Mom Is Teaching

More from TCAH and I’m gonna just put out some shouts from the book and some shouts from myself based on personal experience.

Parental Quote:

“The principal told me that it is really the parents’ job to educate their children and that his teachers are only facilitators.”

Errmmm no, that would be homeschooling, the parent is the facilitator, the guide, the one who helps the child learn.  Public school teachers, which is who is references in the quote obviously, are the teachers.  We do not give them that “title” of “teacher” for them to be facilitators while the parents do the teaching.  UGH!  That’s all I can say on that one is UGH!

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Another parent:

“If I wanted to be a teacher, I would have gone and gotten a teaching degree.”

Well duh, that’s all I can think of, is duh.  And, I have a teaching degree but duh, what are our public educators thinking?  Wait, are they thinking at all?

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TCAH says, “…if we wouldn’t want an unqualified person teaching our kids during the day, why would we want one doing it at night - especially when that person is also tired and distracted”

I mean, come on, again, is this brain surgery?

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A parent who admits to reading to her children often and being a math teacher herself says,

“I think homework assignments should be for the child.  If a child cannot do the assignment alone, then it is parent homework”

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. If you are a parent of a publicly schooled child (which I want you to remember is still my preferred method if it works, if it doesn’t that’s another story, for some people it doesn’t work and homeschooling is so much better, but….) and your child can’t do the homework alone….just send it back to school with a note stating that you (the parent) are not in such and such grade and the child was unable to do it, thus it remained unfinished.  Period. 

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One more quote and I’ll hush on this for today……

Another parent quote:  (this one made me see red)

“I was in the middle of a parent teacher conference when, out of he blue, the teacher says, ‘Listen, if you don’t work with your daughter’s penmanship, I’m going to have to send her to occupational therapy‘. 

And the parent asked,

“Well, at what point did she fail to keep up with penmanship in class?”

And the idiot teacher (sorry it makes me emotional):

“We don’t teach them penmanship.”

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Here’s the problem, teachers who are slacking are making the ones who aren’t (such as a host of teachers I had in my life time) look really bad.  That’s when people start talking of unqualified teachers and highly qualified teachers (remember Mac from yesterday?), etc.  Absolutely ridiculous.