[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[Amber Boggs]

Amen to that! And here in CA I am not even sure they are teaching even that. Its very scary how little edgacation the kids really get now days. Luckily I can homeschool or send Sean to a private school. Amber
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barbara Hammel 
  To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List 
  Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:05 PM
  Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!


  Just look at how much time the teachers spend learning mostly worthless 
  things during inservice time that is during the school day when the children 
  should be at school.  Also look at some of the things they're teaching 
  instead of reading, writing and arithmetic.  For goodness sake, why are the 
  children learning about political correctness and ethics and morals?  Isn't 
  teaching morals and ethics our job as a parent?  First and foremost, I want 
  the school to help me make my child knowledgeable.  I don't want them 
  teaching my child how to be a citizen of the world.
  I'll get off my soapbox before I offend even more people than I've already 
  offended so far.  Sorry in advance,it's just what I think.
  |Barbara


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  From: "trishs" <slosser at metrocast.net>
  Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 3:41 PM
  To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
  Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

  > Hard to believe that this country ranks last in education!
  >
  >> ----- Original Message -----
  >>From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
  >>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
  >>Date sent: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:06:09 -0600
  >>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
  >
  >>Congratulations on your first teacher conference.  I am weird, I
  > really love
  >>going and findout what kinds of stuff the kids are doing.  when i
  > used to
  >>volunteer in Gab's class I used to see what they were doing from
  > week to
  >>week.  This is the first year the teacher didn't need or want me
  > in the
  >>class, so next week we're going to the parent teacher conference
  > and I can't
  >>wait to see what's happening.  I know that Gab is doing well,
  > bringing home
  >>90's and 100's on her spelling tests.  Boy they had big words for
  > third
  >>graders today- excitability, gingerbread, generation, celebrate,
  > forceps,
  >>circular, centimeter, there is more, but ican't remember the
  > list.  V
  >>----- Original Message -----
  >>From: "Eileen" <eileenlevin at comcast.net
  >>To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org
  >>Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:41 PM
  >>Subject: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
  >
  >
  >>>I just had my first parent teacher conference for kindergarten
  > and I am
  >>> in shock! The teacher sat for ten minutes just showing us all
  > the
  >>> material the class
  >>> has covered in the first 4 weeks of class.  They are expected to
  > know all
  >>> the letter names and sounds, rhyming,  write their name, and
  > other
  >>> things that
  >>> I can't even remember now.
  >
  >>> Each child is working on a monthly calendar,  personal essays
  > and they
  >>> not only discuss activities they form sentences about it as a
  > group on
  >>> the board.
  >
  >>> Wow! When I was working with Asher on learning to read I had no
  > idea
  >>> that he would be using all those skills  immediately.
  >
  >>> All the preschool told me was that he needed to work on lower
  > case
  >>> letters so I went out and bought a set of lowercase letter tiles
  > from
  >>> office depo.  We
  >>> used the tiles to make words and play junior scrabble.
  >
  >>> When I was a kid, if I covered the entire alphabet in
  > kindergarten it
  >>> was a major achievement.  phew
  >>> Eileen
  >
  >
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