school's fears of TV
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In a message dated 1/16/2005 4:01:16 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
ddzimlew@... writes:
-=-I have long felt the objections to TV came from public schools and
teachers, born out of fear that the ever increasing amounts of
interesting information will make schools and teachers obsolete. -=-
GOOD thought!
I've had others, not that good, but parallel.
Teachers claim "short attention span" and blame TV.
It's just that teachers are boring. They would like to think saying "Pay
attention now, this will be on the test" will make them less boring, but it
doesn't.
If kids are excited about what they saw on TV and are talking about it,
that's disruptive at school. Had they all done nothing but go home and do
homework and go to bed, and not had any interesting life whatsoever to discuss,
discipline at school (the teachers fantasize) would be easier. And the teachers
would be more interesting, if the only other things kids did were homework
and eat and sleep.
-=- My
friend Ellen gets a note about once a month from her daughter's fourth
grade teacher reminding her to limit Anna's TV and Internet time. Quite
amazing. -=-
A form letter or an Anna-specific note?
Sandra
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ddzimlew@... writes:
-=-I have long felt the objections to TV came from public schools and
teachers, born out of fear that the ever increasing amounts of
interesting information will make schools and teachers obsolete. -=-
GOOD thought!
I've had others, not that good, but parallel.
Teachers claim "short attention span" and blame TV.
It's just that teachers are boring. They would like to think saying "Pay
attention now, this will be on the test" will make them less boring, but it
doesn't.
If kids are excited about what they saw on TV and are talking about it,
that's disruptive at school. Had they all done nothing but go home and do
homework and go to bed, and not had any interesting life whatsoever to discuss,
discipline at school (the teachers fantasize) would be easier. And the teachers
would be more interesting, if the only other things kids did were homework
and eat and sleep.
-=- My
friend Ellen gets a note about once a month from her daughter's fourth
grade teacher reminding her to limit Anna's TV and Internet time. Quite
amazing. -=-
A form letter or an Anna-specific note?
Sandra
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Deb Lewis
***A form letter or an Anna-specific note? ***
It's a typed thing, with a space for a kid name to be written in by hand
so maybe all the parents get it. Or maybe some get it when the teacher
thinks she sees evidence of a short attention span.
I wonder if any teachers mentioned the images of Titan they've been
showing on the news and whether it'd be ok for kids to look at those?
My fifth grade teacher used to assign TV watching, mostly news, but
sometimes other stuff. He liked hearing about what we'd watched. I
remember on Monday mornings he's ask what we'd done over the weekend and
then he's ask, "Anybody see anything good on TV?" and we'd talk about
whatever it was.
He also smoked his pen and when he was frustrated he'd tell us one day
he'd marry a nice, beautiful blond lady and forget all about noisy fifth
graders. <g> Kind of a nut. But I remember him as the only teacher I
really liked. Rory Jakes.
Deb
Leela: "Kids don't turn rotten just from watching TV."
Fry: "Yeah, give a little credit to our public schools."
~Futurama
It's a typed thing, with a space for a kid name to be written in by hand
so maybe all the parents get it. Or maybe some get it when the teacher
thinks she sees evidence of a short attention span.
I wonder if any teachers mentioned the images of Titan they've been
showing on the news and whether it'd be ok for kids to look at those?
My fifth grade teacher used to assign TV watching, mostly news, but
sometimes other stuff. He liked hearing about what we'd watched. I
remember on Monday mornings he's ask what we'd done over the weekend and
then he's ask, "Anybody see anything good on TV?" and we'd talk about
whatever it was.
He also smoked his pen and when he was frustrated he'd tell us one day
he'd marry a nice, beautiful blond lady and forget all about noisy fifth
graders. <g> Kind of a nut. But I remember him as the only teacher I
really liked. Rory Jakes.
Deb
Leela: "Kids don't turn rotten just from watching TV."
Fry: "Yeah, give a little credit to our public schools."
~Futurama