kitchen table math, the sequel: "Parents weigh in on English curriculum"

Saturday, November 15, 2008

"Parents weigh in on English curriculum"

in yesterday's Enterprise

woo hoo!
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2 comments:

Brett Pawlowski said...

This is fantastic progress - congratulations to the parents, and also to the administrators involved.

This article made me wonder whether we're taking a "stick/no carrot" approach to this sort of thing. (Not talking about the parents in the article, but in general.) I wonder what sort of praise and support Greer Fischer has received from the community after opening her doors - has anyone written to say thanks, and what it means to have a responsive administrator? I worry that when we make a step forward like this, we simply look to the next battle rather than use it as a platform for building a relationship that could serve us better in the long run. Having the community make its appreciation known could go a long way toward laying the foundation for the next inevitable issue...

November 16, 2008 at 5:07 AM
Catherine Johnson said...

update: board meeting wasn't so hot

will try to write something about it when I get to it...

highlight: a high school student enrolled in Honors and AP courses, who was waiting to give a report about student activities, stepped to the microphone and said, "[ELA instruction] is something I feel very strongly about. My SAT tutor says I don't know grammar. She says I don't know vocabulary. She'll say to me, 'How can you not know these words?' and I'll say, 'I've never been taught these words.'"

Then she said that she believes the only reason she knows any grammar at all is that she has taken Latin & French.

November 24, 2008 at 5:59 PM

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