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| New York schools drop Michelle O's lunch program |
| 2014-09-03 |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #6 #6 with#5 I'm a History Prof. turned Sp.Ed. teacher soon to be retiring from the public school ratrace. You are spot on with your dissection of the new core math. Lack of memorizing tables has led to a high level of ignorance amongst the youth. Being Sp. Ed. I was given more freedom regarding curriculum: I taught memorization of tables. I wanted my kids to know that 7x8 = 56; not why 7x8 = 56 or what other numbers you can multiply to equal 56. My Sp.Ed. kids needed the basics - so when they grew up and went grocery shopping they could better know what they were spending. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-09-03 18:30 |
| #5 with #3 My first grader hated the school lunch portions. This year, a bit older and more active, on this 4 day school week, she isn't getting enough to eat to get her through the day; reviewing her homework vs. day schedule the later classes she doesn't pay attention to the instructions as well as the earlier classes. She came home one day last year and said, "I hate that Michelle Obama - all the older kids get dessert and we don't!" Well, ok, 6 year olds not chocolate cake, probably it. See, I teach my kids values, not politics, so it wasn't us who loaded her statement. Oddly, it was the lunch program bragging about who was responsible for such healthy eating. So there was a eat with the kids day. Same portion, except this time every kids got dessert, natch. Done by noon, by 14:00 I was hungry, and I mostly sit in front of a computer - not some kids burning tracks in the playground and learning new material all day long. And if you think that is bad, I came to terms with an Anarchist relation recently (after a spat where though I agreed that Prince is a great muscician, he is not the best muscician ever because then we are talking Handle and Sir Mix-a-Lot....and it went downhill from there) with....Common Corpse Math. Him and I spent a bottle of wine over how just awful the process is, from not teaching tables to not having tables memorized leading to more difficult long +/- which all builds on x/ which is all important to know by pencil paper because pounding a calculator doesn't reinforce the memory like writing it down, then pen paper leads to better making & counting change to financial knowledge. Basically we concluded, during practice, teaching tee-ballers to turn a double-play. Eventually yes turning 2 is important in baseball, but focusing on the double-up over hitting and basic fielding leads to overall worse players. And now some shirt wants to punch me in the face because I disagree with the program. I say eat it buddy, I completed Calc before HS grad and am involved in my children's education. This is a Lego booklet missing the first six pages. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-09-03 17:25 |
| #4 Oh, how do all those family cope with feeding the children over the weekend and summer without the benefit of Big |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-09-03 15:23 |
| #3 All of those kids rejecting the lunches will be voters in a few years. If the Republicans could not be stupid they could easily capture a number of those votes that would normally reflexively go Democrat. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-09-03 14:52 |
| #2 well, it's not like she has to eat it |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-09-03 14:41 |
| #1 No one wants your crappy and nanny state approved crap for lunch lady. Take your menu and your fat ass and get the hell away from us. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-09-03 12:55 |