I am certain that your professionalism recognized that these were parents who loved their children and were seeking much needed **help**!
I am certain that, as a professional, you knew of all the school services, and private and public agencies, that would help these parents learn more effective parenting skills.
I am certain that since you are a professional that you follow up with the child, the parent, and the counseling agencies to see that these kids and their parents didn't fall through the bureaucratic cracks.
Wintertime do you realize just how insulting these unprovoked comments are. And this is not the first time you have made these types of comments. Any Public school teacher that crosses your path gets some variation on them.
Free Republic is a news posting and discussion forum this is not discussion. You have complained about others using Alynsky tactics, and that is what you are doing.
Further about a month ago your posts caused another FReeper to advocate violence against Public school officials. Many of his posts ended up being removed by the moderator but you bear responsibility to some degree for his comments.
Finally these videos that you post links to comparing schools to prisons are not edifying to anyone. You don't like public schools that is your choice but to constantly seek to demean the good men and women that work there is just wrong and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!
Now be prepared for the onslaught of insults you will incur for daring to speak up in defense of others.
I am not a teacher, I do not have the temperament for it, and thus do place value on and with those who are more capable than I.
When our daughter was approaching 3 (she’s now 14) my husband and I realized it was time for us to move as he refused to allow a child of his to attend any school in the district in which we then lived, as that is where he had attended school and knew just how bad it was. Being the product of Catholic schools, I said no to the area ones around us, as they were just as poor as the public schools. Staying in Delaware was really no longer and option, but we were sort of limited to where we could move because of his work.
The schools in the surrounding areas of Maryland were really no better than what was available in lower Delaware, so we ventured a bit further south. Our very bright, now 9th grader, has thrived in public school in what is one of the 10 poorest counties in Virginia.
Not all schools are equal and we are going to find, if we are at all honest, that all have good points and not so good points. It is not and never will be a black and white issue (and I’m not talking race.)
Happy New Year to you.
And....What are the long term consequences for children ( whose only crime was to be born) if they are treated like prisoners for 13 years of their most formative years?
What are the consequences for the continuing freedom of our nation when armies of voters ( who have been treated like prisoners for 13 years of their childhood) then go to the polls as adults?
I am not the one who has disdain for difficult students. I am not criticizing the parenting skills of their parents. That seems to be the exclusive territory of the professional government employed teachers who frequent these schooling threads.
However....I do trust that this contempt and dismissive attitudes seen in many posts is not reflected in the professionalism shown in the classroom and with the parents.
If you would like to renew activity on old threads please do so. It is impolite to carry discussions from one thread to another. Since you are so well informed about Free Republic etiquette I shouldn't need to you remind you.
Did you see in the video where the prison library was open but the school library was locked from the inside. I loved the alarm that sounded in the school at the end of the video.