WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:05.280 It's side with Dan Ray on WBZ Koston's new. 2 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:13.199 Radio The Best Laid Plans, et cetera, et cetera. Alison 3 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:16.480 on Grim isn't going to be on. 4 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:17.719 This next hour. 5 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:22.160 I will try to insert her into my Wednesday evening 6 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:29.640 schedule to fill in the spot where Teacher Terry had 7 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:35.039 been slated. Fortunately, Teacher Terry is able to come on 8 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:41.960 now and hopefully this will all work out. Terry, thank 9 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:45.600 you for coming on on such short notice. 10 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:49.600 Oh, no worries, No worries. You got me out of 11 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:51.359 You got me out of some housework. 12 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:53.240 Okay. 13 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:57.719 Well, you know by being around radio for as many years, 14 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:03.799 through me and through your husband, that things happen, and 15 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:04.640 they do. 16 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:06.159 You have to be able to. 17 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:09.680 Bob and weaves just like a professional boxer and roll 18 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:10.400 with the punches. 19 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:11.760 Yep. 20 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:17.920 Now, let's give people a little information about you. You 21 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:23.799 are currently a teacher, and you are in the Springfield 22 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:25.840 school system. 23 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:28.239 Correct, yep, yep, And that is correct. 24 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:30.840 And you've been a teacher for decades, and you have 25 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:37.200 worked in a variety of school systems like Newton and 26 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:45.200 other communities. And you have been a teacher of primarily 27 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:48.480 second grade and third grade children. 28 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:57.319 Correct, correct elementary age, but primarily first, second and third grade, Okay, and. 29 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:01.239 It ain't the same now. 30 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:04.359 I'm remembering being in for a second and third grade 31 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:09.319 back in the early sixties, and it's an entirely different 32 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:16.120 world in my mind comparing then to now. Tell people 33 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:21.719 listening what it's like, if they can imagine in September 34 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:26.560 going into school for the first day, what's it like, 35 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:28.400 what's the environment like? 36 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:37.560 Well schools today, and I will preface this by saying, 37 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:42.039 good schools today really focus a lot on knowing the 38 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:46.599 student and getting to know them as individuals, building relationships 39 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:54.280 with them to help them want to learn more. And 40 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:57.759 there are a variety of reasons why life has changed, 41 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:02.240 and the computer is certainly one of the reasons. And 42 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:09.000 students interact much more with computers than they do with people, 43 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:13.280 and so that's one of the main reasons why it's 44 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:18.280 so important to build those relationships with both the students 45 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:23.960 and the parents. But it is. It's a critical part 46 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:29.439 of letting them know that there's someone who wants to 47 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:33.680 teach them and wants them to like what they're learning, 48 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:37.560 and it's interested in what they want to learn and 49 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:42.680 what they want to know about. We did something that 50 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:46.080 past this past year that I did and we read 51 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:51.319 an article and it was in a reading thing and 52 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:57.719 it was about micro microplastic that is in the ocean, 53 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.599 and we had a discussion about what would you do 54 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:07.199 to get microplastic out of the ocean, which turned into 55 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:12.719 a project where they built different things of microplastic, you know, 56 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:16.279 different things to get the microplastic out and how you 57 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:20.399 would go about doing that and whether any of their 58 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:25.639 ideas were realistic or not. They this small reading passage 59 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:31.439 turned into a science project turned into a social studies thing, 60 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:36.480 and all of my students will come back and say 61 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:41.199 something about recycling and plastics and not using as many 62 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:46.160 plastics and having that awareness because one thing sparks another. 63 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:52.439 And these are kids that are in the seconds grade. Yes, yes, 64 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:58.120 and in my era, I mean, the biggest thing that 65 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:02.920 we had to deal with was duck and cover as 66 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:07.920 far as something that would have an overspreading of attention 67 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:14.639 to something nationally, you know, local and I don't know 68 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:18.600 what the world of Springfield is like, but I'm sure 69 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:23.680 some of the local Springfield issues seep into their curriculum. 