Reading in school ~ was Re: Learning styles and homeschooling methods
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In a message dated 5-7-2003 7:25:16 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
amycats2@... writes:
and all over the ding dang country, too! :::eek::: By 6th grade I had read
all of the books in our teeny tiny school library and I wasn't allowed (by my
parents) to use the public library ... so I was sneaking romance novels into
school, as that was the only thing I had to read. Instead of encouraging me
by giving me more appropriate books to read, I was sent home with a report
card that said *reads too much* Luckily, my best friend's mom was a school
teacher in another district and *she* (not my mom!) went to my teacher and
chewed her out!! I remember her saying "How do you expect these kids to learn
anything if you're not encouraging them to read!!" Same woman made sure I had
*appropriate* reading materials to bring to school.
diana,
The wackiest widow westriver...
“I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly
losing it's understanding of being human" John Trudell
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amycats2@... writes:
> (who was once threatened with the principal's office for trying toWow! I am amazed how many of us had this kinda crap going on in our schools ~
> read a book in school! gasp!)
>
and all over the ding dang country, too! :::eek::: By 6th grade I had read
all of the books in our teeny tiny school library and I wasn't allowed (by my
parents) to use the public library ... so I was sneaking romance novels into
school, as that was the only thing I had to read. Instead of encouraging me
by giving me more appropriate books to read, I was sent home with a report
card that said *reads too much* Luckily, my best friend's mom was a school
teacher in another district and *she* (not my mom!) went to my teacher and
chewed her out!! I remember her saying "How do you expect these kids to learn
anything if you're not encouraging them to read!!" Same woman made sure I had
*appropriate* reading materials to bring to school.
diana,
The wackiest widow westriver...
“I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly
losing it's understanding of being human" John Trudell
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In a message dated 5/7/03 11:50:02 AM, HaHaMommy@... writes:
<< By 6th grade I had read
all of the books in our teeny tiny school library and I wasn't allowed (by my
parents) to use the public library ... >>
I had a very sweet situation. Once I read up the library, I started on the
public library. It was about five blocks from school, and the kid-trail
leading there went across "the corn patch" (which maybe once was a corn patch
but had long been the vacant-lot baseball field the school used for P.E.),
behind city hall (a big Victorian house, very rare for our town), down the
front stairs and into the big irrigation ditch. Not paved, dirt. Across one
road, along the ditch behind some houses, through a vacant lot, through a
space in a coyote fence kids could fit through but adults could not (coyote
fence is a lashed-pole wall, kind of, really common in northern New Mexico),
and across the tiny city police parking lot to the library, which was in an
old adobe building. Very cool and quiet.
I rode a late bus, so I had 35 or 40 minutes from the time school was out til
the bus came, from 5th grade to 9th.
PERFECT!
I only missed the bus a couple of times.
If only that library had had more and better books!!
Sandra
<< By 6th grade I had read
all of the books in our teeny tiny school library and I wasn't allowed (by my
parents) to use the public library ... >>
I had a very sweet situation. Once I read up the library, I started on the
public library. It was about five blocks from school, and the kid-trail
leading there went across "the corn patch" (which maybe once was a corn patch
but had long been the vacant-lot baseball field the school used for P.E.),
behind city hall (a big Victorian house, very rare for our town), down the
front stairs and into the big irrigation ditch. Not paved, dirt. Across one
road, along the ditch behind some houses, through a vacant lot, through a
space in a coyote fence kids could fit through but adults could not (coyote
fence is a lashed-pole wall, kind of, really common in northern New Mexico),
and across the tiny city police parking lot to the library, which was in an
old adobe building. Very cool and quiet.
I rode a late bus, so I had 35 or 40 minutes from the time school was out til
the bus came, from 5th grade to 9th.
PERFECT!
I only missed the bus a couple of times.
If only that library had had more and better books!!
Sandra