For those of you who remember, my son had a really rough time at school last year and I myself had a very difficult time with his teacher. It was unfortunate that his first year of school was so horrible he would fight me every morning not wanting to go. Preschool should be fun. But the year is over, and summer is here. The school offered summer school to a select few kids and my son was chosen as one of those who had the opportunity to attend. I signed him up just in case he had a change of heart and got bored after being out of school, figuring if he didnt like it I could whisk him out with no worries.
Well thank Bob I did. He has a different teacher this summer, one who is much more closer to understanding what the kids enjoy, and her room is stock full of cool things ( even I eyed the area wistfully remembering being that age). She gets right down on the floor with the kids, and *gasp* allows the parents, no, encourages them to come in to the room to drop off and pick up their kids so they can see how they interact in their school enviorment. Every day I've been able to walk in, hang back for a few minutes and watch my son, totally engrossed in whatever he is doing that it takes him awhile to even notice Im there. And then he doesnt want to go home as hes having too much fun. Hes even been gettin gup at 5 in the morning, fully dressed and ready to go to school hes been that excited.
Today was day 3 and I just picked him up. While I was there, one of the OT teachers (there are a few kids there with special needs) came up to me and mentioned that the difference in Xavier from regular school to summer school was like night and day. Shes noticed he is more relaxed, happier, more outgoing, and more enthusiastic on what they are learning than when he was with his other teacher. She was completely impressed. I mentioned to her that he hated school, due to some issues with some of the kids and the other teacher, but that here he is in love ( his words) with summer school and Miss Karen and he get along great. At that point his teacher, Miss Karen, popped over and told me that my son is the role mdoel for all the other kids in the class and she was very happy to have him there.
I walked out of the classroom with a happy kid, bubbling about his day at school, and not too happy that he had to wait until Tuesday to go back. When you have a teacher who cares, and takes the time to get down to the kids level, and you have an enviorment filled with what kids love, there can be a huge difference in how your child views school. My son has gone from hating school, to loving it, and I give the credit to the teacher, her openness with the parents, and the fact she loves to get down on the floor and play race cars and legos with the kids
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I still say teachers have the most important job of anyone. at all
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took words right out of my mouth Kelv
took words right out of my mouth Kelv
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Eske wrote:
I've always read Driftwood as the straight man in varus' double act. It helps if you read all of his posts in the voice of Droopy Dog.
But he's still allowed to ride on the short bus, right?
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
Some teachers are there as a job and some are there for the kids. The ones that are there for a job tend to suck monkey balls. Had one teacher who used to be a lawyer, was a history teacher, obviously there for the kids. Nother had 2 masters degrees and was teaching highschool english and was the nicest most caring person on the planet. Then there was my physics and math teachers who seamed to hate all the kids in their class.
I had the same kind of experience with my middle child. Steven had a really hard time with kindergarten. The teacher wasn't exactly the warmest person in the world and he had a hard time in that class. Plus, there was some bad communication between the teacher and us. He didn't do as well as we hoped and we decided to have him repeat kindergarten the following year for a number of reasons. Thank Bob he's got a September birthday so he'll still be only 18 when he graduates from high school. Anyway, the teacher the second time around was just the best teacher. Warm, friendly, bubbly and just all around amazing. Steven loved that year and was raring to go to school to see her and his class. Broke our heart when she got transferred to another school before our youngest started kindergarten. I would have loved to have her be our daughter's kindergarten teacher.
yes there is a HUGE differance between a teacher and someone who is just there collecting pay from the school for baby sitting.
I see you plebians are still trusting public schools teachers to corrupt and indoctrinate your children. Kudos; your kid is going to become a well adjusted commy.
Achileez
Achileez
These are the good days Lady D, before you know it he'll be having vodka-Sprites and smoking joints at the bus stop.
