[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

Tue Oct 28 11:38:21 UTC 2008

You're not a Nazi.  You're just a right-thinking person, in my book.  School 
is about learning not about who's fashionable and who's out-of-date because 
they wear hand-me-downs from their siblings--or maybe even from their 
parents.  Keep the junk at home and just bring yourself, your supplies and 
your homework.
Barbara

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From: "trishs" <slosser at metrocast.net>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 4:11 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

> I'm so glad about that.  Here, the kids can't have writing on their back 
> pockets, either.  Uniforms for every one! Anyone?
> I'd say "Be yourself on your own time.  Right now you're hear to learn 
> what I'm teaching.  Take the pearcings out, get your uniform on, or go to 
> the Principal's office.  Wow!  What kind of frinkin' natzi am I?
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>Date sent: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:04:46 -0600
>>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
>
>>I guess our dress code teaches morals.  the girls cannot wear
> shorts, skirts
>>or dresses that are shorter than their longest finger.  they
> can't wear
>>shirts that are not collared and the top button can be undone and
> no V necks
>>of any kind or anything that has spaghetti or no sleeves.  no
> baggy pants or
>>skin tight either.  Alot of parents don't agree with the dress
> code for
>>various reasons.  No flip flops, they are called unsafe, but they
> are allowed
>>to wear sandles as long as they have a back.  No outragious hair
> dos and no
>>wild make-up, nothing that distracts others from learning.  V
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com
>>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:48 PM
>>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!
>
>
>>> Unfortunately you have a point there.  I just don't want the
> school to
>>> teach
>>> morals and values.  I have no problem with them teaching
> manners.  I know
>>> most of the stuff schools are teaching is because parents are
> lacking in
>>> their roles as teachers.  I'd like to take those parents by the
> throat and
>>> tell them that I wouldn't have to bother with teaching your kids
> about
>>> just
>>> plain respect for others if they would just use common sense and
> teach the
>>> children how to get along with folks.  I love how some parents
> don't want
>>> the school to teach things they think they should learn at home
> but then
>>> the
>>> parents think they can learn everything through osmosis.
>>> What happened to, "If you get in trouble at school, you'll be in
> twice as
>>> much when you get home."  It still works on today's children.
> I've a
>>> son's
>>> behavior that can prove it.
>>> Barbara
>
>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 10:39 AM
>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>> 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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