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Rock and a Hard Place
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
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What I object to, and what causes me to question this teacher's competency via CLW, is an on paper ranking of early Kindergarten students, and the discussion of that ranking as being a direct result of sahms not reading to their children.
PumpkinAngel
The system has a lot of advantages: even the poorest children end up with a very solid education because the standards are applied and upheld across the board. The disavantages tend to hit the brightest children, who achieve the targets early on, but are not provided with extra stimulus or challenges since this is not viewed as necessary (after all, they have met the requirements, what more do they need?). That is actually a problem I have been dealing with for the last few years...luckily, ds has a couple of teachers who are really trying to work with me on it, but there is nothing even remotely like a gifted program anywhere in the country.
Laura
My favorite catty Mother remark has been when I commented that
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Also the *sample* gets re-mixed every year in most schools.
PumpkinAngel
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"What I object to, and what causes me to question this teacher's competency via CLW, is an on paper ranking of early Kindergarten students, and the discussion of that ranking as being a direct result of sahms not reading to their children."
Don't faint, but I agree.
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