Check your state laws; I don't think you can do this everywhere. We've done it, and there were no problems with the schools. They were very accommodating.

Nope.

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That's true, people sue for all kinds of ridiculous things. I wouldn't be surprised if someone would try, but they would never win (theoretically, anyway), because there isn't any negligence. Now, if you started CPR on someone who had simply fainted and broke their ribs, you might have a problem.;)

Broken ribs are a routine complication of CPR. I can't imagine that anyone could ever successfully sue for that.

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:eek: Marcus Welby! I'm old, but not THAT old. Last time I took ACLS was 1995 and we used paddles. OMG, that was 15 years ago. Seems like yesterday. :lol: :iagree:Excellent point.

It's an Automatic External Defibrillator, and it does essentially the same thing as the paddles on a crash cart. The settings vary depending on the machine, but generally deliver 100 - 200 joules. That isn't really comparable to hospital defibrillators though because AEDs are biphasic and hospital ones are monophasic. Less energy is needed with a biphasic defibrillator than a monophasic. I don't watch tv so I really don't know how it's misrepresented. But I have defibrillated people and I would call it jumping, though maybe jerking would be a better description.

CPR cracks ribs, but the paddles don't. They deliver an electrical current through the chest. There is no cracking sound, although the patient jumps as the shock is delivered. a video. Not for the squeamish. The defibrillator use starts at about 2:15.

:grouphug: I just posted something similar on the HS board. My dd is very bright, but highly disorganized, and she always has an excuse for why something wasn't done or was done poorly. This is what brought my dd's grades up last semester: We took away all gadgets- she lost the phone, ipod, & laptop, and I changed her FB password. During the week, she was allowed to do required school activities (concerts, pom practice) and dance, but no other social activities at all. In order to leave the house on the weekends, she had to receive a B on all work for the week. And she had to do it without attitude. We also told her that if she didn't receive a B in all classes on her report card she wouldn't be able to try out for poms next year. Her life revolves around dance and poms, so this was highly motivating. She was shut down for about 6 weeks before she had her first weekend with privileges. She eventually did bring her grades up and by the end of the semester wasn't having any late or forgotten assignments. Unfortunately, she is off to a bad start this semester. We had a conversation tonight, and I'm hoping she will get it together more quickly this time. Our school uses Power School (an online grade tracker) so it is very easy for me to know what's going on. Good luck. It is so frustrating!

Me too.;)But since she didn't make an announcement I'm assuming she doesn't want to be outed.

One more month of poms, then tryouts are end of Feb. There's still time for me to say she can't try out for next year, if I decide to be the heavy, but I just don't think it will help. The threat of not being able to tryout is motivating for her, but if she doesn't do poms next year I honestly don't think it will make one whit of difference in her grades. She's got plenty of time, she just doesn't use it wisely.

She's full time. We dual enrolled last year for a couple classes, so she had a transition. Our district does some black classes and some regular. Last semester, her only academic courses were Geometry, French and History. There was some busy work, but it wasn't bad. The problem is all about the lack of effort. She has plenty of time, she just is disorganized and procrastinates.

This is exactly my goal. It's what I've attempted to do all along. But every time I back off and give her a little slack, she goes right back to her disorganized habits. I'm about ready to give up because it seems so pointless.

I am so frustrated with my 9th grade dd. This is her first year back at ps, and she is really dropping the ball. She loves school, has tons of friends, and is very active in extracurriculars, but she isn't doing very well academically. She is capable of being a straight A student. But she has way too many late assignments, loses her homework, forgets about quizzes and tests, and rarely studies, so obviously her grades are suffering. This has always been an issue. We homeschooled for 5 years and she always had trouble with organization, and never took her schoolwork very seriously. Midway last semester, we really laid into her. We essentially shut her down, taking away the ipod, facebook, phone, etc. She had to get at least Bs in everything for the week to be able to do anything with friends on the weekends. She had about 6 weeks of lost privileges before she got her grades back up. The major incentive was that if she didn't finish the semester with Bs in all classes she would not be allowed to do poms next year. This is a huge deal for her, as her entire life revolves around dance and poms. She managed to squeak by with a B in everything except French, but I decided to let that slide as she has some mild language based LDs and foreign language is really a struggle for her. So it's a new semester, and she's off to a bad start. F on her first math homework, didn't turn in her first biology assignment so she has an F on that too. I'm sick of being the police. I'm sick of nagging her. I can MAKE her get better grades, but it would require me checking her homework and planner every single night, and I'm not sure that's doing her any favors in the long run. Sooooo..... How involved are you when your kids screw up? How punitive are you? Just wondering what other families do.

