tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post5366111724286726303..comments2024-03-29T08:09:51.663-04:00Comments on The Miss Rumphius Effect: School System Bans the DictionaryTriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18350907653629775293noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-67710761902152933162010-01-27T12:31:48.842-05:002010-01-27T12:31:48.842-05:00Tricia,
Here’s another story for you from Think P...Tricia,<br /><br />Here’s another story for you from Think Progress, 1/26/2010<br /><br />Right-wing Texas Education Board accidentally bans popular children’s book author. <br /><br />Excerpt:<br />Last week, ThinkProgress reported on the Texas Board of Education’s push to change the state’s social studies curriculum to marginalize progressives. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reveals that the Elaine Magliarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09829330276633865868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-11723053331753876212010-01-26T18:58:22.799-05:002010-01-26T18:58:22.799-05:00If you can't spell it, you can't find it t...If you can't spell it, you can't find it to look it up - so it promotes spelling as well as dictionary skills. <br /><br /><br />Plus, a lot of kids need to find out what those words actually mean - and most WON'T use them much once they find out what they mean! (Says a mom who always defined terms for her kids - even if they were very, very young.)<br /><br />*wants to hit school Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-56619293746479500592010-01-26T14:01:18.517-05:002010-01-26T14:01:18.517-05:00I have great memories of teachers stepping out of ...I have great memories of teachers stepping out of the classroom in 3rd or 4th grade and working together as a class to look up as many swear words as we could. Good teamwork excercise :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-71114939384770091082010-01-26T11:54:23.315-05:002010-01-26T11:54:23.315-05:00When my mom taught, if a kid got tattled on for ca...When my mom taught, if a kid got tattled on for calling someone a name ("bitch" for example) she would take them to the library, grab the "big" dictionary and make them look up the word, copy it and the def. on a paper and threaten to have a parent sign it. She also used the word many times. "Would you call ME a bitch? I didn't think so." Needless to say it teacherninjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07690406470351639188noreply@blogger.com