70 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:31.319 But I wouldn't have thought well for its computers didn't exist. 71 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:31.680 In my day. 72 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.439 They came along long after I was in the first, second, 73 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:41.439 and third grade. And that's something that's technology and that's 74 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:46.399 the way the world works. And I remember watching The 75 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:51.439 Jetsons in nineteen sixty one and seeing el Roy in 76 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:57.600 first grade and one of his classmates with his wristwatch 77 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:05.079 was watching episodes of the Flintstones. That was art imitating life. 78 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:10.879 That is something that can happen today. Yes, that could 79 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:13.480 not happen in nineteen sixty one. That was just the 80 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:17.160 imagination of some writer of a TV cartoon show. 81 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:22.319 Right, you did mention something. You said the biggest thing 82 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:25.439 that you had to worry about was duck and cover. Yes, 83 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:31.319 so we all know that school shootings are a huge thing, 84 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:35.519 and you used to have to do fire drills and 85 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:38.720 know how to leave the building in case of a fire, clearly, 86 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:42.560 but students today not only need to know fire drills, 87 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:47.000 but they also need to know intruder drills. And it's 88 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:49.800 really and that I think goes back to it's really 89 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:53.759 important for the students to feel connected to their teacher 90 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:58.879 because they're put in positions now of extreme trust of 91 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:01.879 this one person because they don't know what's on the 92 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.120 other side of the door, shelter in place. 93 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:10.160 You and I are here to talk about back to 94 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:14.839 school and what mommy and daddy and grandparents and aunts 95 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:18.920 and uncles should get for the kids shouldn't get for 96 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:23.240 the kids. And we've already started to go down a 97 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:25.759 different path than I want to go. So I want 98 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:30.600 to get back to in September. End of August, schools 99 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:34.560 are going to be opening their doors again, so let's 100 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:37.920 deal with the back to school purchases. Anyone who wants 101 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:40.959 to call in six one, seven, two, five, four, ten 102 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:44.480 thirty eight, eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty. This is 103 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:47.720 Nights Side. Dan Ray is off for the week. I 104 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:51.439 am here. I am Morgan, Morgan White Junior. This is 105 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:54.879 teacher Terry, and we're gonna be talking about what you 106 00:07:55.120 --> 00:08:00.879 should be thinking about purchasing for your kids for back 107 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:06.800 to school time and temperature nine sixteen seventy five degrees. 108 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:12.360 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 109 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:16.000 Life Sign Studios on WBZ News Radio. 110 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:19.079 We're back here on Nights Side. I'm Morgan filling in 111 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:22.560 for Dan. My guest this hour, teacher Terry. I've had 112 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:25.480 her on many a time, talked about issues that are 113 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:28.040 pertinent to those of you who are parents whose kids 114 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:30.560 are in elementary. 115 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:37.480 School age schools. And in my day, I went. 116 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.559 To the Boston Public school system, and in my school 117 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:44.600 the C. C. Perkins School, and the building is still 118 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:48.000 in existence on Saint Petol Street, but it's long since 119 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:54.759 been converted into condos. The school gave us eight crayons, 120 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:07.679 and boy, I mean they were thick. Orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, 121 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:10.679 and black. Those are the colors in the A crayon box. 122 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:14.480 They gave us a pencil. I don't know if they 123 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:16.720 were number two pencils. They were a bit thicker than 124 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:23.480 the standard slender number two pencils. And they gave us 125 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:29.480 a ruler. I think those days are gone. What do 126 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:35.480 they give kids from the school department now? And what 127 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:41.879 sort of implements should mom and dad purchase for their children. 128 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:48.200 Well, those will change from grade to grade, and they 129 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:54.279 will change from school to school. Oftentimes, if you're in 130 00:09:54.320 --> 00:10:00.639 a more urban district, most of your supplies will be covered. 