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From: "Paul Fantini" <pfantini33-AT-comcast.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:17:19 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Typical belief about puppets


Someone on here previously shared an experience wherein they were mauled by
teenagers in one of those one-man walk-abouts at a theme park.  They had
articulated very well how as children mature they feel like puppetry is a
vestige of their infancy and do everything to put themselves at arms
distance.  I forget how they put it exactly, but it is something to
consider.

Paul 

-----Original Message-----
From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org]
On Behalf Of Mary Horsley
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:54 PM
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: [Puptcrit] Typical belief about puppets

I attended a brief workshop this morning from Attainment Company concerning
their new reading program for kids with mild to severe disabilities. I
happen to have the program in my class. A key element in this program is
Moe, a green frog puppet (make by Folkmanis). He is cute and huggable and
the kids respond to him. However, I got truly offended when the moderator
said that Moe was the one thing that was not age-appropriate for older kids
using the same program. Insulted was more like it! Seriously, students of
any level should not feel as if they are babies if a puppet holds their
interest. In fact, as most of us know, puppetry has for the most part been
forgotten by anybody over 10 unless there is an instructor around to
initiate the use. 

Of course, it seems that curriculum people are also more interested in
pushing abstract terms of algebra onto students who may not have the
capacity to understand.


Fuming in Va., 

Mary H. 


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