Memo: Identify at least one economically disadvantaged child in your grade level who exemplifies community citizenship AND achieves the academic standards with excellence.
Me: None at this time fit all criteria.
Gist of memo a few weeks later: C'mon, anyone? Anyone?
Me: None at this time fit all criteria.
Gist of memo a few weeks later: Deadline's coming up, guys. Anyone?
Me: Okay, I have a single-parent child, excels in all content areas, definite community contributor.
Reply: Checked with the office, she's not disadvantaged. We're looking for disadvantaged children, Ms. D_C. (Implied: Can you read?)
Fuck off.
5 comments:
how does one exemplify community citizenship?
by contributing positively to the classroom community. e.g. in large/small group activities, can assume different roles/capacities, facilitator OR recorder OR presenter, etc.
in a larger sense they were looking for community involvement with a wider community (than classroom) in mind but you then are barking up the wrong demographic ...
ah. i got confused with the definition of citizenship.
hmm, i guess i should've paid more attention in class.
it's broad and subjective. throughout elementary school i got called a "good citizen" for picking a soggy weekly reader off the basketball court when no one else would touch it, a "bad citizen" for not participating in class discussions, etc. elementary school is a small, small world. the general learner outcome is actually called "community contributor" which to me is still broad but, due to recently developed rubrics, less skewable.
yeah. i think i was a bad citizen then. i was always the one to change directions when there was trash on the ground. eh, i figure if i was nowhere near it then i wasn't responsible. actually, i still do.
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