a_mothers_story in booju_mooju

teaching your child after they come home from school

Mar 03, 2010 23:51

I am new to posting and this site. I found this site only after trying to find a site I could cut and paste a story I started writing over 10 years ago, and did not want to take a chance in ever losing it. I am glad to see a site with questioning parents! So here is mine.
Does it seem crazy to anyone else that when your child comes home from ( ... )

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kittyface

It's the "Whole Language Approach" and it's going out of fashion. Phonics and spelling will be back, it's swings and roundabouts in education just as in everything else.

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a_mothers_story

THANK you to every one who has commented, as you can tell I am so frustrated, I have been in meetings for the past 2 weeks going over my daughters future education choices with her teachers. My only outlet in the past was writing about it when I couldn't sleep as a kind of therapy and before I knew it she was in high school and I now have I think 6 or 7 pages and am still writing in my journal. As a mother it is hard because you want the best for your kids. We all misspell words from time to time, either because we are lazy or did not catch it, but at least we know when we see it that it is wrong, these students don't.
I hope kittyface you are right, that it will come back and I hope it does soon.

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donkeymoo

As a parent AND a teacher, I have a lot to say on this topic ( ... )

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a_mothers_story

I read and read and read to my daughter so much so that when she was able to pick up a book that is all she wanted to do was read,no toys,no dolls and no games just books, then after kindergarten and first grade started the nightmare began. It took a few years but in kindergarten she was reading or maybe it was memorizing from all the times I read to her, then first grade started the start of the nightmare. It was all gone for her. That is when I started writing my story or my daughters story. I have been trying to play catch up ever since. It is a long story and I am not sure if you would want to but if you do you can go to my journal and read it, I would love it with you being a teacher to see what your reaction would be. Or even maybe ideas of what I can do next! I am not sure how we go to someones else's journal page , I am new at this,this is the only site I found, lucky you guys huh! But if you can, it is about 6-7 pages long.

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snapefantasy

I don't agree that it is always "bad teaching". When you have school systems sued or almost sued for doing so much as grading in RED ink...
That said, some lower level teachers set the kids up for issues later by not instructing properly from the beginning. This also makes the jobs of later teachers MUCH harder. It took my daughter 3 years to unlearn the things that were taught to her in Kindergarten. My mother, an 8th grade teacher, is having to take time out of her normal class work to teach her students things they should have learned by the 4th grade.
When I catch something insanely wrong in my daughter's work, I tell her how to do it right and have her correct her work.

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megalicious

Can you give an example of what they aren't learning in kindergarten that has to be retaught in 8th grade?

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snapefantasy

Things that should have been taught by 4th grade, not kindergarten
Like, how to write in cursive. How to write complete sentences (to include a subject and verb). Finding a noun or verb in sentence. Proper punctuation. (IE: putting question mark on the end of a question).
I know there have been at least 5 students in the past 3 years that could not read well enough to read from their grade level lit book.

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a_mothers_story

This is the same thing happening in our system, the 4th grade teachers are having to re-teach what they should have already learned, then not being able to get them prepared for the next grade and on and on and on. I have always corrected my daughters work and will continue to do so, but when I saw my oldest last set of papers.....wow the worst paper I have ever even attempted to read. My problem is they accept this kind of slop.

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nacho_cheese

I'm not a teacher nor a parent (yet), but as an English major, it irks me when I see a student spell something incorrectly and they are simply not corrected. What irritates me even more is that the teachers sometimes make the same mistakes, which means that they don't know squat about spelling anymore, either. I mean, I'll see a teacher's Facebook say something like, "Were going over grammer today!" ORLY?!?!

When I have children, I plan to teach them basic spelling and grammar from a very early age. It's important to me that my children are seen as the intelligent, capable children that they could be. And really, this will help them as they become adults. After all, if a person's resume has misspellings and/or text-speak all over the place, their resume is going to be thrown in the trash. Writing sometimes is the only first impression someone gets, so why not make it correct, in regards to both spelling and grammar?

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domina151

I remember watching a segment about this on the telly once. This is something that bothers me to no end. The biggest F- up is when businesses or companies spell their name or the name of their product wrong on purpose. I really don't think it's cute. "Krazy oats" or "Krazee Krunchers" just does not help the matter does it ( ... )

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sandramort

R and U drive me insane, absolutely stark raving MAD. But in all fairness, lots of phones don't have a qwerty. I never had problems with typing on a regular keypad but I understand that not everybody is as anal as I am.

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sandramort

I have an acquaintance who used to teach elementary education before she had children. When we chatted online, she would constantly make spelling and grammatical errors, then ask me what difference it made if I pointed it out to her. She really didn't understand why someone teaching children should need to know these things. I shouldn't admit how glad that she ended up doing something else instead of teaching after she started a family.

I have two friends, one trained as an English teacher and the other an English major, whose spelling and use of the language makes me cringe on a regular basis. I know being online chatting doesn't elicit the same sort of formal language usage that writing a term paper does, but come on, some of that stuff should be so deeply ingrained that it just doesn't ever happen. You know, like me vs I errors... basic spelling mistakes like soder.. I really don't get it. And I was a science major, not English.

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