Not sure how I feel about this…

Filed in National by on October 4, 2007

The parents of Damion Frye’s ninth-grade students are spending their evenings this fall doing something they thought they had left behind long ago: homework.

I agree that the parents should be involved, but to affect a child’s grade? Seems a little over the top.

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  1. anon says:
    October 4, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    Mr. Frye is cool.

    Mr. Frye, an English teacher at Montclair High School, has asked the parents to read and comment on a Franz Kafka story, Section 1 of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and a speech given by Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Their newest assignment is a poem by Saul Williams, a poet, musician and rapper who lives in Los Angeles. The ninth graders complete their assignments during class; the parents are supposed to write their responses on a blog Mr. Frye started online.

  2. Disbelief says:
    October 4, 2007 at 2:40 pm

    What if the parents are knuckle-dragging, illiterate, pro-war, right-wing, evangelical morons?

  3. donviti says:
    October 4, 2007 at 2:42 pm

    simple. the claim he is a liberal, yell at the school board meetings and get him fired.

    then ask them to tech creationism

  4. donviti says:
    October 4, 2007 at 2:42 pm

    teacb

  5. donviti says:
    October 4, 2007 at 2:42 pm

    teach

  6. donviti says:
    October 4, 2007 at 2:42 pm

    damn

  7. Chris says:
    October 4, 2007 at 8:37 pm

    “What if the parents are knuckle-dragging, illiterate, pro-war, right-wing, evangelical morons?”

    Funny…my knuckles aren’t rubbed raw, I read your malarchy all the time, and the only people that call me moron are a bunch of atheistic, mad-at-the-world losers who think communism will be the salvation that will somehow get them a bigger piece of the pie.

    Besides, I already help kids with their homework. Mostly so that when some aging hippie teacher who is still waiting to make a difference for the radical left tries to pass off liberal brainwashing as fact, I can assure that both sides are presented so that my child can make their own choice and not have BS spoonfed to them by ineffective libbies.

  8. Disbelief says:
    October 4, 2007 at 10:07 pm

    “Funny…my knuckles aren’t rubbed raw….”

    You build up callouses after awhile, Chris.

  9. anon says:
    October 5, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    “What if the parents are knuckle-dragging, illiterate, pro-war, right-wing, evangelical morons?”

    In Delaware they could form a charter school.

  10. Chris says:
    October 5, 2007 at 12:44 pm

    “In Delaware they could form a charter school.”

    In Delaware you have to. Can’t educate your kids decently any other way.

  11. donviti says:
    October 5, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    not true, but good try.

    Several kids from public schools get into ivy leagues schools.

    ask around, stop stereotyping chrissy.

  12. Chris says:
    October 5, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    Yeah. That is why my kids private school is filled with kids whose parents are public school teachers. What a ringing endorsement.

    Even several kids from the worst schools in NYC manage to get into Ivy League schools.

    As for asking around…when I told people I work with that I was moving to Delaware, every single one said “you know the schools are bad right?” Many of them had kids in public school and were trying hard to find options. Not one person ever said that the schools were even ok.

    So either the schools really are bad or have one HELL of a public image problem.

  13. donviti says:
    October 5, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    the public schools are ok

    having a parent involved in the school is the difference maker Chrissy.

    What happens in delaware is that the parents that care about their children send them to private school because of the perception that the schools are worse. Then it becomes a self fulfilling.

    some of the best teachers in the state work for the public school system. the private schools don’t pay shit.

    there, you have one person.

    so if people would stop falling into the trap that delaware schools are bad then more parents would get involved at their childrens school.

    yet again a week arguement from you.

  14. donviti says:
    October 5, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    public image problem chrissy…

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