[blparent] sheer terror (Teachers)

Fri Mar 4 05:41:57 UTC 2011

I think I would have an issue with that.  That teacher don't need to be 
teaching children if he is throwing desk around.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:16 PM
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> Wow, I'm not sure I like the sound of this teacher.  The reenactments of 
> history and the Jeopardy are awesome and creative, and the best kind of 
> learning that we can hope for, in my opinion.  But tipping over desks?  So 
> then, it's okay to throw furniture around if you havve a reason you think 
> is good enough?  I wonder what he would think if a bunch of kids got 
> together and dumped his desk over ... see, that was why I got myself in 
> way too much trouble in school.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "Some people see things as they are and ask why.  I dream things that 
> never were and ask why not."--Robert F. Kennedy
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> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 9:55 PM
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>
>> I have mixed emotions about this teacher.  There are many things he does
>> that I am not happy with, this topping that list.  When school started I 
>> was
>> hahppy my daughter was put into his class.  He is a hard teacher and 
>> demands
>> a lot of stuff from his class.  Much more than other teachers and since 
>> Gab
>> needs to be challenged, I thought it was a good thing.  My opinion has 
>> since
>> changed.  He is for sure, the home-work king.  Way too much for my likes,
>> but my daughter is thriving and still making straight A's.
>> One of the things that upsets me about this man is when a child has a 
>> messy
>> desk, notebooks where  books should be and vise versa, he flips the desk,
>> throwing all onto the floor.  The tipping teacher is what he is known as.
>> Well, this just teaches a child that is okay to vandalize other people's
>> property if you don't like what it looks like.
>> School work disappears left and right and gab has had to do her work over
>> and over again.  I asked him if the basket was eating the work?  He 
>> didn't
>> like this and scolded the kids for not putting their names on the papers.
>> He also dings them if parents don't sign the papers he sends home.
>> Like I said, I could go on and on.  I try not to complain too much as
>> everytime I do, gab's desk get thrown over or another paper disappears.
>> Grrrrrrrr!
>> He also is one of the funnest teachers, he has the kids perform 
>> inactments
>> of history.  Gab was a General in the  Spanish American war, a wagon 
>> leader
>> on the Oregon trail and now a spy for the civil war.  He plays jeopardy 
>> with
>> the  kids once a week and gives out prizes and he gives lots of 
>> compliments
>> and gold tickets  for special assignments.
>> Bitter sweet! V
>>
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>> Behalf Of Brandy W
>> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 7:21 PM
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>> That is unacceptable, and I'd be demanding what goal he had by showing 
>> it.
>> Also an apology is one thing, but he should have never shown it and there
>> for never upset her, or needed to apologize. What a mess and as a teacher
>> I'm mad for you.
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
>> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 3:46 PM
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>> Why in the world would a teacher need to show a video like that to school
>> age kids anyway?  I mean, for what educational purpose?  Usually movies 
>> like
>> that have ratings that restrict the viewing audience to adults and
>> teenagers.
>>
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> "Some people see things as they are and ask why.  I dream things that 
>> never
>> were and ask why not."--Robert F. Kennedy
>>
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>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 2:40 PM
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>> Subject: [blparent] sheer terror
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>>> Gab came home in tears yesterday.  At first I thought someone had hurt
>>> her on the way home from the bus, then I thought the boy up the street
>>> was being mean again.  She cried and cried and I couldn't understand a
>>> thing she was saying.  Finally, she mumbled something about a video at
>>> school.
>>> Finally after she calmed down, we got out of her that her teacher had
>>> shown a realistic video that a grim reaper appeared to jump off the
>>> screen into the classroom.  Well for some kids it might have been a
>>> funny video, but to my child it was terrifying.
>>> The teacher called me shortly after Gab got home.  He said all the
>>> kids were laughing and then he looked at Gab... sheer terror.  The
>>> bell rang and she darted quickly from the room.  He knew that he had
>>> made a giant mistake showing it to the sensitive kids.
>>> He apologized over and over to me and then talked to Gab for some time
>>> on the phone until she finally calmed down.  It took some time.
>>> V
>>>
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