And a kinky banana!
She growls?! You made her so she growls?!
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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.
SuziQ - Nov 17, 2005 6:21:00 pm PST #5439 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
dw - Nov 17, 2005 6:26:50 pm PST #5440 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
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.
Yeah. This.
Trudy Booth - Nov 17, 2005 6:27:47 pm PST #5441 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
tilts head in puzzlement
t waves something shiny
juliana - Nov 17, 2005 6:29:49 pm PST #5442 of 10003
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Bubble wine is my personal choice for memorable times, happy and sad. And sometimes it is just tasty.
All times, for me. I've got a bottle of '99 Dom, Mumm's, and Veuve. Which I have to move to SF. NYE, anyone?
Rick - Nov 17, 2005 6:32:01 pm PST #5443 of 10003
I'm just so sick of parents going "over my head" if they don't like the grade their son/daughter is getting.
I've started getting letters from family lawyers saying that they are "very concerned" that Joe Freshman wasn't graded fairly in my class and wouldn't I rather resolve this informally. I forward the letters to the University Counsel to add to her collection. The lawyers never pursue it, it's just a random stab at intimidation.
Lee - Nov 17, 2005 6:39:26 pm PST #5444 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
All times, for me. I've got a bottle of '99 Dom, Mumm's, and Veuve. Which I have to move to SF. NYE, anyone?
hmm.
erikaj - Nov 17, 2005 6:40:23 pm PST #5445 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
I can't imagine doing that and have, imo, had teachers be unfair to me because of The Chair Thing. But I felt like I could not prove it so set my attention to kicking ass in their classes instead. And I did, mostly, because "fuck you" always has been a strong motivator for me, if not my favorite.
Emily - Nov 17, 2005 6:41:17 pm PST #5446 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I've started getting letters from family lawyers saying that they are "very concerned" that Joe Freshman wasn't graded fairly in my class and wouldn't I rather resolve this informally.
Wow. Grade mafia.
SuziQ - Nov 17, 2005 6:44:22 pm PST #5447 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
NYE, anyone?
Ooooh yeah!
Kat - Nov 17, 2005 6:45:00 pm PST #5448 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Actually, I was thinking about this on the way home from work.
Parents should definitely learn how to advocate for their students in a way that makes the teacher not hate the kid. I'll admit that when a parent comes in with guns blazing at me, as has happened once this year, it actually doesn't do anything but squash my desire to help the kid.
So, if you want to advocate in a positive way for your child, go in without thinking that the teacher is an idiot, a person just costing until summer or whatever, because if you do, you will quite potentially turn that teacher against your kid which is the very opposite of your intent.
Dylan, I don't need you to apologize for offending me because that's not how I'm wired. What would be nice though would be an acknowledgement that what you said could be read as offensive. What I personally would like to see is less generalizing and less defensiveness when called on it.
Also, thank you to the many many many people in this thread who have been talking about their experiences and not feeding the teachers, especially public school teachers are wrong vibe. I meant to say that in my first post, but I was also busy trying to leave school so I could go home and finish grading.