Graduation vs. Promotion

Graduation vs. Promotion

So today I get email from son’s teacher is regards to Promotion, not Graduation. Really, I did not realize that my son had a job.  Any who, the flyer by virtual mail, stating that my child should” dress to impress”, with a whole list things not to wear to his Graduation from 5^th grade. Well really, I like to write back “please do talk about how wonderful your own child is” when my child   had to endure 8 months of you comparing my child or your students to her. On top that, I would to say my child needs to learn to read, write, do math, speak and freely think for himself. Anything beyond that he will find is own way in life. I would like to say, that unless you take your own advice please to not wear clothes that make you look like you forgot to actually look at yourself before you left your house.  

Honestly, there are a lot of great teacher out there in the world, and then there are one’s who need a reality check every once in a while, these child are not sheep and we need to stop treating them as so. This has been cork of mind for a very long time and probably will always be. Children are not defined by corporal ways of doing things and not everyone is going to grow up to what you think they should be. Hence, they are neuro-diverse and your job to help them be the best person that they can be, not some sheep following a pack wolves. Life is complex, diverse, and challenging at most. There is no right way or wrong way on how you choose to get there. How about we teach our child/children to be understanding, have compassion, be true to themselves, and treat everyone equal regardless of what they see. Some people say knowledge is the key to success, but really experience is knowledge and they need to have both. Books can only take someone so far in life. Experiencing life has a complete different spin on it verses reading about. In jamming dumb facts in the heads for years on end like Christopher Columbus discover American, what about the fact the American Indians were already here and more real story is that Columbus enslaved, savaged, and stole from Indians. School does not really teach truth, just what they want you to know. I think if you are going teach anything, you teach the truth on history, people, and how we can make the world now and in the future a better place.  Also if caught my  writing errors that what 12 years, 2 years of college, two trade schools  30 years plus years of learning has taught me.  Oh, do not even get me started on spiral math concepts. 

So after writing the above, I received an email stating that they want my date of birth for name tags. I kindly, informed them that I would bring id, and that my information is on file. I just love how the school reinforce  fear in society and people.