McGraw Hill - are you using Treasures? Email me if you are. Our district adopted it for last year and our school piloted it the year before. Maybe I can help. Cindy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverlee Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:26 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] No Postings
> My sentiments exactly!! Bush and McGraw? Read Denny Taylor or Kenneth > Goodman or Elaine Garan or Rick Meyers or Coles or a number of others. > Harold McGraw is the godfather of Dubya. Are we so naive that we can't > see > down the road yet? Well, then read Bracey and Kohn and others. I wonder > what percentage of schools are now requiring Direct Instruction of one > form > or other? Both Phyllis Schafely and Lynne Cheyney have tried to tell me > how > to teach in the last ten years. Yeeesh, indeed! If you haven't yet, go to > susanohanian.com and spend some time. > > > > On Aug 23, 2007, at 2:23 AM, ccunningham wrote: > > > Whew! I was wondering the same thing. I know I'm still prepping . . . > > we started school last Wednesday and we started a new reading series > > (McGraw Hill). I'm still trying to figure it out. Unfortunately, I'm > > at a school where you HAVE to follow each page and carry the manual > > with you. > > Would this be Open Court? > > You know.... when I read about mandates that require teachers to carry > the manual around with them I want to take administrators by the necks > and lock them in a room with heavy death metal music and no earplugs. > What is the matter with people? Have they taken complete leave of their > senses, or what? I want to know what the educational and teaching > background is of the people making these mandates. This is not > teaching. You might as well hire some yahoo off the sidewalk and slap > the manual in their hand and say, "Just do this." Scripted programs do > not address the individual needs of children, do not create real > learners, and do not require thinking teachers. Principals who get > their credentials through leadership academies without teaching for > several years in the classroom are not equipped to run a school. > > And what about the physical part of this? What about Carpal Tunnel > Syndrome? Tennis Elbow? Repeated Stress Injury? I already have problems > with my left elbow. I can't imagine what it would be like if I had to > carry around a heavy teachers' manual all day. > > This just makes me want to scream. It all leads back to the desire for > corporate takeover of the public education system. The McGraw Hill > people are close friends of George Bush. Go look up McGraw Hill's > profits for the last few years. > > Yeesh > Renee > > "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." > ~ John Lennon / Paul McCartney ~ Carry That Weight > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Now you can see trouble.before he arrives > http://newlivehotmail.com/?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_viral_protection_0507 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
