File puptcrit/puptcrit.0911, message 294


From: Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-verizon.net>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:56:57 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry for schools


The downfall of American Education.........they just can't see it!
Data runs on paper not experience.

Mary
(in public school but doing special ed so I can stay out of the box as  
much as possible!)
On Nov 21, 2009, at 12:16 AM, HobgoblinH-AT-aol.com wrote:

> Oh, jeeze, guys,
> I have long been pleased to have my students perform puppet shows at  
> the
> senior and junior high level, usually in five-performance runs. This  
> year, my
> kids were all set to do a week-long run of "Dance of Death," when the
> principal  pulled me into his office and told me I was wasting their  
> time with
> this,  when they should just be reading and writing and researching  
> in class.
> The  classes are 90 minutes long. He told me one performance was  
> more than
> enough, and to cut down the performance run to three. We had already
> booked  classes to see those days. It was miserable.
> Alice :(
>
>
> In a message dated 11/20/2009 11:01:39 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> vasyagin-AT-hotmail.com writes:
>
> How  about - " Puppetry is not a school  program!"
>
> Vladimir
>
>
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Mary
mphorsley-AT-verizon.net




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