Writer's Block: School days

[boodie]

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God yes, as an adjunct to PARENTS teaching it at home, I'm sick of PARENTS who seem to want to push all the stuff that PARENTS should be teaching their kids onto the schools and then bloody well complaining when the teachers don't have enough time to be TEACHERS as well as replacement PARENTS.

We don't pay teachers enough for that shit.

Comments

[fishp-angel.livejournal.com]

Agree 100% with this.

A school and some doctors recommended to my friend that she starts reading books to her son at home to get him prepared for kindergarten.

She was bitching to me and said "isn't that the schools job?"

How can parents not want to teach their children? *Sigh*

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

*sigh* that attitude worries me, children should know how to read before they get to school, if they can't they miss out on a lot of valuable learning time while the teachers have to bring them up to speed.

It's not that hard to teach kids to read, that's how I taught mine, I read to them from the time they were babies, and they had favourite books and soon learned to recognise words, and once they started to do that, it's not a BIG step to reading for themselves.

All it takes is 10-15 minutes a day of quiet reading time while they're young.

Next thing we'll be hearing that kids are turning up to kindy still in nappies because after all the teachers have nothing better to do with their time than toilet train YOUR child.

[haggis-bagpipes.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's ridiculously stressful to be a teacher, from what I hear off my mum the job's become wired so it carries all the expectations and none of the power.

[funnelwebkitten.livejournal.com]

Indeed, you're expected now to be a PARENT plus a TEACHER, but heaven forbid if you try and instill some sort of discipline.