Comments on: Classroom Prep http://b.rox.com/2007/07/26/classroom-prep/ Life in the Flood Zone Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:06:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: EEB http://b.rox.com/2007/07/26/classroom-prep/#comment-134967 EEB Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:41:45 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2007/07/26/classroom-prep/#comment-134967 No apostrophe in lets ... sorry No apostrophe in lets … sorry

]]> By: EEB http://b.rox.com/2007/07/26/classroom-prep/#comment-134966 EEB Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:40:10 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2007/07/26/classroom-prep/#comment-134966 JORDAN LET's RAY DAVIES' shooter GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Again! WE MUST STAND UP AND REVOLT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JORDAN LET’s RAY DAVIES’ shooter GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Again!

WE MUST STAND UP AND REVOLT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Jon Konrath http://b.rox.com/2007/07/26/classroom-prep/#comment-134952 Jon Konrath Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:08:25 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2007/07/26/classroom-prep/#comment-134952 As a science teacher, Xy is lucky to even be doing any experiments that require water. Most helicopter parents and insurance companies are so worried that kids are going to blow up the school with baking soda and vinegar that they've banned any kind of real chemistry programs and gone to CD-ROM based coursework. My sister's a science teacher in Indiana, and also said they can't dissect frogs anymore - you just look at some web-based program or something. I wonder when they ban pens and pencils. They could take an eye out - think of the children!!!! As a science teacher, Xy is lucky to even be doing any experiments that require water. Most helicopter parents and insurance companies are so worried that kids are going to blow up the school with baking soda and vinegar that they’ve banned any kind of real chemistry programs and gone to CD-ROM based coursework. My sister’s a science teacher in Indiana, and also said they can’t dissect frogs anymore - you just look at some web-based program or something. I wonder when they ban pens and pencils. They could take an eye out - think of the children!!!!

]]> By: Frank S. http://b.rox.com/2007/07/26/classroom-prep/#comment-134814 Frank S. Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:35:10 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2007/07/26/classroom-prep/#comment-134814 when I was a public school librarian I wrote & won a small grant [$1600] for a reading project I did with my kids. I could not use the money to actually buy books, but I could use it to buy tape recorders & supplies to make books on tape. And I had to spend evey dime or me & the school would have been auditited by the feds to find out why we didn't [they think you are wasting their money they do come looking for it, guns blazing]. One of the other teachers in my buliding got a grant to go to Tokyo to study how some ten year olds use technology first hand. Of course there were no computers in her class [this was 1998] and the grant did not provide for how to impliment the first hand knowledge or add any tech to her class rooms [or allowed for her to buy any], but welcome to the land of grants... when I was a public school librarian I wrote & won a small grant [$1600] for a reading project I did with my kids. I could not use the money to actually buy books, but I could use it to buy tape recorders & supplies to make books on tape. And I had to spend evey dime or me & the school would have been auditited by the feds to find out why we didn’t [they think you are wasting their money they do come looking for it, guns blazing]. One of the other teachers in my buliding got a grant to go to Tokyo to study how some ten year olds use technology first hand. Of course there were no computers in her class [this was 1998] and the grant did not provide for how to impliment the first hand knowledge or add any tech to her class rooms [or allowed for her to buy any], but welcome to the land of grants…

]]> By: Anne http://b.rox.com/2007/07/26/classroom-prep/#comment-134772 Anne Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:00:03 +0000 http://b.rox.com/archives/2007/07/26/classroom-prep/#comment-134772 The school probably has a grant to pay for retreats. Grants are often very strange that way-- you can easily get one to do pie-in-the-sky programs or teacher enhancement, but CANNOT easily get one for basic needs, building rehabilitation, etc. The school probably has a grant to pay for retreats. Grants are often very strange that way– you can easily get one to do pie-in-the-sky programs or teacher enhancement, but CANNOT easily get one for basic needs, building rehabilitation, etc.

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