all seven seats in first row of classroom assigned to minority students - 3rd grade

[Anonymous]

there're three rows of seats - 7 - 8 - 8, and total of 9 (including 1 bi-racial) minority kids in the class.

what do you make of this seat arrangement?

[Anonymous]

How do you even know this? And what are you getting at? Teacher is a racist? Minority kids have bad eyes and no glasses so they have to sit in the front? White kids have to have a turn in the back? What?

Just let the teacher do his/her job and land your helicopter already.

[Anonymous]

When I was teaching, I put the trouble-makers in the front row so that they were closer to me. Maybe it's classroom management???

[Anonymous]

Your 3rd grade classroom sits in rows? Really? That's the most shocking thing about your post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your 3rd grade classroom sits in rows? Really? That's the most shocking thing about your post.

+100

[Anonymous]

I wish my son's 3rd grade teacher would sit them in rows. She says the kids talk a lot. Um, yeah, they are going to talk when they are all facing each other. But that's what the admins want to see so....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your 3rd grade classroom sits in rows? Really? That's the most shocking thing about your post.

+100

expand your world a 100 times then you won't be shocking anymore

[Anonymous]

They may all have IEPs or 504s and it has nothing to do with race. My ASD kid has accommodations even in college that give her front row seating to help focus and concentration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They may all have IEPs or 504s and it has nothing to do with race. My ASD kid has accommodations even in college that give her front row seating to help focus and concentration.

Your daughter's college has assigned seating???

[Anonymous]

No (although my law school did). Her accommodations give her certain preferences that fit her disability. It is her obligation to take her disability package to the professor on the first day or meet with the professor with a rep. from the disability services office and say I (self-advocate) need the following (a) seating in the front; (b) copies of your notes; (c) extra time on exams, etc. (d) writing workshop coaching. All of this has to be worked out with the disability office at the college long before the school year begins. To be clear, the IEP or 504 does not apply at the postsecondary level, but you can bring it with you when you meet with disability services. Then disability services and your child figure out from their IEP history and recent testing (yes you have to show up with fresh testing - we picked one off the college's list of preferred testers) and determine what accommodations she will need to succeed in college.

[Anonymous]

Maybe they are the smartest kids and the teacher wants the other kids to watch and learn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:there're three rows of seats - 7 - 8 - 8, and total of 9 (including 1 bi-racial) minority kids in the class.

what do you make of this seat arrangement?

I'm guessing that you're making something of it. What?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
there're three rows of seats - 7 - 8 - 8, and total of 9 (including 1 bi-racial) minority kids in the class.

what do you make of this seat arrangement?


I'm guessing that you're making something of it. What?


Not OP, but put the situation in reverse--all of the white kids are in the front and all of the minority kids are in the bag. Would you be making something of it? What?

[Anonymous]

Who knows, OP? Maybe coincidence? Or maybe the teacher thinks they'd feel more comfortable like that, at least for the beginning of the school year.

[Anonymous]

Hey OP, what do YOU make of it?