“A Tooty Ta, A Tooty Ta, A Tooty Ta-Ta”
SOUTH CAROLINA TAX DOLLARS HARD AT WORK …
FITSNews – June 26, 2008 – If this is the way South Carolina trains its teachers, no wonder our state is hopelessly fucked.
Seriously, what the hell are we spending our money on crap like this for? Listen to the video … because instead of learning “everyday math,” it sure sounds like they’re receiving instructions on how to take it “doggy-style.” Which is ironic because that’s what worthless programs like this do to South Carolina taxpayers every day.
Oh, and it’s also ironic because Sic says he would in fact “go there” with the redhead …
Seriously though, we might as well take the money we’re spending on public education here in South Carolina and burn it. Or wipe our asses with it. Or make pretend Kamikaze airplanes with it and fly them into house fires …Â because that would at least be entertaining and anything would be a better investment than what we’re currently getting.
Comments
By reggie on June 26th, 2008 at 7:46 am
wtf?
By veritas on June 26th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Is that a cult???????????? Anyway the brunette in the blue polo is much hotter than the Ashley Hall wannabe red head.
By Michael on June 26th, 2008 at 8:53 am
what if they are K teachers? I think I remember that annoying song being sung when I was a tot. funny how the traumatic stuff sticks in your bean.
By Girl Sailor on June 26th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Let’s not ignore the one, completely emasculated male participant
By Natasha on June 26th, 2008 at 9:21 am
OMG, how embarrassing. I think you’re right Michael.
My question is, wouldn’t a kindergardner know if his thumbs were up or down by the time he got to school or no?
By Toyota Kawesaki on June 26th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Is this any different the Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally?
By Not Sayin', Just Sayin' on June 26th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Good God, the “man” has not pride. The whole spectacle is nauseating. What a bottomless pit of tax dollar waste our public school system has become.
NSJS
PS – I am not typing this on a state-owned computer.
By StupidShouldHurtMore (SSHM) on June 26th, 2008 at 10:00 am
It’s official.
I am NOW embarrassed to say I’m a product of SC Public Schools. If you want everyday math, let me give you some everyday math:
Go take vector calculus, become a meteorologist, and save some lives through solid weather forecasting and modeling.
STUPID SHOULD HURT MORE (maybe as much as that F5 plowing through your house)!
- SSHM
By mikey g on June 26th, 2008 at 10:15 am
You cant fool me, that was a video of Gamecock cheerleader tryouts.
By elliefant on June 26th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Believe it or not, they’re probably getting graduate credit for this class.
By Pete on June 26th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Still more productive than some committee meetings at the House and Senate or even a meeting of the 5 justices of the SC Supreme Court exercising their “deliberate process.”
By Mike Honcho on June 26th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Please tell that gentleman in the video to return his man card to the South Carolina Department of Masucline Identity. Also, please notify Sic that his man status is under review regarding that sh*t he recently wrote about being married.
By fitsnews on June 26th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Mike-
Good points … Sic in fact just instructed us to post some boobies in response to the feedback from his “true love” treatise …
http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/06/26/good-news-for-boobies/
Of course given the undisputed hotness of Mrs. Sic Willie, it’s doubtful our favorite bad boy’s “man status” will be revoked anytime soon …
We’re girl-crushing on her already …
-FITSNews
By sid on June 26th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
I find it funny that there are several times when these “educators” can’t remember to follow the instructions to “echo,” and start chanting while the person on the recording is chanting.
By Reader on June 26th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
There’s not a whole lot of pencil pushing [i.e., LEARNING] in this particular peek into our educational wonderland, is there?
By Kelly on June 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Tooty-Ta-Ta is the origination of Dr. Jean Feldman, a national consultant who makes thousands of dollars each time she holds workshops (usually during teacher workdays in S.C. school districts. What a great way to spend taxpayer dollars, but you would be surprised at how much she rakes in.
