California’s SB 777: Student Civil Rights Act Does What? | Homeschool 2.0 http://homeschool2point0.com/2007/10/californias-sb-777-student-civil-rights-act-does-what/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:07:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 California’s SB 777: Student Civil Rights Act Does What? | Homeschool 2.0 http://homeschool2point0.com/2007/10/californias-sb-777-student-civil-rights-act-does-what/#comment-169 lynn Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:27:44 +0000 http://homeschool2point0.com/2007/10/californias-sb-777-student-civil-rights-act-does-what/#comment-169 It's pretty easy to sit in a legislative seat and mandate 'utopian' philosophies. But where the rubber hits the road, especially in a Title I school, it really doesn't have a lot to do with reality. There are no practical alternative educational choices. Beautifully said. It’s pretty easy to sit in a legislative seat and mandate ‘utopian’ philosophies. But where the rubber hits the road, especially in a Title I school, it really doesn’t have a lot to do with reality. There are no practical alternative educational choices.

Beautifully said.

]]> California’s SB 777: Student Civil Rights Act Does What? | Homeschool 2.0 http://homeschool2point0.com/2007/10/californias-sb-777-student-civil-rights-act-does-what/#comment-168 Deborah Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:56:59 +0000 http://homeschool2point0.com/2007/10/californias-sb-777-student-civil-rights-act-does-what/#comment-168 As a 10 year California School Teacher, in a Title One school (all 44 schools in my district are Title One), I know that the families I serve would be unable to afford private schools. Many are single parents struggling to pay the rent and have still enough for groceries, as basic survival precedes anything else. As for home schooling, that is such a huge undertaking for families struggling to learn English and/or even understand third grade level math; add to that the parents with addictions, mental illness, violent behaviors, and no parenting skills/common sense. So here are the children in my public school classroom, and here comes another Senate Bill coming down the pipe. What am I going to do? Stay the course. I am going to be all the light that I can be in this darkness for my students. No one is monitoring every word I say or don’t say. In 10 years, I have never had any reprimands from families or school administration about the topics of discussions or about any answers I have given, books I have read to them, or how I have treated them. Over the years I have had parents, legal guardians, the kids themselves express how being in my classroom made a difference in their lives. In short, I will keep on keeping on in my classroom, in spite of crazy mandates, because the bottom line is- serving my students. I won’t be distracted, but will continue to be “as shrewd as serpents but as innocent as doves.” As a 10 year California School Teacher, in a Title One school (all 44 schools in my district are Title One), I know that the families I serve would be unable to afford private schools. Many are single parents struggling to pay the rent and have still enough for groceries, as basic survival precedes anything else. As for home schooling, that is such a huge undertaking for families struggling to learn English and/or even understand third grade level math; add to that the parents with addictions, mental illness, violent behaviors, and no parenting skills/common sense. So here are the children in my public school classroom, and here comes another Senate Bill coming down the pipe. What am I going to do? Stay the course. I am going to be all the light that I can be in this darkness for my students.
No one is monitoring every word I say or don’t say. In 10 years, I have never had any reprimands from families or school administration about the topics of discussions or about any answers I have given, books I have read to them, or how I have treated them. Over the years I have had parents, legal guardians, the kids themselves express how being in my classroom made a difference in their lives. In short, I will keep on keeping on in my classroom, in spite of crazy mandates, because the bottom line is- serving my students. I won’t be distracted, but will continue to be “as shrewd as serpents but as innocent as doves.”

]]> California’s SB 777: Student Civil Rights Act Does What? | Homeschool 2.0 http://homeschool2point0.com/2007/10/californias-sb-777-student-civil-rights-act-does-what/#comment-159 mrs. dani Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:08:45 +0000 http://homeschool2point0.com/2007/10/californias-sb-777-student-civil-rights-act-does-what/#comment-159 even if the bill does not expressly ban the terms, mom, dad, wife, or husband, it will be used to do just that. the courts, in their infinite wisdom, will say that is what the writers of this bill had intended. (because the courts can read minds and emotions) even if the bill does not expressly ban the terms, mom, dad, wife, or husband, it will be used to do just that. the courts, in their infinite wisdom, will say that is what the writers of this bill had intended. (because the courts can read minds and emotions)

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