[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

trishs slosser at metrocast.net
Mon Oct 27 21:11:20 UTC 2008 

Isn't it the law?!  How can people NOT teach those simple social 
skills?

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Elizabeth Cooks" <elizabethcooks at comcast.net
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:56:51 -0600
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

>Since when did teaching manners become a personal decision?  I 
remember when
>I was in preschool, saying please and thank you was enforced
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 9:39 AM
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!


>> My sister teaches kindergarten.  I'm sure she would agree that 
most
>> in-service days are essentially wasted.  However, parents, as 
well as
>> teachers, are tough to deal with.  My sister had one student in 
her class
>> who was going around kicking the other kids.  She asked his 
parents to
>> quit letting him wear cowboy boots to school before he really 
hurt
>> somebody, and they said his behavior was her fault because she 
wasn't
>> keeping the little brat busy enough, or challenging him enough.  
Another
>> time, a group of parents got mad at her for asking the students 
each to
>> put a chair up on the tables as they were leaving for the day.  
The
>> parents said that was the janitor's job, and their children 
weren't
>> growing up to be janitors.  My sister got marked down on a 
year-end
>> evaluation for making the kids say "please" and "thank you" in 
her
>> classroom, because some parents said that teaching manners 
wasn't up to
>> her and whether their kids said "please" and "thank you" was a 
personal
>> decision.  She said to go ahead and mark her down every year 
then, because
>> kids needed to learn some social graces, and she didn't want to 
have a
>> classroom full of monkeys.  But that's the kind of stuff she 
deals with in
>> public school.

>> Jo Elizabeth

>> It is easy--terribly easy--to shake a man's faith in himself.  
To take
>> advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.  Take 
care of
>> what you are doing.  Take care.--George Bernard Shaw in 
"Candide"
>> ----- 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 10:45 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


>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> 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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