Militants - are they for real?

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Militants - are they for real?
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Tue, 04-14-2009 - 6:59pm

Someone on another board posted this link.
http://blogs.babycenter.com/celebrities/2009/04/12/dr-laura-says-all-moms-should-stay-at-home/?scid=momstodd_20090414_A:2&pe=2U8vYLf
It's about Dr. Laura saying that all women should be SAHMs until the child is at least 3 years old.

Whether we're talking about working or staying at home, I can't quite wrap my head around what is going on inside the brains of people that apply the phrase "all women should".

Do you think militants are actually serious, or just trying to get a rise out of others?

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Registered: 07-17-2007
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 2:42pm
I agree.
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-17-2007
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 2:44pm
Could you provide a link to the areas of the country where the budgets for special ed have gone "way over"? I'd like to consider moving there.
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Registered: 04-20-2009
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 2:49pm

Exactly! I remember a 1st grade teacher tieing a boy down in his chair--he probably has some attention issues.

I also remember being in junior high & the teacher assigning us to take turns reading out loud (one paragraph per student). Some kids stumbled & could barely read. I could not fathom how anyone could get to 7/8 grade & not be able to read well.

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Registered: 03-26-2009
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 2:51pm
So what would be the difference between the SAHP and the WOHP who is not offered any retirement vehicle with their company?
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Registered: 03-26-2009
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 2:52pm

"Thank you and I would add that a wohp often has the option of a 401K (or other type) of retirement account with employer matching funds."

Not always.

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Registered: 04-20-2009
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 2:57pm

I don't know about various states going "way over." I do know we get audited every year, but I don't know by who.

If I had to guess, it may be that schools in Texas was trying to throw as many students into special ed as possible. Once they are in sped, they will get accommodations when the state testing is done. The more kids getting accommodations may very well help the test scores go up. It is pretty well known how much Texas worries about it's test scores & that they are the leading NCLB state, so that makes sense, that that could have happened there.

At one of my schools the principal is trying to do that, because the school didn't pass last year & she's afraid of it happening again.

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Registered: 04-20-2009
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 3:11pm
PA was pretty clear. She said often. She never said always.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 3:17pm

That right there points to a problem that NCLB was supposed to address but really hasn't. It's even in the name: No Child Left Behind. That means that children who aren't making the grade yet don't have an identified issue that would put them in Special Needs programs should still be educated. They certainly weren't being educated before NCLB, but after NCLB what seems to have happened is there are now two categories of student: Special Needs and Those Who Can Pass the Test. A student is required to fit into one of these categories. What NCLB should have been about was figuring out how to reach those kids who don't fall in either category (and it should only take one test per year to find out who they are) and TEACHING them. Instead it's turned into penalizing the schools they atrtend for the fact that they even exist. So of course the schools try to label them Special Needs just to get them into an allowed category. Because apparently the category of "can't pass the test, has no diagnosis, we are working hard to find a way to reach and teach this kid" is not an allowed category.


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Registered: 07-17-2007
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 3:34pm
I don't know of any school districts that try to over identify special ed students as the teacher:student ratios are so much lower and it costs them significantly more money. The ones around here severely limit access to special education.
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Registered: 03-26-2009
Thu, 05-07-2009 - 3:36pm

And she also said...
"I guess I'm not really sure where anyone said that....what I said was that a sahp has to plan more and differently than a wohp and nothing you have stated changed the fact that a sahp has to plan more and differently than a wohp."

No "often" here-shrug

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