No, I wouldn't.

Most mainstream medical personnel don't believe there is such a thing. I've never seen any convincing evidence that it's a real disorder.

Here's another passage from the 90/90/90 article: I'm sure history and science probably take a back seat in some of these schools, but I don't have a problem with that in elementary school. Most of the science instruction I've seen at the elementary level has been a big waste of time. My kids studied the rainforest and life cycle of insects ad nauseum. Social studies was another huge time waster. In first grade, my dd spent weeks working on a class project where they made a replica with dioramas and clay of the neighborhood. Seriously, are they afraid the kids are going to grow up and not know about the local Mr. Movies? At the time, we were afterschooling and doing SOTW a few times a week. My kids knew more history by 4th grade than I knew when I graduated from college. And it didn't take much time at all. If the kids can't read and do math, secondary science and history instruction is useless. I'd rather see a really good foundation, and put off heavy duty science and history for a couple years. Any science they miss out on can be easily made up later. I do agree that there are huge problems with NCLB and ESL. In my area though, it's not much of an issue, as we have only a small number of ESL kids. We do have high poverty areas, but the schools aren't making any attempt to emulate the 90/90/90 schools. Instead, they are trying all sorts of other lame brain interventions that don't work, and the curricula stinks. Good phonics instruction with early RTI has been very effective, yet they won't use it. It doesn't make any sense.

Several of my neighbors complain frequently about the illegal immigrant problem. Guess who they hired this summer when they needed a new roof. Saved them a couple hundred bucks. We went with the company that employs US citizens, pays them a decent wage, and provides them with insurance. It cost more, but I have a clean conscience. I think it's a complex problem and I don't know where I stand. But the hypocrisy just infuriates me.

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The problem with this is that there are schools that serve these populations that do very, very well. It is tough, and they have to work a lot harder at it, but some ARE doing it. I used to believe as you do, right up until my kids started school. I live in Iowa, where we have always been told that our education system is one of the best in the country. When my oldest was in first grade, I quickly discovered that most of the kids in her combined first-second grade class couldn't read. At all. The teachers were constantly complaining that it was because their parents didn't read to them at night. Well, I call BS. I read to my dd every day of her life, and she was not learning to read at school. Midway through first grade, I started teaching her with a good phonics program, and within weeks she had advanced several grade levels. I started helping out in the school, and was shocked and appalled at what passed for reading instruction. Of course the kids couldn't read, they were being told to get their mouth ready, look at the shape of the word, and guess. It's true that those kids aren't going to have support at home. I wish they did, but they don't and the schools can't change that. What they CAN change is the way they teach, but they don't because it conflicts with their ideology of how they believe kids should be taught. Their ideology is not supported by science or evidence, but it continues anyway.

I hear this a lot, but according to at least one study, arts instruction hasn't decreased. My kids in ps have excellent arts and music instruction. In fact, those are the only areas I'm entirely satisfied with. Also, I don't think NCLB can be blamed for the lack of history instruction. History was replaced sometime in the first half of this century by "social studies", and it really hasn't been taught in this country in decades. I didn't learn any history until I started homeschooling my kids, and I went to elementary school in the 60s.

Well, see, I don't think kids should be taught reading using children's literature. That was what whole language tried to do, and it was a disaster. Phonics is a much better way of teaching reading for most kids. Of course children's literature is important. But not for reading instruction. "Balanced literacy" (aka whole language) is one of the major reasons we started homeschooling.

Anywhere between 5 and 8, depending on when dh gets home from work and what activities the kids have that night.