Your employee health centers

Because the weather in NashVegas can't decide if it wants to be spring or winter, teachers and students are getting sick in droves. Thankfully MNPS has found a way to help their employees; Employee & Family Healthcare Centers.

It's a great idea, have a place close to schools, they are all at schools across the district, where employees and their families can go and see a nurse practionisher and hopefully get in and out in less time.

That all sounds fine until you find where they are: old portables.

Seriously, you can't make this sh-- up.

Yes, the very thing that has made more than one teacher and student sick in the first place is where MNPS is choosing to put these centers. Located in the distinctive yellow and gray portables at key locations across Metro, the MNPS Employee & Family Healthcare Centers are now open in their permanent locations.

I think I'll take my chances at a clinic.

Here are the services they provide:

Quick same day appointments
Same day appointments are available for acute illnesses or injuries.

High Quality Care
Highly qualified, Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioners affiliated with Vanderbilt School of Nursing. Physician available for consultation with Nurse Practitioners at all times.

High Value—low cost
Since the Centers are funded by the Teachers Health plan—certificated (teaching) employees and dependents covered by the plan will have no out-of-pocket expense (copays, deductibles).

Support staff and other Metro employees will have to pay their regular copays, coinsurance and deductibles

I think the sign says it all

Not much else to add, the school is valiantly trying to give students, faculty and parents all the important info. Good Job.

Math testing is really just more reading testing

Here are some examples of the math questions my ELL students will face the week of April 20th:

Instructions: Read each question carefully and circle the correct answer.

4. The Smith family was on vacation. They had 2 months to complete their journey. They drove 50 miles on the first day. By the end of the first month, they had driven 1,500 miles. They wanted to drive 3,250 total miles by the end of their journey. How many miles do they need to travel in the last month?
A. 50 miles
B. 1,500 miles
C. 3,250 miles
D. 1,750 miles


5. The family baked cookies for the school fundraiser. They baked 2 dozen oatmeal, 3 dozen chocolate chip and 1 dozen peanut butter. They plan on selling each cookie for $1.00 and they want to raise $75.
How many chocolate chip cookies did the family need to bake?
A. 24 cookies
B. 12 cookies
C. 36 cookies
D. 72 cookies


6. Helen bought 6 green notebooks, 5 orange notebooks, 2 pink notebooks, 9 pencils, and 14 pens. How many notebooks did Helen buy?
A. 36 notebooks
B. 22 notebooks
C. 11 notebooks
D. 13 notebooks

7. Fill in the blank.
If N + 17 = 39, then N is _______.
A. 56
B. 663
C. 22
D. 2


8. Fill in the blank.
If N ÷ 24 = 6, then N is _____.
A. 134
B. 144
C. 1,444
D. 14


9. Fill in the blank.
If N x 4 = 112, then N is _______.
A. 28
B. 448
C. 108
D. 116


10. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor went to the movies. They took their three children with them. Adult tickets cost $5.50 and child tickets cost $2.75. How much did the movie cost the family?
A. $8.25
B. $19.25
C. $22.00
D. $27.50


11. Mr. Mila owns two restaurants in the middle of town. A total of 23 people work for Mr. Mila. There are 19 people that work at his Italian restaurant and 7 people that work at his Greek restaurant. How many people work at both restaurants?
A. 26 people
B. 23 people
C. 3 people
D. 19 people



12. Shantal bought 6 doughnuts for $0.45 each and an orange juice for $0.95. How much money did she spend?
A. $3.65
B. $1.40
C. $8.40
D. $6.15


13. Which of these numbers comes between
5.32, ___, 5.40?
A. 5.42
B. 5.28
C. 5.31
D. 5.34


14. Which of these numbers comes between
600.005, _____, 600.1?
A. 600.004
B. 600.11
C. 600.01
D. 600.2


15. What number comes between
48.56, ____, 53.56?
A. 58.76
B. 48.55
C. 51.10
D. 53.66


This is only 15 of 12o questions that take up 36 pages in the test booklet. Let that sink in for a second, 36 pages with 120 questions on one section of the test. There are three other sections that every 3rd and 4th grader has to take. ELL, autistic, special needs, life skills all get to sit through 4 days and almost 8 hours of testing. If they have a reading disability they can get the math test read to them but only if it's in their Education Plan, if not they are on their own. They are expected to read questions that are on grade level, answer them and achieve as well as a native English speaker.

How will my students do?
Better than any adult I work with who had to take the same test in Spanish or Arabic or Kurdish or French.

(Just 4 of the native languages of my students.)