oh I agree that sad as it is, even bad schools are the best hope that some children have. I just get impatient with that whole if-only-parents-gave-a-damn thing the teachers have going on...
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've found that as parents of exceptional kids, we have options. Even > when our kids have other problems, bottom line is they are smart and > we can find resources to educate them, or lacking that, do it > ourselves. Children who are not exception, who struggle with school, > or have severe behavorial problems and who have parents who either do > not or cannot get involved, or ones of suffer from neglect are the > ones who can most be impacted by teachers who recognize and intervene > in their education. Removing that from the schools is not going to > improve education. > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:340545 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
