June 30, 2007
June 14, 2007
How Does It Look to You
Statistics on the number of visits to our class website show that about 1 out of 3 visitors are not using the resolution setting on their monitor that provides optimal viewing of the website. If you aren't sure what that means let me explain it this way - you may not be seeing the website in the way it is designed to look. For example, check the "Fair Park High Class of 1961" black and gold banner at the top of each web page. If the banner doesn't extend to both edges of your monitor screen then your resolution setting is not optimal for the website. If the banner already extends to both edges of your screen then your resolution setting is optimal.
For optimal viewing the resolution setting needs to be on the 800 x 600 lines setting. If you aren't sure how to do that, or if you prefer not to change your resolution setting, the following tip may help. However, it may not work unless you are using the Windows XP operating system and IE 7 as your browser. Open the website to any web page displaying the banner mentioned in the paragraph above and then press and hold the Ctrl key on your keyboard. Then press the + key on your keyboard as many times as needed to make the banner fill the screen from left to right. If you go too far, you can back up. Just press and hold the Ctrl key and then press the - key. Repeat this process as often as needed for any page you visit.
This process does not change your resolution setting. And you can use it on any web page of any website that you think might need it. Give it a try and let me know how it works for you.
For optimal viewing the resolution setting needs to be on the 800 x 600 lines setting. If you aren't sure how to do that, or if you prefer not to change your resolution setting, the following tip may help. However, it may not work unless you are using the Windows XP operating system and IE 7 as your browser. Open the website to any web page displaying the banner mentioned in the paragraph above and then press and hold the Ctrl key on your keyboard. Then press the + key on your keyboard as many times as needed to make the banner fill the screen from left to right. If you go too far, you can back up. Just press and hold the Ctrl key and then press the - key. Repeat this process as often as needed for any page you visit.
This process does not change your resolution setting. And you can use it on any web page of any website that you think might need it. Give it a try and let me know how it works for you.
June 03, 2007
Fair Park Class of '62 Newsletter
If you want to keep up with friends who were in the Fair Park Class of '62 consider getting on the mailing list for the '62 newsletter that Barbara Neal McClellan will be preparing. Barbara plans to issue the newsletter monthly and may expand that to twice a month later on. If you're interested send me an email to let me know (click HERE). I’ll do the rest.
June 01, 2007
Fair Park to Remain a High School
It looks like the idea to merge Fair Park and Booker T. Washington High Schools has been officially abandoned. More details are provided below in this Times article. Thanks to Johnny Jones for bringing this article to my attention.
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Caddo to take up school consolidation proposal
May 31, 2007
By Melody Brumble
mbrumble@gannett.com
Caddo School Board members will decide June 19 whether to consolidate Central and Ingersoll elementary schools in Shreveport and create a center for over-age students at Ingersoll Elementary.
The School Board also will consider whether or how to change attendance zones to send more J.S. Clark Middle School students to Booker T. Washington High School, where enrollment has dwindled. About half of J.S. Clark Middle students are zoned into Booker T. Washington High. Most of the rest are zoned into Fair Park High School. A handful who live in the Highland neighborhood are zoned into Byrd High School.
The changes would occur at the beginning of the 2008-09 school year; school officials would start planning for the changes this year if the board approves them.
A committee of members recommended by the School Board and community groups discussed the issues almost a year before nailing down recommendations in April. The committee approved the final recommendations Wednesday.
Discussion about how to boost Booker T. Washington High's enrollment led to the committee. In 2006, School Board members turned down a plan to take a part of Fair Park High's attendance zone for Booker T. Washington High. Last fall, Fair Park High supporters protested a suggestion to merge that school with Booker T. Washington High and turn Fair Park High into a campus for kindergarten through eighth grade.
The Fair Park-Booker T. Washington merger was among suggestions Caddo schools Superintendent Ollie Tyler offered to the committee early on. She and committee members let that idea die.
Another suggestion to merge an elementary school with Linear Middle School in the Martin Luther King Jr. neighborhood also got scrapped, as did creation of a prekindergarten center in that Shreveport neighborhood. The center would have occupied the vacant elementary school.
Instead of a center, Tyler and staff members will open prekindergarten classes at schools throughout the parish through the state-funded prekindergarten program in the coming year.
Wanda Gunn, Caddo schools' chief academic officer, said the district will serve more than 200 4-year-olds in those classes.
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Caddo to take up school consolidation proposal
May 31, 2007
By Melody Brumble
mbrumble@gannett.com
Caddo School Board members will decide June 19 whether to consolidate Central and Ingersoll elementary schools in Shreveport and create a center for over-age students at Ingersoll Elementary.
The School Board also will consider whether or how to change attendance zones to send more J.S. Clark Middle School students to Booker T. Washington High School, where enrollment has dwindled. About half of J.S. Clark Middle students are zoned into Booker T. Washington High. Most of the rest are zoned into Fair Park High School. A handful who live in the Highland neighborhood are zoned into Byrd High School.
The changes would occur at the beginning of the 2008-09 school year; school officials would start planning for the changes this year if the board approves them.
A committee of members recommended by the School Board and community groups discussed the issues almost a year before nailing down recommendations in April. The committee approved the final recommendations Wednesday.
Discussion about how to boost Booker T. Washington High's enrollment led to the committee. In 2006, School Board members turned down a plan to take a part of Fair Park High's attendance zone for Booker T. Washington High. Last fall, Fair Park High supporters protested a suggestion to merge that school with Booker T. Washington High and turn Fair Park High into a campus for kindergarten through eighth grade.
The Fair Park-Booker T. Washington merger was among suggestions Caddo schools Superintendent Ollie Tyler offered to the committee early on. She and committee members let that idea die.
Another suggestion to merge an elementary school with Linear Middle School in the Martin Luther King Jr. neighborhood also got scrapped, as did creation of a prekindergarten center in that Shreveport neighborhood. The center would have occupied the vacant elementary school.
Instead of a center, Tyler and staff members will open prekindergarten classes at schools throughout the parish through the state-funded prekindergarten program in the coming year.
Wanda Gunn, Caddo schools' chief academic officer, said the district will serve more than 200 4-year-olds in those classes.
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