somebody should check the teachers papers
Posted on 07/05/2018 12:03:58 PM PDT by Morgana
What I don’t understand is why a five-year-old is being pressured to “do his work” and take tests with correct or incorrect answers, quite aside from the shaming. Children that age should be learning through play, singing songs, happy little chants, educational toys, fun games, little rewards and positive reinforcement. This is all wrong on every level.
Someday I’d like to see a constitutional test of such laws at least when it comes to self protection. I could see those laws being valid in cases where law enforcement needs to get a warrant or where some nefarious creep wants to try to blackmail someone...but I don’t see it being constitutional in this sort of case where mom just wants to protect a kid!
I believe a teacher trying to correct a student is O.K. generally, but calling kids out to their peers in class, calling groups of kids losers, and bringing into the class parent-techer relationships are all an abuse of power not in a mode of helping or teaching.
Shaming a kid for acting up, acting disruptive in class, is a wholy different thing than shaming a kid with his/her peers for merely making a mistake. It is no educational purpose.
I had to tranfer out of my algebra II class in highschool. My algebra teacher was my football coach on the high school “B” (freshman) team and he was also my brother’s coach on the JV team (junior varsity) football team. My algebra II teacher would spend the 1st 15 minutes of algebra class every day telling the class why I would never be as good a football player as my brother. In reality he never spent a second of time really trying to “coach” anyone. He expected everyone who could ever be worth anything already knew everything and if not they’d never learn anyway.
I went to my dean, and he went to the principal but nothing changed until he got me transferred out of the class, with an “incomplete” grade for half the semester. I still enjoyed football, no matter how much he tried to make my life misearble on and off the football field. Yes, from experience, I know teachers can get on power trips instead of teaching.
Exactly.
The monstrous rash of diktat from Central Authority has teachers never teaching.
It’s true that some teachers are obnoxious or abusive; some have no teaching skill; some have no academic skill; and so on. However, the whole system is breaking down, and most of the problems are out of the control of teachers.
somebody should check the teachers papers
“This is about bugging.”
No...it’s about bubbling.
;-)
I always appreciate learning. Thank you
I just finished annual testing with Frank. He’s lousy at “bubbling.” He’s also lousy at punctuation and capitalization, so perhaps he’ll be a journalist when he grows up.
Well, there's always journalism to fall back upon at least but aim high and hope for the best.
And if that doesn't work out he can become a lawyer. Atrocious spelling, punctuation and grammar are the norm there. A bit mortifying I admit, but hey somebody's got to do it.
His handwriting is like an engineer’s.
Ah, logical sort then. That precludes journalism.
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