[atlantaprog] Re: WABE

I'm with you on that thought Gene! :-)
Chris...its going on all over...every school, every county, every state...do 
you know I work with World Heritage Exchange Program, bringing students to the 
US from all over the world, what shocks me I guess is that German and Japanese 
kids want to come study in America when they have the best educations in the 
world!!!!  I represent these kids for the whole school year that they are here 
(the Augusta area) and I see the way they can't even believe half the stuff 
that goes on here...like teachers freaking out over any type of clothing the 
students are wearing or piercings and that type of thing!  When I was in High 
School in Exeter, NH we could wear almost anything we wanted and I don't recall 
other kids staring or us disrupting class or teachers bitching us out about it! 
 We seemed to do fine and although I made my choice to marry and have kids I 
have MANY friends that went on to college and have wonderful careers!  

I got kicked out of class for saying 'excuse me' after sneezing outloud in 
class one time...the teacher thought I was being sarcastic!  Well...after all 
was said and done that teacher was made to apologize to ME and he was in 
trouble..not me!  Now they just seem (here anyway) to let the teachers decide 
whatever they want...my daughter couldn't go on a 5th grade field trip in 
Columbia County, GA because she didn't hand 1 piece of homework in!!!  She did 
the wrong chapt. questions...so instead of making her do them before the field 
trip..they never said a word until the day before the trip...I called the 
superintendent and he said that whatever the teachers and principal decided was 
up to them!  A friend of mine (same school) went to get her daughter to tell 
her that she wouldn't be home cuz she had to go to her father out of state, he 
was very ill...and she wanted to explain it to her daughter before she left 
town..instead of a note or after the fact phone call...the principal would not 
let her take her own daughter out of class!  I just think that these people 
take things way too far and are not willing to give way to anything...they are 
so obsessed with these test scores and what not that they are like the Stepford 
teacher and trying to make our children into the Stepford kids:(  I hate that.

ok...I did it again...ramble on all;)

PEACE
Beth
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gene Norman 
  To: atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 9:03 PM
  Subject: [atlantaprog] Re: WABE


  I believe it was to the original post.  But to be
  honest, I'm not even sure about that :)  There
  are so many posts.

  I can't help but be slightly amused that it's the
  only post on here of mine that has been
  noticed...lol.  Oh well, that's fair enough.  I'm
  not that active in this group..although I wish I
  had to the time to be.

  I do think, however, that it's great that
  discussions such as these take place.
  Regards
  Gene

  __________________________________
  Do you Yahoo!?
  Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears
  http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/

Other related posts: