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Vinita

Vinita

Let's Go Lions, GO!
This week's signs that this is gonna be a LONG year ...

As you know, I teach 6th graders. I have 2 blocks of "advanced" students, one block of "regular" students, and one split block class of kids whom I teach Language Arts.

The following questions have been asked of me this week. Mind you, I teach SIXTH GRADERS.

"What is a novel?"

"What is a verb?"

"What is a part of speech?"

"Why can't ONE be the subject of a sentence?"

"What is POVERTY?"

I think, that after this year, I'm going to become a stay at home mom, so I can volunteer in my children's schools and make sure they aren't as ignorant as some of these kids in my classes. This isht is SHAMEFUL. I have yet to complete a full week's worth of lesson plans, because I have to go back and reteach them things they should already know, but haven't been taught because they have to be ready to KICK SOME TAAS!! :rolleyes:

Standardized testing will be the death of education as we know it.

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Originally posted by Vinita
This week's signs that this is gonna be a LONG year ...

As you know, I teach 6th graders. I have 2 blocks of "advanced" students, one block of "regular" students, and one split block class of kids whom I teach Language Arts.

The following questions have been asked of me this week. Mind you, I teach SIXTH GRADERS.

"What is a novel?"

"What is a verb?"

"What is a part of speech?"

"Why can't ONE be the subject of a sentence?"

"What is POVERTY?"
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:eek2: WOW...this is amazing. Some of these kids need to pick up a book instead of a CD.

what is a verd :smh:
 



My daughter is an education major...as part of SU's requirement to do community service work, she volunteers at a middle school.

She asked the social studies class students to name their three favorite countries. One student said North America. She said no, North America is a continent just like Asia, Europe, Africa, etc. The student told her that she was wrong because Africa is the largest country in the world.

My wife (a middle school math teacher and guidance counselor) told us that she asked some students if they listened to the President's speech on 9/11. During that conversation, she learned that some of the students thought the President of the United States was Louisiana governor Mike Foster. These were 8th graders. Parents need to turn those play stations off and talk about current events and education with their children!

BottomLine===> You poor educators!
 
Originally posted by MikeBigg
She asked the social studies class students to name their three favorite countries. One student said North America. She said no, North America is a continent just like Asia, Europe, Africa, etc. The student told her that she was wrong because Africa is the largest country in the world.
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Actually, Mikey, Africa is a continent and a country! But you are right there are poor educators out there! And there are some piss poor ass parents too! Who spend NO time with there children, reading to them, talking to them and advocating for them. You know I have a BABY just 7 years old and I live a CHILD CENTERED life. Which means there are MANY things that I cannot do now that I have a school age kid. Can't go to sorority committee meetings during the week, can't go to political forums during the week, can't sleep in on Saturday mornings...you know Mike, all the fun of the single life is CURTAILED. I have to plan my free time and that's all good because I want to see him excel and I PRAYED for him so I have to do right by him. Chilldren do much better when they have committed parents at the school, putting them in activities, and training them spiritually.

Nita, I know it gets you down, but hang in there because of GOOD teachers like you there will be some kids who will make it!

GOD BLESS A TEACHER WHO CARES!!! Me and the many right minded parents of the world SALUTE YOU!
 
I agree with Seeing Spots. Parents owe it to their children to give them some knowledge. Don't leave it to the schools, they will steer them wrong. I had a teacher tell me that there was no such thing as the "Green House" effect. I had a language arts teacher tell me I was using too advanced words in my writing for her to understand. (after she incorrectly stated some of the words in a paper I wrote weren't "real") These are all college graduates, but maybe they were better suited to do something else?

It doesn't surprise me at all that the kids are behind. I used to observe at middle schools and high schools, when I thought I wanted to be a teacher. Often times things were slow, so I would get some of the slow kids in the class and work with them. I was told that after I straightened them out (after 3 visits) they perked up and became o.k. students... You do the math.

I am sure you are an excellent teacher Vinita, but many of your comrades aren't. They are in it for a paycheck and view school as a kid farm. Either the kids learn the lessons, or they don't. They mark pass on the gradebook and send them on to the next teacher.
 
First of all you have piss poor azz parents that don't know isht, so they can't teach isht. 2condly, you have piss poor azz teachers that don't know isht, so they can't teach isht. 3rdly, well we can do this all day...you get my drift.

Teach on Nita, teach on. :tup:
 
Just when I'm ready to shoot them all in the left knee ...

Each day in class, my students have a warm-up activity. Today, one of their questions was to choose the word that was misspelled. The word choices are Febuary, suspect, and poverty.

