Random Thoughts X (The 9th Regeneration)

[harimad]

Ours is this way, too. She has very high standards for herself and probably does more than she has to. She was upset with her Iowa Assessment scores (used to be Iowa Test of Basic Skills) because she felt the percentages she got weren't up to her standards. They were just fine and probably better than 97% of her classmates. I think yours is the same way where she is already thinking ahead to college/vet school and has heard many times about how you have to have good grades to get in.

ITBS isn't everything. I scored 99th percentile every year, but didn't even graduate in the top half of my high school class, and flunked out of college. I had a 31 ACT too.

I make sure my daughter does her homework every night. Now I no longer have to make sure, because she does it on her own without prodding. I'm very proud of her for this, because she seemingly got every physical and personality trait from me.

In retrospect, I had terrible (none) homework habits. I had little interest in doing it, no incentive to do it when I could still pass my class by getting zero on my homework and 100% on every test, and that killed me when I got to college. I could no longer rely on knowing everything on the course syllabus before the first day of class. It didn't help that my gender dysphoria was kicking my ass harder at this point than at any other time in my life, and I was really only there because I wanted to play football.

 

[BCClone]

My husband has a Physics degree. He answers math and science, I do the rest. Neither of us can help them with Spanish. Fortunately they are all smarter than I am, except with respect to English probably.

I run from English, that is my wifes one area that she is forced to do since I have always been a technical writer.

 

[jcyclonee]

How many years of foreign language is she taking? My son is quitting after two years, hes also been told that his Spanish teacher is so bad that you will struggle the first week in college, and is told that he should be fine outside of UofI with that. He isn't even considering going there so thats not an issue.

I think she's planning on Spanish all 4 years of HS plus she had one year in middle school.

 

[CloneinWDSM]

Our HS principal does not believe in study hall and is trying to phase them out. He also thinks the semester tests aren't hard enough and all need to be comprehensive. My to be freshman daughter will have no study halls next year and my sophmore son had none his freshman year and one this year. My son is almost halfway to his needed graduation credit total after 3 semesters. Will probably take all AP classes or just go to CC part of the time his senior year. Makes you wonder if the HS classes are worthless or the first year of college is if you can have 20 credits going into college.

I think I went in to ISU with 18. 3 of the easiest "college classes" I took were my senior year. I think they were through DMACC. Psychology, western civ and some writing class I think

 

[cyrevkah]

What is reading homework? I don't remember reading homework in elementary classes. When did Book It stop? My problem though was reading in other classes...

 

[cycloneG]

What is reading homework? I don't remember reading homework in elementary classes. When did Book It stop? My problem though was reading in other classes...

The 2nd grader brings home a book everyday to read with a parent. They get harder and longer as the year progresses.

 

[BCClone]

ITBS isn't everything. I scored 99th percentile every year, but didn't even graduate in the top half of my high school class, and flunked out of college. I had a 31 ACT too.

I make sure my daughter does her homework every night. Now I no longer have to make sure, because she does it on her own without prodding. I'm very proud of her for this, because she seemingly got every physical and personality trait from me.

In retrospect, I had terrible (none) homework habits. I had little interest in doing it, no incentive to do it when I could still pass my class by getting zero on my homework and 100% on every test, and that killed me when I got to college. I could no longer rely on knowing everything on the course syllabus before the first day of class. It didn't help that my gender dysphoria was kicking my ass harder at this point than at any other time in my life, and I was really only there because I wanted to play football.

I had no study skills. I had an unbelieable memory and as long as I went to class, I could avoid anything not required and pull at least a B+/A- by just sitting in class. If I took notes or read somethingI was set for an A. Too bad I didn't realize this until halfway through college. My sister just older than me was a nerd, wasn't fun following her footsteps in a small school. The teachers assumed that whatever she got, that I could do better.

 

[carvers4math]

What is reading homework? I don't remember reading homework in elementary classes. When did Book It stop? My problem though was reading in other classes...

When my kids were in elementary, they usually had to read at least half an hour a night, and the parent had to sign off on it. They got some kind of extra points if they read more. Could read whatever they wanted, even the newspaper (back when people still read those).

 

[BCClone]

The 2nd grader brings home a book everyday to read with a parent. They get harder and longer as the year progresses.

Our school has accelerated Reader. They take tests at the begining of school and then have to read certain level of books for so many points. They then test and have to get 85% on the tests. My son had a level last year that was assinine. It was non stop reading.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

ITBS isn't everything. I scored 99th percentile every year, but didn't even graduate in the top half of my high school class, and flunked out of college. I had a 31 ACT too.

I make sure my daughter does her homework every night. Now I no longer have to make sure, because she does it on her own without prodding. I'm very proud of her for this, because she seemingly got every physical and personality trait from me.

