STARTING LIVE-AWAY DADS COACHING GROUP

[StPaulieGirl]

I remember 3-4 hours of homework in high school, but not grade school.  Same with the oldest girls.  This has just started a couple of years ago.  The teachers are apparently running around like chickens with their heads cut off.  I'm going to have to schedule a meeting with them, without the kid there.  I took my son to the dr. today, and we also took some time to discuss my girl's problems at school.  When I mentioned "No Child Left Behind", he knew what I was talking about.  When are they going to dump this program?   This is hard on teachers, too :-(

Maybe if they'd go back to what works, and dump all the "innovative" ideas and pc garbage, the kids would actually learn something.  3 out of 4 of my kids can't spell correctly.  I've spent years trying to undo the learning techniques they've learned in school, but it's a losing game.  I had an advantage over my kids, I went to Catholic school for 5 years.  If the public school system was sincere about improving children's overall learning abilities and not just test scores, they'd go back to the old ways.


Lol, hey maybe daddy can spring for private school!  Just kidding...

[ragsto9492]

Thanks to all of you who have been responding to my post.  As I had promised, I've set up a group/chat page where we can have "talk" as a group.  

Group home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nyladads
Group email address: [email protected]

Again, my goal in facilitating this is simple - get us talking!  And I see that's already happening which is great.  To be very explicit - and since I've posted on SPARC - the idea is not to pull dialogue away from this site.

Rather, it's really to share ideas, frustrations, challenges and hopefully give each other some needed boosts when necessary.   If you're looking for the opportunity to do this, please sign on to the above.  I look forward to our conversations...