Comment from Crystal:
I’d be the last one to tell you to give up trying to make things better. I admire your “sticktoitness” but you realize that everyday that your kids are forced to stay within the confines of the cookie cutter education we have, they are becoming the cookie. You and I both know that we don’t have time to waste (for our kids) on fixing the system. Their formative years are fleeting. You’re completely right though. They look at a child who’s “got it” and they say “oh,, he’ll be fine, now I can focus on this kid” and who can blame them? What else can they do? We know this isn’t the teacher’s fault, it’s the system. There’s no freedom in it. Education without freedom is just total fail.
::steps off soap box::
response from Grace:
But I can’t do it! I know that I have the knowledge to teach them what they need, but I don’t know that I have the temperament to put up with them 24-hours a day, and have them do what I want without making me nuts and making them hate me! They both LIKE going to school. One of them likes TAG still. The teachers are trying–Christopher’s teacher got him put into 3rd grade math; Evan’s teacher does lots of great things and really does try to do some differentiation. I worry that if I take them out of TAG then I’m falling into some evil conspiracy of the school administration to get me to not use the “wonderful resources” they’ve provided and cut the program more.
I probably need to be a big girl and take them out of school part time. See if we kill each other. lol
