SAH doesn't support change,

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SAH doesn't support change,
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Sat, 08-26-2006 - 4:58pm

"SAH doesn't support change, it supports going backwards to the 1950's,"

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I wholeheartedly disagree. To me, SAH is a choice. How is that going back to the 1950s, when a lot of women didn't have much of a choice.

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Registered: 06-30-2006
Thu, 09-21-2006 - 10:29pm
Which of course

Sabina

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

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Registered: 06-30-2006
Thu, 09-21-2006 - 10:30pm
U betcha!

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Sabina

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

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Thu, 09-21-2006 - 10:32pm
Because all awards are bad. There should be no trophies, there should be no certificates of achievement, there should be no honor society. There should only be pats on the back and a "Good job!"
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Thu, 09-21-2006 - 10:34pm

no....i'd rather my school use recycled paper to create special recognitions than absorb whatever it is the less interested (probably,less involved too) complain about.

bad energy has no place in school. ;)




Edited 9/21/2006 10:47 pm ET by egd3blessed

 

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Thu, 09-21-2006 - 10:36pm
Nah. If you expect a raise just to stay around, I would bet most employers would find a different employee. However, if you do a good job and are worth keeping around, sure you will get a raise. Not just to keep you around but to keep you functioning at the level required to earn that paycheck.
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Thu, 09-21-2006 - 10:39pm
How dare you be glad that your child has a little bit of fun at school!! Don't you know we are supposed to be treating our children like little adults and they are NOT TO HAVE ANYTHING FUN and out of the ordinary. Shame on you, shame on you...
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Thu, 09-21-2006 - 10:40pm
Good point.
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Thu, 09-21-2006 - 10:48pm
I'm not so sure I agree that school is solely for the children. It benefits society as a whole to have an educated population. It's not as cut-and-dried as you make it sound.
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Thu, 09-21-2006 - 10:52pm

In our school, they give "rewards" for the reading program they have. In kindergarten it is relatively easy to reach the level required for a small reward. As they increase in reading level and maturity, the rewards get harder and harder to achieve. DD had to read 80 books in the fourth grade in order to reach the award. She took quizzes regurlarly to determine what grade level she needed to be reading at. She was not allowed to read any books easier than the level she attained and yet she reached the goal relatively easily and if she was doing it for the "prize" as you claim she was doing, she would have stopped once she got to that goal. At that point, they have hopefully developed a love of reading and know how to do it well. If the level remained the same from K-4 to achieve the award, then your argument would have a little more clout with me. The teachers make them work and work hard to get the award so, IMO, they earned the right to be awarded.

DD and 16 of her classmates earned a limo-ride and movie party in the last week of school last year. The whole school benefitted from it because a company gave a certain amount of money based on how many kids reached the goal. They used that money to buy more books for the library which more kids could use to enhance their reading. I was supposed to tell my daughter that even though she did all the work, the school would be the only one to receive benefit from it? Not gonna happen. The look on her face when the limo came to pick them up at school is priceless to me and there is no way I would have deprived her of that.

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Thu, 09-21-2006 - 10:57pm
Not all of them would stop, but some would. We all know that kids are different and forcing them all to fit into one mold of internal vs external rewards is simply harmful. We can't make them all the same, so why are you trying? Like I asked someone else, if your child responds well to verbal cues but mine responds well to physical cues, my child is purely out of luck? Not gonna buy it. My child is extremely competitive and I am not going to force him to change his personality just because you think it is harmful for him to receive a little recognition for his work.

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