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[Amidala]

OUr education system must not be too bad - we all have a place to live, food to eat, most importantly a COMPUTER, we understand how to use it, how to communicate... its the old, If you can read this, thank a teacher.....
THANKS KIMMI!!

[Zipper]

Man I could never even think about being a teacher.....I wouldn't know how to hold my tongue all the time.

Me either!!!!

[TiFeMb]

...and it is on like 3:00 at the flag pole in Jr High on!

 
What's real funny is I TOTALLY got that the first time I read it! I can just see you now..

[Amidala]

Interesting article about ADHD in kids, that I found via Dr. Andrew Weil's fb post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sanford-newmark-md/do-25-million-children-re_b_708093.html

[lifefeedsonlife]

No they don't.

Read the book I posted . . . .

[CindyLouWho]

Plus it takes more patience than I could muster every single day[/i[]

Cindi, you don't give yourself enough credit. Parents are home schooling their children everyday they are around them. Many of the important attitudes kids develop come directly from the parents.
Morality, honesty and integrity are not taught in any school I know.
Attitudes toward school, teachers, religion, politics, race, hate,  bigotry are more than likely first learned at home, as are many more such things
What parent hasn't remarked about the kid not listening to anything they say! The fact is they listen to way more than we consider them for, and sometimes that is the wrong word in the right ear.

I totally agree.  But can you imagine like 20 or 30 of them for 6 hours of the day?   Five days a week?!?!?!  YIKES!

[CindyLouWho]

Patience ain't somethin' you have - it's somethin' you do. I think a nurse needs to practice just as much as a teacher as doctors are more insufferable than school administrators. (Having to deal with both myself ya know.)

Yeah.....sick people aren't always nice.  There was something kinda nice about working on a vent unit.....most of them couldn't speak - and if they could they were dependent on you to make it happen, lol.    Having made that observation, I will have another:  women are quicker to be nasty and more demanding patients.  Men are whinier and more needy patients.....in general.

[Kimmi]

Well here is an example of the ultimate kick in the ass by a group of parents.  Mob mentality at its finest moment!

So said parent from yesterday's drama gets to talking to other parents in the same neighborhood about how wronged she was by the school and how terrified her child is to come back with me there.  My principal got 3 emails and 2 phone calls from last night until this morning from more parents in the class about me.  And guess where they all live?  In the same neighborhood.  Funny how I've taught for 12 years without issue, subbed from kindergarten through 5th grade with no issue, and have my own class of 28 and no issue.  The bullshit part of this was my principal asking me if I had a bad day yesterday?  WHAT?  ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?  This is clearly a case of neighborhood gossip and drama.  Not one of those parents have the balls to come speak to me though.   

[Amidala]

You know, CLW, I really really made effort to be kind to everyone that took care of me and to thank them (in the LTAC). I do think I had a moment at the very very beginning when I couldn't get anyone's attention and I vaguely remember hitting the side of the bed to make noise.  Well my whole experience was a new one for me....

[lifefeedsonlife]

Kimmi - what would happen if you talked to them dirctly? )Not that you owe 'em anything - cuz you don't.) Sometimes - from vulnerability and conflict some interesting things can happen.

[Kimmi]

Life I offered to talk to any and all of them directly, but their punk asses just decided to go above me.  They are only tough in groups. 

[CindyLouWho]

Ami, i was just joking in regards to the vent patients......but the blanket statement about men vs women is fairly true.   certainly not ALL women are mean!

[Amidala]

CLW - OH I know. My vent drove my husband NUTZ. I couldn't point, I couldn't write... it was a real comedy!

[lifefeedsonlife]

Sorry to hear that Kimmi. Feel bad for their kids too . . . because it's just going to perpetuate.

[lifefeedsonlife]

From the Gatto book I'm HIGHLY recommending:

Here in a brief progression is one window on the problem of modern schooling. It set out to build a new social order at the beginning of the twentieth century (and by 1970 had succeeded beyond all expectations), but in the process it crippled the democratic experiment of America, disenfranchising ordinary people, dividing families, creating wholesale dependencies, grotesquely extending childhoods. It emptied people of full humanity in order to convert them into human resources.

It may not be the individual teacher's intent to do this - but this is the result of the system and the INTENT of the original proponents and designers of the compulsory education system in America.

This book is deep and wide - please read it. The link for it is on page one of this thread.