[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[Veronica Smith]

this is why my niece stopped being a teacher.  she said too many parents and 
the private school body expected her to teach the children manners, how to 
use a tissue to blow noses and the other stuff you mentioned. As far as the 
inservice days, i always wondered what in the world they learn every 
Wednesday, "their inservice day." v
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 9:05 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
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> 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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