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
I still have a few years before I have to worry about that. I have enough to worry about now
such as how to keep the kid from crawling up my grandfather clock
such as how to keep the kid from crawling up my grandfather clock
Kelvyquayo wrote:
I still say teachers have the most important job of anyone. at all
So do I. But I guess other don't agree.
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The Oregonian, April 2, 1996. Portland Public Schools lay off 513 full-time employees, including 278 classroom teachers, to balance next year's budget. Since Measure 5 went into effect in 1991, Portland Public Schools have reduced full-time equivalent positions by 1,133.
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by Anthony Lewis of The New York Times, March 26, 1996. Will Oregon follow the route taken by California, which has impoverished what was once the finest state system of education in the country in order to build dozens of new prisons
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Oregon's new growth industry is not tourism. It is not high technology. It is not service industry. It is prisons. Conservative legislators force up tuition and refuse to appropriate more money to colleges and universities because a $25,000 a year subsidy to students is too much. The same conservatives are willing to house more inmates who cost Oregon taxpayers $38,000 a year to guard.
According to our elected body, jailors do.
And who are we to argue with them?
The most important non-comercial jobs in a soceity are teachers, doctors, firefighters, and police. Unfortunatly they're all paid from the same place, giving too much to one weaken the others.
You named your kid Xavier?
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Lord Darkuwa wrote:
The most important non-comercial jobs in a soceity are teachers, doctors, firefighters, and police. Unfortunatly they're all paid from the same place, giving too much to one weaken the others.
ok fixed that for you. police are way to low on the list to be of any real importance.
teachers, Dr./medical staff including EMS/ETM, and firefighters are the most important jobs in soceity. cops are an after thought and as such should stay that way.
Theres more crime in the US than the police can handle, if we pulled the budget from the police to increase funds for schools bad stuff would happen.
edit: You rated me down for saying something completly true?
Edited, Jul 13th 2006 at 5:19pm EDT by Darkuwa
edit: You rated me down for saying something completly true?
Edited, Jul 13th 2006 at 5:19pm EDT by Darkuwa
DSD wrote:
For those of you who remember, my son had a really rough time at school last year and I myself had a very difficult time with his teacher. It was unfortunate that his first year of school was so horrible he would fight me every morning not wanting to go. Preschool should be fun. But the year is over, and summer is here. The school offered summer school to a select few kids and my son was chosen as one of those who had the opportunity to attend. I signed him up just in case he had a change of heart and got bored after being out of school, figuring if he didnt like it I could whisk him out with no worries.
Well thank Bob I did. He has a different teacher this summer, one who is much more closer to understanding what the kids enjoy, and her room is stock full of cool things ( even I eyed the area wistfully remembering being that age). She gets right down on the floor with the kids, and *gasp* allows the parents, no, encourages them to come in to the room to drop off and pick up their kids so they can see how they interact in their school enviorment. Every day I've been able to walk in, hang back for a few minutes and watch my son, totally engrossed in whatever he is doing that it takes him awhile to even notice Im there. And then he doesnt want to go home as hes having too much fun. Hes even been gettin gup at 5 in the morning, fully dressed and ready to go to school hes been that excited.
Today was day 3 and I just picked him up. While I was there, one of the OT teachers (there are a few kids there with special needs) came up to me and mentioned that the difference in Xavier from regular school to summer school was like night and day. Shes noticed he is more relaxed, happier, more outgoing, and more enthusiastic on what they are learning than when he was with his other teacher. She was completely impressed. I mentioned to her that he hated school, due to some issues with some of the kids and the other teacher, but that here he is in love ( his words) with summer school and Miss Karen and he get along great. At that point his teacher, Miss Karen, popped over and told me that my son is the role mdoel for all the other kids in the class and she was very happy to have him there.
