This has been a month of shit.
Yeah it has. May October treat you better. Starting ASAP
Awesome pic, Cash!
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
-t - Sep 25, 2012 4:56:23 pm PDT #23455 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
sarameg - Sep 25, 2012 4:59:15 pm PDT #23456 of 30001
Your insides are getting a massage? OK, not a silver lining.
I'm watching this Frontline 'Dropout Nation' and I swear to god, FNL may not have based Tammy Taylor off this dean/counselor, they sure could have. Attitude, mannerisms, dedication, the way she talks to kids. Connie Britton even looks a lot like her. A lot of the other educators have the same skill and rapport with the kids, she's just a ringer for Tammy in so many ways.
Kat - Sep 25, 2012 5:03:19 pm PDT #23457 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Not going to watch Dropout Nation as I live it, but I'm curious. Has the dropout rate changed dramatically? If so from what to what?
Atropa - Sep 25, 2012 5:08:44 pm PDT #23458 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Good luck, Consuela!
Kat, I hope things get better for you quickly
ION, thank G-D for ThermaCare patches and a TENS unit at home. Stupid period.
sarameg - Sep 25, 2012 5:11:20 pm PDT #23459 of 30001
They pointed out that the numbers (in HISD specifically) are incredibly convoluted and opaque. This is more following 4 students and the interventions at this specific school than a numbers show. But here's an article from PBS with links about the Apollo 20 program at [link] It saw gains the first year.
Jesse - Sep 25, 2012 5:13:52 pm PDT #23460 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dropout Nation is part of a big CPB American Graduate initiative, fyi. I don't think there are any drastic changes going on, but part of what I heard last night is that the numbers are really hard to get, because different people count things differently, and districts try to keep the dropout numbers as low as possible.
I hab a code. And I think I won't go to work tomorrow. On the plus side, I did go to the Red Sox game, and it was fun! They had players from the 2004 team there, and we saw them outside, and one threw me a little baseball because I waved at him like a dork instead of screaming like other people were doing. We had a Moment. Good times.
Kat - Sep 25, 2012 5:16:49 pm PDT #23461 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I actually think the dropout rate (in real terms, whatever that means, whether it's kids enrolled in 9th who don't graduate or kids enrolled in 12th who don't) has probably decreased. Legislation now legally keeps kids in school longer (in CA it's until 18 not 16) and there are fewer blue collar jobs. Probably in the past 70 years it's gone down. Just not enough. (College grad rates have also gone up in that time frame, to over 25% which is still mindboggling that a college degree is still a minority).
I'm not in a good headspace today.
sarameg - Sep 25, 2012 5:32:57 pm PDT #23462 of 30001
I think the definitions are part of the conundrum. OTOH, I heard that the rate of started-but-failed-to-graduate college has gone up in the US in comparison to the rest of the world. On NPR somewhere. Waving hands.
Connie Neil - Sep 25, 2012 5:32:59 pm PDT #23463 of 30001
brillig
Kat, Hubby had the shockwave lithotripsy many years ago. It went easily, until the hospital we were in closed the recovery wing he was in without checking that there was anyone still in there. But he got a t-shirt out of it!
Liese S. - Sep 25, 2012 5:36:48 pm PDT #23464 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, unsurprisingly, dropout rates on the reservation are exponentially worse than the norm.
Kat, you have had a seriously shit month.