Does Miss Caroline's Teaching Method Correct?

        What we have read today is about Scout and her first day at school. As we all know, Scout lives in a tired, old town in Alabama, one of the Deep South, during the Great Depression so the education is kind of low. Most of the people live here is poor, uneducated. There are no kindergartens in the city so every student will learn the alphabet in first grade. In Scout's class, almost everyone not pass the class last year, it means that students don't usually go to school, they have to stay at home and help their parents. Because of that, almost all students in Scout's class know what is the alphabet and how to read it. For a new student like Scout, know how to read the alphabet is very good. Normally, teachers will praise Scout because they have a smart student in class but Miss Caroline is different, by somehow, she doesn't like it.

        When Miss Caroline knows that Scout know how to read, she says Scout to tell her father not to teach her any more, it would interfere with her reading. Scout says that she knows how to read when she was young, no one taught her, it just came to her. Miss Caroline thinks that it's just a joke, she says that Scout's father doesn't know how to teach. Jem says that Miss Caroline will try a new way she learned in college to teach everyone, it's the Dewey Decimal System." Scout doesn't like the new way very much, she feels bored and begins a letter to Dill. Miss Caroline sees Scout writing and tells Scout to tell her father to stop teaching her.

        For me, know how to read is very good. during the Great Depression, many children don't have change to go to school so that they don't know how to read and write. The way Miss Caroline teaches the students is not right, she can't just make everyone listen to her. Teacher is a person that always care about students, always cheering, encouraging students. If I am Miss Caroline, I will praise Scout that she is a good, smart student. I also can help her to understand more about what she does not know.