She has a Web site, http://www.drjean.org/, and there you can buy your own Tooty-Ta-Ta apparel including t-shirts and underwear.
I’m not even kidding. This is ridiculous. Thanks for covering.
By J. on June 26th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
I have been attending the Summer Institute for Beaufort County teachers all week. My co-workers were in this video and had a great time. These are kindergarten teachers beginning a five day workshop, which they are attending during their summer vacation. The instructor, who happens to teach in the very well respected Lexington/Richland 5, is using a favorite kindergarten song to get the teachers ready to dive into their Everyday Mathematics training. What is wrong with that? Do you want to sit on your rear all day? Teachers are not used to sitting.
What you failed to mention was that this wonderful professional development opportunity offered teachers the opportunity for training in 6+1 Traits of Writing, differentiating instruction, science inquiry for all grade levels, and countless other areas. Where was that mentioned?
By Calhoun Fawls on June 27th, 2008 at 3:10 am
A good example of how those of us who really care about how the tax money is spent just forego this idea of tax credits pushed to us from New York, and get down to the hard work of reforming public education.
If this was some sort of course to teach kindy teachers a song to teach to their kids, it is still pretty weak. To make real reform in education, we have to roll up our sleeves and work on the reforming PUBLIC education, not sitting around hoping that Big Daddy from New York will get rid of it.
By Calhoun Fawls on June 27th, 2008 at 3:15 am
also I note, unlike sic, I like brunettes, the brunette int purple top and black long skirt would get calhoun’s much need attention.
By Calhoun Fawls on June 27th, 2008 at 3:17 am
much needed attention, damn that woman distracted me so. If only sic had some cleavage footage to offer!
By rick on June 27th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Knowing my kindergardener, this would bleed off some of the excess energy and enable her to more fully engage in learning. She wakes up full bore and hits afterburner at 630 am and runs full throttle all day until crash time at 2030. Anyone that can keep up with and bleed off the excess energy, keep her attention, and teach her important concepts has my vote. May not be my cup of coffee, but then again I’m still trying to understand those yellow footprints in a venerable resort, south of here called Parris Island.
By Make my kool-aid ORANGE on June 27th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Sure this isn’t an Excel or Heritage training session? Where’s the kool-aid?
By HR Pufnstuf on June 27th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Jesus H. Christ… This is effin ridiculous. The brainchild behind this idea needs to be taken behind the woodshed and put out of their misery.
By tooty on June 28th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Willie – as an apparent new baby “daddy” you will soon find that young kids enjoy moving, dancing and other such goofiness. These are a bunch of kindergarten teachers enjoying an age appropriate warm up to their training day. Will grant you that it’s an incredibly irritating song, but if you’d ever seen 20 five-year-olds laughing their happy little heads off as they tooty-ta’d you’d lighten up.
By Barbara on July 11th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Kids spend a lot of time sitting as they push their pencils. I use this song with first and second graders (they taught it to me) as we walk around the room to get some exercise. We also sing/move to several other songs because sometimes you’ve just got to get up and move so you work again.
If readers think this is “taxing”, I’ve sat in day long workshops in which the “expert” took away $5000.00 plus just to tell us over and over again about how important it is for a child to hear his/her name and to drink water during the day.
By Judy on July 15th, 2008 at 11:12 am
what the hell is wrong with you people! My son did this when he was in first grade and it was great! they all enjoyed it! When I worked at a day care I took it in and those kids loved it as well! What is the difference between this and say the hokie pokie? Maybe our country is so “f”ed up as you say because we refuse to see the humor in being a child.. try to enjoy your children and be silly sometimes and not so damn seriouslet our kids be kids and not mini adults and maybe we won’t breed kids that carry weapons to school and kill there classmates! Plus it doesn’t hurt to let lose and have fun with your kids.
