tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.comments2010-02-21T09:33:14.935-08:00survivepublicschoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05095032197579235869geri@survivepublicschool.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-13986430812542842022009-12-16T11:49:39.812-08:002009-12-16T11:49:39.812-08:00My older brother told me when I asked around 3 or 4. I wasn&#39;t upset at all, just happy he thought i was adult enough to know the truth. my little sisters always knew the truth.Samhttp://samsrainbowsandunicorns.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-3450379661763621302009-11-24T15:01:15.181-08:002009-11-24T15:01:15.181-08:00All of that information may be true. However, I simply stated my personal experience with Jehovah&#39;s Witness students. They are always hard-working, respectful, and very good students. If they use the legal system to assert their rights, well, that&#39;s what the legal system is for, isn&#39;t it?survivepublicschoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05095032197579235869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-20780556697459324002009-11-22T08:36:37.434-08:002009-11-22T08:36:37.434-08:00The following SUMMARIES OF OVER 1400 JEHOVAH&#39;S WITNESSES CRIMINAL and CIVIL COURT CASES will provide the BEST and MOST ACCURATE info about Jehovah&#39;s Witnesses, their beliefs, and how they ACTUALLY practice such day to day.<br /><br /> <br />The following website summarizes 900 court cases and lawsuits affecting children of Jehovah&#39;s Witness Parents, including 400 cases where the JW Parents refused to consent to life-saving blood transfusions for their dying children:<br /> <br />DIVORCE, BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS, AND OTHER LEGAL ISSUES AFFECTING CHILDREN OF JEHOVAH&#39;S WITNESSES<br /> <br />jwdivorces.bravehost.com<br /> <br /> <br />The following website summarizes over 500 lawsuits filed by Jehovah&#39;s Witnesses against their Employers, including MANY JW SCHOOLTEACER cases:<br /> <br />EMPLOYMENT ISSUES UNIQUE TO JEHOVAH&#39;S WITNESS EMPLOYEES<br /> <br />jwemployees.bravehost.comJJoneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04519473770669042975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-67042703094796697612009-10-29T13:05:34.498-07:002009-10-29T13:05:34.498-07:00Amen. This is just part of my argument against testing. I am sorry for your school and all the people in it-after 17 years as a homeschooler (we utilized a home school/home charter school program-with latitude) I saw a lot of this...and guess what, it does NOTHING to further education. I would bet if teachers put together tests (like they used to) they would be a better tool (which is what tests really are...). I know, after using CAT, STAR, CAHSEE what a mess this all is...I am thankful I could do what I did, but I feel for all the other children, families and teachers out there! I served on the Parent-Teacher Board (not PTA) and Governance Board, I know what a mire this has become...Thank you for writing this article! ~Helen aka HelenMelon27Helenrrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007193496788717283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-62914842714634401622009-10-26T16:34:30.002-07:002009-10-26T16:34:30.002-07:00My little sister goes to a public school - Bronx Science. At the start of the month she got swine flu. Now she&#39;s had bronchitis for over a week and has missed like half a month of school. Three of her teachers have called about her. Two of them have come over. Both stayed over an hour. If you care, you make the time I think.Samhttp://samsrainbowsandunicorns.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-51610261712007732652009-10-10T18:33:26.342-07:002009-10-10T18:33:26.342-07:00Interesting. When this happened in our district on LI, they did the same thing. Curious, I called up our local DA. He said that, if taken to court, schools would LOSE, they CANNOT take away your right to self-defend. On the streets, a person can shoot someone in self-defense, and be rightfully let off, but in our schools, a child cannot hit back? In schools now, kids have less protection that adults on the outside! If a girl is being attacked by guys, what is she supposed to do, say &quot;just hit me more&quot;? Not even try to defend herself? When I posed that question to an administrator with daughters, he shut up. The other issue is, as you said, often the person being bullied has more to lose by being suspended, kept from activities, etc., than the bully. Hence, the victim is punished more harshly than the bully! Unfreakinbelievable. Where is the common sense?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-61460632232612906072009-10-03T13:00:27.447-07:002009-10-03T13:00:27.447-07:00In my grammar school I was assaulted EVERY day coming home. I do not exaggerate. The principal (a nun, mind you) told the bullies &quot;One day he&#39;s going to snap and fight back and I *will not* stop him.<br />One day I was on the ground getting kicked by 6 or so boys when I felt a tree branch in my hand. I swung it and it whacked one of them in the head, and down he went. I pounded the living hell out of him for a few shots (it felt like a hour) before Sister Ann puled me off. The bully was protesting &quot;We were only fooling around!&quot; and Sister actually said &quot;Don&#39;t even try to lie to me. I told you this would happen and it&#39;s about time it did.&quot;<br /><br />I figured i was in trouble, but Sister said she was *proud* of me for standing up for myself.<br /><br />No one got suspended, and nobody laid a finger on me again.<br /><br />Ah, the halcyon days of 1982!Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01291488789484874163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-4064258331419506102009-10-03T07:16:10.205-07:002009-10-03T07:16:10.205-07:00I definitely agree with you here. I was unaware that even people who fight back get in trouble. That&#39;s just ridiculous...doodlepyehttp://openid.aol.com/doodlepyenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-66242723462294803422009-10-03T07:09:15.953-07:002009-10-03T07:09:15.953-07:00Finally some common sense! I read the article and found your blog. Kudos to you! I was always looked at cross-eyed when I even suggested any type of independence when I talked about my now two grown sons! I&#39;ve been preaching this forever until I figured everyone was deaf. Thanks for cleaning out their ears.Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17858945532020000807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-2253551285789692242009-10-03T04:33:49.130-07:002009-10-03T04:33:49.130-07:00Interesting. When this happened in our district on LI, they did the same thing. Curious, I called up our local DA. He said that, if taken to court, schools would LOSE, they CANNOT take away your right to self-defend. On the streets, a person can shoot someone in self-defense, and be rightfully let off, but in our schools, a child cannot hit back? In schools now, kids have less protection that adults on the outside! If a girl is being attacked by guys, what is she supposed to do, say &quot;just hit me more&quot;? Not even try to defend herself? When I posed that question to an administrator with daughters, he shut up. The other issue is, as you said, often the person being bullied has more to lose by being suspended, kept from activities, etc., than the bully. Hence, the victim is punished more harshly than the bully! Unfreakinbelievable. Where is the common sense?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-81377890512600347372009-09-18T20:14:37.816-07:002009-09-18T20:14:37.816-07:00Thank you. This is a labor of love and I hope it shows.survivepublicschoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05095032197579235869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-80188652726924040952009-09-17T22:17:03.495-07:002009-09-17T22:17:03.495-07:00I came across your blog a couple weeks ago and just wanted to let you know that I love it! I&#39;m currently working towards a bachelor&#39;s degree in Humanities and think I may want to eventually teach high school humanities. And seeing your perspective is great inspiration. Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-48891631694222605412009-09-16T07:35:14.281-07:002009-09-16T07:35:14.281-07:00It&#39;s good leading post. Thank you for sharingQuran Teacherhttp://www.quranteaching.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-45072492572021899072009-09-14T17:03:14.390-07:002009-09-14T17:03:14.390-07:00Fabulous! Well said! I read this to my husband and he also agreed. Kim Galeaz, RDKim Galeaz, RD CDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-42749715053559761372009-09-13T11:21:05.482-07:002009-09-13T11:21:05.482-07:00I am neither a parent or a teacher. Think outside of your box for a minute - Obama said &quot;education.&quot; That doesn&#39;t have to mean formal education. It can mean any sort of education, as long as it gets you somewhere. <br /><br />I am not formally educated. I failed 10th grade. I am a legal secretary. When I am employed, I earn more than my cousin, who has both a bachelor&#39;s and master&#39;s degree and is a tv news reporter who has seven more years in the job force than I do. <br /><br />Education is not simply college.Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223994195777245664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-37226495819403857012009-09-09T11:27:43.109-07:002009-09-09T11:27:43.109-07:00some other points i&#39;d like to touch on- one, that learning to sew will save you lots of money on clothing. as i said, i&#39;ve sewn for the better part of my life, and unless you are buying nothing but designer clothes, or buying your fabric at a discount warehouse, it is most often MORE expensive to make your own than it is to buy pre-made. not only is fabric *expensive*, most of what is commercially available is pretty poor quality and very limited in currently fashionable choices. trust me, i can&#39;t find a nice rayon dress fabric to save my life! other than that, unless you have real talent for it, home-made clothes LOOK like crappy, home made clothes. when you can buy a really nice looking, well made Isaac Mizrahi dress at target for $30-$50, there is no real reason to spend the same amount or more to sew your own unless you have special sizing needs, prefer more creative &amp; individual styles than are usually available, like to DIY &amp; re-construct existing clothing, or just enjoy sewing for it&#39;s own sake. and the only thing home ec taught me about sewing that i didn&#39;t know or learn at seamstress jobs was how to use a pattern.<br />two- i took home ec when it was available in both junior and regular high school, and the cooking skills they taught us were all but useless. what they thought they were teaching us when we had to make Waldorf salad and the like i still can&#39;t fathom. the best cooks i know learned it from their moms, other family members, or even boyfriends/girlfriends &amp; spouses, not home ec. <br />and what about guys? they should learn to cook, sew, and clean as well, and are just as qualified to be the stay at home parent if the woman can support the family on her income alone. <br />third- i&#39;ve known stay at home moms who aren&#39;t worth a darn when it comes to raising &amp; nurturing their kids, and moms who have worked their butts off outside the house and brought up amazing, beautiful, smart, talented &amp; well behaved kids (and made healthy and delicious home cooked meals every night.) there is no one perfect way to be a parent, and even the best parents can end up with rotten kids.butcherbabyhttp://butcherbaby.