msbelle, that blows!
For a high school that's over 100 years old, my high school is very short on famous alumni - Traci Lords, Phil Hartman and Demi Moore according to Wikipedia, Squeaky Fromme attended for a short time too and Charles Lindbergh (there's a bust of him in the admin building still). My mom went to the same high school, and attended with both the Smothers Brothers (she hung out with Tommy mostly). Joe Montana's wife was in my class(of course, back then she was just a very popular single girl)
I attended college (and classes) with Steve Hillenburg. If I had known that his doodles might be worth something I never would have tossed my marine bio class notes. The fact that I knew the guy responsible for Spongebob, thrills my son to this day...
Aw, msbelle, I'm so sorry. I know how that feels.
That is so appalling. Ugh.
Right? The whole healthcare thing is so huge. We haven't had any for ... a really long time, and knock wood we keep getting through without a big crisis.
But then there's stuff like schools here requiring a doctor's note after a certain cumulative number of absences. You know, if my kid has a stomach bug and threw up, he doesn't need a doctor. He needs a wastebasket and clear fluids and a day of sleep. Not to mention, I can't afford a hundred bucks to have a doctor tell me the same thing.
But then you get memos from the school nurse about not sending your kids to school if they're sniffly or coughing or throwing up, and I can't make the math work there. Aside from coming to the conclusion that they assume every parent can take their kid to the pediatrician for every sniffle.
Wow, I ranted. Sorry.
certain cumulative number of absences
Amy that's nuts! I can understand consecutive days but cumulative? That's just crazy talk!
Knowing that I could not provide decent health care for any kids I might have is a good part of the reason we don't have them.
The whole healthcare thing is so huge.
I really just don't understand why so many people don't think it's a crisis, how many people don't have insurance and/or can't afford the insurance they do have.
I certainly didn't plan it that way when I had the first one, Daisy Jane, or even the last one.
I can understand consecutive days but cumulative?
Cumulative. So even if it's a bug here and months later a bug there, you go over seven and you need a doctor's note for every absence. OR you get reported, and then you have social worker looking into it.
Oh, I'm not saying don't have kids if you can't afford their health care. I'm sure you end up sacrificing other things. I'm just not willing to sacrifice those things.
I want people not to have to take it into account when deciding, or lucking into starting a family.
Sorry if that came out all judgey sounding.
Aside from coming to the conclusion that they assume every parent can take their kid to the pediatrician for every sniffle.
Especially since you probably shouldn't be doing that. I mean for most minor things it's completely unnecessary and only spreads illness.
Sorry, DJ -- it's one of my few buttons. It's got a big red "shame" label on it, too. I jumped a little quick there.
And the point is that no one should be ashamed -- healthcare is out of control expensive and complicated when it should be available to everyone.
(edited to be clearer)
