illness related absences
When I was 15, I had AN ORGAN REMOVED and my mother refused the extension my English teacher offered for my term paper. "It's due Friday. If she hasn't done it yet, she's in trouble."
I hadn't and I got my ass KICKED.
Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?
Spike ,'Help'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Aims - Nov 17, 2005 2:57:09 pm PST #5365 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Aims - Nov 17, 2005 2:58:32 pm PST #5366 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
cum finals in Spanish
Do they go to the SPP School for the Pervy?
DawnK - Nov 17, 2005 3:00:06 pm PST #5367 of 10003
giraffe mode
Um yeah, SPP's School for Pervy girls... man that's an embarassing typo!
Emily - Nov 17, 2005 3:01:14 pm PST #5368 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
When I was 15, I had AN ORGAN REMOVED and my mother refused the extension my English teacher offered for my term paper. "It's due Friday. If she hasn't done it yet, she's in trouble."
This is perhaps going just a teensy bit too far in the other direction. Maybe?
Aims - Nov 17, 2005 3:01:18 pm PST #5369 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It explains KBug's fascination with Nawty Worm.
Aims - Nov 17, 2005 3:02:22 pm PST #5370 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
This is perhaps going just a teensy bit too far in the other direction. Maybe?
Not really. This was my habit. Last minute girl. I was given the specs for the term paper in January. I had the surgery in May.
Anne W. - Nov 17, 2005 3:02:46 pm PST #5371 of 10003
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Being told that no teacher in the school can give a cumulative final exam because it's "too difficult" for the students to remember the beginning of the year...while simultaneously also decreeing that teachers are not allowed to give midterm exams because they are "too stressful", for example.
The hell?
What are the parents going to do when the kid grows up? Go to the kid's boss and say, "it's not fair to expect little Bratleigh to have month-end figures for you every month--it's too stressful."
dw - Nov 17, 2005 3:05:23 pm PST #5372 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
Lot of public school teachers here. Just saying.
I know. YMMV with schools and teachers. I'm just being a parent who will be annoying involved in his daughter's education. Unless Annabel turns out to be a super-prodigy who gets her PhD in physics at 9, she's going into Seattle Schools.
And I, honestly, was the product of some really terrible public schooling. I had 2-3 teachers in high school who gave a rat's ass about me or about education. The rest were too busy getting drunk or writing out detention slips or planning on their retirement to teach.
Emily - Nov 17, 2005 3:05:40 pm PST #5373 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Yet the very process of application to select colleges undermines both the goal of education and the inherent strengths of young people. "It makes kids sneaky," says Anderegg. Bending rules and calling in favors to give one's kid a competitive edge is morally corrosive.
Got a point there. Though not what I'd call a new problem.
Atropa - Nov 17, 2005 3:12:34 pm PST #5374 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
wobbles in
Thanks for the birthday wishes and ~ma, gang! I'm still kind of fuzzy-headed, but I suspect that is due more to the 4 hours of sleep I got last night instead of the drugs.