Posted on 04/14/2005 5:58:52 AM PDT by Sam's Army
Public School Is Too Strict; Socialization Muted
My home-schooled granddaughter and I went to have lunch with my public schooled granddaughter at her school recently. She wanted us to come have lunch with her. It cost $2.50 for me and $1.50 for granddaughter.
It sure wasn't like when we went to school. None of the kids were allowed to talk at all to each other during their lunch hour.
After they finished eating, they had to read a book that they brought with them.
There were monitors with eyes roving to and fro. If they order milk, they are forced to drink it all. It seemed to me more like I was in a prison cafeteria.
They had to get in no-talking lines to arrive and to leave, all in the same uniforms, and no talking of course, even in the rest rooms.
If they talk in lines, they have to go to the principal's office.
I sure didn't see much socialization going on there.
My home-schooled granddaughter and I were glad to get out of there, and step back into freedom.
FRAN GRINER
Lakeland
AWESOME!!!
A few questions: 1) Do you know Chinese (please say no!!); and 2) what curriculum do you use to teach your 7 year old Chinese?
The whole thing is very sad.
Chinese is relatively simple once you get past learning individual characters. We spent about half an hour (sometimes, as long as a whole hour) of homework every night through our kindergarten and primary school years (from 4 to 11) to practise writing characters. It was easy to become weary as I had to write a page filled with these words (our teachers had stipulated us to write fill a page full with the vocabularies) and add to it dictations, workbook exercises in making sentences, writing (compositions), and tests. But the only way to learn a language is through these hard work.
Who says they won't? I didn't
Ah, but they did socialize. They picked their own team for the project. They had to discuss what they wanted to do, and then how to do it. All that involves socialization. They then had to to divide the duties and then discuss the results, and put the project together. Again they are socializing. Granted, it is not free form, but they are clear utilizing Social skills—communications, interpersonal relationships, negotiating, dialogue, banter, even debate.
Damn "The System!" Damn the "socialist machine!" Death to them both.
Lots of them do. I think it's up to each county. In Duval county there was a problem with middle school and high school participation. So the district backed off on mandatory uniforms for the older kids.
Polk County, up to either 8th or 9th grade I believe.
A couple of years ago I drove through Delaware and learned that their main products are hams, fireworks and pecan rolls. The hams and fireworks I get. What's up with the pecan rolls?
bttt
Me. I even ran for school committee. It's hopeless.
That is Virginia, where I live now, not Delaware.
I drove over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on the way north, and I saw some ham signs on the other side. Is that still Virginia? Anyway, I know I saw the signs for the pecan rolls, which is what I can't figure out. 8-)
I think we are ideological soul mates.....
You probably saw a sign for Stuckey's - they are the pecan roll place - regardless of the state.
Depending on which Chesapeake Bay Bridge you crossed would determine where you saw the sign. If you did the bridge out of Annapolis you did NOT see a sign for firworks because they are illegal in Maryland. If you did the Bay Bridge/Tunnel coming north from Virginia Beach you would definitely have seen ham, fireworks, and pecan rolls because you would still bein Virginia.
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