[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

trishs slosser at metrocast.net
Thu Oct 30 13:29:49 UTC 2008 

You mean, they're not!?

> ----- 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 22:20:50 -0600
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

>I have such a strange child, she thinks hand me downs are the 
cats meow! V
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:38 AM
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!


>> 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out-of-date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


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