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With regard to the presence of children in the house, there is one final "economic" argument which Mr. Heller fails to acknowledge, which is that the children do make a positive contribution here. Although Mr. Heller may find it incomprehensible, some people actually like children for their own sake, and consider it desirable simply to have some around. There are such students in Winthrop House and they have befriended my children...
...understand that some students do not like children. Mr. Heller's brief but insulting comments about my children's behavior in the dining hall indicate to me that even if he could be convinced that my children were not costing him anything or crowding him, he would still just rather not have them around. I assume that Mr. Heller recognizes that we are doing what we can to teach our children good manners, but that as they are one and three years old they will from time to time still "screech" in public...
...never expected the students in Winthrop House to love our sticky, trouble some children the way we do. However, I did, at least until the last few weeks, believe that we could rely on their having an attitude of kindly tolerance toward them. I wonder if Mr. Heller and those students who would simply prefer not to have children around could try to view the ordeal of having small children in the dining hall as one of life's little lessons in learning to live alongside those whom they dislike...
Although such an effort may prove daunting to someone like Mr. Heller, he could look on the new experience of cultivating an attitude of tolerance as yet another benefit of having children in the house...
...mean to suggest that the tutorial staff of Winthrop House is perfect and could not improve, that the staff is not open to criticism, or even that the staff should not be reduced. However, it seems doubtful that Mr. Heller's insulting, public my child throwing up on him (which unfortunately my child has never done), represents an honest effort to persuade anyone to change things. M. Page Keller Resident Affiliate Winthrop House