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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great - what school is that clearly not mine.

I did not say that was our schedule I was just saying there is room for breaks - which our public school does not have - kids can't play outside when it is cold or god forbid snow on the ground.

Lunch is 20 minutes - which is really like 10-15 once they are sitting - wolf the food down - to indoor recess 1/2 the time.

Wow - 2 hours of reading, writing and phonics - I hope they do some jumping jacks somewhere in there maybe at the hour mark. I was at a conference and even adults lose interest after sitting for 1 full hour.

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And I was just explaining how your schedule doesn't work, anywhere.  To say "here's a schedule that includes breaks, see it's possible" and then post a schedule as developmentally innappropriate as that one opens you up for criticism.

No, they don't do jumping jacks, they have reading, go to recess, come back for writing, do the read aloud a few hours later when they're back from lunch recess, phonics is after P.E.. You can have 2 hours of reading and writing without having kids sitting for 2 hours straight.  [/quote]

I am sure you are a great teacher but don't you just get that what you do may just be great for 99% of the kids - and while "if I have touched one child's life today I have made a difference" translates to kids with learning issues - minor ones - "well that wasn't me" and can't it just be true that for that 1 out of 100 kids they need something different and it does not mean that your school or class or anything is bad it just means it's not good for certain kids.

Do you really not understand that? and you are a teacher? you should talk to the learning specialist in your school and ask her what happens to a kid that is in the 70 percentile preforming in the 40 percentile - still getting C's - what they do for a kid like that - with no measurable LD's. How that affects him in middle and high school.

What kind of training do you have in teaching a kid with dyslexia, or aspergers, or tourettes. These seem to be the kids that are fleeing the public schools.[/quote]

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