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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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NYE, anyone?

Ooooh yeah!

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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.

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I just went back and re-read Dylan's posts, and I honestly can't find anything that criticized public schools and teachers in general as opposed to his particular experience in a particular school system in a particular time.

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waves something shiny

mesmerized

All times, for me.

It's just delicious.

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.

This is a good way to post in general, to me.

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cassie, can you IM a sec?

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