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December 09, 1981 - Image 9

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Michigan Citizen, 1981-12-09

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kind of hom . I'm no ta-
. tic" . I am a teac cr. I
am there to t ch, I'm
there to reach every child.
I am there to pro that
ry child can, if I do not
m e it uncomfortab e
that he can't.
I am there to gm
faith to th children ho
- m y dare no to hope. I am
there to let children kno
th t I give you my 10 ,
my pport, but your
o thoughts mu t al ays be
full your n.
ithout I m there to stir th
hope of tho people ho
might dare not to hope
• •
than hat it - n . In
fact I ent ithout being
paid 1 mon tho
Salarie come from t
ork op en
men that I do.
E ry child to
ate him If and tell
something that he h
learned that day.
ew the - ,
be - e each child all day
ery day to rernedia
their erro inunediately
before they become per-
m nt 0 - h -
hy e get aD the learning
di iIi - in our 001
them they hem de an
error.
Any educator ho thinks
that they r goin to
teach children to read ith the four
the 00 ith four ye
"Every child is taught that he is born to
win, if he does not let someone tell him
that he can't."
I given all the mone
from the mo - b to the
hool. Be of
system I've turned down
million doll for start-
ing 100 arv Collin, Inc.
schools this past Septern-
I' turned do the
Re gan Secretary of Educa­
tion (po t). I had to e
home beca the reporters
re sitting on my door­
step and the Reagan admin­
- tration as constantly cal ..
ling. So e had to flee the
country t Christm time
so e could
f csimile of peace.
Right no 1
been ed to
June 5, .
I h also agreed to
rve on th Pre· f
and Advisory, only
eaJIN. director - 0 money, no p �
_ hich give me the free-
dom to y hat I plea .
..... nta. of Ca- Our children are
��,...Dftt W'IIiIIfttI D8Cl1DIe reCllMlJd 1'4 ...... "-. taught that it - better to
die on your feet than to
beg on yoor ees,
That',
E ry child - ught or e h m de error.
. out my ing there to that b - bom to -, if They will not continually
¥ that you can; there ] he does not let e that error if e ar
nothing - thiI 0 d that tell him th t he can't. there all the time to remind
you cannot do. y of the time that
told dren that they
canno win, many of us
do not kno h to
ourselves. Repeatedly 1
children come in ere
en ha written them
off; system ha written
them off. And the bi e t
problem, more than ach­
- g them, - telling th m
th t ey can,
e each de
e ery d y, not to get that
re u fervor one day,
and not do it again the ne t
day. Oh, I'm going to be
a ry good teacher today,
but Tuesday, edne ay,
Thursday, Friday I don't
feel very ell.
Children can expect
that we kno what's
o to happen every day,
every year at th tim .
e add to it. e hope that
get better teache
the next day. But every
day they are expected to
make that day just a little
bit better than the pre-
day.
Ye no secrets re-
medical, dental ith my
monie be half of our
children can't pay. Someone
- 0 me out - e, but you
get monic from til par­
rents.
There are no monies
to Ft, again, in e Gar­
field Park. I kne th t.
eng gements
the country every
day and my ould
c:ertainJy be
e
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and they're no Ion r
learning disability .
If child - lling
they t-h- -y, and I am
itting behind my utopian
d ,and there's child
. tting in the b ro
spelling they, t-h- -y, to
red mark that paper and
give it b to that child
o or three day later
do not mean ry much
to a small child. It
ouldn't mean very much
to me either, so I' m e
an error, so be it. That's
my philosphy - th re's no
need to cry over spilled
to ere teo
The children h e
of negat-
e will find mething
to �. 'That's a very good
paper, but le ' proofread
this.'
e're destroying eire
in proofre - error.
If it become a permanent
reminder in his mind that
t really frighte me
letters come from
allegedly pr tigious are :
e Hampshire, Con-
necticut tts the
pi s e ould 1 a ex­
pect to find problem -
I really feel that h t
- h ppening n i e
are all beginning to cho e Continued in
on over do of illiteracy. 's Citizen.
good cornprehen 'on - F­
of all in th 1800 th
100 - y m thod devolved
for children ho could
not hear and th t the
picture clu of con-
notation there of th p-
ture and that
the child
im e. n
iate picture - th
the ord.
It s re y not de e p­
ed for children ho could
he and . Ho it e er
cam to be u in our
schools there d de 0
I ill ne er kno _
If e will atch, e r
since the 100 - y m thod
came into vogu children
dca- n
the country - 13,000 1 t·
ten be out fo this
- ce April 14, desperate
all
y
children.
m y peop h
cribed me,
or er. I
peop of this
think a miracl
thin
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