hello guys I need any two moral stories for my homework can anyone help me
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HI George,
My opinion is that the moderator didn't understand the comments being made and the importance of the broader implications of good boundary setting to the discussion. In trying to address the points of a poster (who refused to identify whether s/he was connected with the district), those issues of setting boundaries came up, the poster took some cheap shots about what that meant (even though I was pretty careful to disclaim such inappropriate interpretation up front), and the moderator shut the conversation down. Maybe they were glad to end the discussion which had gone on for an unusually long time anyway. I still thought it was a productive discussion and was sorry to see it stopped over a misunderstanding about boundary setting.
People who aren't able to set good boundaries when they are growing up, are less able to set them in other spheres of their lives. In their workshops on personal safety, Kidpower approaches safety from a boundaries standpoint, teaching kids how to identify and set clear boundaries in all areas of life. And yet, in one of the most important boundaries, between home and school, kids and their families aren't allowed to set boundaries, and must choose between setting boundaries and getting an equal education. Anyway, pointing out the most obvious reason people take those classes for personal safety for their kids -- and it's not irrelevant -- got the above poster his/her opening to get the moderator to shut things down, and that's a shame.
I hope that answered your question. I think the Weekly redeemed themselves by doing such a wonderful feature issue about whether our schools give too much homework. Though I wish they would look at the issue in a little more depth. People are talking past each other, rather than looking at the needs of individuals. Some kids really thrive on an intense non-stop academic challenge, the way some people enjoy mountain climbing. It's a great achievement, but not for everyone, and it shouldn't mean the alternative is telling kids they should be intellectual couch potatoes or condemned to some lesser form of mountain climbing. Our district vision is to optimize everyone's education. The kids who don't do mountain climbing, so to speak, need other challenges more suited to their interests, not judgment about their worth based on whether they climb mountains, and told their choice is climbing mountains or sitting on the couch. Equally, we can and should respect the interests of the students who are at their best scaling those bergs. What we should not do is talk past each other thinking there is a single best answer for all the kids. Luckily, the times allow us to individualize educations better than any time in the past.
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Posted by Overload
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on Aug 5, 2016 at 9:05 am
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Until after WWII, if a teacher assigned homework, it meant that the student or students were inattentive in class and did not finish their schoolwork during school hours--thus the origin of homework.
Being given homework also meant that once the student or students returned home from school, they would get into BIG trouble with parents because homework was NEVER given UNLESS the work was not finished during school hours. Children were expected to do chores after school, then eat dinner and have some R&R before going to bed. The addition would mean the student would be up very late at night finishing chores and then homework before going to bed--and not getting enough sleep.
I remember being punished by my parents every day after kindergarten and first grade because I had an hour of homework after school--until my father figured out I couldn't have been that disruptive and inattentive EVERY day in school. Then he called the school to ask what in hell was going on that a child my age had homework every day plus weekends and holidays! Told that all children had homework now because the school day was shorter, He apologized to me and took me out for ice cream, as well as reducing my after-school chores.
That was in the seventies. Since the nineties, children have so much homework in most districts that they can't possibly have after-school chores. Many can't have sports or recreation or lessons of any kind without a serious lack of sleep--which is what my own children had to do in order to participate in the extra-curricular things they were interested in.
It is very wrong and rather cruel that children should have to sacrifice sleep--a necessity--in order to have a life outside of school and studies! The fact that teachers can't teach all they should within hours is a reflection on their inability to teach efficiently without shoving part of THEIR work on the
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