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SAH doesn't support change,
| 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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Even with the winkie icon, that comment seems to be a bit out of place.
PumpkinAngel
<<Because as I said for some kids it is an extra motivator. That doesn't mean the teacher isn't being creative, just that not all kids are the same and they all respond differently to different things. >>
Again, you aren't following the line of logic that you presented.
PumpkinAngel
Can you explain why you are so against an incentive program in a public school when you specifically removed your child(ren) from the public schools because of their (the school's) inability to meet the needs of your out-of-the-box child(ren)?
Or are you going to continue with the pretense that you cannot possibly fathom how a public school cannot simply engross every single child with its teachers?
Jennie
When you say that the programs work for your child(ren?), do you mean that they get her (or them) to do things thay normally wouldn't want to do? Or that they read more or more widely or whatever than they would if they didn't have some external motivation to do so? If the rewards, such as pizza coupons ARE helpful in getting them to do what they don't want to do, what if they decide that they really don't want a pizza so they won't read? Will you have some back-up plan in place to motivate them, or will you decide that the reading that they dislike isn't that big a deal after all? Or do you mean that the kids read anyway, they just like getting a pizza for doing so? If so, how is that program "working" for them, since they aren't doing anything they would not already do? To me, handing out rewards for doing something like reading books sends the message that the task is so unpleasant that no one would want to do it without some kind of reward.
I know that external motivators can be effective in certain cases. I would much rather see them used on a case by case basis at the proper time, if needed and appropriate, rather than as a blanket program for the entire school or class.
"That you fail to see beyond that pretty much supports what I've been saying all along."
What have I failed to see? Please do enlighten me.
"You still misunderstand. I have never said you were talking specifically about *her*. I said your comments were insensitive given the context of the post to which you were responding. Not sure why that's such a struggle."
The struggle is I don't find my general comment to be insensitive. To each his own, I guess.
"But her comments were boorish and insensitive, given the information my sister had just shared."
You keep insisting my comments were boorish and insensitive. But, you know what? Your posts are the most boorish and insensitive ones I've read on her and other boards to date.
BTW, I don't see how that SIL could possibly be related to *you*, LOL.
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