131 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.399 They will be taken care of by the district. They 132 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:08.960 do all of the notebooks, whether they're composition books or 133 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:12.960 spiral bound, They do folders. All of those things are 134 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:15.519 ready for the students on the first day of school, 135 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:20.600 and they also do crayons, whether they do typically they 136 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:25.919 will do a sixteen or twenty four box of crayons. 137 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:31.480 They will have at least two pencils per students an eraser. 138 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:36.159 They don't give out rulers until typically I'm talking about 139 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.519 most of the school districts that do give out the supplies, 140 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:42.279 they won't give out rulers until it comes time for 141 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:48.120 measurement in math class because rulers can be used in 142 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:51.080 ways other than measuring things. As I'm sure you. 143 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:53.879 Know, is that your tactful way of saying that some 144 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:56.240 students might actually use them. 145 00:10:57.799 --> 00:10:58.960 To strike each other. 146 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:03.879 They might, They never can tell, they just might, So 147 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:07.639 to resist that temptation, we usually wait until later in 148 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:12.279 the year when we're actually studying measurement. Some school districts 149 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:17.320 will send out a list and say please get five folders, 150 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:22.720 three notebooks, pack of pencils, but they'll give you a 151 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:28.240 list of things that your child will need throughout the 152 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:33.519 school year. Frequently, the reason for doing different notebooks is 153 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:38.399 to help students be able to keep their things organized 154 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.919 a little bit better. They will have a notebook for math, 155 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.000 they will have a notebook for reading, they will have 156 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:49.639 a notebook for writing. So depending on the school district, 157 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:52.879 they will ask a variety of different things, and frequently 158 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:57.960 they will ask that the notebooks be different colors because 159 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:02.279 that helps students differentiate quickly. Oh, I used yellow for mouth, 160 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:05.639 so those are. 161 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:08.000 Go ahead, go ahead. 162 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:13.919 Those are things that are typical that they will I'm 163 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:15.360 so sorry. 164 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:18.320 My dog show, my dog and cat show is going 165 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:19.879 to be on Wednesday. 166 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:26.840 Okay, okay, Oh dear, I was just sitting here very quietly, 167 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:29.120 and I had one dog jump up on my lap 168 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:30.720 and the other one said no, you may not sit 169 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:34.120 on her lap, and chaos and sued. So I'm very 170 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:42.240 sorry for that interruption. Like you said, things so when 171 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:44.600 I always go exactly the way you expect them. 172 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:48.600 To, precisely, precisely, so you. 173 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:52.919 Will frequently get something from uh, your school district that 174 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:57.639 will say, please provide your your student with these things. 175 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:02.279 And a backpack or something for them to carry their 176 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:06.759 items to and from school is certainly one of those 177 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:13.399 things that everyone should have some type of carry carrying 178 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:17.600 space to be able to take too in from And 179 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:21.360 the smaller the back, the smaller the child, the smaller 180 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:27.000 the bag because they need to carry it, so being 181 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:31.240 careful not to. Well, they liked this really big bag, yes, 182 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:33.559 but now that they put all of their things in there, 183 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:37.759 if they can't cary it, it's too heavy. So those 184 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:42.799 are some big things. If you're still working on teaching 185 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:45.799 your child to tie their shoes, please don't send them 186 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:51.639 to school with tie shoes. Send them with velcro or 187 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:56.799 just slip on shoes, because tying shoes all day long 188 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:00.600 is not really the best use of of time. 189 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:11.399 A teacher's time multiplied twenty four untied chew pairs exactly, Yeah, yeah, exactly. 190 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:18.320 I remember, And I am sorry I'm using me as 191 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:22.799 a barometer, but I remember. I had a gun smoke 192 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:26.120 lunch box when I was in the second grade. When 193 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:28.799 I was in the third grade. I had a Disney 194 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:33.600 school bus lunch box when I was in the fourth grade. 195 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:36.080 I mean you see where I'm going with this. Yes, 196 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.960 lunch boxes were the style. 