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| Let me just add to the conversation that teachers do work VERY HARD and you really do not know what it is like until you have your own classroom.
With that being said, when parents want to play an active role in their kids life I think it is something to be embraced.
There are GOOD teachers out there, but the once in a lifetime ones seriously do have a gift that had nothing to do with how educated they were (example being Ron Clark).
If a parent truly believes they can meet the needs of their child better than I can with homeschooling I say GO FOR IT! The end goal is to create a future population that will be a contributing member of society. Again, when parents play an active role this is more likely to happen, and that is one more child that I know is getting their needs met in a way that I can't. As mentioned before we have 30 kids piled into a room that we have to try and make sure they are getting the type of education they deserve. Let's face the reality....that really doesn't happen. Someone always gets the short end of the stick.
To those that have not had the best kind of experiences with the public school system I am truly sorry you had a negative experience. I know it would break my heart to hear that some of these things happened and I had no idea how serious of an issue it was. I am going to be honest-sometimes we just don't know because we have so much crammed down our throats :-(. Open line of communication is key-which is why I embrace each and every time a parent contacts me, even when it is fairly regularly. I would rather keep that line of communication open so that the relationship is there to have open conversations about any concerns without any fear.
Sometimes I believe that is an issue too, parents don't know how to reach out when they have concerns. We really have to work on building a strong relationship with parents, and this is something that can be very difficult to do when parents themselves had bad experiences with the public school system. Regardless, the key no matter what type of schooling is simply being involved with your kid.
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| Rocket'sMagicGirl - 2016-01-18 8:31 AM
Sadly, I know public school and college-educated people who can't spell to save their lives. I make my living as a writer and editor. I've seen a lot and it's scary.
I agree about the parents siding with kids as a major problem. A big part of the problem I'm having with one of mine is the way the teachers, principal and parents don't handle things. I'm not one to make a big fuss about other people's kids. I'm also the type who gave the kindergarten teacher permission to paddle my kids if they misbehaved (she never had to). I always tell mine that if they get into trouble at school, they'll be in twice as much when they get home. When my son decided to wipe glue on the underside of his table in kindergarten, I made him go back and scrub it and write a letter apologizing to the teacher. ?What gets me is when someone is picking on my son, repeatedly, he is the one who gets into trouble. A girl was after him daily. My son is pretty small for his age. She is not. She would chase him down on the playground, push him down, pick on him in class. I saw this myself when parents were invited to eat lunch and go to the playground with them for Thanksgiving dinner. I asked her to leave him alone when I saw her push him and also asked the teacher what was going on between the two (this was happened for a month). The teacher said they were just playing and she never really does anything to him. Well, I got a call from the principal a week later saying my son slapped this girl and he was in the office. The whole story was she tripped him and he fell down, he got up and she pushed him back down so he jumped up and slapped her. He got sent to the office and they made him apologize to her. She got nothing. Now he did get into trouble for slapping her because he was taught to never slap anyone, especially a girl. But when I talked to the principal after hear the story, she said the girl didn't push him, he just fell and lied. And then, just before Christmas break, on the day of their party, my son and a friend were laying on the floor playing a board game (the teacher had asked us to send board games for them to play in class that day). Another kid stood on a desk and jumped on my son. The friend told me it was intentional because he was messing with him and my son all day. This kid landed on my son's ankle and sprained it. The teacher did nothing when my son told her he was hurt and told him to go play. I was never told. When he got off the bus that day he was limping and his ankle was huge. The doctor confirmed the sprain. The kid who did it didn't get into any trouble at all because his mother volunteers at the school a lot. I know this because others have had her kid pick on theirs and he never gets in trouble because his mom helps at school. I understand it wasn't the teachers fault. Lord knows teachers have a really tough job and they deserve 3xs the pay they get. But these aren't the only two situations, only the most recent. But I'm really tired of dealing with these things.
True about the educated not being able to write - you ought to read some of the emails I get from our engineers!
I'm sorry about your son - glad, you are "on" to what's going on! That makes me feel bad for him. Give him an extra hug today from me! | |
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Location: South Central Florida | magic gunsmoke - 2016-01-18 10:28 AM Let me just add to the conversation that teachers do work VERY HARD and you really do not know what it is like until you have your own classroom.
With that being said, when parents want to play an active role in their kids life I think it is something to be embraced.
There are GOOD teachers out there, but the once in a lifetime ones seriously do have a gift that had nothing to do with how educated they were (example being Ron Clark).
If a parent truly believes they can meet the needs of their child better than I can with homeschooling I say GO FOR IT! The end goal is to create a future population that will be a contributing member of society. Again, when parents play an active role this is more likely to happen, and that is one more child that I know is getting their needs met in a way that I can't. As mentioned before we have 30 kids piled into a room that we have to try and make sure they are getting the type of education they deserve. Let's face the reality....that really doesn't happen. Someone always gets the short end of the stick.
To those that have not had the best kind of experiences with the public school system I am truly sorry you had a negative experience. I know it would break my heart to hear that some of these things happened and I had no idea how serious of an issue it was. I am going to be honest-sometimes we just don't know because we have so much crammed down our throats :-(. Open line of communication is key-which is why I embrace each and every time a parent contacts me, even when it is fairly regularly. I would rather keep that line of communication open so that the relationship is there to have open conversations about any concerns without any fear.
Sometimes I believe that is an issue too, parents don't know how to reach out when they have concerns. We really have to work on building a strong relationship with parents, and this is something that can be very difficult to do when parents themselves had bad experiences with the public school system. Regardless, the key no matter what type of schooling is simply being involved with your kid.
Over the years, I learned a few things about the teachers I met while Home Schooling. In My Opinion, the post above was written by an excellent, amazing teacher. I dont' know the person, but one of the things I learned was that excellent teachers are more concerned about the education than the mode of education.
Great teachers would ask me things like If I used a program, how did I like it? What did my kids think about this or that? Was I happy with my choice?
Other teachers were immediately put off, and assumed I was incapable of teaching my children. Never asked questions about their actual education, just the "law".
If traditional schooling invironments were meeting all the needs of all the children 100% we would not be having this discussion. I think the main statements I have about people making judgements about Home Schooled kids, are the remarks I listed in my last post...I knew a weird kid, "they" are always so weird. . ."they" as though all public/private schools produce totally well adapted, outgoing, unweird students.
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