'Shindig'
[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.
On the way home I had to run to the drugstore, so I ended up at the U District Walgreens. (I intended to go to Bartells but the U Bookstore 20% off for faculty/staff/students sale was well underway, but moving on.)
And there, I saw the Alternative Reality Family Zmayhem.
I mean, it was scary. They were in their late-20s and had a 6yo boy, only a brunette. He wasn't quite a dead ringer for Emmett, but man the David and JZ doppelgangers were very doppel.
I really want to put together a scholarship for kids that " don't work up to thier potential" - to do something a little more advetureous ( academically) then might be suggested by their grades
Didn't David Letterman give a scholarship for a "C" student at his alma mater? (Ball State, I think?)
Whoa. I have to admit, some of the public school teacher bashing I'm seeing in here is really upsetting. As a public school teacher who is sitting in a desk at her school at 8:00 PM, waiting for parent conferences to end, after I've been at school since 6:30 PM to see a lumping of PS teachers as incompetent or not giving a rat's ass about students is maddening.
As far as pushing and prodding go, I'm sure Annabel will be pushed just fine even if she has teachers who aren't exactly what you intended.
I have 150 students, 110 of whom turned in papers that I spent over 10 hours last weekend grading. It's insulting to me and my profession to imply we're a bunch of people just waiting until retirement or for vacation.
I felt the same way every time I've been in the hospital -- I value my doctors, but the nurses are out there on the front line, so to speak, and they've got a tough gig.
WORD. I have a teacher for a mother and a nurse for an aunt, and I have so much respect for their professions, I can't even tell you. I was (almost) always amazingly polite to my teachers (we'll talk about the Physics teacher later, but she was a nutcase), and I am unfailingly polite to my nurses (I think. I may have been overly chatty and insistent to drink water when I was coming out of sedation).
Um, hi. Been drinking champagne and packing. Whee......
What so many parents (and people) don't get, is that more than 50% of a person's education is dependent upon the person themselves. I am damned smart and intelligent to boot. A lot moreso that people think. But I was lazy. I chose to slack off in school. I wasn't bored because I was too smart and nothing challenged me; I plain couldn't be bothered. I used to bitch about how bad my school was, but in truth, I was a horrible student. I chose not to take advantage of what my school had to offer. I took the path of least resistance and now, I'm paying for it. I'm 31 years old and I haven't the slightest clue as to how to write a college level paper. That's my fault. My teachers, with the exception of one, tried. And tried hard. My parents tried to get me to learn - I come from a family of educators. I didn't want to. That was me. And most of the students whose parents go above a teachers head for a grade, are the parents of kids like me, I reckon. They know their kid doesn't want to try, they just argue and argue and argue until their kid gets the grade the parents THINK the child should get.
Was I capable of all A's? Yep. But did my parents go in and fight with the teachers? No. Just because I was capable, didn't mean I deserved it. I was not entitled to high grades just because I was smart.
And as for teachers today being different, they are WAY different than they were when I was in school 15 years ago. Education of teachers is so different from when my teachers were trained. As Kristin points out, there is so much more emphasis on HOW to teach something. Not, "Good you can do this. Now go teach it."
My MiL blames a lot of my BiL's grades and school performance on his teachers. It drives me crazy. The kid missed 45+ days of school last year. Due to some mysterious illness that he didn't need to be hospitalized for. Gimme a fucking break. That's him being a slacker and her not taking more of an active role in making sure HE did what was HIS responsibility.
Kids have a job. To go to school and be the best students they can be and learn as much as they can. To me, parents who fight for kids that DON'T work is the same thing as letting your child cheat or doing their work for them.
Whoa. I have to admit, some of the public school teacher bashing I'm seeing in here is really upsetting. As a public school teacher who is sitting in a desk at her school at 8:00 PM, waiting for parent conferences to end, after I've been at school since 6:30 PM to see a lumping of PS teachers as incompetent or not giving a rat's ass about students is maddening.
I am not bashing public school. Annabel is almost certainly going to go to public school.
But I had a terrible time in school. I got a bad education. I was relentlessly bullied all through school while the school administration and teachers continually washed their hands of all the bullying.
I don't have one of my front teeth because of this bullying.
I am NOT saying ANY teacher on this group is anything less than a million times better than Jaime Escalante. I am NOT saying that public school is BAD. But I had a VERY bad experience with Tulsa Public Schools between 1977 and 1990, save the two years I went to private school. (And I was bullied at private school too, but I was making a 3.8.)
And I don't want Annabel to have that awful experience, either, whether it's Seattle Schools or the ultra-posh private schools around here. So, I'm going to be a concerned parent and make sure she gets offered the best education she can possibly be offered, public or private. It's up to her whether she wants to take and use that education.
any chance its all snot now? and no more bwain?tilts head in puzzlement
Whoa. I have to admit, some of the public school teacher bashing I'm seeing in here is really upsetting.I can undertand that. I went to public schools and really had some of the most amazing teachers, a few I didn't work well with, and maybe one that was an outright waste of the credentials.
I don't think good teachers get nearly the recognition that they deserve. Though there were also a lot of bad toupees that should have been mentioned also.
Which is my brain slowed way of saying that the teachers I know on b.org are all amazing and very dedicated to actually teaching their students something and not just moving them through mindlessly.
It's not a Nawty worm!
Oh, and what Aimee said.
Um, hi. Been drinking champagne and packing. Whee...*cheers and good wishes* Bubble wine is my personal choice for memorable times, happy and sad. And sometimes it is just tasty.
It's not a Nawty worm!
It is, now.