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,"

Statement in a post below.

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: 06-27-1998
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:17pm

<<The awards my kids get for participating in this program makes up for the chance that they don't get the peer-to-peer interaction time that the other kids do. >>


How?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 04-14-2003
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:17pm
i don't understand what you're not getting here. are you holding me to your declaration that all attendance awards are issued by school districts--none by ptos and other parent-volunteer organizations? or are you talking about something else?
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Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:19pm

....or that some people are just actually reading what is written?


PumpkinAngel

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Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:19pm

hmmm...maybe you could clarify what you mean by ptos only giving a damn about a perfect attendance,then. jabbymom is correct,perfect attendance awards have nothing to do with pto and everything to do with the school's district.

as if perfect attendance awards are just cute,creative fund raisers each individual school plans and creates. bwah.

 

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Registered: 06-02-2003
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:22pm
You are saying that attendance awards are an evil from the PTOs...I'm saying I don't see what the two have to do with each other. At least in our district, (which I'm sure isn't alone) they are not connected. I guess there is a possibility that other districts do it differently, but none that I've encountered. So I'm not sure what YOU'RE not getting here.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:30pm

That is something I'm having a hard time understanding in this thread....why is it okay and expected for awards for the children to replace creative teaching by the teachers?

PumpkinAngel

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Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:35pm
i am not aware of a single reason why perfect attendance of individual students would be meaningful to any school district, nor of a single school district that has a district-wide program for handing out awards for it. that's not to say that i don't believe you and the op when you say that that's the case in your districts--though i have seen things in this thread that suggest that a case could be made in these districts and their schools for putting such energies to addressing matters that affect safety, comfort, and the quality of instruction instead.
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Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:50pm

understood as you and many others have asserted in this very thread that you dislike them,find them very meaningless yada yada......that does *not* change the fact that they are charged by a school district policy,not individual school plan. what my child's school gets awarded with at the end of the year is what every other elementary school in this district has.

all school districts are different...just because (you) don't like them doesn't mean they shouldn't be awarded.

 

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Registered: 08-27-2005
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:50pm

"i am not aware of a single reason why perfect attendance of individual students would be meaningful to any school district, nor of a single school district that has a district-wide program for handing out awards for it."

I can think of one reason school districts might be very invested in perfect attendance awards: money for schools is often directly linked to daily attendance. If a student misses one day, the school district gets less money. It's a pathetic relationship, in my opinion, since the teachers' salaries, school infrastructure etc. have to be paid for regardless of how many students are absent on any given day. But I know it's one reason why many Californian schools have tried to make it very difficult for students to miss school even when they are sick.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Mon, 09-25-2006 - 12:51pm

.....and certainly nothing about an Astro's game.

PumpkinAngel

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