either ds1's teacher is a comedy genius, or she hates me. he came home excited because he had to write a presentation on responsibility for the whole school assembly tomorrow morning at 9am.
responsibility.
so he sat at the computer and typed out the title.
i popped next door for two minutes, and when i came back he had another (game) window open, but had minimised it and was staring at the blank title page.
we went to guides, where he had two hours to do his homework, but he played on his ds instead.
he came to a meeting with me at the school and sat in the library for two hours reading.
he got home at bedtime and had written nothing except the title.
i suggested he might like to talk about his own experiences of being responsible for the class presentation and how he felt he had managed the responsibility.
in all seriousness, is it fair for a parent to let her 9yo stand up in front of the whole school and admit he hasn't got a responsible bone in his body?
i made him write a list. but i think i made my point re the computer game, the ds, and the reading.
doubtless his teacher will tell him he's a genius and he'll forget every word i said.
i should've let him turn up with nothing, shouldn't i?
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madwomanintheattic · 03/05/2011 05:11
ah. it turns out there were three of them. one did 'respect', and one did another 'value'. so the assembly was about the three different values. so three of them doing the assembly.
it was truly shocking, though i do say so myself. 
the boys all did their values stuff, and then the entire school was split up into ten different groups to go back to different classrooms and make posters about the values (for the entire first lesson). at ten to ten, the entire school all traipsed back into the hall clutching posters. we assumed that a teacher was going to talk about the posters and do some sort of round-up, but they waited until everyone had taken their places in the hall and sat down, and then dismissed them for break.
truly bizarre.
there were about 8 parents there (there is an open invite for assembly) and mostly they looked fairly shell shocked and then drifted off home...
i think i might need a lie down.
what a total waste of time!
I would be tempted to question the teachers sense of responsibility and organisation for not setting the work earlier and then spending a morning doing something completely pointless?? 
the three kids were in different classes, so someone presumably masterminded it... not that ds1 knew...
mind you, as i said upthread, the 'question' that he came home with was lifted word for word from goodcharacter.com, which looks to be an entire teaching resource, with lesson plans and dvds etc - so surely whoever masterminded it could just have downloaded the damn thing and called it 'assembly' with a bit of audience participation?!
i will be asking ds1 if he watched the dvd today though... 
what alarms me is this is apparently part of a whole 'values' theme - there are apparently new ones each week/ term or something. so it couldn't have been that much of a surprise. i have no idea how they normally do the 'values' assembly as i'm normally at work, but given the faces of the parents, it's not usually quite so haphazard.
ah well. done and dusted. and we're moving at the end of term.
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