They didn't know what POVERTY meant, so they were all choosing it as the misspelled word.

So, in the middle of their reading (I was grading their warm-ups), I stopped everything and pulled out a dictionary. I wrote the definition for poverty, made them copy it, and write me THREE sentences using the word poverty correctly.

This is one little girl's three sentences (verbatim):

"I do believe I live in poverty."

"I don't believe I like living in poverty."

"Students must do well in school, if they don't want to end up living in poverty."

I just LOVE it when the light goes off, and they go from :retard: to :lecture: !!
 
Some grown up students aren't any better. I teach on the collegiate level and one of my students(she has to be in her late 30s) had the nerve to draw pictures of stars and flowers on her test paper and then turn it in. It was a short answer test. She actually thought I would accept it and let her just sit there through the rest of the class period. I told her "you have got to leave my class". She said, "well I'm riding with such and such"(another student that was actually completing her test). I said, " I don't care where you go, but you have "gotsta" leave my class." Yes I said "gotsta". I bounced outside of my professional training for a moment. She understood then and left.

My point is that this is somebody's parent. If she acts like this as a grown up, what is she teaching or showing her children at home. How does she expect them to act in a classroom? How does she expect them to take learning seriously?

Needless to say, she failed my class.
 
Originally posted by JSTUS
Some grown up students aren't any better. I teach on the collegiate level and one of my students(she has to be in her late 30s) had the nerve to draw pictures of stars and flowers on her test paper and then turn it in. It was a short answer test. She actually thought I would accept it and let her just sit there through the rest of the class period. I told her "you have got to leave my class". She said, "well I'm riding with such and such"(another student that was actually completing her test). I said, " I don't care where you go, but you have "gotsta" leave my class." Yes I said "gotsta". I bounced outside of my professional training for a moment. She understood then and left.

My point is that this is somebody's parent. If she acts like this as a grown up, what is she teaching or showing her children at home. How does she expect them to act in a classroom? How does she expect them to take learning seriously?

Needless to say, she failed my class.
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SAD, just plain ole SAD....that's what I'm trying to say. 1/2 the parents are SAD.

:smh: :tdown: :smh:
 
Let me confess. I was not the best in taking reading and English classes. Frankly, I hated reading in elementary school and was not the biggest fan of English classes. From the fourth grade, I was much better at math and science. I remember thinking how I would love it that I would not have to worry about Elglish classes. Well, I did major in engineering all the way through the PhD level. I can tell you that I am still writing. Needless to say I learned my lesson. I am in the process of writing journal papers, which are not always accepted. So I still need to communicate well.

True, I am not the most articulate person in the world. But one still needs to communicate. Jafus, PV-PRIDE, and Dr. Mac, all engineers, who had a professor that I know very well, will echo my comments.

Originally posted by Vinita
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I think, that after this year, I'm going to become a stay at home mom, so I can volunteer in my children's schools and make sure they aren't as ignorant as some of these kids in my classes. This isht is SHAMEFUL. I have yet to complete a full week's worth of lesson plans, because I have to go back and reteach them things they should already know, but haven't been taught because they have to be ready to KICK SOME TAAS!! :rolleyes:

Standardized testing will be the death of education as we know it.

:bawling:
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Truer words have never been spoken about education. But the politicians will never understand it. This goes for republicans and democrats.

In my freshman engineering class, I need to go over things that the students need to learn. But I wonder if I will have the flexibility to do it. Understand that the class is set up to where I have to keep up with the lesson plan. It is a strict schedule. I want the flexibility to make sure that the students will learn. But even in the second semester of teaching this class, I am not sure that I will have it.
 
Considering some of the bums I had for a teacher, I think I did pretty well. One Algebra teacher in high school actually told me, "once a 'C' student, always a 'C' student.

I applaude you Nita for actually giving a damn. Many children have Child-Parents so what can the Child of the child teach them? NOTHING.

I agree with SEEING SPOTS. The parent must take the time to teach that child and be sure that child is learning. One MUST lead a CHILD CENTERED life...and the damn PlayStation needs to be put up until summertime! I hate that damn game!
 
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Since I was talking about English, I am just posting here to correctly spell the word. If I am going to talk about using correct English, I might as well spell the word right.

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Seeing Spots,

I have a question. Why do you feel that Africa is a country and a continent? Most kids are taught that it is continent consisting of many countries. The same way North America is a continent consisting of the countries of Canada, the United States and Mexico. I thought Australia was the only continent that is a country.


