I agree with this. Also just getting them to understand that working at WalMart or McDonald's is NOT a good career. Most of my students LOVE Walmart, it's the one place all of my students have in common. So one day I took them through the "money" aspect of it. Showing them how much they would make working at Walmart or McDonalds and having to pay rent, buy food, utilities, etc. That lesson got it through more than anything else has. I am lucky in that, although I work in a very poverty stricken city, I work in one of two intra-district magnet schools. So although half of my students are on free/reduced lunch and come from a second language. The other half of my students come from pretty well off parents (one is a lawyer). It is a good mixture of kids. So much so that I looped with them this year from 2 to 3. Also even though many of my students come from poverty they have chosen to be in this program that I teach in, called Dual Language, so on the whole, education is a very big priority for MOST of my students. Tammy/CT/3
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/25/2006 2:12:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Absolutely they don't want out. Not at their age. If you suggest to a child that education is a way out, you will usually sound as if you are suggesting that the child reject his/her parents. Children need to feel attached to their parents even when their parents are not healthy for them. I do not know what the solution is, but I think that telling kids there's a better world for them away from their family will turn the child away from education. Jan I have never told a child this, I am merely pointing out the mentality that I see in my classroom. I have no idea what the answer is either, but I do know that breaking the cycle of poverty certainly can help. I am a product of divorced parents. Was a recepient of food stamps and free lunches at school when my parents divorced. I was a pregnant teenager, but I also understood that education was valuable. How do you instill this in children? Or is it magical? Rosie _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
