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| Thread ID: 125540 | 2012-07-04 23:32:00 | Pre School eduacation. | mzee (3324) | PC World Chat |
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| 1286023 | 2012-07-05 23:28:00 | I think relying on parents is a bad idea, may have worked in the past but it wont now In my day the kids who went to kindy were the bright ones at primary school, after a few years they all level out (sort of) |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1286024 | 2012-07-06 09:53:00 | Which part because I never found sitting in a classroom heaps of fun. Most parts of school are fun, depends on the teacher. Most of them are great. Do you get homework Nick? |
ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1286025 | 2012-07-06 21:18:00 | My only memories of Kindy were of finger painting, a visit from Santa, who gave me a tiny matchbox truck which I loved, and banging nails through bottle tops into a piece of wood. I still find that last bit hard to fathom. Getting a minor to 'decorate' a scrap of wood by getting tiny, delicate, uncoordinated fingers to try to bang a nail through a rough edged scrap of metal with a big brutal hammer. It's bad enough as an adult at times trying to belt a nail through a bit of metal flashing... but why get an infant to do that? I don't remember learning anything of any use at Kindy. Also was bored with most of my schooling in the years that followed. I still consider 90% of my classwork to have been based on complete garbage, and that teachers spend much of their time just fluffing things up to waste even more time. I still see that today. Former teachers, when up on their feet talking to a group are still in the habit of stretching out a simple short message into a long, boring lesson. They love to ramble on... Apart from the basics of reading, writing, spelling and maths, the only other subjects of any value to me were the science / biology based stuff. I suppose I gained a little bit from woodwork and metalwork classes. Mostly familiarity with the tools/equipment rather than learning any technique or method. I really appreciate my dads example. Being too tight to pay a tradesman he'd do everything himself, and I'd learn by watching or participating. If I'd never seen him with a drilll / a spanner / a concrete mixer I'd probably have never considered using any such gear myself, and I'd be a truly pathetic individual if I hadn't learnt from his willingness to rip things apart and repair them. Just which he'd been a bit more interested in tech (ie computers), but he never touched one. There are adults out there that are scared to use a screwdriver! People who don't know how to change a tyre. One of lifes greatest pleasures can be DIY work. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1286026 | 2012-07-06 22:12:00 | Most parts of school are fun, depends on the teacher . Most of them are great . Do you get homework Nick? All my work is homework :p |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1286027 | 2012-07-06 22:18:00 | Yea, well being home-schooled is okay too. I could go to school if I wanted, just always haven't as I'm worried that there will be a slight difference in the stuff taught, so there will be some stuff I'm behind on. But, ah well. But you've got have have your NCEA exams at a school:D |
stratex5 (16685) | ||
| 1286028 | 2012-07-06 22:21:00 | Never went to Kindy. Lived in the country. Didn't learn to read or write till in primary school. Once I had learnt to read you couldn't keep me away from a book. We had a massive book collection at home. Alot of Enid Blyton books. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1286029 | 2012-07-06 22:23:00 | But you've got have have your NCEA exams at a school:D NCEA? who needs it? Both my brother and older sister are at uni without ever having done NCEA :D |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1286030 | 2012-07-06 23:49:00 | One of the girls on my school run was telling me her 3.5 yr old brother was kicked out of early childcare for continuous use of foul language. This confirms my thoughts that it all starts in the home environment..... good and bad. Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1286031 | 2012-07-06 23:53:00 | Oh dear! | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1286032 | 2012-07-07 00:07:00 | One of the girls on my school run was telling me her 3.5 yr old brother was kicked out of early childcare for continuous use of foul language. This confirms my thoughts that it all starts in the home environment..... good and bad. Ken True but that also works in reverse in that kids who don't hear foul language at home pick it up at Kindy. I'm of two thoughts about Kindy. A home environment with a good and varied circle of friends and parents who try to teach them the fundamentals I think is probably better over all during those impressionable years. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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