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Kat - Jan 17, 2008 8:47:20 am PST #3906 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

It would be nice if art teachers acted from that premise. As far as I can see, kids are allowed to draw badly, because some people just aren't good at drawing. Which you're not allowed to say about reading.

Well yeah and it would make drawing classes seem less like woowoo-only-certain-people-can-do-it bullshit. We had a teacher at my first school who was awesome at teaching people to draw. When kids struggled she would tell them it wasn't that they were bad at art, but that they were looking too fast and their eyes were moving faster than their hands. She suggested first off that they slow down and it did get easier. She was wonderful.

Math is this weird place where we do allow people to stop engaging in learning it because they aren't good at it innately. And it's something we wouldn't let reading teachers get away with.

msbelle - Jan 17, 2008 8:51:57 am PST #3907 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Muffin (it's my noodle)! He's the ultimate in new things with the new mother and country and language.

ok, perhaps I do tend to forget the big picture wrt to mac. it's good for me to keep the perspective.

hippocampus - Jan 17, 2008 8:53:52 am PST #3908 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

jesse - I emailed you at your addy... keep getting 'undeliverable, still trying' messages

Jesse - Jan 17, 2008 8:58:15 am PST #3909 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Weird. Must be a livejournal issue. I'll email you.

sarameg - Jan 17, 2008 8:58:53 am PST #3910 of 10001

Pie Town, NM: [link]

Allyson - Jan 17, 2008 8:59:45 am PST #3911 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Math is this weird place where we do allow people to stop engaging in learning it because they aren't good at it innately. And it's something we wouldn't let reading teachers get away with.

What about writing? And where does talent fit in? Is there a difference between "gifted" and "talented?"

And why not just say, "your kid has a talent for math"? It sounds different in my head, meaning-wise.

§ ita § - Jan 17, 2008 9:09:21 am PST #3912 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

perhaps I do tend to forget the big picture wrt to mac. it's good for me to keep the perspective.

I hope I didn't sound like I was reproaching you.

Can you bring Mac to LA? It's a crime that I've never hugged him.

hippocampus - Jan 17, 2008 9:09:34 am PST #3913 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

thanks Jesse - insent

Is there a difference between "gifted" and "talented?"

enough I guess to warrant both being used in the same sentence for G&T programs when I was growing up? Talented being that motley group who are not quite gifted?

msbelle - Jan 17, 2008 9:10:58 am PST #3914 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

oh, it didn't sound like reproach - it made me laugh.

I am hoping an LA trip this year if finances work out.

hippocampus - Jan 17, 2008 9:12:43 am PST #3915 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

sarameg & lisah - hope you get home safely. sounds like there are fools on 83 already.

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