[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

[trishs]

I, for one, am not offended.  I like it when people can defend 
what they believe.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Amber Boggs" <amberboggs at socal.rr.com
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:22:47 -0700
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

>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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