Basically I will be spending the week working with him on this paper, typing it up and keeping him on task.
School is so much more work from the parent side of things than it ever was for me when I was in school.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Mar 29, 2010 9:21:53 am PDT #19610 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Laura - Mar 29, 2010 9:24:13 am PDT #19611 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
c) that seems like a HUGE project for 8th grade.
Yes, this. My kids haven't had any projects this involved, including my HS senior.
Gudanov - Mar 29, 2010 9:26:53 am PDT #19612 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I remember the odd paradox when I was in high school. People a generation older would lament about how the public education system had really gone downhill since they were in school, but what I was doing in high school they had done in college. It seems like that now too, the education system is supposedly terrible, but kids do such sophisticated things in school. Maybe the education system is just more uneven than ever.
Tom Scola - Mar 29, 2010 9:34:18 am PDT #19613 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
Hey, Teppy! You remember that marked-up version of a speech that Obama was looking at? You can download a high-resolution copy of the photo here: [link]
Jesse - Mar 29, 2010 9:36:12 am PDT #19614 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That sounds like a crazy project, Hec. Was he supposed to be doing stuff throughout the year that contributes to it?
Why is it, in an org full of people who escalate via cc when it's completely unnecessary, the one time someone gives me a critial piece of information that she's the expert on, she doesn't reply all??
Tom Scola - Mar 29, 2010 9:36:22 am PDT #19615 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
Cereal: Obama looking at awesome things.
SuziQ - Mar 29, 2010 9:37:24 am PDT #19616 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
CJ is in the middle of a huge project and I am having to keep checking his progress because there is so much to do. They have been reading about Utipia's in his Language Arts class - Brave New World, 1984...
For their project, they have to create their own Utopia and create a wiki page online with the constitution, mission statement, flag, social structure, government structure and so on. I think there were at least 16 things. And the wiki tool they are using is a PAIN. Not intuitive at all.
Then, once they get the wiki pages set-up, the teacher will present each one, anonymously, to the class. If the class votes that your Utopia isn't viable, you have to start over.
Gudanov - Mar 29, 2010 9:39:27 am PDT #19617 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
If the class votes that your Utopia isn't viable, you have to start over.
Is any Utopia truly viable?
SuziQ - Mar 29, 2010 9:41:37 am PDT #19618 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I know! Seriously.
But I have to say, the boy is one of us. He named his Utopia - Serenity Valley.
tommyrot - Mar 29, 2010 9:59:28 am PDT #19619 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Is any Utopia truly viable?
Possibly the "Kill the Stupid People" Utopia....