you won't believe this

[Tom Roeper]

Dear Margaret---
    No doubt you are right---politics in education is dominating
reading instruction and I am sure that individual children feel
it.   It is another area where teacher's and educators voices
need to be more clearly heard.

Tom

PS.  One educator's voice, my mother Annemarie Roeper,
is one such voice.  She
just wrote a book "The "I" of the Beholder" about the
Roeper school (now 66 years old) which reflects where
my views originate.

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Margaret Fleck <margaretmfleck at yahoo.com>
wrote:

>
>
> --- Tom Roeper <roeper at linguist.umass.edu> wrote:
>
> > Dear Everyone,
> ..... How strenuously you push a child who is behind in reading is
> > largely a parental decision. In retrospect I think we pushed
> >
> > my daughter, now in law school, a bit too hard when she had trouble
> reading,
> > though her continuing absolute inability to spell suggests a deep
> difference
> > is still present.)
>
> Actually, these days it seems to be a political decision.    Since the
> public
> schools in the US suffer
> rather dire consequences if the kids (disabled or not) can't pass
> standardized
> tests, these
> kids now get pushed rather hard, regardless of what the parents want.
>
> Margaret (Margaret Fleck, U. Illinois)
>
>
>
> >
>


-- 
Tom Roeper
Dept of Lingiustics
UMass South College
Amherst, Mass. 01003 ISA
413 256 0390

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