[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

trishs slosser at metrocast.net
Wed Oct 29 03:48:46 UTC 2008 

Looks like it's up to us! Again!
 There's a chance we could run into those kids someday.  Teach.  
Guide.  Lead.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:55:03 -0600
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

>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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