[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

Sun Oct 26 13:29:13 UTC 2008

In Baton Rouge, LA, they get the third Wednesday of every month off, 
ridiculous I say. The kids should be learning! When I taught, we had 
in-service after school!

God's Blessings,
Danie

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

> 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
>> 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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