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Are some teachers seriously still this clueless???
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 463530" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Oh- this must be that subject where kids are supposed to be learning about everything that's involved with having a baby. Some schools have the kids carry around a doll that cries, needs fed, and has to get a diaper changed for this lesson. I think I'd email, ask the point of the lesson, and explain that his method of accomplishing it needs to be something different. Maybe a generic "what's involved in having a baby" project or paper.</p><p></p><p>But yes, teachers, GALs POs, etc, can all be very clueless and thoughtless. They can't seem to remember that everyone doesn't come from and are raised by two middle-class people who have 2.5 kids and a white picket fence. It used to humiliate me when 1st and 2nd grade teachers would have each student stand up in front of the class, one by one, and tell their names, their parents' names, where they lived, and what their parents did for a living. My father had just died when I started 1st grade and the last thing I wanted to do was explain that and feel that pain again in front of my peers then have them pity me- that was their first impression of me. Then in 2nd grade, I had a horrible step-father, although he was a dr, and I didn't care to explain that either. I used to think it must have just been the era but, lo and behold, difficult child had to go thru it to. And they wonder why the kid gets a complex in 1st grade and turns into a difficult child later on?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 463530, member: 3699"] Oh- this must be that subject where kids are supposed to be learning about everything that's involved with having a baby. Some schools have the kids carry around a doll that cries, needs fed, and has to get a diaper changed for this lesson. I think I'd email, ask the point of the lesson, and explain that his method of accomplishing it needs to be something different. Maybe a generic "what's involved in having a baby" project or paper. But yes, teachers, GALs POs, etc, can all be very clueless and thoughtless. They can't seem to remember that everyone doesn't come from and are raised by two middle-class people who have 2.5 kids and a white picket fence. It used to humiliate me when 1st and 2nd grade teachers would have each student stand up in front of the class, one by one, and tell their names, their parents' names, where they lived, and what their parents did for a living. My father had just died when I started 1st grade and the last thing I wanted to do was explain that and feel that pain again in front of my peers then have them pity me- that was their first impression of me. Then in 2nd grade, I had a horrible step-father, although he was a dr, and I didn't care to explain that either. I used to think it must have just been the era but, lo and behold, difficult child had to go thru it to. And they wonder why the kid gets a complex in 1st grade and turns into a difficult child later on? [/QUOTE]
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