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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lurker NP here.

OP, this is just food for thought.  Your responses here on this thread seem to be hypocritical considering what you are advocating in your classroom.  In your classroom, you are giving wider choice for reading material and discussion in order to get themes across and teach critical thinking from what is read.

On this thread, you are actually trying to focus the discussion only in the direction you want it to be, exactly focused on what you are trying to get.  Unfortunately, on a public open discussion board like DCUM it is virtually impossible to keep the peanut gallery narrowly focused on just one topic or question.  Since it is a discussion board, there are natural diversions and tangents in conversation and people will pick up on that.  In addition, people will choose how they want to answer your question even if it is in a different direction than you are guiding.

So your are giving more freedom of choice and response to your students and less freedom of choice and response to the discussion board, which frankly is hopeless.  A better choice for you is to let people respond as they want and just pick the responses that are helpful to you and your focus and ignore or move on from the responses that are not focused for you.  It might be helpful to other people, like the other teachers who are on the thread or to other parents who may find some of the comments useful.

But your response to the people who are not doing exactly what you want are brusque and rude, despite what you seem to think.  So be more polite and just opt not to respond to those responses that don't fit your desired focus.[/quote]

+1. OP is getting fewer constructive answers because of her first rude response about the sticky notes.  OP sounds like an early to early-middle career know it all.[/quote]

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