Backaches, Bimbos, and Breakups

[Ontarkie 14,221]

Better get her to a doctor, she must be coming down with something!

Or maybe she's learning a tired mommy is a grouchy mommy?

Na big sister has a new toy, so she is watching her every move.

Is this fallopian talk?

I'll show you guys later. Pic of Tiff, cooking...

And I was beginning to worry about stretch, train crash in Arkansas....

Just been busy,with the kids and hubby. Went to friends house Sat.

[SAT 9,609]

Nah, its fat wife talk.

I was thinking a 1000 lbs gator came and ate her.

Will the Tiff cooking picture be next to the picture of Big Foot?

And big foot is helping her peel potatoes...

[Caryh 5,206]

And big foot is helping her peel potatoes...

Big foot makes the rice in our house.

[Merrytooth 5,748]

[SAT 9,609]

Juna has big feet?

My daughter has big feet, she'd make a good Olympic swimmer....

[Caryh 5,206]

Juna has big feet?

My daughter has big feet, she'd make a good Olympic swimmer....

Tiny feet, its a pain in the butt to find shoes for her.

I cook the rice

Steve would be lucky if she burned anything, as I don't believe she knows even how to turn on a stove.

[NikLR 13,227]

Logan get over yourself. I asked why and I meant why, until your attitude. If you choose to read tone into my post that I didn't put there because of YOUR issues, that's not my problem. I'm not from the USA and never had your issues with school. I'm sorry it left such a chip on your shoulder. Hope you have a happy life.

[Caryh 5,206]

Logan get over yourself. I asked why and I meant why, until your attitude. If you choose to read tone into my post that I didn't put there because of YOUR issues, that's not my problem. I'm not from the USA and never had your issues with school. I'm sorry it left such a chip on your shoulder. Hope you have a happy life.

Now there's some tone in that post!

[Ontarkie 14,221]

Big foot in my house could be a few ppl. They do what ever I tell them to do, I trained my boys well

Now only if I could convince my husband to do what I tell him.

[NikLR 13,227]

I do think it's interesting how people assume other people have had an easy or hard life. Some people spend the rest of their lives looking down upon others because they feel they've risen above. Maybe the privileged have always felt that way, but maybe their life wasn't any easier than a child growing up in the ghetto, in fact it may have been harder. Assumptions always seem to get in the way of genuinely learning something.

[NikLR 13,227]

Now there's some tone in that post!

Aye, and it shouldn't have been there. Had some issues at home at this moment. Let my emotions get the better of my logic. I apologize.

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

No you weren't. The proof of that is in scoffing at the answer - or really just asking it rhetorically in the first place.

You were interested in trying to put us on the defensive. I've had it all my life, going through public schools. Nobody prepared me for it. They have pejorative names for you. The exam scores are posted on the teachers' doors, and even though your name is not on it, everyone knows who it is. It is surprising how spiteful people can be - and not just the other kids, but the teachers themselves.

Some say the problem in the USA is public schools. I don't think so. Look at Finland for example. We would send our kids to public school there. They just place a high value on education. You don't see guilt-tripping or shaming children and parents for knowledge in Finland. A very pro-learning culture. Learn to read at age 2? Great! The math teachers in Finland actually know math too.

This whole common core hoo-rah isn't going to fix anything.

Thank God (lol!) we are in a state where Homeschool by parents has no registration, no oversight, no teacher qualifications, no testing - nothing. Namely, no justifying to anyone what we're doing.

Oh I remember that, always having the highest standardized exam scores... kids and even their parents hated you for it. My parents, at my insistence, put me in public school for 7th,8th, and 10th grades and I'd say the day I walked through those doors the first time is when the trouble really started. Actually, it could just be a life of being around other intelligent children in a safe environment did not prepare me adequately for the violence, the drugs, and just how much I'd really have to carve my own path. I'm torn on public school this way, because many who were there the whole time did so much better than me in life and about 60% of my private/boarding school classmates have really faltered, myself included.

It was my understanding that in Finland they don't have levels of classes which is why their overall scores are so high? Pull down the smart to push up the dumb or some such thing. Denmark is the same and I am beyond unimpressed with their school system.

[SAT 9,609]

Math scores are high in Canada.

I'm sending my kid to public school. For diversity. And I want her to see the different walks of life.

If she needs tutoring, then I'll get her one, or I'll do it myself.

The students make the school...

[Ontarkie 14,221]

Math scores are high in Canada.

I'm sending my kid to public school. For diversity. And I want her to see the different walks of life.

If she needs tutoring, then I'll get her one, or I'll do it myself.

The students make the school...

I agree to a certain point about students making a school. But I've met way too many teachers who are only there to get their paycheck. They stopped caring and it shows in the classroom.

Around here students flat out tell the teachers they don't need to learn anything as they are just going to get pregnant and get welfare. Now these students would depress any teacher.

I can deal with the odd teacher, but the student mentality around here makes me sick. Oh and these are 5th grade girls.

I miss the small school my older kids went to in Canada. They had maybe a 100 kids from JK to 8th grade, that school was the best.

[SAT 9,609]

That's where the tutoring comes in.

But first, I need my kiddo to learn how to get along with all walks of life. To be able to adapt.

She can't get that from home schooling. And not a private school either.

I want her to become a member of the human race.

Edited August 18, 2014 by SAT