Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts

Friday, February 1, 2013

Why I Hated Meredith’s First Grade Teacher: An Open Letter to America’s Teachers

Posted by: Kylene Beers | 20th Aug, 2012 on her blog
Reposted by the LCEA INSIDER | August 24, 2012


When my first born headed off to first grade, 21 years ago, she held my hand as we walked down the hallway of Will Rogers Elementary School in the Houston Independent School District. We walked into Ms. Miner’s room and Meredith’s steps grew more hesitant. This wasn’t the University of Houston Child Care Center, the place she had gone for years while I was a doctoral student at UH. This place looked different – bigger, more official. There were big-kid desks pushed together in clusters. And though there were centers, they were not the dress-up center or the cooking center or nap center or water play center of the Child Care Center.