Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts

How to handle a yelling coach

My son was nervous about his baseball coach. It was the first coach he had that would yell at the players. 

My son was worried the coach would yell at him.

I told my son the following story.

Ineffective communication: end school newsletters

After several years of my children attending government schooling I have experienced many types of communication, most of which are very ineffective. The school, it seems, receives feedback from parents requesting the school to communicate more so parents stay well informed. The school then proceeds to communicate ad abundantiam as if the school were participating in a court case where it was attempting to drown the opposing side with huge piles of documentation.

Each week I typically receive a newsletter for each of my children in school. This newsletter summarizes what was taught in the classroom that week. It is usually 2-3 pages long. It says things like “we worked on multiplying two digit numbers this week”, “we worked on identifying the noun and verb in a sentence..” and so on. Also sent home are monthly newsletters, of similar length, for art and music. In addition to these newsletters is a quarterly newsletter from the principal describing other activities occurring in school.

So much communicating? How could I not be happy?