[geeks] Education (was: Mainframe on eBay)

[Brian Dunbar]

William Enestvedt wrote:
> Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> 
>>-Everyone- is differently-abled....
>>
>>To try to adapt -everyone's- cirriculum (which is what they're in the
>>process of doing in TX and some other states) to meet the needs of
>>people who were born with learning and/or developmental disabilities
>>that require special attention disenfranchises society as a whole.
>>
> 
>    Allow me to interject, if you will.
<snip>
> However, the school
> provides a second teacher in her classroom to help out the mainstreamed
> kid with a visual handicap, so the main teacher exercised her common
> sense and declared that the morning, when Mr. Field is there, will be
> used for reading & math & writing,a nd the afternoon, when he's off in
> another classroom, is when they have art and computer time and such.
>    I think it's brilliant: the teachers are working together to make the
> most of the reasources they have, regardless of what the schedule was
> last year.

Sounds like 'team teaching'. Done right it can be very effective.

My wife was a advocate of that at the last public school she taught. 
She ran her last semester 'unofficially' team teaching, they had the 
go-ahead for her department to make it happen the next school year. 
Principal called in July; program canceled, you get a smaller room but 
we hope you can run the program .. somehow .. off the books.

That was the last straw.  She told the man "I quit" and two hours later 
accepted a job for lower pay, less stress at a private academy.


Anyway - sounds like your kids have a good teacher - hope they stick around.

-- 
Brian Dunbar
System Administrator
Liftport

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