Pigerick Saga

[jonsan]

About a week ago, my wife and I attended a conference with my eight year-old son's Target teacher. Target is a one day a week class for the smart kids, theoretically. The teacher, Mrs. Robinson, is leading a semester long unit on money, budgeting, and related subjects. Last week, the children were asked to write a rough draft of a limerick having

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[devaretha]

I appreciate that you guys are trying to be charitable to this teacher, but she sounds dumb. Public school teachers have enough opportunities (read: mandatory) professional development for her to learn how to teach all kinds of children of normal intelligence and above, especially if the child has a stable home environment and involved parents. This is the sort of thing that pisses ST off to no end, given the conditions he has to deal with.

[jonsan]

Morgan is past the charitable thing, I am patient to a fault. At this point, I'm ready to write off public school entirely, at least for a few years.