Tuesday, September 4, 2007

First two weeks of school

are finished. Since I wrote my first post on this blog back in June, I've been poking around the education scene. There are certainly quite a few teachers out there with really good web sites and ways to keep parents updated on what the kids are doing in school, but I think the higher the grade, the more the teachers are willing to expend that sort of effort, and now that the school year's started, some of the teachers I've read most faithfully haven't written any articles for a while. Here's some of the ones I've been reading:

And others, with various levels of posting frequency and relevance to a kindergartener parent.

My apologies to Kevin Makice, who left a couple of comments here over the summer, which I completely ignored, because blush I forgot to turn on email notification of comments for this blog. It's on now, so no further comments will be ignored! But I suspect we won't be hearing much from the Makices, for if I have correctly followed their eddies in my stream of information, they have decided to pursue alternatives to public schooling. I agree with your comment, Kevin, that parents are encouraged to get involved, but only in prescribed ways. We have been told who our PTO officers are; what the schedule of meetings are; what we can volunteer for; and how we can help out with fundraising. Lots and lots of fundraising. Still, we haven't gone to a PTO meeting yet. We're still getting our feet wet. We'll see what happens.

5 comments:

Kevin Makice said...

Home schooling unofficially officially began today. We're amazed with the change in Carter, but I realize that almost anything different was going to be an improvement. We're keeping the doors open for a return to the local school any given semester. Right now, we're just trying to let him lead. Much of the responsibility will fall to my wife, since I'm looking a couple more years of graduate school myself.

I wish the current system didn't present such an uphill battle to provide more options for learning. The idealist in me is pretty devastated.

Good luck with your own conversations. We'll be following ...

Scott McLeod said...

Thanks for the kind words. FYI, I believe I'm still a teacher!

www.scottmcleod.net/about

Ben Fulton said...

Sorry about that, Scott. Hope my correction is more accurate :)

Scott McLeod said...

Sure, that's great! Thanks! We're all teachers in our own way...

Scott Elias said...

Thanks for the acknowledgment! Glad your year is off to a great start!