Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h9NHbvV23038; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:37:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:37:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <000001c3998c$637f8ac0$1a01a8c0@cccchs.org> Errors-To: listowner@nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Sylvan Rainwater" <sylvan@cccchs.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2762] RE: needs of younger students X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 2390 Lines: 50 I don't know yet if we will be able to include physical activities. Sometimes in PACT time for the older (4s) kids, the moms ask the teacher if they can race and have the kids cheer them on instead. He says, sure, why not, and they love it. But they originally said they wanted to play volleyball or something similar. Then the interest turned to dance (and my co-teacher is a dance instructor) -- only problem is that our classrooms are carpeted, not the ideal floor for dancing. Then a woman came to class with bruises, domestic violence became an issue, and they said they wanted self-defense. This sounds like a good idea, though I'm not sure what's available in the area in Spanish. So I'm still trying to figure out what the best solution might be here. It's an interesting puzzle. Time, space, and personnel are the same old issues here. As for teen moms stuck at home, I know there are a lot of teen moms especially in the Hispanic community who simply fall through the cracks. We have one mom this year whose family moved to this country when she was very young, who *never* attended school. I have known of others (the daughter of a 31-year-old grandmother, for example) who dropped out of school (and may or may not be tracked by the school district) and are watching their own child(ren) and possibly those of their mother, aunts and uncles, etc., during the day so the others can work. It would be great to do some sort of outreach project to try to find those moms. I think it wouldn't be that hard for us at this point, because we're already known in that community, but we're maxed out in our program at the moment, and would need to find collaborators of some sort to provide funding and staffing. We could actually come up with space, I think, and obviously expertise. ------- Sylvan Rainwater mailto:sylvan@cccchs.org Program Managaer Family Literacy Clackamas Co. Children's Commission / Head Start Oregon City, OR USA -----Original Message----- From: nifl-womenlit@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-womenlit@nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Daphne Greenberg Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 4:20 PM <SNIP> You raise interesting points. - Are you able to include physical activities for your younger students who want it? - It would be fascinating to do a study to see what happens to those teen moms who are stuck at home and don't attend adult literacy programs later in life.
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