197 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:46.720 In the sixties and the style and they also were 198 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:51.159 made of actual metal, yes, and again it were a 199 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:53.279 heavy metal And. 200 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:59.320 The theory of rulers can be applicable here because sometimes 201 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:05.399 you might, as a child, use that as a weapon. 202 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:08.440 I'm not gonna pus mind with words and one I'm 203 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:13.039 just gonna be blunt and direct. Kids use them as 204 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:17.960 a weapon in my day, not every kid. But I've 205 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:25.960 noticed that backpacks all have a brand, an identifiable character 206 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:30.919 or characters, whether it's Pokemon, a Hello Kitty, and me 207 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:36.279 by saying those two brands, I've already dated myself because 208 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:41.679 a second grade child or a third grade child would 209 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:45.519 not be caught dead in the fall of twenty twenty 210 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:48.759 four with a Hello Kitty backpack. 211 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:55.000 But whatever, you're wrong, wrong, it's still Kitty, just keeps 212 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:57.279 coming back around and around and around. 213 00:15:57.480 --> 00:15:59.919 Okay, give me some other dames. 214 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:06.519 Oh, there will be some. There will be just some 215 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:10.200 animal ones. So you'll get things like sharks. You'll get dinosaurs. 216 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:17.799 Sharks are huge. You will get Oh my with my 217 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:23.200 mind is you'll get You'll get Bluey you. Yeah, you'll 218 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:27.440 get you know, some of the different characters that that 219 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:33.559 are out now and trying to think, what's. 220 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:35.799 The other one with with puppy dogs. 221 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:45.720 Oh, paw patrol, Paw patrol. Yes, yes, yes, Paul patrol, 222 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:47.799 Paw patrol. You will get some of those. 223 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:51.919 Depends on the age dominant for the past five years 224 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:52.159 or so. 225 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:58.600 Absolutely all right, so, and you'll get some that are 226 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:03.919 just their favorite color, and you will get some that 227 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:09.200 are you know, Pokemon is still around because of Pokemon Go. 228 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:17.079 But is there are just I've seen dragons, I've seen kitties. Hello, 229 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:24.880 kitty is still bid? Yeah, there any number of them. 230 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:29.160 I'm sure that if I talk to a parent, they'll say, oh, yeah, no, 231 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:31.680 mine has been watching this all summer and that's the 232 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:40.880 only thing they wanted choose you. I'm sorry, Yeah, yes, indeed, 233 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:47.759 I know that definitely a backpack and you know, multi 234 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:52.680 colored notebooks kind of thing, multi colored folders as well. 235 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:54.799 If you can get a notebook to match a folder, 236 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:57.440 your golden well. 237 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:02.720 I know, in my era and now, you do not 238 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:06.119 want to be the kid that's the odd ball by 239 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:11.920 having something that's out of vogue, by having something that 240 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:15.640 was in maybe two, three, four years ago but it's 241 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:18.839 not in now, because you're stuck with that for the 242 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.279 whole year. True. 243 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:28.799 True, I will say that I don't see as much 244 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:34.759 of that in the younger grades because they all still 245 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:40.519 like all the you know, the fun right, Like I 246 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:44.960 have kids who I'm so dated that my kids were 247 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:47.799 little when rug Rats was big. Okay, and I have 248 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.039 kids who I have kids who wear rug Rats T 249 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:54.039 shirts to school. I might you guys are still watching. 250 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:56.519 That Everything Old is New again. 251 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:59.839 Everything old is new again. So I'm eating. 252 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:02.799 Stop you here so I can take my bottom of 253 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:07.000 the hour break. I'll invite people to join our conversation 254 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.799 with the phone number here on night side six one, seven, two, five, 255 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:14.000 four ten thirty or eight eight, eight nine to nine 256 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:14.680 ten thirty. 257 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:16.240 This is teacher Terry. 258 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:20.200 I've used her for years for this subject, anything to 259 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:24.839 do with school or back to school or specific circumstances. 260 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:29.440 I've called her to come on and help my conversation. 261 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:32.400 If you want to join this conversation, I just gave 262 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:35.759 you the phone numbers, so that's basically about it. Let 263 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:38.400 me take a break here on night Side. Give you 264 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:43.400 time and temperature nine thirty seventy five degrees. 