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Muggie Maggie-A rant

Muggie Maggie- a book where everyone is obsessed with a 3rd grader who refuses to write cursive and is treated like crap by everyone; her parents, her father's secretary and her teacher.

Things that bugged me about this book-

1. Unless she is willing to write cursive and go along with her parents, they say she is contrary and misbehaves!- uh no.. The outrage over her not wanting to write cursive bugged me. Its like the world will come to and end if she won't do it.

2. Her father's secretary sucks- she sends Maggie a ball point pen and Maggie writes her a thank you letter back. Good enough, right? WRONG! The secretary sends a sarcastic note back that makes maggie cry because one word is misspelled- luckily her dad is sort of sympathetic, but not by much.

3. Her teacher spends her time sending her out of the room with messages to other teachers so she will learn cursive and lo and behold, she does..
This part was actually cool.. After the 2nd day or so of bringing messages to other teachers, she practiced writing cursive and found herself reading what was on the blackboard and in the end, everything is good...

Now my rant- I can get trying to motivate her, but it should not of been the business of the class. Especially when the kids start teasing her and the teacher allows it. It pissed me off that she had to involve the whole class with all the messages...

Try something called confidentiality... Talk to her after school and not make a mountain out of a molehill. Maggie does try to write in class, but because it wasn't the way her teacher wanted, she was being contrary... Omfg... That is when you encourage her to keep trying and help her! Not call her parents and and act like she committed a felony in your class.

The parents weren't much better..they get wayy too worked up and pissed over something minor, that in time she would of picked up. If they acted like this with cursive, just imagine if she was having trouble in math and couldn't perform like the others.. What would they of done then?

Finally, she is not contrary if she isn't perfectly performing. Maybe instead of complaining, you should try talking to her! I hate how these books expect the kids to be perfect and don't allow them to be kids..

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