Posted on 02/13/2012 10:35:42 AM PST by MichCapCon
Debbie Squires of the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association speaks to the House Education Committee.
"Educators go through education for a reason. They are the people who know best about how to serve children. That is not necessarily true about an individual resident. Not saying that they don't want the best for their children, but they may not know what actually is best from an education standpoint."
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“There is hope. If you can, get a Saxon Math book off the internet that is appropriate to your child’s understanding of Math.”
TOTALLY concur on Saxon. Every parent needs to do this, ESPECIALLY if their child’s ‘wonderful’ school is using Everyday Math.
Saxon Math was horrble for my daughter with speech problems and a brain injury. It was too wordy and used strange vocabulary.
She managed with it in 4th and 5th grade, but by 6th it took way too long.
I think it may be ok to use as a reference for homeschooling, but not in the classroom.
Since going back to normal math, my daughter is once again doing well in math.
My husband and I are engineers, and when our kids were little we used to teach them math. My daughters first grade math teacher got upset with me because I was teaching them negative numbers. She thought it would mess them up. I ignored her. They understood it quickly,
And I suppose she’s prepared to offer the public school system’s resounding success as proof of her position.
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nn: My wife and daughter are both bachelor and masters in ed and I think you're full of baloney.
He's quite correct. An education degree is totally useless for anything but being permitted to teach in public schools, it is useless in the real world, and is certainly no indicator of an ability to teach.
I haven’t read past your comment yet, but it seems perfect already to me.
I couldn’t agree more. We have 3 young children and they will NEVER set foot in a public school. Our children are the future and it is up to us to give them the tools to succeed, which public school cannot. We homeschool and it does involve sacrifice but I treasure the opportunity that God has given us in raising and educating our children.
I wanted to see this and it appears they took the video down. Does anyone have it saved anywhere?
It’s the height of arrogance. These same people see students being frustrated by busywork and bullied by peers. then claim that the students should be thankful for being forced to go to school.
“Saxon Math was horrble for my daughter with speech problems and a brain injury. It was too wordy and used strange vocabulary.”
I’m sorry about your daughter’s particular case. I tend to speak in generalities regarding the kids out there (i.e., most don’t have to deal with what your deals with). I’m glad you got something to work...and congrats for telling the teacher to shove it - we need more of that.
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