[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

Tue Oct 28 20:55:03 UTC 2008

I hate to tell you, alot of parents don't teach their children manners 
anymore.  V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Cooks" <elizabethcooks at comcast.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 5:56 AM
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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