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• 09 Jun 08
  

  Wisely

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  • "I try to get a class to come to order while one kid is jumping on a second, a third calls out my name asking me for a pencil, a fourth demands that I let her go to the bathroom and a fifth needs to go see Miss Smith, while a sixth needs a pass to the nurse's office and a seventh starts making silly, repetitive noises. ... One day a cheap calculator hit the wall just above my head. Another day, it was a Jell-O cup, whose contents dripped down the wall and stained the picture of Harriet Tubman I had hanging on a bulletin board. ...
  • "I had a meltdown after seeing how poorly my kids did on a standardized test.
    
    "I resolutely refuse to place the blame anywhere other than on myself. ... One thing I absorbed from my otherwise inadequate training is that it was up to me to make a difference. And I did make a difference, but not enough to sustain me through the nonsense. ... Nothing useful comes out of blaming the parents for the bad behavior of the kids. And certainly nothing useful comes out of blaming the kids themselves. There is the short-term problem of how to change their behavior in order to be able to conduct class. ... But in the long run, there is a fundamental problem."
• 03 Jun 08
  

  Barb Perlewitz

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