Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!
Posted by You freaking dummy! Stretch your brain for once. on 11/09/07

On 6/30/07, I can't resist wrote:
> I'll start with this little gem:"Just because little Johnny
> doesn't analyze
>> mathematical equations with the same accuracy as Jackie
>> doesn't mean that Jackie is more intelligent than Johnny.
>> It only means that Johnny has some other talent--like the
>> drawings he makes in his notebook that his teacher
>> repeatedly asks him to "put away." When you ask kids to
>> surpress their God-given talents and focus on some other
>> skill they have no enjoyment or interest in, then you are
>> creating an unhappy and unproductive child."
>
>
> So because Johnny can't analyze math accurately and is
> unhappy, then that means we should let him draw all day and
> not require him to do math?

You're real funny or real dumb. She didn't say that. Seeing
that he can draw can show you how to quide him. he's good with
his fingers and hands. He makes mental pictures that he can put
on paper. Maybe he's good with color and design. He can become
a millionaire using those talents if the teacher sees it and has
brains enough to quide him.

> Or should we figure out how to teach him a different way that
> meets his needs. Even a great artist needs to know how to pay
> his rent, buy groceries, and still have enough $$ left for
> little things like electrictiy.

See how simple minded you are. Just because one draws, he has
to be an artist in your book, huh? DUH-uh!
>
> By labeling every child as "brilliant" you are doing them a
> disservice. Not every child is brilliant,

That's not what GOD said. But then you folks don't believe in
GOD, do you? He said you'd better be just like a little kid, so
yeah, I think HE thinks ALL children are brilliant. It's the
ADULTS who ruin them. They have learned behaviors. GOD gave us
all gifts.

nor does every
> child necessarily want to be brilliant. Some prefer to remain
> in the dark about a lot of things.


> If we call every child brilliant, then we may start to make
> every child valedictorian.

You are dumber than we thought. No wonder our country is in the
mess it's in-you white folks! But thanks for bringing my
ancestors over here to the promised land. Of course, that
wasn't what you intended it to be.


Oh wait, we already do that.
> We may start to give every kid a trophy just for showing up.
> Oh wait, we already do that.


> Let's recognize the great from the mediocre and IF the
> mediocre want to rise up, figure out how to get them there.
> But they aren't all there yet.

Mediocre? In what? Just because you're mediocre in one thing
doesn't mean you're mediocre in everything. We all have a
talent, but we may not realize it without help. back in my day,
I could look at a model walking down a runway and make the
outfit before going to work in the morning with no trouble.
Over 45 years ago I watched and helped my dad build a bathroom
and bedroom onto our house and when I became an adult I, along
with my husband, built three of our houses and we have no house
payment. My husband can listen to a car and diagnose and fix
it. He does all of our maintenance work at home. He did all of
our plumbing and electrical work and he has an eigth grade
education! Yes, all children are brilliant. You don't know
what a kid's draing will lead to. maybe he'll be anothe Michael
Angelo, maybe not. Maybe he'll design the spacecraft that will
take the first white man to Mars.

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• Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 3/28/07, by Success Friend.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 4/16/07, by teacher in training.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 6/30/07, by I can't resist.
• Re: Words of wisdom from Dr. Prochillo, 7/07/07, by LEE/MA.
• Re: Words of wisdom from Dr. Prochillo, 7/09/07, by AND the reality is....
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 7/27/07, by AM.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 7/28/07, by me.....no name on this one.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 7/30/07, by to op.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 7/31/07, by Success Friend.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 7/31/07, by Success Friend.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 7/31/07, by success friend.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 7/31/07, by Success Friend.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/02/07, by SADSdSDSD.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/02/07, by Zanthum.
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• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/02/07, by Success Friend.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/02/07, by hmmmm.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/02/07, by SuccessFriend.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/02/07, by hmmm.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/03/07, by SuccessFriend.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/03/07, by SuccessFriend.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/03/07, by hmmmm.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/03/07, by Success Friend.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/03/07, by me.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/03/07, by success friend.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/09/07, by Wow.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/09/07, by Success Friend.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 8/10/07, by Wow.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 11/09/07, by Hi Success!Praise GOD for teachers like you!.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 11/09/07, by You freaking dummy! Stretch your brain for once..
• Re: Words of wisdom from Dr. Prochillo, 11/09/07, by Yeah sure..
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 11/09/07, by MY GOODNESS! She didn't say that..
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 11/09/07, by Thank goodness for Success.
• Re: Teachers Have Learning Disabilities--Not Students!, 11/09/07, by Success, you are one brilliant sister! Kids need you.