Ftk
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Joined: Mar. 2007
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My oldest had a 1st grade teacher, who he unfortunately had again in 2nd grader. She had gone to several seminars (funded by the feds of course) where she supposedly learned new techniques for teaching.
She felt it was better to let the kids make errors like crazy when spelling...don't correct them, etc. No spelling tests. She also didn't teach much phonics at all. I about shit. They did a lot of "expressing themselves" through writing journals. That was the way to go in her opinion. Christ. My kid still isn't the greatest speller, and he does worse in language class than any other subject.
Sometimes I think public schools should take a look at the private schools that are more exclusive. Both my sister's kids go to private school...one is a latin school. The education level in the latin school is way above what my kids are getting, and the phonics program is unbelieveable. Problem is I can't afford private school, and transportation is a problem as well as they don't have a busing system.
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"Evolution is a creationism and just as illogical [as] the other pantheistic creation myths" -forastero
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