Posted on 05/04/2003 7:49:47 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez
Just before going to bed tonight, as I kissed my oldest boy good night, he perked up and reminded me of the note his teacher had sent home on Friday. I assured him that I would read it, and tucked him in.
I knew that the note was about the upcoming School Book Fair, he attended his first one last year, and it was a great experience for him. It was the first time he was trusted with money to spend all on his own.
He is a First grader with Third Grade reading skills, I was an avid reader as a kid, and every time I see him sitting with a book on his lap, I feel like I'm walking on air.
I went downstairs and looked for the note, I wanted to see what was expected of him, and how payment for the books would be handled.
I have copied the note word by word below, the note written, and sent home, by the person who is teaching my boy to read and write.
I have left the particulars out for obvious reasons.
I am sending the note to Tallahassee, and asking for this teacher's removal.
Most of the good ones, morally and based on their educational value, can't tolerate the system. I've had many friends that tried to play teacher and got fed up with the system and left for less politically atrocious and higher paying jobs. You end up with too many grade 'F' losers trying to teach our socialstically-sensitive youth. That's exactly what the NEA wants, though. The useful idiots in the classroom preaching their propaganda.
Even back when I was in high school most of the young teachers couldn't take it. Only the "veterans" were allowed to do as they pleased and ignore the rules, simply because the NEA had established such an impossible state of affairs where a teacher could be fired, that they couldn't get rid of the older crowd. But, as those figures retire and the young, useful idiots stick around and become the teachers of today, and tomorrow, the re-education of the youth is nearly complete.
Now, if we could just get rid of all the crosses, Bibles, Ten Commandements and historical icons, then we can proceed with a complete re-write of history. We've got the Founding Fathers taken care of.....but we've got to continue our Communist struggle, comrades.
The left makes me SICK!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL!!!!
That's actually an assumption on your part, not an irrational decision in mine.
While I've complained on this thread about the taxes and the lack of return for my dollar, I've never given a reason why homeschooling isn't an option.
I'm a product of the public school system, as is my brother, the nuclear physicist.
We got out of the system what we were willing to put into it, and our parents didn't stand for half measures.
We weren't allowed to slack off, or to take courses that were less than challenging.
That's what I'm going to do with my kids, as well as holding the teacher's feet to the fire (as some here in FR say).
I'm not a teacher, am I?
Actually, the credentials more likely being mentioned here are not from the government, but from whatever college or University this teacher got her degree from.
I was just using your post because it was a handy example. My idea was that readers would say, "oh, yeah, I didn't notice that before - now I can see that this kind of correspondence is more common that I had thought. Maybe I was a little hard on the teacher."
And even if you're not a teacher, I have no doubt you'd be perfectly capable of teaching third-grade reading, despite what might be a less-than-perfect post.
I guess I'm just saying that, in my opinion, if it was my kid, I'd be glad that he had such an interested and involved teacher. If I thought she was truly incapable of teaching third-grade reading, well, I agree that would be another story.
Also, I wonder if people are aware that proofreading isn't always that easy, especially when you're proofreading your own writing. It's very easy not to see mistakes that are obvious to others.
Maybe I was a little too subtle. Ya see, lots of Freepers register at DU, often quickly getting banned after posting something. Also, sometimes Freepers, when they don't feel like discussing the issues in questions, let off steam and tell their fellow Freepers to "go back to DU", or something like that.
So, since I expressed a minority opinion I was expecting a "go back to DU" flame-back. You weren't supposed to take the DU membership seriously.
Funny note - I've worked for years in auto safety, and it so happens I favor mandatory seat-belt laws. When I posted this on a thread devoted to the subject, I expected a huge backlash. But, no, every reply was polite and well thought-out.
So, ya never can tell. I wouldn't have thought that firing third-grade teachers over sloppy writing would be a more emotional issue than mandatory seat-belt laws, but I guess it is.
Also, I can't get over that line, "your ilk is not wanted here." For some reason, that cracks me up. "My ilk." lol.
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