This kid? She’s awesome.
This is my granddaughter. She’s in the first grade and is lucky enough to go to a school that still teaches art. She’s pointing to a piece of art done by one of her classmates and saying, “It looks like Ansel Adams.”
See what I mean? She’s awesome.
Posted on May 15, 2014, in Photography and tagged melinda green harvey, one day one image, photography. Bookmark the permalink. 12 Comments.
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That’s pretty cool! If our grandchildren get music and art in their school, that is special..
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She’s lucky to get to go to a school that’s academically challenging and also emphasizes the arts. It’s too bad not all kids have that kind of opportunity.
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Hi Melinda! Not any more..They have eliminated a lot of the fun stuff. I had a wonderful elementary teacher. I think it was fifth grade. She introduced us to classical music and art. We went to the Huntington art gallery for a field trip and we would listen to the Nutcracker Suite and other kinds of classical music. I am forever thankful for that experience.
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My sixth grade teacher, Mr. Landers, was my best teacher; he was good about letting the items that sparked our interest become the day’s topic, but somehow managed to teach us the things we were supposed to learn. It sounds trite, I think, but he made it fun to learn. He taught us to play chess, and to tie neckties (even the girls), and was gently encouraging always.
Here in Texas, in public schools, everything hinges on that standardized tests, and teachers have certain, precise things they are supposed to teach every day. It’s depressing to hear about it, and I am sure depressing to have to be a student in those classes, where “learning” has degenerated to learning a bunch of stuff that’s going to be on a test. I’ll bet Mr. Landers would hate it.
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Haha, thats some education!
Greetings, Ron
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Earlier in the year, the kindergarten kids studied Salvador Dali….
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She is adorable, Melinda!
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Thanks, Lisa. I am rather fond of her….
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Good bloodlines will tell….
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She looks like her mom, but has her dad’s personality.
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It is very depressing to hear about the downfall of the education system in your area. It bodes ill for the futures of average children that get subjected to the mindless performance test model. One of the reasons we left the UK in the late 80s was that we could not afford a private school in London where the kids of most of our friends would be going, and the state funded school system was more miss than hit from what we could tell. There is an increasing push in this part of the world towards standardized testing and performance based funding which as the comments here suggest allows little room for the best teachers to teach well.
Regardless of all that, I am glad to see a picture of your granddaughter – she looks wonderfully self assured and sounds well educated in things visual 🙂
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Everything in public school here is geared toward The Test, which drains the fun out of learning and, on top of that, doesn’t even prove anything (in my opinion).
She IS very self-assured; I am a recovering shy person, so I am sort of amazed by the kinds of things she does.
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