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It Might Be INSIDE the Classroom, But It’s Still BULLYING!!!

March 2, 2010 – 8:13 pm

Mamacita says:  So many of the teachers I’ve spoken to lately are frustrated almost beyond words by their schools’ insistence that they keep disruptive, non-participatory, and often violent students in their classrooms, to the severe detriment of the other children.
All students have a right to be educated in their least restrictive environment.  How can this [...]

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Leave That Sleeping Teen Alone!!!!!

February 19, 2010 – 6:45 pm

I posted part of this a couple of years ago, but it’s the weekend and I think it bears posting again because when I think of all those exhausted teens being dragged from their beds because some adult thinks that because he’s up, everyone should be up, I get really angry on behalf of the [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Gumption!

February 13, 2010 – 5:37 am

Mamacita says:  Well, well, well, another Saturday has sneaked up on us!
“Gumption” is an old-fashioned word, but gumption itself is a quality that seems to be old-fashioned, too.  Schoolkids aren’t given time to prove they’ve got gumption or not, because before they can even comprehend that they can’t comprehend something, an adult is right there [...]

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Wednesday: Why Do It Be?

February 10, 2010 – 1:14 am

Mamacita says:  I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, exactly a spring chicken these days, but when the time comes that I stop asking questions, they can bury me.  In fact, they should.  What possible use is a person who doesn’t ask questions and seek answers?  Can’t think of a thing.
I’m not presumptuous  [...]

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Limited-Vocabulary Readers are the Devil. Yes, THAT Devil.

January 6, 2010 – 10:46 pm

Mamacita says:  I don’t think there are any words coined yet that would adequately describe the complete and total loathing I have for simplified, edited versions of good books.
I’ve heard quadrillions of elementary teachers argue that small children learn best when there are few challenges, but I have to disagree with that, too.  How condescending!
I [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Fresh New Year = Fresh New Start

January 1, 2010 – 12:22 pm

Mamacita says:  Contrary to what many people are thinking, 2010 is NOT the first of a new decade; it’s the last of the old decade.  Count on your fingers; I won’t tell on you.
Today is still the first day of the new year.  Today is Fresh Start Day. Let’s all try to give ourselves, [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Christmas, Pt. 1

December 12, 2009 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says:  I love these days leading up to Christmas more than any other time of the year. I love the planning. I love the baking. I love the making lists. I love the shopping, which I actually do all year long. I love the Amazon super-secret-discount-deals. I [...]

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Dear Parents: Every Child Deserves An Audience. Stay In Your Seat. And Shut Up.

November 20, 2009 – 3:46 pm

Mamacita says:  I’ve posted about this subject before, but with the approach of holiday season, it’s on my mind again, so I’ve written a new post about this same thing.
We’re tired.  We work all day and in the evenings, we deserve a few hours to rest, eat, and just, well, unwind. We deserve some time [...]

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Zero Tolerance? Don’t Get Me Started. . . .

November 15, 2009 – 8:45 pm

Mamacita says:  It looks so good on paper.  You know, like communism and NCLB.  The problem with all these things is this: they don’t work.
Like an expensive dog with elite genealogy papers and a genetic flaw,  they’ll all eventually bite you in the butt and give you second, and if you’re smart, third and fourth, [...]

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“Slow Down” My Aunt Fanny

October 9, 2009 – 12:49 am

Mamacita says:  I hated elementary school, and by “hated” what I really mean is, well, HATED.
I learned to read when I was really little, but I have never read as most other people do.  When I read, I look at a page and immediately, that page is affixed inside my head.  I can later “bring [...]

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