there is an enormous rant behind that paragraph, but almost everyone on the list has heard it several times, so I will refrain. Bottom line, the kid is 21 now and in his weaker subject no worse off than his peers; in his better, quite a bit ahead. This because I declined to let the schools system make him a statistic. And yes, he was dually exceptional, with ADD, problems with fine motor skills, and an IQ of 140.....and they had the test scores to prove it. They just weren't going to do anything about it until he failed a grade. Over the fact that his teacher would not accept his homework because of his handwriting. I'll shut up now.
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Oh and that parent-teacher thing they whine about? I went to mine, but > they > were always about how I could help the teacher, not about how we together > could help the child." > > Interesting. I have had parent/teacher conferences with teachers from > public and private schools. In my experience, the public school teachers > were too busy to actually have a conversation. I live in a school zone > where all the parents go to the conferences. A lot of helicopter parents; > always hovering around the school. The teachers seemed to be scrambling to > keep up with all the parents and their children's "needs". According to > most of these parents, their children have all kinds of special needs. > > At private school, it wasn't so bad. A little more organized and not as > many students. The parents seem to be a little more hands off as well. > Also, a lot more communication during the course of the regular schedule. > > I worked at a Title I school (my own Alma Mater) . Some parents came, but > not many. Usually, the parents who came were the ones whose kids were > doing > fine so that didn't really need to come. I have never had a child at a > Title > I school so I can't address it from a parenting side. > > J > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - > Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go > out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340542 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
