Random Thoughts XI (Eleven Pipers Piping)

[ImJustKCClone]

Comments like these can be incredibly painful for many children. Kids compete in many ways, and those who think their siblings are somehow "better" or more loved or appreciated can be damaged very deeply. I think this was a very poor statement on the teacher's part.

That's exactly what I kept hearing about younger son. To which my response over the years was always, no, he's NOT. He is a wholly different person. It drove something of a wedge between them in the early teen years. They have become better friends again as adults, but they are still night & day different in personalities.

 

[carvers4math]

Damn, I've been tooled by Carvers.

That one was actually accidental. Damn CF jumps around on my laptop like crazy.

It usually makes me click that dumb Stanza thing.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I saw the new Kingsman movie last night. If you go in searching for things that are wrong with the movie, you will find them.

If you go in to just enjoy it for what it is, you'll like it.

If you go into it expecting to see a lot of Channing Tatum, you will be sadly disappointed. I think he had about maybe 5 minutes of screen time (which seemed odd based on the trailers)

 

[carvers4math]

That's exactly what I kept hearing about younger son. To which my response over the years was always, no, he's NOT. He is a wholly different person. It drove something of a wedge between them in the early teen years. They have become better friends again as adults, but they are still night & day different in personalities.

My two youngest are pretty close together in age, just a class apart. I'm lucky that they are best buddies, Feel bad for youngest when he'll be lone kid in the roost soon.

 

[Cybirdy]

Our HS conferences are very poorly attended. You make an appointment with the seminar teacher, and then can see any of the teachers when they don't have an appointment. Never has been a problem getting in with any teacher, even when we had three in the high school. And in a small school, sometimes a teacher taught all three kids in the same term.

At this point though, most of them will refer to one of the kids by one of his brothers' names.

I only hit 3 main teachers, and mainly because she is the first we don't know a lot of the HS teachers. She has been complaining about the science teacher all year so I had to see what the deal was. She also teaches math, and according to her preliminary schedule she is supposed to switch algebra instructors next semester to her. Going to try hard to see if that won't happen. In Science daughter was complaining that evything was straight from the book, she didn't bring in any additional material to help teach. And using the textbook is options, everything is offered online. Daughter ended up getting a physical copy of the book to try and help her understand things (and this is a child who has never struggled with science before). I ask the teacher, "So, do you mainly teach from the book?" Her answer: I use it as a guideline, I pull in videos and other websites, and all my notes are posted online. When I told daughter that, she was like "BS". And I saw a video she linked on one subject they were studying. It was a cartoon on a website for 9-10yr olds. For freshman Honors Science.

 

[CloneLawman]

That one was actually accidental. Damn CF jumps around on my laptop like crazy.

It usually makes me click that dumb Stanza thing.

It's ok, I probably had it coming.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Mrs JC had conferences last night and didn't get home from work until about 9:00. Also, she was bitten and punched yesterday at school. That makes for a pretty rough day.

I only hit 3 main teachers, and mainly because she is the first we don't know a lot of the HS teachers.

 

[Cybirdy]

My two youngest are pretty close together in age, just a class apart. I'm lucky that they are best buddies, Feel bad for youngest when he'll be lone kid in the roost soon.

The oldest two are three grades apart in school (9th and 6th), so close enough to remember the oldest but not immediately trailing. They are somewhat alike academically, but their personalities are very different. So are their athletic abilities.

 

[carvers4math]

I only hit 3 main teachers, and mainly because she is the first we don't know a lot of the HS teachers. She has been complaining about the science teacher all year so I had to see what the deal was. She also teaches math, and according to her preliminary schedule she is supposed to switch algebra instructors next semester to her. Going to try hard to see if that won't happen. In Science daughter was complaining that evything was straight from the book, she didn't bring in any additional material to help teach. And using the textbook is options, everything is offered online. Daughter ended up getting a physical copy of the book to try and help her understand things (and this is a child who has never struggled with science before). I ask the teacher, "So, do you mainly teach from the book?" Her answer: I use it as a guideline, I pull in videos and other websites, and all my notes are posted online. When I told daughter that, she was like "BS". And I saw a video she linked on one subject they were studying. It was a cartoon on a website for 9-10yr olds. For freshman Honors Science.

Ugh. Sounds like our Biology teacher. Everything is straight from the book and it's a college text. He's just lazy.

 

[Cybirdy]

I didn't bite or punch, just hit (lightly I might add).

 

[wxman1]

You be you Iowa City

http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Ma...Jingle-Bells-through-bull-horn-450765463.html

 

[carvers4math]

It's ok, I probably had it coming.

I was going to tool you for whining about the accidental tooling, but CF seems uber sensitive lately.

 

[jcyclonee]

Good point and Birdy was at the top of my suspect list. However, the other people that got hit at the school were an AP and the police liaison, not teachers.

 

[SCyclone]

It's cool that your son's classmates were willing to accept his help. It takes a certain personality to prevent "helping others" from becoming "being a know-it-all".

This is how we discovered that Alana needed to be TAG class - she would always finish her work before everyone else, and then would help the other kids. She began her college career fully intending to be a teacher.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

You be you Iowa City

http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Ma...Jingle-Bells-through-bull-horn-450765463.html

"Holz was charged with a disorderly house."

A disorderly house? Is that something you can be charged for?

I feel like I could be at risk.

 

[carvers4math]

Good point and Birdy was at the top of my suspect list. However, the other people that got hit at the school were an AP and the police liaison, not teachers.

Somehow it will all become the school employees' fault.

 

[SCyclone]

BC...the years have been..kind...

I see you wore that dopey hat so no one could tell how bald you are.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I was going to tool you for whining about the accidental tooling, but CF seems uber sensitive lately.

I've got you covered

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Our oldest son was every teacher's dream. Never misbehaved in class, never even chatted with someone when he shouldn't, a bit shy, and incredibly smart. Next son, also very smart, but chatty in class and very social. Every teacher but one appreciated second son helping other students when they asked, but every year, the Spanish teacher would go on some rant about how he just wasn't like his brother. Several of his classmates told me he was the only reason they passed Spanish IV because he was more helpful than the teacher.

The reason I took Latin as my language starting in 8th grade was it was one of the few opportunities I had to take a class that my older brother or sister hadn't taken so I didn't have to listen to the whole "like your brother/sister" spiel.

 

[jcyclonee]

Somehow it will all become the school employees' fault.

Yep. Crazy mom was already blaming it on a classroom para and lunchroom assistant.