I walked out of the classroom with a happy kid, bubbling about his day at school, and not too happy that he had to wait until Tuesday to go back. When you have a teacher who cares, and takes the time to get down to the kids level, and you have an enviorment filled with what kids love, there can be a huge difference in how your child views school. My son has gone from hating school, to loving it, and I give the credit to the teacher, her openness with the parents, and the fact she loves to get down on the floor and play race cars and legos with the kids
Well thank Bob I did. He has a different teacher this summer, one who is much more closer to understanding what the kids enjoy, and her room is stock full of cool things ( even I eyed the area wistfully remembering being that age). She gets right down on the floor with the kids, and *gasp* allows the parents, no, encourages them to come in to the room to drop off and pick up their kids so they can see how they interact in their school enviorment. Every day I've been able to walk in, hang back for a few minutes and watch my son, totally engrossed in whatever he is doing that it takes him awhile to even notice Im there. And then he doesnt want to go home as hes having too much fun. Hes even been gettin gup at 5 in the morning, fully dressed and ready to go to school hes been that excited.
Today was day 3 and I just picked him up. While I was there, one of the OT teachers (there are a few kids there with special needs) came up to me and mentioned that the difference in Xavier from regular school to summer school was like night and day. Shes noticed he is more relaxed, happier, more outgoing, and more enthusiastic on what they are learning than when he was with his other teacher. She was completely impressed. I mentioned to her that he hated school, due to some issues with some of the kids and the other teacher, but that here he is in love ( his words) with summer school and Miss Karen and he get along great. At that point his teacher, Miss Karen, popped over and told me that my son is the role mdoel for all the other kids in the class and she was very happy to have him there.
I walked out of the classroom with a happy kid, bubbling about his day at school, and not too happy that he had to wait until Tuesday to go back. When you have a teacher who cares, and takes the time to get down to the kids level, and you have an enviorment filled with what kids love, there can be a huge difference in how your child views school. My son has gone from hating school, to loving it, and I give the credit to the teacher, her openness with the parents, and the fact she loves to get down on the floor and play race cars and legos with the kids
It really is amazing how much difference teachers can make. When I started preschool the teacher was great. I loved going. Then I started kindergarten and teh teacher was one of those that was just there for the paycheck and didn't seem to like kids at all. I completely reversed my attitude about school. I did everything I could to get out of it. The thing is, that teacher completely destroyed my confidence, and I only fully restored it last year. I'm completely serious when I say that. I can trace back my loss of confidence to that teacher. And that completely messed with my enjoyment of the rest of my school career up to now.
Even now, There is still a huge difference. Frosh year, my english teacher was amazing. She was really there for the kids. Then this year, my english teacher didn't really get along with me. It always seemed to me that she was talking down to me. I was in the regular english class when I could have been in the advanced class easily, but she knew that. To give you an idea of what kinda questions she asked, this is an exact quote:
"Why do you put the quotation marks after the period?"
How do answer that? I mean, that's like asking why there are 180 degrees in a triangle. It just is. The answer, btw, was "Because it's the end of the statement."
But with my frosh teacher, I loved the class even though I disliked a lot of the poeple. With the soph teacher, I hated the class even though I liked all but one of the people.
Do tell, how did your kindergarten teacher destroy your confidence? Not because I question it or even care, but because I bet it would make for some cute stories.
And by the way, the reason your teacher asks why you place your period within quotations is because you are doing it wrong, because it belongs on the outside. Don't ask me why, it just is. Oh no, it's because the sentence ends at the period, your quotation marks are just floating outisde the sentence.
And by the way, the reason your teacher asks why you place your period within quotations is because you are doing it wrong, because it belongs on the outside. Don't ask me why, it just is. Oh no, it's because the sentence ends at the period, your quotation marks are just floating outisde the sentence.
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I see you plebians are still trusting public schools teachers to corrupt and indoctrinate your children. Kudos; your kid is going to become a well adjusted commy.
Achileez
Achileez
Yeah, i would rather have my kid in public schools than be molested by a priest in private schools so...meh.
At least a commy kid will take orders and be disceplined.
!!! Glad to hear things at school got better for the little one, DSD!
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