By Tooty-Ta Teacher on July 16th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Oh, I have a message here. As a Kindergarten teacher for 15 years, I can tell you that the most important thing to learning is having fun at what you are learning. It is apparent that the criticisms here are coming from people who are very unhappy in life and yourself. It is very sad and I truly pity you all who have no sense of nonsense, humor, or a desire to see children having fun. Kindergarten is vital to life lessons’. If you have a hard time with Tooty-Ta you may want to go back to Kindergarten with Dr. Jean (songwriter, educator).
Children who are learning Tooty-Ta are also learning many other skills and “pencil pushing.” They have spirit, they have personality, they have courage, they have talent, they have desires to express themselves through music, they have strong verbal and communication skills. They will do exceptionally well in their lives because of wonderful teachers who open their minds and bodies to “nonsense” and whimsical music that gave them the confidence and self-esteem and to not worry about what people like you think who are closed minded without imagination.
By NIKKI(: on July 17th, 2008 at 11:02 am
i actually think this video is really funny, if MY teachers did somethig like this, i would be cracking up. you people need to learn how to take a joke.
By Taryn on November 16th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Seriously you people who are talking trash must not be teachers because if you walk into a pre-school class room and watch the student participate in this song they absolutly love it and have so much fun doing so before you decided to pop off on how lame this song is why dont u do some research on how it teaches them to use there fine motor skills and large motor skills so pardon my language but GO FUCK YOURSELF because you have no idea what your talking about.
By tooty ta advocate on January 29th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
I am absolutely shocked by the language on this page. When you were a child, did you enjoy just being silly sometimes? Did it make the adults more relatable to you when they sang silly songs, and did silly dances with you? If you related to an adult were you more likely to listen better to an adult that you enjoyed to be with. If this is so disgusting for you, why don’t you look at recess, maybe we should take recess away, what a waste of time. God forbid children should use their imaginations and build friendships. Think of what horrible disgusting people you are, you take time out of your useless lives to bash a school district for making learning fun. You are a waste of the tax payers money. Children should enjoy going to school. You people are lower then scum. Why don’t you sit at your desks, look up some porn, and keep out of the lives of children, you do NOT deserve them.
By larae and destiny on January 30th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
your fucking mom
By Janice Johnston on March 12th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
The money would have been better spent teaching the person that wrote this article that you do not end a sentence with a preposition. Too bad money can’t buy taste or class. I would like to buy the author some of each.
By Teresa on June 10th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I have a 7 year old and they used to sing this silly song in her kindergarten class, and the kids still love it. What is wrong with the teaching kids to enjoy life? How can the teachers teach this to their students if they don’t know how to do it theirselves? YOU are an idiot.
By rob menzel on August 31st, 2009 at 10:18 am
my daughter is started pre k .and she came home doing this tooty ta .i guess there teaching how to act like a retard .unbeleavable.
By Susan on November 17th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
what is wrong with you people. theres nothing wrong with kids learning from play. thats the best way for them to learn. Tooty Ta is a great song to sing with children. One – they love it and also for these reasons…….
*Social
-Singing creates positive feelings and a “classroom community.”
-Singing relieves stress and creates feelings of “well being.”
-Relationships between teachers and students are strengthened as they
enjoy something together.
-Children learn to listen and follow directions
Physical
-Singing and dancing oxygenate the brain.
-Singing is multi-sensory and improves gross motor skills and
coordination.
-Cross lateral activities force both sides of the brain to communicate.
Language
-Singing enhances phonological awareness, which is a key to beginning
reading.
-Alliteration, rhyme, and rhythm are developed in a natural way.
-Oral language and auditory memory are nurtured through songs and rhymes.
-Fluency is strengthened through repetition of the words.
-Children get to use their imaginations and create pictures in their
brains, which will help them with comprehension when they read.
Math
-Sequence and patterning skills are developed.
-When you give children a worksheet, they rarely say, “Can I do that
again?”
-With a song and movement activity, they will be motivated to “do it
again.”
-Every song, every poem, every finger play, every chant is building a
foundation for literacy. Above all, they put a smile on children’s
faces and help them fall in love with language!
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