Rant

I need to do a little rant. I need to let off a little steam. I'm little upset about somethings here. I need to let it go somewhere, so that if the times comes for it to come out, I won't be so mad. I use to go to Angela and do this, but Angela is far way. It's like 8:30 on Tuesday, so I guess I could call her, but I have to go back to work soon as I'm starting this on my lunch time. You, by no means, have to read this. You can if you want to. I'm just using my blog as an outlet right now.

First let's start with the book I use to teach phonics. Oh my gosh is it awful. I know that it would be better for fire starter than teaching phonics. There is no phonemic awareness. You just dive right into teaching phonics. That's not the best idea. Next, it teaches in the ABC order. This is bad as it not good to start with a vowel. Vowels are hard to teach. It's better to start with a sound that is easy to make. M is good starting point. Next it has a CD, to play and it says the letter sound with it and this is bad too. I was little irritated when I heard the extra sound on the L. I have trouble just making the L sound by itself. Then I got to M, which is the easiest to make without adding anything on to it and it says mu. This is horrible. I really can't conitue to teach it. I understand that I got here two days before I started teaching, and they had to go of what was being done before. If I'm asked to teach the starting phonics again, I'm letting them know that I can't teach using the smart phonics book. I know Christine picked the books being used for Kinder, and on the surface it looks ok. I had another book that was better and asked why we weren't using it and her reply is the parents like it better when it is in order.

Which leads into the next part of rant. Sometimes doing what makes the parent happy isn't the best idea. I understand that we are a hwegoen and parents can take their kids out of our school whenever they like and go to another. I think that we should put what is best for the kids first. My job is teach, not make the parents happy. If a parent wants to know why we are doing something, and the answer is it is the best way for your child to learn, than that's good enough. In fact, that should make them happy, we are putting what is best first. I never liked that answer.

Part three of the rant. We have this new afternoon class. I don't teach it. The parents of three kids in this new class, seem to like the school so much they are going to put their kids in kindergarten. The parents aren't putting them in kindergarten until next month. They want to put them in Pinicchio class, which is Katie's class, but that doesn't make sense. We use the same books for three months and November will be the third. I don't see why they don't have a Erik and Kristin teach them in the two months and then they will be ok to join my class in December. This makes more sense, but once again, that whole make the parent happy comes in. What's best for the kids doesn't seem to really matter, it's the money that matters. I understand they need money to run a school. I also know if the kids are happy and learning then so is the parent.

There I'm done, and I feel better. Like I said early, you didn't have to read this I just need to let something go. If you did thanks.