolated homosexual interaction now expanding and merging into a combined heterosexual scene, opening the door to conception. And so it appears that in early ages the homosexual factor -- expressed in both male and female homosexuality -- was the primary form of social interaction as an efficient factor for the general welfare of society. The male and female homosexuality thereby stand as essential pillars that support the combined heterosexual interaction, most likely in a celebratory mode. The heterosexual portion of the celebration might have been the smallest part of it all. This establishes a model that might be termed the natural model.
The bottom line is that the human sexual system is an efficient system for procreation, but it comes with certain inconveniences and 'maintenance' requirements, and with strong impulses that assure that the requirements will be met, which altogether determine the mode for social interaction. When living is harsh as it likely was in the primitive Ice-Age world, the most efficient system invariably becomes the most natural system. Now that we have become more 'advanced' the natural model has ironically become overplayed with numerous debilitating myths in the service of imperial and subsequent religious objectives.
It appears that both male and female homosexuality are foundational functional characteristics that support the heterosexual functions on a celebratory basis from which procreation unfolds. We obviously need all three aspects to function for their specific purposes. Actually they are functioning to some degree, and probably to a much larger degree than we willing to acknowledge, though far from what they should be.
Are you surprised?
Well, we all live primarily alone with ourselves, don't we? We are probably alone with ourselves for 99.9% of the time. In this time we have no choice but to come to terms with our essential self-completeness as human beings in which also find the spiritual resources for meeting our sexuality defined needs, hopes, desires, and those sometimes nagging built-in biological impulses and requirements. Whenever this spiritual self-completeness is not achieved the social world falls into chaos and civilization becomes endangered. Nor is any real celebration possible in the heterosexual environment under those 'poverty' stricken circumstances.
Without a sure-footed inner individual completeness established that satisfies the wide-ranging sexual dimension of ourselves -- which is essentially a homosexual dimension specific to our individual sex -- we approach the opposite sex as beggars, begging another to fulfill our inner want. That's a poor foundation for heterosexual celebration. The resulting empty process becomes invariably a form of rape, not a form of celebration. The meeting of beggars where nobody brings any inner riches to the table with which to bless one-another, becomes an environment of agony, disappointment, and tension. It becomes the very opposite environment to what is required to advance human culture and with it the state of civilization.
The resulting evidence suggests that the whole sexual complex is primarily a part of the spiritual context of an individual's self-discovery of his or her completeness as a human being, and the acceptance of it, culminating in mutual celebration of that completeness. The resulting scene then would never be one of poverty, but of mutual respect, support, love, generosity, etc.. Thus the sexual process is a two-stage process. It begins with one's spiritual self-discovery as a complete human being, which also includes related discoveries of our wide-ranging sexual dimension and its completeness in what is essentially a homosexual processes. Exploring our own sexual dimension and its fullness is necessarily homosexual in nature, being focused on the riches of ourselves as men or women. From the unfolding fullness, standing on the twin-pillars of our inner homosexuality, the heterosexual dimension unfolds where the celebration spills over into a wider and shared celebration, and becomes a part of it in a temple-type celebration of the recognized fullness in one another.
The above is a small portion of a major research project on the subject. The complete presentation is available for free through the links below.
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above website "a living art garden.." contains more sex-related
articles and the complete text of 14 novels accessible for free on the
subject of love, sex, and honesty with ourselves in the kaleidoscope of
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science, including the spiritual dimension of science, even Christian Science.
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thought I'd introduce myself, my name is Mike and I live in central Arkansas. Been making mead (along with fruit wines and beer) since 2000. Actually got into this by reading books that were constantly mentioning mead, and since I had already been making beer and fruit wines, I decided to give it a shot. Currently I make a dry, semi-sweet and sweet mead and also the occasional melomel and cyser as well. Been visiting this site forever and suddenly realized you guys have a forum, I'm so happy, I just feel sorta misty right now..........
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Welcome to the forum Caladvwich!!! Now just sidle your way over to the recipes section and add those meads you mentioned to the list posted there. LOL
Don't worry about getting all misty over the forum, it's happened to all of us at one point or another. Now, have a glass of mead and get to reading...
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Welcome Mike!
I'm afraid that you may find yourself a misfit here... normally Vicky has to chase us OUT of the forum to see the new things on the "real" web site.
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Well at least he started with show meads....... i suggest patroning up and going through oskaars recipes first thing to sort out the outdated meadmaking practices that are often in books. mead has come a long way in a short amount of time and most people and most books havnt caught up yet.....
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|Reviews for Into the Sand Dunes
| DarkestInk chapter 1 . 4/9/2009
That expresses what I totally thought Bastion was thinking. It was lovely, really. You're a great writer!
| Yokai Hebitori chapter 1 . 3/7/2008
Hi, Cystal Rose of Pollux,
I liked your sonnet. The poem did seem like something Bastion would write, if he found paper, but still a good poem. (_)
And, for the poem to be a sonnet, makes it better.
Nice Work!
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| The Duelist's Heiress chapter 1 . 3/5/2008
Poor Bastion. You'r really good at writing Sonnets.