Diversity in the Classroom

Here is some pics of one of my third grade PE classes. We are attempting to play a 2 on 1 keep away game that was derived from the Field Game Section of my activity book. As you can see I have a variety of African American males and females as well as Caucasion males and females. I do not have any other races added into this class, although I do have classes with students of the Hispanic race in them. Unfortunately I could not find another class that had turned in all of their forms signed by their parents stating that their child could be photographed. In this class I have a mixture of students who have special needs from speech thearpy to occupational thearpy, but you could not tell it from watching them play in PE. This is one of my favorite classes cause as you can see in the pictures they actually try to get out and have fun in PE. One of the young ladies in these pictures I am especially proud of because last year when she was in the second grade i could not get her to participate at all in PE. She was new transfer to Crossett because of the sudden death of her parents and she would not open up to anyone now she is out there playing and having fun like a child should. Can you guess which one she is? Exactly.

Parent's Just Don't Understand

Can somebody out there PLEEEAAASSSSEEEE!!!! help me to understand, why is it so important to the people of the community for the school to have rules and regulations, until it hinders someone close to them. I think the worst word in the human language is the word BUT. That dang word (BUT) always prolongs the inevidable yet people use it over and over again. It makes no sense to me how a person can look at one situation and draw two different view points from it depending on who the child is. Ok, yes one child may have a better behavior record and tend not to get in trouble, where as another child may always get in trouble and they both break the same rule. I feel they both should be punished equally and one not shown favortism because of who t he/she is or who their parents may be in the community. I especially don't think that teachers should soften the punishment for fellow teachers children. I am a teacher who happens to be in the same school building with my child and I have made it well known that if my child gets in trouble I want her teacher to do what is right. If the teacher does what is right and as a parent I do what is right at home then I feel that this will make my child a better person and student in the long run.