totally random but a BIG PLUS!!
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totally random but a BIG PLUS!!
| Wed, 01-23-2008 - 11:49pm |
I logged on to Yahoo! tonight and found a video from ABC News about a kindergarten teacher who saved a student's life - the kid had a brain tumor and the teacher notified the parents that the child wasn't walking right, stumbling around, etc. Maybe they should have their baby checked out and surprise!
Go teachers! I know there are some here and thought I would share that yes, we do make good calls occasionally. (I also couldn't get myself over to the Teacher board, it seems to have gone to recess.)





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That's good to know.
That's got to be the most absurd thing I've heard in a while.
So, if you see a melanoma on a kid, you can't suggest the parents have it checked, because the school would then have to pay for treatment? Wow...what a way to suppress concern for children's health and well being.
What if it's something contagious that could cause a pandemic in the school? Can't say "hey, junior looks like he may have smallpox, maybe you should take him to the doctor".
I'm gobsmacked.
I think it's pretty absurd as well.
I can't say that because then we'd have to pay for the doctor and possibly any treatment that comes from it.
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What idiot came up with that?
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
It basically comes from the thought that if the school wants the child to have something (whether it be a doctor's appointment or a special accomodation) the school has to pay for it.
Kinda like if you work at a fast food restaurant and they want you to have a specific uniform, they'll provide it....just on a much more expensive scale.
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I'll spare the rant. But that is about the most ridiculous stretch and abuse of funds I have ever heard. Things like this frighten me. I cant decide if this is an idiot that sees this as a back door approach to some agenda around health care possibly? Or just some good intentioned jerk who lacks the common since to know that it is far more harmful than useful. How does this survive court?
A little strong on the response, I know. But on one hand half these parents want to hand over responsibility of raising the kids to you teachers, then on the other they want to create an environment of land mines that put you in impossible positions. I managed raising 3, I chose jobs that made the hours possible when needed, I chose others for the insurance . . I managed. I did what I needed as a parent. I just do not understand how a situation like this evolves in the presence of any educated and responsible adults, especially parents that don't want the state to remove there right to raise there own kids! I see such a slippery slope in this stuff . . . . . it is a trap that forces the state to become the parent. It also encourages the parent to ignore the issue until the school cant, and it encourages the school to act as blind as they can as long as they can, just crazy . .the kid is the last priority in this scenario . . . .just completely crazy.
I don't know how you can work for the public school system. There isn't enough duct tape for me to wrap my head in, it would explode! (-:
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
I imagine- I'm guessing b/c I don't remember- that it's based around severly handicapped kids.
I look at public schools a bit differently. They can be dangerous weapons in the wrong hands. The line between public education and public indoctrination is fine indeed. And for the sake of that statement, you can "indoctrinate"
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