[blparent] sheer terror
Gabe Vega
theblindtech at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 12:31:52 UTC 2011
sounds like a great teacher to me. I like the way even at an early age he expects accountability and responsibility.
On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Veronica Smith wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Brandy W
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 7:21 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] sheer terror
>
> 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
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] sheer terror
>
> 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
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blparent] sheer terror
>
>> 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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