[SOC] Math

[Charles Harpole]

One of the top barriers to enjoying teaching is parents and grand parents.

Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com 


 
> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 17:46:58 +1000
> From: ianpurdie at integritynet.com.au
> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Math
> 
> Spencer Sholly wrote:
> > How many pintz in a quartz?
> 
> Class!
> 
> Watching this discussion and being encouraged the list is becoming alive 
> again I thought I might bore to death some of the newcomers. Old hand 
> from mumble, mumble years ago might recollect the story.
> 
> Around about 8 - 10 years ago we were minding, overnight, two of the 
> grand-sons also coincidently then around 8 - 10 years old.
> 
> After dinner, Grand-dad "cordially" invited the eldest to complete his 
> homework assignment before briefly watching television. Of course I 
> scanned his assignment and his answers. I made no comment of his 
> assignment answers beyond grammar and particularly his spelling. I 
> underlined certain words and invited him to use my very thick Macquarie 
> Dictionary [150mm or 6"] to check his spelling and re-write his assignment.
> 
> Next afternoon he "fumed" home to his mother, having been singled out in 
> class as a prime example of the dangers of allowing parents but, 
> grand-parents in particular, to assist with your homework. The kid was 
> humiliated.
> 
> Every spelling correction I had drawn to his attention had a red line 
> through it with his original spelling inserted above. At the bottom of 
> the page was:
> 
> "Jye, don't allow your Grand-Dad to help with your homework"
> 
> Unfortunately for that dumb young teacher, the school principal was a 
> close personal friend. Needless to say I wandered across the street, 
> [literally], to the school for morning tea and handed him the assignment.
> 
> I was later told she was informed, at the time. that was a dirt cheap 
> way out. Had I been really "peed off" I could have rang another friend, 
> the "Minister for Education". Even worse, I could have offered another 
> friend, an editor with Australia's highest circulating daily newspaper, 
> a 500 - 1,000 word article.
> 
> I believe she was utterly oblivious [or impervious] to those alternative 
> offerings. I don't think she learned a damn thing from it.
> 
> 
> Thanks! :) 72/73's
> 
> Ian C. Purdie
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