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Is SAH really because the children what
| Fri, 10-06-2006 - 3:33pm |
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I was a wohp to Joy (our first) for about 2 years, then a sahp/wahp for about 11 years. Then a wohp for 9 years. I've been a ft wah/pt wohp for the last 5 years. And my parenting style hasn't changed because of work status. It has changed because of our children's separate personalities and their ages but not due to work status of either parent. The rules are the same for Dylan as they were for Joy, Erica, and Angela. Although I will admit that he gets more snack/junk food than the girls did. But that's more because I only have to buy for one child instead of 3 and he goes to school instead of homeschooling.
Chris
The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett
Homework is practice. You shouldn't be graded on practice. I know my GPA would have been higher in high school if they'd considered the mistakes I made on homework part of the learning process.
Grading homework is tantamount to saying that the child is an expert when they've just begun. If they're going to grade homework, maybe they should have practice work before homework is assigned.
My childrens' homework is not graded. They won't receive grades of any kind or variety until they are in 8th grade, after which grades are based tests rather than homework.
Homework is, however, used by the teacher (who checks and marks each individually) as an assesment of how well children are able to repeat what they've learned in class on their own. Homework that is not correct is marked by the teacher with the request that the child repeat something a few more times (e.g. mispelled words should be written a few more times by the student to make sure they have learned it) or that the child redo the problems (e.g. math problems). Thus, the child figures out what was wrong and practices a bit more, and the teacher has a better idea of what areas a child is struggling with than she/he would have had if a child were always turning in perfect homework corrected by parents at home.
Homework can, thus, be an assesment of how well a child is grasping a concept AND function as part of the learning process.
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Do you have a source for this?
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Did they advertise and call the daycare a "pre-school"? I'd be very surprised that a daycare center wouldn't demand the higher tuition that pre-schools charge.
Having an ECE degree can go either way. Our babysitter has an ECE college degree and is now pursuing her Master's degree in ECE. She's in charge of a company's on-site daycare facility. Yet, she still believes children learn best thru play. So she has no structured curriculum, no detailed, weekly reports to send home to the parents, she does not require the children focus on learning to write, read, do math, etc.
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I think the school sets the tone for what's expected of a teacher. Our Principal has again and again made clear to us parents at our monthly coffees that the teachers are there to teach. With the volume of work covered in many schools these days in Kindergarten and 1st Grade, there's no way teachers have time to wipe noses, make lunches and snacks, take a child to the bathroom, etc, as is done in daycares.
Does a school have Rules about behavior? Of course. The teacher enforces those rules. But that is not providing daycare to the 2 yr-old who likes to bite or throw toys across the room. A child in many schools these days - especially public schools - who repeatedly misbehaves is sent to the Principal and a strict process begins....
There are elementary schools out there with robots? That's terrible.
I think children shouldn't be treated as though they are incapable of learning or still in daycare. Hugs, giggles, lots of play, silly jokes throughout the day? Yes, we have those in our elem. schools. I'm glad that our schools knew what I as a parent did not - even the 5 yr-old has an immense capacity for learning. In fact, they are hungry for it. It would never have been any help to treat my intelligent DDs as though they were still incapable of any independence or hard-core education when they first entered elem. school. Other children have different levels of learning.
I imagine the differences explain in part why you live in the school district you do, and why we live where we do.
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