CJ blazed through a test prior to K and still ended up doing 2 years of K.
Zoe: Nobody's saying that, sir. Wash: Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
SuziQ - Jun 20, 2011 9:05:51 am PDT #13359 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
erikaj - Jun 20, 2011 9:06:58 am PDT #13360 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Way back somewhere, y'all were talking about Vows...which made me think of my favorite, when David Simon hijacked Vows and wrote up Fran from the Corner's wedding. That was an awesome little burst of Reality for the Charlotte Yorks that read Vows.
Jessica - Jun 20, 2011 9:10:20 am PDT #13361 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
NYC does assess for giftedness before kindergarten, but that's a whole nother thing. That's where you get the crazy college-level test prep centers, because the proportion of citywide G&T schools to gifted kids is wildly out of whack. (I think the last number I heard was 3000 kids in the 99th percentile competing for 200 slots? So it's no wonder parents go a little nuts.)
Pix - Jun 20, 2011 9:10:22 am PDT #13362 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
Yeah, that tag doesn't close!
So true.
Hello all! I'm in Panera enjoying a bagel and low-fat berry smoothie. I'm avoiding the Epic Purge the Closets task that awaits at home.
le nubian - Jun 20, 2011 9:14:13 am PDT #13363 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
thank goodness for smartass buffistas/ae/os!
;-o
meara - Jun 20, 2011 9:16:12 am PDT #13364 of 30001
OH, I forgot about that creepy Vows! I was like "He met her when she wasn't quite yet 18?!? And now that she's 21 they're getting married, and he's in his 30s? CREEPYDUDE!"
How can there be 3000 kids in the 99th percentile and only 200 slots? Maybe they need to change their percentiles...
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2011 9:20:03 am PDT #13365 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Just accept the gratitude and chocolate as your due.
Now I want it from everyone. Now.
Jesse - Jun 20, 2011 9:23:13 am PDT #13366 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Legal question: We got a contract that said something about "24 hours." We changed it to "24 business hours." That means three days instead of one, right?
-t - Jun 20, 2011 9:24:38 am PDT #13367 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I feel like my MBA should have prepared me for this issue. Maybe it did and I forgot.
Eta: ita's chocolate expectations, not Jesse's ambiguous time
Jessica - Jun 20, 2011 9:25:33 am PDT #13368 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
How can there be 3000 kids in the 99th percentile and only 200 slots? Maybe they need to change their percentiles...
What we need is higher property taxes so the city can afford to open more schools. I guess they could make the tests harder so fewer kids qualify, but that doesn't really solve the root problem, which is overcrowding.