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No. But I have friends who were blessed enough to have him as a teacher at Garfield High. Pretty cool, huh?
I did have teachers that were from his mold and had his attitude towards students and the classroom. Which was encouraging and supportive. Not dismissive of the student and the parents.
So you teach white, upper-class kids with (probably) college educated parents who sleep on clean sheets at night. Wonderful.
I'm not worried about them.
I'm worried about the poverty-stricken kid in the barrio who doesn't have access to a decent school library.
Yes, I do.
I think that all kids benefit from being in a college prep environment, where standard American English is taught, and it is assumed that all kids will go to college. I don't like to patronize anyone. Oh, and who needs libraries anymore? Everything is online, and nearly all schools in the US have internet and computers.
I arrived at the school this afternoon to find my 8 year old son with his hair in two ribboned pigtails. I asked him who had done that to him and he told me that his teacher had. My first reaction was that this had to be some weird punishment which got me mad enough but after taking the ribbons out of his hair I walked him back into the school to find the teacher and ask her what was going on. She calmly told me that this was all about gender awareness. They had done a class today on hair which involved discussing what the differences are between boys and girls hairstyles, hairlength, importance of hair etc. She had picked a girl and my son to use as examples because they both had similar length hair overall, albeit in different styles and she had wanted to illustrate differences and get the class to decide what made hair feminine/girlish vs masculine/boyish. This ended up with my son being given pigtails after lunch and the girl... well nothing really... a brushed off her face look held down with a little bit of hair creme. The teacher showed me a book that she had taken the lesson plan from which didn't exactly say put a boys hair in pigtails but did propose using two children as models to demonstrate differences. She said that if I wanted to complain further I would have to take it up with the principal, but she said that there was a whole set of classes based around this book coming down from the school district and that other topics would include things like clothing, reading material such as magazines, tv shows, jobs and so on.
I suppose she placated me a bit, but shouldn't the schools be getting permission to do things like this before just going ahead and using our kids for this kind of thing?
That's ridiculous. I would complain to the principal and the school district. It is not ok to humiliate a child to "teach" the rest of the class anything . . .horrible - maybe she could have done it to herself and another teacher or an aid, but not a kid.
I think that all kids benefit from being in a college prep environment, where standard American English is taught, and it is assumed that all kids will go to college. I don't like to patronize anyone.
Good. I'm not a big fan of being patronizing myself. But like it or not there is real poverty in this country. THOSE are the kids I want to see educated.
I care about the kid in Four Corners who has to carry his water in a bucket because the rez doesn't have a water system. Though they did (finally) get some internet thanks to a $63 million grant from the Federal government. Yay!
BTW - 15,000 BOOKS just got shipped to the Navajo Nation Library in Window Rock, AZ. St. Michael High got 69 boxes of books for their school library so *woo-hoo* maybe some young kid will get to read Edward Abbey, learn about other people and other places and grow up to make life better for his People.
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[quote=DewDropInn;25351702]Good. I'm not a big fan of being patronizing myself. But like it or not there is real poverty in this country. THOSE are the kids I want to see educated.
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This is reprehensible, IMO. I'd like to see ALL children educated, not just a select few, based on their economic status - whether they are raised in an 'upper-class neighborhood' or a 'barrio', they ALL deserve an education.
It is disheartening when people show prejudice - pre judging people because they HAVE is just as reprehensible as pre judging those that have NOT.
This is reprehensible, IMO. I'd like to see ALL children educated, not just a select few, based on their economic status - whether they are raised in an 'upper-class neighborhood' or a 'barrio', they ALL deserve an education.
It is disheartening when people show prejudice - pre judging people because they HAVE is just as reprehensible as pre judging those that have NOT.
Hahaha! Oh wait, you were serious? Talk about intentionally twisting the message of the post!
A teacher who doesn't understand the need for a library?! Yikes!!!
We are heading into an era of a "virtual library". Are you a teacher???
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