Main Entry: Af?ri?ca
Pronunciation: 'a-fri-k& also '?-
Usage: geographical name
continent of the eastern hemisphere S of the Mediterranean & adjoining Asia on NE area 11,677,239 square miles (30,244,049 square kilometers)


Vinita,

The fact that you are concerned and give a dam means that you are a good teacher. They say that patience is the key.
 
I'm a SCIENCE TEACHER. We are discussing CELLS. I asked a student, "what is a CELL"?

"? He said the only cell he knew was a "JAIL CELL". This is a 7th grader.
 
Originally posted by THAMES
Seeing Spots,

I have a question. Why do you feel that Africa is a country and a continent? Most kids are taught that it is continent consisting of many countries. The same way North America is a continent consisting of the countries of Canada, the United States and Mexico. I thought Australia was the only continent that is a country.


Main Entry: Af?ri?ca
Pronunciation: 'a-fri-k& also '?-
Usage: geographical name
continent of the eastern hemisphere S of the Mediterranean & adjoining Asia on NE area 11,677,239 square miles (30,244,049 square kilometers)


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You beat me to it Thames. Since when was Africa a country?
 
SMH @ today's youth....

And people ask me why I am in favor of vouchers.
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Originally posted by JSTUS
Some grown up students aren't any better. I teach on the collegiate level and one of my students(she has to be in her late 30s) had the nerve to draw pictures of stars and flowers on her test paper and then turn it in. It was a short answer test. She actually thought I would accept it and let her just sit there through the rest of the class period. I told her "you have got to leave my class". She said, "well I'm riding with such and such"(another student that was actually completing her test). I said, " I don't care where you go, but you have "gotsta" leave my class." Yes I said "gotsta". I bounced outside of my professional training for a moment. She understood then and left.

My point is that this is somebody's parent. If she acts like this as a grown up, what is she teaching or showing her children at home. How does she expect them to act in a classroom? How does she expect them to take learning seriously?

Needless to say, she failed my class.
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Are you serious? Late thirties???????????????????????????????That's a DISGRACE.
 
Oops, with an explanation!

You guys are right and I am too! Australia is the only country and continent NOW.

Years ago, during the "colonial" period of the continent, it was thought of political scientist and Look at old history books, western cil books that describe it as such. With the rampant "freedom" and establishment of African countries then it was not longer perceived as one country, one continent.

I stand corrected.
 
Nita, you keep doing what you do. We need more teachers like you that actually GAF!

SS, you hit the nail on the head. Parents have to be involved in their kids education. My parents, well educated people, made sure my sister and I were always on top of our school work. They did not allow us to settle for D's and C's. Now that I'm the parent, I have a 4 year old and I am doing the same thing. My wife and I review his alphabets and his numbers everyday and we make sure he speaks correctly. If he blurts out something like, "I don't got... we are quick to correct him and make sure he understands why.
 
Re: Re: Re: Sigh ...

Originally posted by SAME OLD G


No Jelli, its verb not verd. ;) :p
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:lmao: I guess I need to take typing and english again...:lmao:
:smh: @ myself....:lmao:
 
I read alot about the parents need to do this ...and the parents need to do that....in the previous posts

Lets be honest how many of our parents actually sat down with us and went over our lesson. My mom and I talked a lot about current events and she encouraged me to read. In her conversation if there was a word I didn't know she encouraged me to look it up. But to sit down and have lesson plans with me that didn't take place. We really need to educate our educators. We need to get more educators in schools so that our classes are not overloaded.

We need to stop this social promotion crap.

I'm not saying that the parents shouldn't be active in their childs education but lets be realistic how many parents have the time to do so. If you are a hands on parent then you deserve much muc praise.
 
Originally posted by JSTUS
Some grown up students aren't any better. I teach on the collegiate level and one of my students(she has to be in her late 30s) had the nerve to draw pictures of stars and flowers on her test paper and then turn it in. It was a short answer test. She actually thought I would accept it and let her just sit there through the rest of the class period. I told her "you have got to leave my class". She said, "well I'm riding with such and such"(another student that was actually completing her test). I said, " I don't care where you go, but you have "gotsta" leave my class." Yes I said "gotsta". I bounced outside of my professional training for a moment. She understood then and left.

My point is that this is somebody's parent. If she acts like this as a grown up, what is she teaching or showing her children at home. How does she expect them to act in a classroom? How does she expect them to take learning seriously?

Needless to say, she failed my class.
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I should act surprised. But in a way I am not.

Originally posted by THAMES
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Vinita,

The fact that you are concerned and give a dam means that you are a good teacher. They say that patience is the key.
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I agree.
 
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