Kits PAC - Parent
Resources
BCCPAC Parent - Teacher interview
advice
Reference
materials for PAC and all parents are located in the Kits school
library on
the PAC shelf
Check the PAC
Related Scheduled Events for parent
information evenings for parents of particular grades.
Also see Kits PAC
Links of
General Interest to Parents
If parents have
questions, Kits
Counseling may be able to help.
VSB's Advice for
Parents http://www.vsb.bc.ca/parentsfamilies/Adviceforparent/default.htm
Some students
are recommended by teachers to apply for Link Crew - a leadership
course where older students help grade 8 students adjust to high
school. Link can be done on or off timetable.
English stream and French
immersion stream secondary students have the option to take some of
their
courses as AP, to qualify for advanced placement at University.
http://www.collegeboard.org
Students who
participate in school extracurricular activities (ie. sports
team, musical, choir, band, club) learn good things, make
friends, and feel a part of the school community in a beneficial way.
Online courses available to British Columbia Secondary students (free
tutoring also available):
http://www.LearnNowBC.ca
From
Warwick University
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/harrison/advice/teenagers/
The problem with
young people is that they are young.
§
"The young people of today think of nothing but
themselves.
They have no reverence [respect] for their parents or old age. They are
impatient of all restraint; They talk as if they alone know everything
and what
passes for wisdom in us foolishness in them. As for the girls, they are
foolish
and immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress" (Peter the
Hermit, eleventh century AD).
§
"Our young men have grown slothful. There is not a single
honourable occupation for which they will toil night and day. They sing
and
dance and grow effeminate and curl their hair and learn womanish tricks
of
speech; They are as languid as women and deck themselves out with
unbecoming ornaments.
Without strength, without energy, they add nothing during life to the
gifts
with which they were born - then they complain of their lot" (Seneca,
first century AD).
§
"The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for
elders and love chatter in places of exercise. Children are tyrants,
not the
servants of their households. They no longer rise when their elders
enter the
room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up
dainties
[food] at the table, cross their legs and tyrannize their teachers"
(Socrates, fourth century BC)
"I see no hope
for the future of our people if they are dependent
on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless
beyond
words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful
of
elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and
impatient of restraint" (Hesiod, eighth century BC).
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