Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Miss Caroline & Excellent Teaching Methods!
It seems ironic to me that Miss Caroline, a teacher, is telling Scout she shouldn't be able to read. On page 17 she says "Now you tell you father not to teach you any more...and I'll try to undo the damage." It just seems silly to me that a teacher is encouraging a good student not to try. Why not encourage Scout? Nope, no encouraging words, lets just tell her she's wrong because she didn't learn the "right" way. Anyone else see this as ironic, especially coming from a teahcer?
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Could it be the fact that she doesn't want someone, student or parent, undermining her authority?
This lady is a control freak. She just feels threatened because Scout doesn't need her and might possibly be smarter than her.
It is strange.
Yes, I think the undermining of the authority is definately a fear of Miss Caroline. She should chillax.
I agree with both of you. Miss Caroline feels as if she has been undermined but I say she is pretty dumb for encouraging a student to be stupid. Teachers are supposed to make students less ignorant and encourage them to succeed.
Miss Caroline definitely has a fixed mindset about learning. She believes that there is only one way to learn to read and it's her way. Maybe she should be learning from Scout.
It is ironic! I agree that she is a control freak and she doesn't want any of her students to be in front of all of the other students because they may question her teaching.
I do think that Miss Caroline should relax her teaching style a bit. There is no way to unlearn something, and the only thing she has accomplished is giving Scout a reason to hate school. She is new to the school, I understnad that, but she still needs to try and teach in a way that is encouraging and uplifting. I felt that she was a poor example of a teacher, and that anything to be learned from her class would be how NOT to teach.
Ms. Caroline is a new teacher and under the impression that the students should only know what she teaches them, so they learn to respect her and see her as an intelligent person. Ms. Caroline wants to play off the fact that Scout can already read as a bad thing. A blow to her confidence. Possibly so the kids don't hold Scout in the regard that Ms Caroline wants to be held.
I totally agree with you...
there is no way a teacher
should tell a 1st grader
not to be smart! I wish scout
would have stood up to her
and asked her why a teacher
doesn't want her to be "too"
smart?!
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