A Series of Posts - Careful though, it involves Vomit
I’m running a series of posts regarding children and their emotional and mental well-being as well as their physical well being. I’m going to link to them but realize that some of the links won’t work until much later in the week. But, the reason I believe they are appropriate here is this quote in The Case Against Homework by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kallish which I reference quite frequently in those posts simply as TCAH.
The premises is hard how children are being pushed in our world today. There is much discussion about homework and children losing their childhood to school work instead of playing in the dirt or running around the playground. Here’s the quote and it is in reference to children being pushed to score well on standardized tests.
"….Each year, up to twenty test booklet have to be discarded per day because children have thrown up on them"
Are you reading that? They throw up over a standardized test that measures basically nothing. While are we emotionally allowing schools to bully our children like this. Here’s the other links and I’ll date them for you as to their availability.
September 28, 2008 - The Time is Now
September 28, 2008 - More of my silly comments about homework
September 29, 2008 - Some More ADD - TCAH - My Own Child
September 29, 2008 - Let me tell you a little story
September 30, 2008 - Here, Here, I say, here, here
September 30, 2008 - Oh and another real life story
September 30, 2008 - Oh and One more thing
October 1, 2008 - I Hope This is Not What My Future Holds
October 1, 2008 - The Case Against Homework - The Homework Potato
October 2, 2008 - Don’t even get me started on sleep
October 2, 2008 - Another Personal Rant
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