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What really annoyed me is assignments where I had to ask parents about my developmental stages when I was an infant to school age, or to bring a baby picture to school. It got more annoying when every year my parents were contacting teachers about this for my younger adopted siblings, because they don't have access to people who knew them at those ages, and we found it pretty insensitive that a teacher would poke at a traumatic experience such as that. I am hoping this is all but done with.
What really annoyed me is assignments where I had to ask parents about my developmental stages when I was an infant to school age, or to bring a baby picture to school. It got more annoying when every year my parents were contacting teachers about this for my younger adopted siblings, because they don't have access to people who knew them at those ages, and we found it pretty insensitive that a teacher would poke at a traumatic experience such as that. I am hoping this is all but done with.
I have never made such an assignment, nor known of a colleague who did.
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I have never made such an assignment, nor known if a colleague who did.
The only class I could see it in might be Health as part of a growth unit or Child Development that has a preschool component as part of the class (like my former school had) to focus the students on what to expect from the Pre-K kids coming in.
I would maybe ask the kids as part of class discussion if they'd ever been told when they started to walk/talk/dress themselves/etc. when I did the human development unit in Psych. I'd tie those into the average vocabulary for 5 year olds or high schoolers or whatever.
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Our kindergarten does a thing where it's a child's special week, and they bring in a poster about themselves, including a baby photo, and photos of their family, pets, tell about their interests and hobbies. And they get special privileges during that week.
There was a little girl who was in foster care, who didn't have those things, and that was handled by making a poster of what she does now and I think she got to bring in a pet hamster or something.
I understand there are difficult paths some kids have to travel - one child had lost his big brother, so during the activity where you draw your family he was torn about whether to include the brother. It's hard.
But the pleasure all the kids - even the one in foster care - derives from being the "special" kid the whole week, IMHO, outweighs the fact that some kids have a different path they're traveling on than others. As long as it's handled in a positive, affirming way.
What really annoyed me is assignments where I had to ask parents about my developmental stages when I was an infant to school age, or to bring a baby picture to school. It got more annoying when every year my parents were contacting teachers about this for my younger adopted siblings, because they don't have access to people who knew them at those ages, and we found it pretty insensitive that a teacher would poke at a traumatic experience such as that. I am hoping this is all but done with.
We never saw any assignments like that, but when the kids were in elementary school and had a day where they were the student of the week, they made a poster that included different things about themselves (favorite movie, favorite book, birthday, etc.) In 4th grade when they graduated elementary school, they did bring in a baby picture and the kids and parents tried to guess which picture went with which student.
None of my kids or grandkids had to ask their parents about their growth and development though.
In health class in 7th grade, we were going through stages of development, and had to ask our parents about ours and bring a picture in from each stage. What irritated me back then was more that I was born in the late 80s, so it wasn't like we had digital files as digital cameras were brand new when I was in middle school, so we had to dig a bit through some old scrapbooks, and I didn't really like involving my parents in my school work if I was able to avoid it, because I was fairly independent. What I remember though is another student asking if they don't have any baby pictures what are they supposed to do, and the teacher said to just put a picture of another baby in and don't tell him it's not really them. The whole project was a joke, as I also didn't really want to be reminded of many of the traumatic moments of my past and have to write about them.
I have several adopted siblings who simply just didn't have access to that information, and were given assignments of autobiographies or asked to bring in baby pictures or something similar, and my parents had to regularly e-mail the teacher letting them know they can't do that assignment and that it wasn't very considerate to just assume that all students would be able to obtain that information.
We never saw any assignments like that, but when the kids were in elementary school and had a day where they were the student of the week, they made a poster that included different things about themselves (favorite movie, favorite book, birthday, etc.) In 4th grade when they graduated elementary school, they did bring in a baby picture and the kids and parents tried to guess which picture went with which student.
None of my kids or grandkids had to ask their parents about their growth and development though.
This was different because it was open ended, where they got to choose to bring in those or other items.
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