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-28944800055307833862009-09-09T11:26:27.335-07:002009-09-09T11:26:27.335-07:00i don&#39;t see why the urging to stay in school and get the best education you can or are capable of seems like such a radical thing, even for kids who may not be cut out for college degrees- trade school might be a better option for many, and surely is better than being a drop out or HS graduate and never even trying to better themselves. maybe it&#39;s because i grew up in the 70s/80s, and our parents grew up in the depression era, but my brother and i continually got the &quot;if you don&#39;t go through college you&#39;ll end up being a ditch digger all your life&quot; (exact words) speech from our folks. this was from a mom who dropped out of high school at 15 because she was pregnant, but learned on her own how to do everything from raising livestock and breeding show quality Arabian horses &amp; German Short Hair Pointers, to fixing TVs &amp; electronics and eventually becoming a lead woman at Boeing/North American Rockwell in the 1960s. our dad? a near genius and amazing self taught artist who lied about his age to fight in WWII and on a high school education only became a prominent technician at Boeing, Rockwell International, &amp; Autonetics, who worked on many high profile government projects including the space shuttle and B-1B bomber, and also taught himself carpentry &amp; architecture and added 9 rooms on to our small suburban house. He was successful enough to support a stay at home wife &amp; two kids on a comfortable middle class income. I would say these two were excellent success stories of people who made it without a full formal education and they still felt it was important for their kids to get a college degree of some sort. <br />i have to say, that now in my 40s, i agree with them. while i ran a very successful small business for several years (until the economy went down the toilet), i am planning to go back to school for a library science degree so i can actually have a career instead of a succession of low paying, no benefit jobs, even though i have to say i loved most of them. i have a gift for art and clothing design, having started sewing when i was five, even went to design school, but even that is no guarantee of success. i think the examples you are using are people who made it through a combination of determination and/or luck who do not represent the norm for people without high school or college degrees- and really, winning on ANTM is not something i would hope my niece or extended family&#39;s kids would aspire for, unless their IQs are so low that their only other choice is cleaning latrines or working fast food for the rest of their lives. <br />YES, i *fully* agree that the underfunding and budget cuts to schools are atrocious, and that the cutting of seemingly &quot;unimportant&quot; subjects as art, music, sports, home ec, shop, etc are doing a great disservice to the children of today- and tomorrow. an excellent public education system should should be a priority for our nation, and available to all people whether rich or poor. it&#39;s obvious our politicians do not see it that way, which i find a shame.<br />i also agree that parents who don&#39;t give a crap are a huge problem....but perhaps some of those children with incomprehensible English are coming from families whose parents were ALSO undereducated. if those parents weren&#39;t taught proper English, or about culture, arts, and all the rest themselves, how on earth are they going to teach their children about them?butcherbabyhttp://butcherbaby.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-39359940165505330742009-09-09T08:22:17.682-07:002009-09-09T08:22:17.682-07:00SO true!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-85035088648606324852009-09-09T00:11:52.257-07:002009-09-09T00:11:52.257-07:00I was very interested to read a teacher&#39;s perspective on this whole ridiculous drama of the speech. I agree that it sounds like something I say to my kids too! I am not a teacher, but a parent of 3 elementary kids and I am always reminding them how important a good education is for a good life. I think it is crazy how upset people got over this because other Presidents had done it and like you said, I am sure that a teacher&#39;s opinion has likely come out about other issues in the past. I also agree that it is crazy that people are taking such a big, strong stand against this speech but it&#39;s perfectly ok for grind-dancing at prom or video taping high school kids drinking after a footbal victory and still allowing them to play football. <br /><br />After reading what you said about &quot;incusive education&quot; which I also agree with you on (How can we place more importance on making sure one kid&#39;s feelings don&#39;t get hurt while sacrificing the education of 28 or so other kids?) I am going to bookmark your blog. Great stuff! I like your honesty and your refreshing views! -Becky S.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-66404853563519524092009-09-08T09:15:44.328-07:002009-09-08T09:15:44.328-07:00Hi Geri, I linked here from my blog on Parentdish.com/ This is a very thoughtful commentary on the subject. I love your website and I think that you are providing an invaluable resource to parents with children in public school (mine go to parochial school). I wish you all the best. <br />Kudos,<br />RachelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198816428808071819.post-26591373656429059362009-08-05T02:15:10.352-07:002009-08-05T02:15:10.352-07:00Great post!!<br />Thanks for sharing.<br /><br />Stay connected with friends at <a href="http://www.profiles-connectdirector.com/" rel="nofollow">global personal<br />networking</a>.pmatthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12020865861975734086noreply@blogger.com