And so...

Mar 17, 2009 08:54

...Begins day one of Mandated Annoying State Testing.  CAHSEE (High school exit exam ( Read more... )

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nasagrl March 17 2009, 16:29:23 UTC
you're the second person today who has said that.

I believe the other comment was 'if we stopped spending millions of dollars to find out if sophmores could get into school, instead of the parents just trusting that the teachers might know that a kid isn't college material, maybe the state of california wouldn't have laid off so many teachers last week."

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rowanjan March 17 2009, 19:08:58 UTC
By Junior year we can look a kid in the eye and say "you are NOT going straight to college, let's explore other options".

They won't let us. We're suppose to push them all. And be honest, they tune out.

Grrrr

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nasagrl March 17 2009, 19:53:14 UTC
And of course, you can't tell little Johnny that maybe he'd be a better mechanic than he would be a lawyer, cause MOM WANTS A LAWYER, dammit.

I know. Jeeze do I know. I see my kids' peers do some damn stupid stuff because of parental intervention.

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rowanjan March 17 2009, 21:01:57 UTC
My parents are just happy the kid is in school and might graduate.

The frustration for us is that there are about 25% of our kids that need Universities. 35% will need JC's and the rest.....will eventually figure out what they want in life.

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rowanjan March 17 2009, 19:09:30 UTC
I's got me here a book.

Little thing, full o' words.

I'ma gonna read it.

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