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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Once more:  parents think that because their three year old can sing the ABC song that he "knows" the alphabet.[/quote]

This is frustrating to read.  It is entirely dismissive of OP and others who may have questions similar to hers.  There may be some parents who think their child knows the alphabet by singing the ABC song, and there are others who think their child knows the alphabet by picking out the correct letters, naming them, and saying their associated sounds.  Similarly, there may be some parents who think their kindergartner can read fluently but are actually not, and there are others who think their kindergartner is reading chapter books and retelling the story when asked.

Your response basically says that the Schools forum of DCUM is not a good place to ask questions and look for information, because posters will just ignore you and call you wrong.[/quote]

I am sensitive to the point you're trying to make, because I do feel like experts in a field-be they teachers, doctors, lawyers, whatever-tend to underestimate the value of direct, contextual experience over acquired expertise.

With that being said, in this thread, a host of people suggested a million reasons why what the teacher has done could have made perfect sense. OP immediately dismissed them all and concluded that the only possibility was that the teacher as an idiot. DCUMers did in fact provide lots of potentially-relevant information. OP either wasn't sincerely looking for it or doesn't have the ability to process it in a meaningful manner.

(Note that it could well be that all of the information DCUM provided is inapplicable to OP's particular case, and that the teacher really is an idiot. But at a bare minimum, this thread raised a million practical issues to discuss with the teacher, and OP still seems set on teaching the teacher a lesson. I find that more frustrating than PPs comment). [/quote]

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