Ah, in that case you could put it anywhere, like the bottom of a closet. No need to bother with covering in plastic bag.
From one kitteh to another:Happy Birthday to me.
When I read this, I immediately thought of a learning disability.. and the one I thought of was Dyslexia. Many kids used to be singled out, or thought of as 'slow' or even having mental impairment because of it...Hmm. I always knew my uncle couldn't read well. The teacher told him he was too stupid for academics so he dropped out after 8th grade (that was all that was legally required in this state back then) and worked on the farm. I assumed he has an undiagnosed learning disability that nobody knew how to deal with.
But now I just talked to his brother, who told me that HE can't read well. I know learning disabilities can run in families. Was it that or a bad teacher? They went to a one-room rural schoolhouse so they would have had the same teacher. Now I want to find some other locals the same age who went to the same school and see how their
reading skills developed. . .
My dad used to do that, well, probably still would if he ever took tests. And, as far as I know, his teachers never said he was stupid, just that he "didn't apply himself". I know he tested extremely high on an IQ test in elementary school and after that his teachers pushed him so hard about "living up to his potential" that he rebelled by not doing anything, ever. And my mom won't draw anything, ever, because her first-grade teacher told her that her drawing (which she was very proud of) was terrible. Did anyone get out of 1950s/1960s public education with a healthy sense of self-image? Did they actually tell the teachers to insult the kids as a motivational technique or were they just individually jerks?every night before a test he would say that he was going to fail the test, that he was stupid, and every test result was 95% or better. Didn't matter what the scores were on earlier tests, the next test was going to show how stupid he was.
That's probably part of it; I'm not sure their parents could read well or even at all. A lot of farmers and famers' wives back then couldn't read. But that must have been fairly common and I bet most of the kids at the school learned to read anyway. Too bad it's kind of a touchy subject, I'd like to ask them about it but they'd think I was calling them stupid too :/.I think part of the blame belongs to parents who aren't involved enough in their children's lives. Teachers can't be expected to do everything.
I've always felt that's an excuse the teachers and schools use. Students should be learning the skills needed to navigate life, and no parent is enough of an expert at everything to be able to teach all that. Add in cultural, religious, medical and attitude reasons for a parent to say they refuse to teach a life skill and you are going to end up, well in the mess we are in right now.I think part of the blame belongs to parents who aren't involved enough in their children's lives. Teachers can't be expected to do everything.