Re: No Child Left Glued to the Table

["Joseph Bottini" <jpbottini@adelphia.net>]

Art:

 

You are way off base on this one.

The point is rigid scrip for instruction leaves little room for teacher
decision-making, as too what is deemed an emergency.

My 5 year old granddaughter should expect to have the teacher's attention if
she is "all glued" due to an accident as described.

 

The Principal needs to take Common Sense 101 over again, I think.

 

Joe Bo

 

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From: arn-l-owner@interversity.org [mailto:arn-l-owner@interversity.org] On
Behalf Of aburke5054@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:01 AM
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Subject: Re: [arn-l] No Child Left Glued to the Table

 

This silliness has nothing to do with scientific reading instruction
(whatever that is) and everything to do with the poor judgment of people
working in the schools.   When schools can't cope with little kids handling
bottles of glue, blaming NCLB is quite a stretch.

Art


-----Original Message-----
From: pgutpgut@msn.com
To: arn-l@interversity.org; LiteracyForAll@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 7:37 AM
Subject: [arn-l] No Child Left Glued to the Table

Susan Ohanian posted this on her announcements today, and it is one more
painful example of scientific reading instruction run amok. Highly qualified
teachers under Reading First mandates mean following the script, even if it
makes no sense to do so... 
 
"We are being instructed that during SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION, teachers are
NOT to interact with other students. Now last year kindergarten teachers
tried to explain how difficult it was to keep 5-year-olds quietly busy with
only Harcourt materials while we teachers worked with a small group. 
 
Let's say you have 24 children, with 7 in a group. This means 17 kids are
sitting for up to 40 minutes. . . quietly and NOT DISTURBING THE TEACHER. 
 
The principal was observing one of the kindergarten teachers during small
group time and a little 5-year-old with special needs using glue had the
horrific experience of the top coming off of the bottle. Understandably,
that child went up to the teacher--THE ADULT IN CHARGE. Also
understandably--and professionally--the teacher got up to help this child. 
 
That evening, the teacher got an email from the principal telling her SHE IS
NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TO ENGAGE WITH OTHER STUDENTS during small group
instruction (unless there is a real emergency)! 
 
Here was a 5-year-old, covered in glue. What was he/she to do--get STUCK TO
THE TABLE waiting for 20 minutes until the teacher finished with that one
group? 
 
GROWN-UPS, EDUCATED PEOPLE, ARE LOSING THEIR MINDS HERE IN BUFFALO, and we
are supposed to condone this form of child abuse! " 
 
- teacher 
Buffalo School System 
2007-01-10 
 
 
 
Priscilla Gutierrez 
Outreach Specialist 
New Mexico School for the Deaf 
 
....change is inevitable, growth is optional... 
 

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