tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post3981599270750626920..comments2024-03-29T06:21:22.494-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: Breakfast In Class A Bad Ideareality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-38224938035581383912012-08-24T13:56:05.891-04:002012-08-24T13:56:05.891-04:00Excellent and well reasoned post.
So when a teach...Excellent and well reasoned post.<br /><br />So when a teacher, who is being observed by his/her administrators, can't facilitate a lesson because Jack spilled his milk and Jill has to clean her hands before working on a task, who will be held responsible for the lesson bogging down? <br /><br />You have to wonder if the City Council has any concept of what goes on in a classroom, and what it takes to teach a class. Mayor Bloomberg has already weighed teachers down with all the things we have to do in a classroom to be considered "good" teachers. The City Council would now add yet another thing we have to incorporate into a lesson which distracts from the learning process.<br /><br />So it goes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-42484060864844870172012-08-24T13:52:56.416-04:002012-08-24T13:52:56.416-04:00Maybe this is another ploy to "save" mon...Maybe this is another ploy to "save" money by putting low paid workers out of a job or cut back on their hours by having classroom teachers become the cafeteria workers. This is a disgrace and as harvey stated, a demonstration of ignorance. Who indeed would clean up classrooms of the garbage and spills left by the kids? It's also demeaning to relegate a classroom teacher to become a child care worker. Maybe the city council thinks we are, but they do have it wrong. Maybe they should be the elected civil servants they are supposed to be, not the useless graft-infused body of parasites that they are. I actually agree with Bloomberg also, a rare occurrence. Ms. Tsourishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978868613223436958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-42236398389355739352012-08-24T09:04:07.693-04:002012-08-24T09:04:07.693-04:00Once again people who have never been in a NYC cla...Once again people who have never been in a NYC classroom show their ignorance! We have mice and roaches in my classroom, and custodians don't clean desktops (I do, every morning, so that students have a clean desk every day) Who cleans up the spilt milk? At least most of the vermin are in the cafeteria because we teachers are vigilant re food in the classroom. Reality check needed here.harveynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-41586108013962836942012-08-24T08:19:11.198-04:002012-08-24T08:19:11.198-04:00Why is there so much money available for more crap...Why is there so much money available for more crappy food for breakfast, (which the vast majority of families have no problem providing for their children)- while we are told there is not enough money to improve school lunches? It's because the same system that profits from the shitty cafeteria food wants to profit even more. EX:-milk, which most Asian and African-American kids can't digest properly, is served every day at every meal to every kid! Why? It's not even healthy, it just has a healthy reputation from all the advertising. Breast cancer and osteoporosis are highest in dairy consuming countries!<br />It's creeping statism and control of functions and activities traditionally done by the families, in concert with corporatism and profits. Slow death by Kontrol. <br />I've been to school food conferences and they want 100% of the kids eating school food so as not to stigmatize the poor kids who have to eat it. Breakfast AND lunch- 100% is their goal. <br />I say provide local organic food for lunch and you will get close to 100% for lunch. The food they now serve is atrocious and they want to cram it down our kids throats, while making teaching even more difficult serving breakfast!!!<br />Let's not forget the little plastic toy they put on the breakfast tray. Learn anything from McDonald's maybe?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-13341791646905646782012-08-24T07:09:18.322-04:002012-08-24T07:09:18.322-04:00Also, breakfast in class would take away from inst...Also, breakfast in class would take away from instructional time. Who would clean up breakfast? Not the custodial staff.<br />The classroom garbage cans are too small (at least in my building) for breakfast-added expense and who would bring breakfast up to the classroom? Teachers? Students? How do children get the chance on the "choice" in breakfast?<br />Why can't parents wake up early enough to send their kids before school officially starts for breakfast? Why don't the children who come early to school actually eat breakfast? <br />All interesting and valid questions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com