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    Trying to avoid bitterness

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    I am miserable there - but when I try to discuss it with the pastor - he stops me in my tracks. He says under no circumstances am I to leave - he cannot talk to me privately because of our gender difference and he doesn't want me to let on to my hubby about how I feel because my hubby stopped going for a while and has recently returned - so I can't take hubby in to so I can visit with the pastor about my concerns.

     

    Of the many red flags about your church/pastor in your posts, this, especially the bolded, is screaming at me. You are being manipulated and this pastor is undermining your marriage by basically telling you to zip it about the church in front of your husband.

     

    Please, please, please talk to your husband about your concerns. Then please leave united as a family and find a loving place to worship. Leaving this church will quite possibly be the hardest thing you've ever done. But you must do it for your spiritual health and that of your family.

     

    Please keep us updated. I will pray for you. :grouphug:

    Feeling discouraged-testing did not go well today

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    :grouphug:

     

    Said a prayer for you and your son! Hang in there!

     

    :grouphug::grouphug:

     

    Thank you so much!

     

    Here's the thing. I'm pretty new to the hs'ing scene, only been doing it since last October. But, I have an 8 year old who is also working on Level 1. He does well in math and science, but finds reading and comprehension to be more challenging.

     

    My thoughts on the whole testing scene are influenced by Texas' ridiculous TAKS mentality. And that mentality is that children need to master x, y, and z and demonstrate this mastery by such and such grade. The problem is that most ps curricula does not go in depth enough to lay that foundation, so that children really grasp the logic underlying writing, and language.

     

    So, the ps' push these kids very hard, and they spend 7-8 hours a day prepping the kids for this big EOY test. And guess what? What they learn from this is the logic underlying much of test-taking. That's handy knowledge to have, but it relegates the test to being less of a measure of what they know about literature, comprehension, reading, etc., and more of a what they know about test-taking.

     

    Ok, I know this may all seem largely redundant and stuff you've heard before. But, I'm trying to point out that your ds' doing poorly on the Iowa does not mean he is not grasping the concepts of foundational writing and the English language. The Iowa is designed for kids who have been practicing how to take that test for the better part of a year.

     

    Your child, in the meantime, has been practicing the mastery of deconstructed parts of the English language, which will equip him later on to not only comprehend the language, and wield it as a tool, but to use that same mastery to deconstruct tests and understand their logic, too.

     

    I understand that you're feeling bad, but don't. Would you feel badly if your child did poorly at a piano recital, when he's been practicing the violin for the last year?

     

    Thank you so very much. You are right. I am proud of how he is doing with AAS. The testing debacle today does not take that away.

     

    Boy do I know how you feel. I gave my ds the CAT about 3 wks ago and was so down afterward. I just go the results back Sat. and he did great! I was shocked! Keep your chin up. Oh, this happened the last time he tested also. I just knew his results were going to be bad. Didn't happen.

     

    Thanks for your reply and the encouragement. I hope this is the case for us, too. :)

    Feeling discouraged-testing did not go well today

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    We began testing today. I am giving the Iowa to my youngest because it is mainly oral and he has had difficulty learning to read and is possibly dyslexic as I've posted about before.

     

    Today was vocabulary and reading which are understandably not oral. It was so hard for him, virtually impossible, in fact. He guessed on so much of it. As an aside, I have always given the CAT and the reading portion on the Iowa was so much harder. My average reader 3rd grader would have struggled with some of it. Anyway, my poor sweet boy was in tears because he couldn't do it and I know he felt horrible about himself.

     

    At this point I don't care what the outcome of this test is. I guess if he needs to be tested for dyslexia or needs outside instruction we will have to do what we have to do. He is almost finished with level 1 of AAS and is doing the readers too. He was making huge strides and was gaining confidence too. This just feels like a kick in the teeth.

     

    Thanks for listening.

    Actually, that's not in the Bible

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    One of my friends posted this on facebook and this particular friend is known to have differing views from me on religion (which we usually refrain from discussing). She posted the article with the word "interesting...". I read the article twice and debated what to put as a comment, then decided I wasn't going to touch it with a ten foot pole. :001_smile:

     

    I am curious, though, what the slant is of the author; what is his point exactly? Is he being sarcastic? I would tend to agree with him, but then my friend is confusing me.

    Yes, I am a fuddy duddy. But seriously - the vulgarity. I'm tired of it.

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    I also see very little of this. I do see some of the preteen girls in my neighborhood wearing shirts with slogans I find very problematic. Once in a rare while, I'll see somebody walking around with their pants down and their underwear showing. But, beyond that, I just don't see a whole lot of this sort of thing, and I live in a very urban area.

     

    Maybe I don't notice. I don't know. I also hear very little profanity. The few times it's happened, it's been quite memorable, like one time years ago when I was at a playground and three or four teens were swearing so much I had to ask them to stop since there were small children around. But that's literally the only time I've encountered anything like that from a group of teens, and the other incidents of hearing profanity in public have generally been from homeless people who were obviously mentally ill.

     

    Being online always makes me realize that I must either be a very oblivious or a very fortunate person, because all sorts of bad behavior that people seem to see all around them, I just don't find myself surrounded by at all, even living in a city.

     

    Same here, and I'm so glad! :001_smile:

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    I have never been asked for my kids SS# (or my Dh's or mine for that matter) when at the doctor or hospital. We each have an insurance card with name, policy and group #'s on it. IF I were asked, I would leave it blank for the simple fact that they do not need the info. Our ins carrier has DH's SS# if/when it is needed.

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