In retrospect, I had terrible (none) homework habits. I had little interest in doing it, no incentive to do it when I could still pass my class by getting zero on my homework and 100% on every test, and that killed me when I got to college. I could no longer rely on knowing everything on the course syllabus before the first day of class. It didn't help that my gender dysphoria was kicking my ass harder at this point than at any other time in my life, and I was really only there because I wanted to play football.

The only reason I know you're not my son is because I have met you...but you just described him to a "T" other than the gender dysphoria. Our kids haven't been tested (that I know of), but I'd lay money he has the highest IQ of any of them. IF he's interested in a topic, he will read about it, learn about it, talk about it to the exclusion of all else. He was bored by school, bored by homework.

 

[carvers4math]

My oldest read Lord of the Rings in fourth grade. I could barely slug through it in high school. The teacher questioned it on his reading homework, so he took it to school and read it out loud to her lol.

 

[WIBadger]

Our school has accelerated Reader. They take tests at the begining of school and then have to read certain level of books for so many points. They then test and have to get 85% on the tests. My son had a level last year that was assinine. It was non stop reading.

Oh god, I had those in elementary school, those really sucked

 

[BCClone]

My oldest read Lord of the Rings in fourth grade. I could barely slug through it in high school. The teacher questioned it on his reading homework, so he took it to school and read it out loud to her lol.

I read one book in junior High and then waited until age 30 to read another (maybe two that year, I was unfire) and that is my book reading since age 15. I just couldnt/cant sit and read. My mom would come home from parent teacher conferences and remark how she got questioned about all the books I must read since I was doing well and seemed to be ahead of the rest. She would smile and nod she said since she knew my hate for reading books.

I did read a lot of newspapers and magazines though. Believe it or not, I actually read things like profit, money and Forbes for magazines in HS. When bored waiting for dad, I would skim manuals for our equipment laying in pickups.

 

[harimad]

My oldest read Lord of the Rings in fourth grade. I could barely slug through it in high school. The teacher questioned it on his reading homework, so he took it to school and read it out loud to her lol.

That was me, except substitute Starship Troopers, Stranger In A Strange Land, and Dragonriders of Pern. Mom still tells me the story about how she got a call from my first grade teacher after we moved to Davenport from Salt Lake City. "Did you know that your child can read?" My mom: "Of course I know this. I checked that box on the enrollment form!" Teacher: "Everyone checks that box. Your child can actually read!" Lol.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

The 2nd grader brings home a book everyday to read with a parent. They get harder and longer as the year progresses.

Coming this June

 

[cycloneG]

Coming this June

It's almost to that point. We started with simple books that took 10-15 minutes to read to chapter books that can take over an hour.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I had no study skills. I had an unbelieable memory and as long as I went to class, I could avoid anything not required and pull at least a B+/A- by just sitting in class. If I took notes or read somethingI was set for an A. Too bad I didn't realize this until halfway through college. My sister just older than me was a nerd, wasn't fun following her footsteps in a small school. The teachers assumed that whatever she got, that I could do better.

I had an older brother and sister so I had to hear that from first grade until high school. I took Latin for my language because neither of them had so I had one class where the teacher wasn't comparing me to them.

 

[Cybirdy]

Yes, the smartest thing I did was marry someone smarter than me. On paper I am smart and graduated at the top of my class in HS and at ISU (highest GPA on my major the year I graduated) and have a MA degree. But don't ask me about math or science. All those questions go directly to the ChemE.

The oldest is pretty much just like me, although she does like science. If she continues through vet med she will have to do Chem and organic chemistry and all sorts of fun things like that. She is smart in math, but she does not like it and did not accelerate through middle school (our choice). The next one is probably a little stronger in math and enjoys it more.

In 5th grade for reading "homework" they have a 40 book challenge. They have to read 40 books throughout the year, so many in each genre type. The 5th grader had that done before Christmas. She reads constantly, but doesn't really read "challenging" books.

 

[BCClone]

I had an older brother and sister so I had to hear that from first grade until high school. I took Latin for my language because neither of them had so I had one class where the teacher wasn't comparing me to them.

I was such a trailer in my family that one of my teachers and two of my classmates parents were my oldest sisters classmates. I was catching it from a ton of angles. When you have 16 in your class you can't hide very easily. I wish I had taken more spanish than I did now. I had very good teacher.

 

[stormchaser2014]

at first I was like oh random robbery probably overcautious to soft lockdown schools. Then I saw the full news story last night and thought holy ****, how do we not have half the ATF down there and schools just down within a 50 mile radius?! I did just see a doc on Newtown the other night though, so maybe that's playing into it.

But yeah, that was a pretty specific threat the guy is making and now he's got like, 18 high-powered rifles?

ATF and FBI are involved last I heard. I think it's 18 guns total, handguns and rifles. One of the rifles is full auto apparently. Class 3 dealers are allowed to have those.