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It is horrible how much these kids just completely sit around.  [b]Very little learning on any given day.[/b]Don't even get me started how little science and history is in MCPS. Why they can't incorporate it into their "reading" time is beyond me. [/quote]

I'm wondering how you know this.[/quote]

Because I volunteer 2.5hrs a day 1-2x a week. I am actually in the classroom all morning. [/quote]
So if you are in the classroom that much, why in the heck are you not helping while the teacher is doing something else with another group of kids? Guess that would increase the learning and decrease the sitting around.[/quote]

Not the PP, but what a ridiculous comment.

Wait, so now MCPS should be dependent on parent volunteers to teach our kids??  Should a parent volunteer be the one teaching your 6 year old phonics?  [/quote]
If the volunteer is not helping, what is the purpose of the volunteer ? I am asking seriously!
The volunteer comes in to provide aid, right? 
So, she comes in and says this group is working on their spelling words -- can you help them with this list?
A grown-a** cannot help a group of first-graders with 10 monosyllabic vocabulary words?
You equate this with doing the school's job???
What should the volunteer be doing -- handing out pencils?
Really? Really?[/quote]

Calm down, PP.  You sound a bit unhinged.

I volunteer at my kid's school, and I'll tell you what I do.  I don't have a teaching degree, so I'm glad they don't ask me to do much 'direct instruction' other than reading the kids stories.  As a volunteer, I usually take care of the 100 other things my kid's teacher needs to do.

I go through their homework folders.  
I hang up bulletin boards.  
I make photocopies. 
I put together packets of homework for the kids to take home.  
I clean the whiteboards.  
I sharpen pencils/crayons and refill the kid's desk bins with supplies.
I cut construction paper for various projects.
I put together books for the kids to take home (because some of them can't afford books).
I distribute the graded papers back to the students.

There is PLENTY of stuff to do that doesn't involve 'direct instruction', but does free the teacher's time up (since she is actually the one with the teaching degree).

I'd love to volunteer every day, but I have a job, and can only get away one day a week.  [/quote]
I was not responding to you, I was responding to the other pp who said she volunteered so much but said that little instruction was going on. 
And the kids were not learning.[/quote]

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