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: 06-30-2004
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 6:13pm
Honestly, he won't keep reading. He is in the 3rd grade and is reading at the 8th grade level so I am not concerned at all about his reading ability. He simply doesn't have the love of reading that I do and I am glad that his teachers have found a way to keep him reading. The "love" of reading, IMO, is not something that you can teach a child. DS has ADD and there is nothing in his personality that allows him to sit for long periods of time to read a book.
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Fri, 09-22-2006 - 6:16pm
I do sometimes wish that there were other options for my kids - they simply are not pushed in school. But there are no other options. So we use the TAG program at school and I am not going to complain that the teachers in that program use a lot of external motivation. It is a little difficult to tell 9 year old boys that he has to do a lot more work than most of his peers without him getting something to show for it.
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Fri, 09-22-2006 - 6:21pm
And since you can't admit that you can't put all children in the same box defined by statistics, there is no reason to argue. I have seen many, many children benefit from these types of programs so I am not going to throw stats at their parents. Their parents have been fighting and fighting to get their children to progress and this is what works for them. I am simply NOT going to tell them that they are causing permanent, irreparable harm to their child because of it. There child is finally benefitting from that aspect and getting something out of their education. Just because your child doesn't need that and gets everything out of their education does not give you the right to belittle that child's progress and the means it took to get there.
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Fri, 09-22-2006 - 6:24pm

No I did not say that.

I would assume any time of year.

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Fri, 09-22-2006 - 6:25pm
I never said that awards are bad. I have said that they are a good thing. Others have said that awards in elementary school are going to turn children into adults who are not capable of holding a job or will be buried in credit card debt.
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Fri, 09-22-2006 - 6:28pm
I don't have a problem with ANY method of getting the desired result. If a child responds to external awards and not internal rewards than there is no problem with that. Frankly, I would have a problem with my child's teacher if he/she knew that my children responded to external motivation and didn't allow that. It would mean that my child was not getting all he could get out of his educational experience and that would extremely annoy me.
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Fri, 09-22-2006 - 6:30pm
We have been saying that awards in school are for fun, you have been saying that awards are awful and harmful to a child's education. Who do you think?
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Fri, 09-22-2006 - 6:32pm

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And I have said over and over and over that my kids simply do not get excited about the plastic toys and pizza coupons. In fact, we never participate in the pizza hut reading campaign. My kids go for the much bigger prizes - swimming or movie parties, extra time at recess, pajama day, etc, etc.

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Fri, 09-22-2006 - 6:36pm
Like I have said, when they do the perfect attendance awards at my school, every single child gets one. So if there is a child who has had perfect attendance and hasn't qualified for any of the other awards handed out, he or she has to go without? In our school, perfect attendance awards are only handed out at the early elementary level. And quite frankly I have never seen a child who has received one "rub it in" to the kids who didn't receive one. The majority of them have said, "Look, this has my name on it!!" without completely understanding what it is. Than the certificate goes in the bottom of the backpack and is forgotten about while they go about celebrating the last day of school.
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Fri, 09-22-2006 - 6:36pm

I know you didn't say it's every child's right to get a prize.

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