Posted on 02/02/2010 7:32:03 PM PST by metmom
“I am so happy we home school & don’t have to deal with the bs. “
“I am so happy we home school & don’t have to deal with the bs. “
“I am so happy we home school & don’t have to deal with the bs. “
The free babysitting just isn’t worth it to me.
>>So, the educrat who told the parents the truth about their under performing ‘lil darlins is being punished?
Just more proof that no good deed goes unpunished.<<
Do you have to deal with people?
There is a difference between constructive criticism and smarmy accusations and sarcasm.
Besides, guess who’s job it is to teach those kids? Parents help but, in this area, we pay 8,000 a year in property taxes to have someone teach the kids. If they are not getting it or not getting it done, it’s the school’s fault for 6 hours a day. Parents can only back up what is being taught.
Only because you're a parent and not an educator.
It wasn't worth it to me either. I also was tired of projects in 1st grade that were clearly aimed at the parents to do, not the children. I was lucky with Sassy's teachers but not with the older now adult children. I was at school questioning everything. Most of all it irked me when my son was attacked from behind & fought back that he was suspended longer then the boy who hit him. They said Jon fought back too hard & broke the boy's nose. Of course he did, he was taught not to start fights but to protect himself.
Excellent points.
“Do you have to deal with people?”
I have dealt with school board members, administration , principals, teachers, and students. For some years I developed an inter-disciplinary program (Socio-Ecology) which integrated education in ecology, economics, government and history.
As this was done in the Dade County school system, I had to deal with gifted students and students who were Mosquito Indians from Central America - and every other group as well.
Disturbingly, only one student ever correctly answered the question “Who is responsible for your education?”
All I wanted to hear was “I am”.
That tells us the core of the problem can be traced back to one collectivist (subspecies “Communist”) named John Dewey. Dewey changed American education from emphasis upon the individual (the ‘sovereign citizen’ of the American Republic)and preparing students to be responsible for their own lives, to the “new group man”.
“There is a difference between constructive criticism and smarmy accusations and sarcasm.”
The short answer is “A pox upon their ‘self esteem’!”
Had the ‘Lil darlins learned their lessons, there would have been no reason for them to be smarmed upon or snarked at.
PS The “accusation” was actually a statement of fact, not an “accusation”. That the ‘Lil Darlins hadn’t learned their lessons was a fact, not an accusation.
“Besides, guess who’s job it is to teach those kids?”
A very astute and penetrating question. As Sowell has pointed out, as have many others, the bottom 10% of the IO scores at any college/university can be found in the education department. True for the faculty and the students.
Dwellers in the shallow end of the gene pool are “teaching”.
“...we pay 8,000 a year in property taxes to have someone teach the kids.”
“You sooo screwed!” ;-) Sorry, but a bit of flippancy and some language habits from my students just popped out. To be series (but not invoking Hugh), I am convinced that educational facilities such as we are now supporting are about to be greatly changed by the Internet.
The billions of bucks we now give to commie oriented, union operated, failed educational facilities will stop soon. We just won’t have the money to support those failed facilities.
As the student is ultimately responsible for their education, parents and teachers are, and can only be, resources used by the students. Parents can, and home schooling parents DO, demand that their lil darlins perform.
I have done a similar thing. When either of my kids (boy/girl twins heading to college next year) didn’t complete their work competently, I’d get out a mop and offer it to them, saying things like: “Here, you might want to get used to using this,” or “I hear McDonald’s is hiring.” It usually worked.
I see, with all your experience of dealing with the public, have not learned that one gets more with honey than vinegar.
The letter was vinegar.
And btw, in trade for tax dollars, a school is expected to educate a child. If it cannot, it is not doing it’s job. At the point that a teacher told me that I had to get my daughter to do her classroom work, was the point that I began homeschooling my children. No parent can make a child do work in a class and I pay a teacher to educate kids at school, not pass it off to the parents at home while showing movies in the classroom.
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