265 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:53.000 It's night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio. 266 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:02.599 We're back, everybody. I'm Morgan is night Side. Dan Ray 267 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:07.519 is off. He's off for the whole week, so he 268 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:10.799 should be back next week August twelfth. 269 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:12.279 We'll see. 270 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:16.640 Hopefully I will be here Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Ben 271 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:18.400 Parker will be here tomorrow. 272 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:21.039 Ben. 273 00:20:21.079 --> 00:20:24.440 You hear him doing news here on BZ and I'm 274 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:27.240 sure Ben will have a strong show planned for you 275 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:36.279 and my show tonight, I started off with William Keck calmnesst. 276 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:42.480 He's been doing calms for entertainment tonight nationally inquire all 277 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:48.079 the publications people and they had a good hour with him. 278 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:52.359 Right now, I'm talking with teacher Terry. Now, Terry, are 279 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:56.359 there any other ancillary items and if you need to 280 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:03.480 make a separate classification for elementary versus junior high kids 281 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:09.480 versus high school kids, tell me suggestions on what the 282 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:12.359 items that you would like to purchase for your. 283 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:19.079 Children will be, depending on once again, depending on the 284 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:22.960 school district, there will be calculators that you will be 285 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:28.839 asked to get. Certainly for students who are taking higher 286 00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:33.799 math classes in high school, you may be asked to 287 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:40.079 purchase computers, depending on what the school district itself has 288 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:46.599 as a computer policy. Frequently, I know in Springfield parents 289 00:21:46.599 --> 00:21:50.400 are not asked to purchase computers. The city purchases computers 290 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:58.519 for the students and they get one in first grade 291 00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:02.920 and have it straight until they graduate from high school. 292 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:08.200 And obviously there are updates made and it's a computer breaks, 293 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:10.720 so you get a new computer and all kinds of 294 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:15.240 other things that are added to that. But I think 295 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:17.880 one of the most important things isn't actually what you 296 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:22.519 buy your students. I think one of the most important 297 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:27.559 things that you can do is two of the most 298 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:30.599 important things. One is please make sure they go to 299 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:36.880 bed at a reasonable hour at night. Having an elementary 300 00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:41.000 student stay up until eleven o'clock when their older brother 301 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:46.240 goes to bed isn't really helpful for the students. They 302 00:22:46.319 --> 00:22:50.880 need to have enough sleep so that they are awake 303 00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:55.359 and ready to learn at seven o'clock in the morning 304 00:22:55.680 --> 00:23:02.559 or whatever time they go into school. Secondarily, if you 305 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:08.119 are bringing the student to school, please bring them on time, 306 00:23:09.799 --> 00:23:13.200 because if you get into a pattern from the beginning 307 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:15.920 of the year of coming five minutes late, then it 308 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:19.519 becomes ten minutes late. Then pretty soon they're missing the 309 00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:24.279 first hour of school and that learning time doesn't come 310 00:23:24.319 --> 00:23:27.279 back to them. So if they're starting out with maths, 311 00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:31.079 they may have missed the entire math time and it 312 00:23:31.119 --> 00:23:34.599 will certainly affect their learning. And I don't say it 313 00:23:34.599 --> 00:23:38.440 will affect their grade. It will affect their learning because 314 00:23:39.319 --> 00:23:44.000 the grade is based on what they have learned. So 315 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:52.079 if you are dedicated to your child learning and doing 316 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:54.920 the best they can do, two of the best things 317 00:23:54.960 --> 00:23:59.680 that you can do is one, give them an early bedtime, 318 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:03.519 whether that's eight o'clock or eight thirty. Some students I 319 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:06.400 know go to bed at seven point thirty. They have 320 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:08.599 to get up early in the morning as it is, 321 00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:12.480 and they have pretty full days. So let them sleep. 322 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:21.359 And secondarily, make sure that they're getting to school whenever 323 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:25.599 they can get to school, and that is, make sure 324 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:28.039 that they're there and they're there on time. 325 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:35.319 And to me, I'm peeking behind the curtain. Your teacher, 326 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:39.319 you've done this for decades. I'm not going to put 327 00:24:39.319 --> 00:24:45.640 a specific year on your experience, but you've seen let's 328 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:50.480 do it future tens. Come September. You will see the 329 00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:56.000 kids who didn't give enough sleep last night. You will 330 00:24:56.039 --> 00:25:00.839 see the kids who do to any number of reasons, 331 00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:06.400 mom and dad or grandparents or whomever, they're supposed to 332 00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:11.559 be in the seats by eight o'clock and they don't 333 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:15.880 get to school till eight ten, eight point fifteen, and 334 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:19.799 every now and then, yeah, okay, it happens, but multiply 335 00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:25.079 that times twenty four kids in a classroom, there's supposed 336 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:28.759 to be twenty four kids by eight o'clock and they're nineteen. 