Reading and video clip 11-07

The video with the parent teacher conference was very interesting. The amount of questions and the way the parent asked questions seemed a little overboard. I have heard of parents that are a little out of hand and that could be one way that they approach a teacher. She question the teachers teaching ability and lacked genuine respect. The teacher was very patient and handled her the parents actions accordingly. No child left behing has pros and cons. You have to teach to the test because apparently thats just the way things are nowadays. Its good that their trying to help students the best they can to keep them all at the learning level they should be at. Fundings are being provided for schools that lack it to help keep them on an even playing field with schools that do have the funding. Many sides can be taken its all a matter of what you think works best for the students progress.

Issue 9

I dont believe that schools should be only judged on the scores they recieve. Students learn in many different ways, some are better writers than others and those that are good writers may not be great in math or viceaversa. Students are only tested in certain areas and all are tested on the same thing. Some students are good with mutiple choice others are good with word problems. The credibilty of a school should not be measured only on the scores. If this is the case then a test that measures all the ablilties and different learning styles should be administered. Then again this will probably never happen so we must deal with what we have for now.

16 % children (over 9 million) 6-19 year olds are overweight

According to the CDC in 2004 "16 % children (over 9 million) 6-19 year olds are overweight or obese" this is three times what it was in 1980. Phys Ed Class helps students in being fit for life. It is evident that many people who are obese when young have a higher risk of being obeast when they are adults. It only makes sense that we keep kids fit and healthy at a young age to atleast increase their chances of being healthy into adulthood. Many parents do not motivate or help their kids to be active on a daily basis, or at least a few days a week. Playing one sport for 3 months a year is not going to help students stay fit, it needs to be year round, it needs to be more than one sport or activity. Moving on... Schools play an even bigger role in helping decrease the percentage of childhood obesity. It was said in class that some elementary classes only get one, maybe two days of phys ed per week. Thats just wrong. They are promoting this disease or at least their not doing enough to prevent it. Phys Ed is needed on a daily basis, activity, sport, all of this if we want to see a respectable decline in childhood obesity.

reading charter school

Reading and finding out more about charter schools was interesting because in my hometown we have a charter school of our own. I also heard that they were recognized this year for their outstanding work and ranked at the top of the charts for charter schools. I've always heard the name charter school but never really new what went on their. Now I know that Charters schools can be put together by anyone or any group that has a specific purpose for teaching. They must prove that they can put this purpose together and run it succesfully. The don't teach to any kind of standardized test, they teach only what the student is interested in and make them stronger in that subject. This is good because students will love what they are learning and hopefully they become interested in the subjects which they dont like as much.