That's one client you don't wanna tell you're not gonna make the deadline.

Heh. Her note was basicly, "Our IT people think they found the problem, and it has nothing to do with your software."

So, yay!

The graduation theme was "Dawning of a New Day" so in her speech she compared high school to one long, tedious night. hee hee.

Oh my this sounds familiar. My son is doing the battle of how HS is all irrelevant busy work. So he doesn't do it, and does not have a 4.0 as a result. It sincerely would be so much less effort for him to just do the damn work.

Tommyrot! Happy Birthday to you!

Happy birthday, tommyrot!

Corwood, how awful. I'm sorry.

Gud, someone (Plei?) pointed out elsewhere that "gifted" often means "doesn't learn quite like others" and the skills required to be successful in honors/AP are very normative - no quirky learners. The definition of "gifted" seems to vary a lot, but it doesn't necessarily coincide with smart or intelligent. Edit: badly phrased - you can be hella smart but not gifted, and you can be gifted, but not succeed in AP Chemistry, is what I am trying to say.

Yeah, that was me. Given how spotty my work was in a gifted class, I am scared to think what it might have been in a normal one.

This was my kitchen this morning: [link]

Our school generally chose the valedictorian strictly on GPA.

What else would you choose it on?

We didn't have a valedictorian in HS. We also didn't have GPAs; we used number grades that varied widely from subject to subject. I remember that it was next to impossible to get above 90 in English, or many other subjective subjects.

Thanks again for all the b-day wishes. Now I get to go home....

I missed out on the off-site gifted & talented program in 4th grade due to boredom and being a slacker, but in 5th grade I moved to a different elementary school and G&T was a way to hang out with my friends from the previous school for two half days a week. Voilà, instant motivation to perform, and academic excellence from that point onward!

My one scarring experience was the drill sergeant algebra teacher in 8th grade who would slam his pointer down on kids' desks to frighten them into silence. He broke one student's finger doing that and the principal took his pointer away, but otherwise didn't change his intimdation-based teaching approach at all (he replaced the pointer with a yardstick).

Grade school into early highschool I kept starting at the normal math level, and then a month in they'd decide I wasn't being challenged enough (or something) and they'd shift me into the next level, and say "Catch up!". Double whammy of "You're not as dumb as we previously thought" and "learn in a day what everyone else leisurely absorbed in thirty". All the way up to senior year, everyone in my math classes hated me. Fun times.

he he ... you kids. When I graduated, I didn't have a chance at being valedictorian for two reasons. #1 it went to the BOY with the highest grade point average and #2 the HS averaged in gym grades.

Heh. My mother should have been dux of her school, but the nuns who ran it had a policy of only giving out one prize to any student, and of course she'd rather have the Religion prize, wouldn't she?