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tinyfangsunder a rock, Leitrim Ireland26 Threads 4 Polls 1,034 Posts
to both, anniebaby and emerald888 - totally 100% true, and I can't help but feel the system is actually designed to kill joy in learning. It is not meant to raise free thinkers at all, and any school that does break from it often ends with bad press. My one in the middle picked his overall best award up in the dirtiest jeans you can imagine, shirt too, torn from skateboarding, and with dreadlocks! and everyone went 
because it just didn't fit the 'nerd' imagine people had in their heads, and that in its own right proves a lot about how we are conditioned to think - namely smart people don't have fun, they are boring - which also puts many kids off as they want to be seen 'cool'. A lot what's messed up with the system on various fronts... 
anniebaby: I did but they went on the defensive straight away...............I seem to rub the principal up the wrong way anytime I have to deal with him
Looks like all you can do is try work against the system as good as you can. Encourage and praise and tell that the system is wrong, not your child trying to learn as it learns best, while still wanting free time to be a child. At least that way you might be able to keep the joy of learning going, but grades are obviously a different matter, and everything now is 'qualifications'. I met peeps with heaps of titles and they were so stupid it wasn't funny, and others with no qualifications at all who were smart as hell. Tells something
anniebaby: I did but they went on the defensive straight away...............I seem to rub the principal up the wrong way anytime I have to deal with him
oh I get ya Annie, I tell them how we are going to work out problem out. I know my children best. If my way doesn't work, then I will consider there way. 30 mins homework is enough for my children. The school have accepted this.
hmmmmmm.....do you not have anything better to do with your time than post things about others on fb??? think about it
anniebaby: I was seething when I got the phone call, the comment was on my fb page and nothing bad was said about the school only that she had spent an hour on math homework but some parent felt the need to go running to the school.....................seriously have people nothing better to do with their time
MrManOfSteel: hmmmmmm.....do you not have anything better to do with your time than post things about others on fb??? think about it
Who did I post about?
anniebaby: Who did I post about?
well i'm guessing it was either the teacher, the school, or the amount of homework the teacher and school combined is giving your child?MrManOfSteel: well i'm guessing it was either the teacher, the school, or the amount of homework the teacher and school combined is giving your child?
if you read over thread you'll see what I posted............one full hour at math so I stopped child and put note in dairy.
No one was mentioned or named so please explain how that is a problem for the school or another parent?
anniebaby: I've a question for my peers.
If another parent went to wee ones school about a comment made do I have a right to know who the parent was?
If another parent went to wee ones school about a comment made do I have a right to know who the parent was?
A facebook. Yet again, facebook strike again.
Sounds like another one of these frenemy cases. Can't mind their own business. Anyway, that's a easy lesson you've learned about facebook.
tinyfangs: Why did you tell it to another parent? I confronted the school directly when my oldest seemed overwhelmed to start of in a new school with the homework load. Told them I would let him do as much as he wished to do, and once he'd have enough that would be it. Children have a right to spare time and to being children. The school accepted that, but maybe I was just lucky. Still if you have concerns, take the school up on it, friendly but determined?
My sons school told me to give him a certain amount of time to do his homework and no more because it wasnt good for them to be spending so much time doing tomorrow. Now in my sons case a lot of it is because he gets so distracted and is very laid back...in that instance it is him and not the amount of homework that was the issue.
In the secondary school i used to work in, a programme was given out to all parents of new incoming first years making them aware of how long each year was expected to spend each evening on homework and studying. I thought this a good idea to inform the kids and parents of what to expect upfront.
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