[blparent] Your thoughts on this?

Wed Jan 30 00:31:37 UTC 2013

Can we get these messages blocked from the list? I know I can do it on my
end for my in box, but it seems like it would be best to keep it from
cluttering up the archives too.

Jennifer
get it off of everyone's 

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of mr.
Chikodinaka Oguledo
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?

my wifes name is mrs Happyness Oguledo

On 1/30/13, Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC) <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com> wrote:
> Jeri,
> If you get called into the office, you'll deal with it because you have no
> option. Schools like to intimidate, so if you are aware of this, you've
got
> it licked. It helps if your kids are known as good kids v. the
> troublemakers.
> Really though you'll be just fine. You can always appeal a decision if you
> feel you need to. You can also get involved with the schoolboard, those
> meetings are public and you are welcome to attend.
> This really isn't anything to worry about.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jeri
> Milton
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 9:25 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
>
> I agree. I saw on the news just this evening that a little boy was in
> trouble at school for bringing a little gun made from Lego's. What the
> heck?
> I had a long discussion with my brother about how my son and all of his
> little buddy's play army during recess. I sure hope he never gets called
> into the office over this because I just don't know how I will handle
that.
> Maybe it won't happen, but these days it wouldn't surprise me in the
least.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tammy
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 7:31 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
>
> And While not having fun they learn that in a race with 4 preschoolers
> everybody wins, and no child will ever receive an f on their report card
> because that's not done anymore either.  I can see a whole lot of 18 to 20
> year old young adults having difficulty with the concept of failure in a
> few
> years because they've never learned how to fail and then have to try again
> when they were little.  And this zero tolerance thing bugs me to!  So you
> can't defend yourself or someone if they or you are getting beaten up now?
> There's something wrong with the world we live in if we sterilize our
> children and the environment our children live in!  Once they leave that
> environment they'll have no social immune system, and they won't know how
> to
> deal with that.
>
> jmnho
>
> Tammy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 7:57 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
>
> I know.  Kids aren't allowed to have fun, I guess.  What are we supposed
to
> do, plunk them down in front of the TV, put a video game in their hands,
> and
> hold them hostage?
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
> kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
> evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeri Milton
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 5:10 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
>
> One of my son's favorite things to play, is army. His room is full of
> little
> green army men, big GI Joe's, military ships, tanks etc. Along with other
> toys of course. But I told him he probably shouldn't talk about his
> automatic Nurf guns at school. Luckily, the district he is in hasn't gone
> off the deep in with everything, at least not yet, but if he were to ever
> be
> suspended or called into an evaluation because he was playing cops and
> robbers, or cowboys and Indians at school on recess I'm afraid I would go
> ballistic. We too have the bubble guns, nurf guns, water guns etc. The
> lunatics of the world are screwing it up for everyone.
>
> Jeri
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 3:15 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
>
> Oh goodness.  First of all, I think kindergartners are too young to see
> films about the fact that MLK got shot.  If Gab said that now, she'd be
> suspended and probably required to have a psych eval before she was
allowed
> back in school.  There was a news story just this week about a
> five-year-old
> in Pennsylvania who got a ten-day suspension for talking to her friends at
> the bus stop about shooting each other with a Hello Kitty gun for blowing
> soap bubbles.  It was ridiculous, but the district said that under zero
> tolerance, there was no choice.  She was said to have made a "terroristic
> threat to harm others."  Under public pressure, the suspension was reduced
> to two days, but a psych eval, which found nothing, was still performed.
> Sometimes I really don't know what this world is coming to, when kids are
> punished for having perfectly harmless social interactions with their
> friends.  My own daughter, who will be five in amonth, is armed with one
of
> those bubble blowing guns.  God forbid she ever mentions it at school!
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
> kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
> evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Veronica Smith
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:29 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
>
> I've never had that experience before.  Maybe it is something new.
> The thing I did have to nip in the butt was in Kindergarten, Gab saw a
film
> about MLK and how he got shot and she came home saying, "mommy, if you
> don't
> like someone, you can just shoot them!"
> Wow, if she said that now adays, they'd suspend her.  But you know what,
> she
> was 5 and didn't know about this evil world!
> Jo Elizabeth, I bet thay taught them how to get out, I seriously don't
> think
> they talked about jumping out a 2 story house, but just in case they did,
> you should call her school and inquire.  You just never know.
> They could of showed it from a single story and perhaps those kids that
> have
> a multistory inacted that.
> V
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:36 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?
>
> on this?
> My four-year-old came home from school on Friday, and when she played with
> her dollhouse, she imagined that the door was on fire while everybody was
> in
> bed. Then she started having the Dora family characters jump out the
second
> and third story windows. I questioned her a bit, and she said that some
> officers (I call them that because she couldn't tell me for sure if they
> were firefighters or policemen, since they had no big red truck, but I'm
> guessing they were firefighters) brought a dollhouse to school and talked
> about what to do if there was a fire in the night. She swears they acted
> out
> a scene where the mommy doll and the little girl doll jumped out the
> windows. Now I remember fire safety from when I was a kid. Stop, drop, and
> roll, get out of your house and have a meeting place for your family, call
> 911 and all, but I don't recall anything as drastic as an enactment by
> firefighters with a real dollhouse and a roleplay of dolls jumping out of
a
> flaming home. Do any of you have experiences with this; is it typical for
> young kids to be educated this way nowadays? Does this seem a little
> drastic
> to all of you, or am I just being protective of my little girl's
innocence?
> I know she has to be ready for the world and its dangers, but she doesn't
> need to have fears put in her mind before she hits the ripe old age of
> five,
> either. It seems a bit much, coming on the heels of the school shooting
> drills.
>
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
> kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
> evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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