Punctuation and ~ma for Brenda.
ChiKat, how sad for your student.
Don't you have an elsewhere to be?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
WindSparrow - Jan 08, 2009 7:50:01 am PST #7284 of 10000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Gris - Jan 08, 2009 7:57:43 am PST #7285 of 10000
Hey. New board.
Oh noes lice!
If you're bored, listen to this: [link] . It's about 5 minutes of an author (Aimee Bender) reading a short writing piece called 'The Meeting.' I like it immensely.
Ginger - Jan 08, 2009 8:35:59 am PST #7286 of 10000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Oh, Erin, that sucks!!
Literally. I'm scratching in sympathy.
I don't understand how expulsion is supposed to be useful, except in cases where the student involved has physically harmed someone. Here's a kid with problems. Let's not help him, not educate him and leave him home alone. That'll help.
Trudy Booth - Jan 08, 2009 8:40:07 am PST #7287 of 10000
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
One of my students was expelled this week and it just sucks. The admin backed him at the expulsion hearing. The expulsion committee rec'd that he stay in school. Then the school board expelled him. He's a good kid who made a stupid stupid mistake and now he's going to suffer a lot for it.
Hey, the school board needed to "send a message" to other abused and neglected children. Something along the lines of, "we don't give a fuck either".
vw bug - Jan 08, 2009 8:42:41 am PST #7288 of 10000
Mostly lurking...
Oh, Erin. That is SO ICK. I am so sorry.
Apparently, there was a rash of lice in kindergarten earlier this year. NO ONE TOLD ME. I was kind of upset. I'm so glad I didn't catch it. SO glad. Ick.
WindSparrow - Jan 08, 2009 8:46:31 am PST #7289 of 10000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Lice is no fun. I hope it clears up quickly, Erin.
Vortex - Jan 08, 2009 9:06:50 am PST #7290 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
For anyone going to the inauguration:
The The iPee
I think I love the pictures the most - the surgeon and the golfers.
ChiKat - Jan 08, 2009 9:19:22 am PST #7291 of 10000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I don't understand how expulsion is supposed to be useful, except in cases where the student involved has physically harmed someone. Here's a kid with problems. Let's not help him, not educate him and leave him home alone. That'll help
This is a kid who has really worked to up his game this year. He's improved in all his classes and really cares about doing well. And, he's doing on his own. His parents are not helping. They couldn't even be arsed to attend the expulsion hearing.
His violation was bringing a small pocket knife to school which translates to weapon. He forgot it was in his pocket and hid it in his wallet and put it in his locker. Because of acting suspicious, his locker was checked and the knife found. He didn't go around bragging that he had it or tell anyone about it or even open it. He was hiding it till he could get it home.
I understand weapon=bad. But seriously? He was suspended for 10 days and then couldn't go back in to general pop. until the hearing. He ended up in in-school suspension for another 12-ish days.
Even being out of class for that long, he was keeping his grades up to a B in most of his classes because he was doing all the work sent to him and doing it well.
Breaks my heart.
Fred Pete - Jan 08, 2009 9:26:22 am PST #7292 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Egad, ChiKat. Does he at least have a chance of coming back next year?
Amy - Jan 08, 2009 9:27:08 am PST #7293 of 10000
Because books.
But why did they expel him after all the suspension? That's absurd. Poor kid.