Ok Peeps……
Is it wrong to keep my kids home from school tomorrow to watch the inauguration? I know that some schools are letting the students watch it, but I haven’t heard anything from our school. I don’t want them to miss a historical moment. I’ve also got Dr’s notes for all of them for tomorrow (don’t ask peeps, I’ve got a great therapist.)
So WWID?
5 responses so far ↓
1 Emily R // Jan 19, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Well, where do you think they’ll learn more?
2 Allyn // Jan 20, 2009 at 4:38 am
I agree with Emily, although I’m guessing (as a teacher) that if you make it an educational situation (but fun and celebratory!) they’ll remember it more with you. Just with the personal attention they’ll be less likely to daydream like they would in a classroom.
3 heather // Jan 20, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Oh I hope you let them stay home. My daughter has a friend who actually got to go, and obvi, had to miss school to go. I think they’ll live if they stay home. =)
4 ame i. // Jan 20, 2009 at 7:00 pm
My 5th grade daughter is in private school, my 3rd grade daughter is in public until 5th grade. I would have thought our public schools would have been given the day off, considering our public schools’ minority population is over 65%, but school was in session today. They were out for MLK day yesterday, though, go figure.
My 5th grader did very little classwork today. Instead, the t.v.’s were turned on so they could all watch the inauguration. For my 3rd grader, classes went on as usual.
I would have guessed it to be the other way around, now that I think about it. Honestly, I would have rather my 5th grader’s normal daily schedule had remained intact. They missed computer lab yesterday and science lab today. I understand what a big deal today was for some people, but I don’t pay $600 a month so my older child can spend the school day watching television. We have one of those at home, along with the “record” feature. If she had been interested, I would have recorded the events for her.
A half-white, half-black man became president today. Sorry, but I don’t think that is worthy of keeping children home from school to watch. Do we really think this man is the first not-entirely-white man to have ever taken office? I think he’s just the first to let the truth of his parentage be fully known.
Many turn the channel when the news is on so kids don’t realize how many other children are blasted off the face of the Earth in the many wars going on in the world, nor do they see the faces of the hundreds of children who die from starvation every day.
Pardon me, but I don’t see that a new U.S. president signing in for duty is in any way more important or news-worthy.
5 Florida sister // Jan 24, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Can I get a therapist like that? You’d think, me being in the medical profession and all, that I’d have a better time finding good docs and shrinks… yep, nope, not here.
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