337 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:33.160 That means there are four or five or six kids 338 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:34.960 that for whatever reason. 339 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:39.000 You're late. Make it up. 340 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:42.480 On the other end, leave the house five or ten 341 00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:46.960 minutes earlier than you usually do, and that'll correct that. 342 00:25:47.720 --> 00:25:50.799 Put you in a bed at seven point thirty quarter 343 00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:51.839 of eight eight o'clock. 344 00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:57.880 Yes, and get into a routine, because it will help 345 00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:00.319 them to be on time. It will help help you 346 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:04.200 to be on time. Have a routine, Have the same 347 00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:08.640 thing that you're doing over and over so that it's 348 00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:12.200 the habit. We have the habit. We're going to school. 349 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:16.880 We have the habit where we leave now, put the 350 00:26:16.920 --> 00:26:19.680 clothes out the night before, Do whatever you need to 351 00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:24.359 do to help yourself to make it easier. Because when 352 00:26:24.759 --> 00:26:29.839 things are done by routine, children know what to expect 353 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:32.839 and they move along much more easily. When oh it 354 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:35.240 could be like this today or that tomorrow, or oh 355 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:38.960 well we have this going on, and so you know, 356 00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:42.079 I want to go grocery shopping today, so I'm not 357 00:26:42.119 --> 00:26:43.759 going to be able to pick you up on time. 358 00:26:43.920 --> 00:26:45.680 So I'm not even going to take you to school. 359 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:50.640 You know, those are just not they're not helpful in 360 00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:57.559 the learning of anyone. And you just use anyone. 361 00:26:57.759 --> 00:27:04.079 You use the five letter word learn, learn, And that's 362 00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:10.279 why we put them in a classroom. Yes, so they 363 00:27:10.279 --> 00:27:18.799 can learn math, so they can learn English, grammar, history, geography. 364 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:26.359 And believe me, it's not easy. I mean when you're six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 365 00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:32.279 twelve years old and all of those things are taught 366 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:36.240 over four or five six hours of a school day. 367 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:41.519 I remember going through it wasn't easy, but I achieved. 368 00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:42.119 I did it. 369 00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:51.400 Your kids can do it with your help, Marmy daddy, grandparents, Yes, 370 00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:52.359 with your help. 371 00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:58.519 Yes. Support you know, be supportive of yours of your child, 372 00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:04.480 and be supportive of a good learning environment. So that 373 00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:07.640 means that you make sure that you are there on 374 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:10.839 you know your child is there on time. You're there 375 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:13.799 on time to pick them up. You know, all of 376 00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:18.359 those things. When the teacher calls and asks for conferences, please, 377 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:21.640 she wants to brag on the kids and say these 378 00:28:21.640 --> 00:28:24.680 are the things that they've learned so far, and these 379 00:28:24.680 --> 00:28:26.519 are areas that they need a little more help. 380 00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:33.119 All right now, about a minute away from another break. 381 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:39.400 I know you focus on elementary age kids, but you 382 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:43.039 can comment on junior high age kids. You can comment 383 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:48.400 on high school age kids and their needs. Although maybe 384 00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:51.680 a bit different when you compare them to their younger 385 00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:58.680 brother and sister, there's still things that if you achieve. 386 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:00.599 It, it makes. 387 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:06.480 Their school day, school week, school months, school year go 388 00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:10.240 by with a lot more smoothness. 389 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:13.400 And let me come back, let you and I talk 390 00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:13.920 about that. 391 00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:17.880 And I've only got terry to the top of the hour, 392 00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:21.359 So if you want to call in and let us 393 00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:26.759 know what your specific perspective happens to be on this subject. 394 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:31.599 Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine, 395 00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:35.039 ten thirty. This is Nightside, Dan's off for the week. 396 00:29:35.079 --> 00:29:39.200 I am here tonight. My name Morgan White Junior. I 397 00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:44.839 welcome you to join us here at Nightside time and 398 00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:49.119 temperature nine forty five seventy five degrees. 399 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:54.480 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 400 00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:57.720 night Side Studios on WBZ Teams Radio. 401 00:29:58.079 --> 00:30:00.920