Big thumbs up for Missoula.

Posted By: Msla MT on 2007-08-22
In Reply to: Know exactly where yer at. - IloveMontana

I personally can't wait for winter to get here this year though. The fire season has been terrible.

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Looking for best place to raise a kid - Please help - sm
- Visited Asheville, NC and loved it. Seattle costs $, but - Spokane is less. Don't know about schools thoug
- I live in VA near Richmond- sm - Laura E.
- Albuquerque is a beautiful city - Rad MT
- Home sweet home. - nm
- Mind if I ask what parts of VA you are looking thinking about? nm - trose
  - In Virginia .... - Please help - sm
    - My best friend from high school lives in - trose
- Google 'Money Magazine + best places to live' and - lots of info will come up. Good luck! NM
  - Um, yes but would check that out thoroughly - sm
- Cary/parts of Raleigh, NC are very family oriented (sm) - Lisa
  - I had forgotten about Raleigh - Please help - sm
- Livin in Montana and lovin it here, but that - would be quite a move from so far away! (sm)
  - Where in Montana are you? - nm
    - Great Falls, but Kalispell is much prettier. - Bozeman and Missoula are nice too (college towns)
      - Know exactly where yer at. - IloveMontana
        Big thumbs up for Missoula. - Msla MT

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Would you give this teacher a thumbs up or a thumbs down?
He refused to adminster standardized testing and got suspended for 9 days without pay.

"I have let my administration know that I will no longer give the WASL to my students," Chew wrote in an e-mail to national supporters. "I have done this because of the personal moral and ethical conviction that the WASL is harmful to students, teachers, schools and families."

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Wish more teachers and parents would stand up. These standardized tests take so much away from our educational process.

golly, maybe we should hang her by her thumbs (sm)
OP said the child didn't get much sleep because of problems with her younger sibling.

It is quite possible the child is having some jealousy issues or other issues causing her to act out. Not to mention not having a good night sleep. I know my concentration is a little off if I haven't slept well. Probably a little harder for a 5-year-old.

I don't think it is prudent to jump to punish a child when it is out of character for that child to misbehave, especially if the child had already received punishment.

Yes, it will humble her. It could also demean her. I'm definitely no expert, except by experience. When this child has future emotional issues that she is not quite sure how to deal with, she defintely will be too humble to act out or to try to talk to her mom about them, because she has been taught not to. She'll just keep them locked inside or act out in a way she won't get caught.

A 5-year-old is not to young to be asked why she acted the way she did, or to discuss it. Why do parents have a knee-jerk response to just impose some kind of punishment without trying to understand first?

I'm not saying an apology is wrong, I just don't think it should be yet another punishment. If anything, mom should discuss it with her, like... "honey, I really think you owe your teacher an apology. What do you think?" Let it be the child's decision. It's good training to let a child make decisions like this.

The teacher punished the child. That's her job. It is our job as parents to try to understand our kids and open lines of communication and let them get used to making decisions.