Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Just the ELA Facts Ma'am...":
New English topic: How come we pay for middle school literature
textbooks, but xeroxed short stories are sent home? The texts collect
dust at home. How come teacher reads story to class on day 1 and on day 2
gives a test on story? Are kids supposed to teach the story to
themselves?? Oh, more work for parents, no thank you. Need to bring back
traditional teaching to our classrooms. Do vocab, read story, assign
questions, discuss, write about THEN give test. Process should be 1 week
to go over story.
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How many pages long is the story?
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean more work for parents???
ReplyDeleteYOU are a parent!!! Do your job and stop blaming the teachers for everything!!!
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving... I for one am so thankful to be a parent, to live in Plainview and for the teachers here in the district...
Thank you!!! Say what you want and write what you want... it doesn't always make it the truth. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! And for the people who for the past year complained, made up stories and never had the facts right on this blog... HAPPY SELFISH DAY!!!
Very angry, person at 1:34. Yes, I am a tax paying parent who helps enough. Do you seriously believe the teachers should only read a story to class and not discuss it over a few days? Give me a break. Yes, it is not my job to teach a story. That is why I send my kids to school. Where ever you live, it is up to the teacher. I write the truth. Why would I share this information? Maybe I have high expectations. Maybe I have always had good teachers. Where I come from, teachers taught. Period. I wear many hats and it is one thing if a kid does not understand a lesson. It's another if the lesson is never taught. Hope everyone out there has a relaxing weekend.
ReplyDeleteWell said!!! It is so much easier to blame the teachers for everything... How about "THANK YOU"? These parents just don't want to parent... It's a old story on this blog!!!! PEROID!
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving.
Let's complain about some photocopied resources... and then demand our taxes don't go up! Maybe the copies are one page over the legal limit - here's our chance to cause a public stink about it!!!
ReplyDeleteLet's complain that there's not enough rigor... and then let's complain some more when the demands on students go up!
Let's bring children into this world... and then let's skip our share of the responsibility! We pay taxes to the school system - let them do it all!
Let's have no background in education... and then declare what's best over teachers and administrators that have multiple Masters degrees!
Let's demand change... and then we can rant about wanting things to go back to how they were!
Three cheers for negativity and making the school system seem terrible because of a limited group of parents' concerns. Here's the special approach: If it's happening in my son or daughter's class, it must be going on in every single classroom in the district. Doesn't that make sense?! Why call up the teacher and deal directly with her/him when you can just post angry diatribes?
Enjoy the (jive) turkey.
THANK YOU to 4:54 PM OMG!!! BRAVO... Thank you for your wisdom and words... I pay taxes too by the way to 4:45 PM and I had wonderful teachers growing uo just like my children do here in Plainview!!! I write the truth and try to find solutions AND talk about being ANGRY!!! Keep Complainig... You never learned the lesson of being thankful... SAD.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving to Ed and Suzala!!! Thank you for having this Blog and for your efforts!!!
ReplyDeleteIt appears that this thread has two topics running simultaneously.
ReplyDelete1 - Someone brought up an issue about the use of materials combined with an instructional practice.
2 - One or more people have raised the issue of this blog becoming a perennial complaint bureau.
In response to #1, I personally have not had this experience so no comment from me although if it is as you say, you are within your rights to raise the concern.
As far as #2 goes, I agree that this blog has often become a venue for endless complaints for which one would think there was absolutely nothing good about the Plainview school district whatsoever. The complaining can go way over the top at times but I would have asked for a separate thread for it. Attacking the original poster and alluding to his/her honesty and/or right to raise the concern is also over the top.
To clarify: There is no Ed, that is Ed, as in editor- sorry if this was confusing.
ReplyDeleteWhile some may think at times this is a blog-0-whine, for some, this is the only place they feel free to voice their opinion, whatever it may be.( and we all seem to have one!) so, please, there is room here for everyone's opinion. It would be nice if we could all remember that we don't all see the car crash from the same viewpoint, (not alluding that POB is like watching a car crash-but you know what I mean.)
The point of this blog is so that anyone can bring up a subject that that wish to. If you disagree say so, but lets not hang someone out to dry if you do, just give your alternative point of view. -that might result in a change,a point of information or even just a meaningful exchange of ideas- Hey it could happen.
Lastly I wish for all to have a safe and happy Thanksgiving and to keep in mind how much we all; students, parents, teachers and administrators in the Plainview-OldBethpage area have to be thankful for.
-suzala (editor at large)
and to the post at 6:05, it is my pleasure.
Gilly... Sorry.
ReplyDeleteThank you Suzala...
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for this blog and
we do have alot to be thankful for, I agree.
We all have different views and opinions,
however I am all about solutions and not about pointing fingers, blamming teachers and constant whine after whine.(NOT PRODUCTIVE, but to each his own as they say)
Please don't hang me out to dry because of my positive attitude. I don't see alot of meaningful, happy comments, so here is one... Happy Thanksgiving to our wonderful community, I am blessed by the special people that live and work in Plainview. You have made a big difference in my life and my childrens. Wishing you all a blessed day.
I think that the angry person that wrote the response at 1:34 needs meds.
ReplyDeleteI love our community. That doesn't mean there aren't bad teachers here. There are some great teachers, too. Some of the bad teachers are pretty bad. And there are some that do send home stories that are not explained well enough in class and test kids on them. No need to bash the blog. Any exposure of problems is a good thing. The higher our school taxes go, the more what goes on in school will be scrutinized.
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