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Listening to critical comments by the judges seems easier for some of the contestants on American Idol than others. Rude comments are very hard to take and sometimes unwarranted. It's very difficult to hold the old tongue in place and not come back with
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In my opinion, students should arrive at school looking like they have come to learn. I must admit that I think a strict dress code makes a big difference in the feeling tone of the school. I found this video on Darren's Right on the Left Coast blog and
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I had an anxiety attack during an evaluation several years ago. My lesson was rock solid, and I knew the subject matter inside out. The problem was that my principal at the time was one intimidating lady. She marked teachers down just for saying "okay"
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Students who are doing well in school usually have a support team at home. Instead of worrying about zeroes and grades below fifty and how these grades should not be recorded in the gradebook, parents should get their kids to value school work enough
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If you aren't keeping up with The Baby Borrowers , it's the reality show where teenage couples take care of other people's kids to get a feel for what it's really like to be parents. My favorite part of the show from last week was when the babies were
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To summarize the first episode, ouch! The babies were crying, the teenagers were whining, and the real parents were in stress mode. It was a little hard to watch. I could feel the tension and developed a headache before it was over. The living arrangements
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It doesn't take a study for teachers to know that parental involvement plays a big part in student achievement. However, I'm not sure anyone has ever put a dollar amount to its value before. A study suggests that parental involvement in children’s schooling
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I have recently heard parents openly talking about teachers and why or why not they don't want their children in a particular teacher's room next year. They freely discuss teachers while going about their own daily lives like it's the same thing as exchanging
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Summers go by fast, and before you know it, school is back in session. It's easy for students to forget some of those reading skills during those "lazy, hazy, crazy" days of summer, and a lot of parents are looking for summer reading ideas. Readingrockets.org
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Students today don't face the same consequences for misbehaving or not doing their work that their parents and grandparents faced. One thing that really stands out to me is that a lot of parents are more likely to support their kids than the school. It
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How much help should parents give their children with homework? Should homework be the focus of every evening after school? Over the Thanksgiving break I asked a young mom visiting from Illinois how things were going with her kids. She laughed and said
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Just when I think I've read everything, I see an article about parents being assigned homework. "No way," I think to myself. A lot of the parents seem happy to do the work and feel that it is only fair since the teacher is giving so much of himself to
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For some strange reason, I am always cynical about surveys. It seems like people spout off information, and use it to support their own causes. What really happens with the accumulated data anyway? For a few years we were able to evaluate our schools
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Another study (just love those research people) now shows that kids gain more weight during the summer than they do during the school year. Does this mean that we can't blame school cafeteria food? Now it appears that kids are gaining more weight under
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Five students didn't receive their diplomas because of cheers from the crowd as they walked across the stage in Galesburg, Illinois. Rules are rules, I guess, but this seems a bit excessive to me. About a month before the May 27 ceremony, Galesburg High
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