RE: Even a monkey riding a bike can help teach a lesson... That's edutainment!
But you do have a bike riding monkey? lol! That kid though, Oh my GOD, that's one of the cutest things I've ever seen, hahahaaa!
I have to say, if we had been empowered instead of 'helped' in school, I might have gotten more out of it. It's one of my biggest complaints about public schools, how the system was- and still continues to be in many areas sadly- designed to make so many feel inferior. I was fortunate that it all came easily to me, but the same could not be said for several friends of mine. Or my daughter, which is a big part of the reason I decided to homeschool. She had difficulty retaining information when she was young, problems with her short term memory that I suspect may have had something to do with her being a vacuum assisted birth.
The last straw for me was when she accidentally brought home a book that was meant to stay in class, and the teacher accused her of deliberately taking it, and called her a liar when she insisted that she hadn't. She came home in tears, Grrr, I still get mad when I think about it!! Between that and my son's Kindergarten teacher wanting to label him ADHD and recommending medication- I just did not have a good experience whatsoever. My brilliant son, had the normal high energy of a five year old boy, thank you very much. How about NO to prescribing babies narcotics in the first place.
Sorry, I get a bit ranty on this subject.
I love everything about what you stand for as a teacher though. I know I've said it before, and you've loyally defended teachers in general, but they are not all like you. Or my closest friend who happens to be a teacher ;0)
Thanks for the kind words. That sucks that your kids were put in such a bad spot. As far as teachers in general go, I know some amazing teachers. I also know of some bad ones. I think it is like most walks of life, the vast majority fall somewhere in between. Not as bad as the ones your kids were stuck with, but not all super stars. A lot depends on the community you live in. If it values education, they find ways to attract and keep good teachers. If not...
Oh and don't apologize to me about the ADD meds. You are preaching to the choir. there are some teens who desperately need them, it is real. But they are way over prescribed. Before anyone ever suggests giving them to a pre-teen maybe they should try something crazy like... I don't know... letting them run around for a while! Maybe let them play?
You're absolutely right, the majority do fall in the middle. We lived in Florida at the time this occurred, and fortunately they had an excellent and strong home-schooling network. I suspect because the schools there are so bad that many people opt to go the same way. We were there a number of years, then because we home schooled we traveled a bit before we ended up back in NY. There is a great school in the next district over from where we live (where my friend works incidentally ;), unfortunately in this state there isn't an option to send them out of the district.
Yes, exactly! One of the things I learned about the school I took them out of- it was a full day of Kindergarten and they only had TEN minutes of recess! No nap time and they sat at their desks for snack time. The teacher complained that Ethan constantly wanted to get up- I'm more concerned about the thirty other five year old's who didn't! Sheesh.
How have you been, how was your summer? And the burning question- are you caught up in the steemmonster card craze? :)
Yep I have had some friends who started out teaching in Florida. I obviously don't know the whole situation but from their experiences plus the fact that Florida is bottom 5 in teacher pay, I would imagine it is tough to attract and keep good teachers there.
I bought a ton of cards right at the start. Now I am just waiting for games! I actually want to play. Will you be playing or just collecting?
I am definitely thinking about playing. I used to watch wistfully (and secretly because my religious parents didn't approve) while my older cousins played D&D, and I sat in on a few of a friend's games of Magic the gathering years ago- I always thought both would be a lot of fun and it seems like this would be my chance to experience it for myself. My husband- who is on steemit now by the way, @call-me-howie, - is also thinking about playing. We get pretty competitive with each other lol! I need to ask Paul if he's going to- I turned him on to the cards and he went bananas buying them hee hee,