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Oh, that stinks about your ds. I hate teen drama.
Unless that family member was your dh, they have no right, and I would let them know just how much I didn't appreciate that. Actually, even if it was dh. He would get a flippin earfull, too. And if it was someone else, they would be out of my life.
I think you need some of these: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:
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Sorry about your vacation week, but I'm glad you're doing well and the kids stepped up to help. I hope your recovery is quick!
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Back before smart phones, dh was given a palm pilot for Christmas.. it literally saved our marriage. Now he uses his phone to keep track of everything, make lists, etc, takes fish oil daily, and last year also got on Adderall. I wouldn't worry about sparing feelings. Just tell him you think he needs to look into it. Ad/HD is usually hereditary... point out that since you have been researching your dd, you see where he also fits in certain areas. If he wants to do a good job at work, he might appreciate the insight.
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You could do Aden Braden and Caden and name them in ABC order according to birth.
Or Howard, Sheldon and Leonard ?
NOT Howard! Use Rajesh instead!
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Michaelangelo, Leonardo, and Donatello. (or Rafael for one)
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How about River, Forest, and Lake?
Or (not really on this but it's funny) John, Jacob, and Schmidt. (John, Jacob Jingleheimer Scmidt)
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DD takes something called power to sleep PM. It has melatonin, passionflower, and valerian root. Be careful, because they can lower blood pressure, so boardie should check w/ her doctor. Also, one thing I do to help w/ insomnia, is kind of like daydreaming. I know there's probably a scientific phrase for it, but I start daydreaming about something and only think about that thing.. if anything else tries to pop into my head, I tell it no, and go back to my happy place. hth
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Certainly, it'll be interesting to see what the market offers in the coming years. I noticed an ad for some sort of Dell tablet/notebook thing that looked similar to an ipad with keyboard. Really I'd like a laptop with the small size of the ipad. I don't even care for the touchscreen - I prefer the mouse. Maybe what I want is a Macbook air (I don't even know what it's called!) at a cheap price, LOL.
I saw that the other day, too. It did pique my interest. A combo of ipad/ laptop would be a much more useful tool. I need to look and see exactly what they are capable of doing.
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In my dc's school system there are no IPads for the kids - as a matter of fact I do not know of any local schools that give I pads out. There are however assignments that are required to be handed in typed on the computer. In the elementary and middle school there are laptops in each classroom and each school has a computer lab. For any of the assignments where a computer is required, students are given some computer time in class to work on the paper or project. They can also use a flash drive to take the assignment home to work on. Students that have no computer or Internet access at home can use their homeroom period, or come in before or after school to use the computer lab at the school. Students who have a computer at home but no printer can e-mail their assignment to the teacher. I am sure if all of those options are not viable the teacher would find a way to work with the student or accept a written assignment. Teachers and schools can be more flexible than you might expect.
That's the way it used to work here, except our district didn't have homeroom. Computers were available for an hour before school and an hour after. However, teens in extra curricular don't always get that extra time. They have practice before and/or after school, or tutorials for specific classes. Books should be an option for those that want/need them. I wish our district understood that.
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Oh dear god. You could clearly pick fly poo out of pepper with boxing gloves on.
The google tells me in 2011 60% of rural families had internet access.
Which means 40% did not.
Last year 71% of families making less than 30k a year had internet access
So we should throw away the 29% who don't have access?
Again I don't think this assumption is being made. Comcast basics is what is provided locally as an option at $10 monthly (and I think many families would jump at it) and I think it may even be free for families receiving free lunch.
Online public schools provide internet stipends to needy families as well. Our indiana charter schools certainly do.
TX doesn't. And you still don't get that there is a large percentage of people who fall above the poverty line, but can't afford the luxury of internet and cell phones. and yes, they are both a luxury.
This is getting ridiculous. If you want to erect insurmountable imaginary barriers to providing kids with today's technology I'm sure you can.
Your attitude proves that you are among the priviiged, and just don't get it.
Those aren't options for every family. Some families can't afford even $10 a month. Some don't have online public schools available to them, or at least not those that offer stipends. Or they can't go with an online public school because their kids are too young to be unsupervised and every adult is needed to work out of the home. Some can't even afford a computer, or other internet-capable device, so even if there is free internet access it isn't going to do them much good.
EXACTLY!
For fewer than 30 percent of families who may or may not even live in districts which have even considered using iPads. It's imaginary.
Find me a rural community school system which has implemented iPad use despite lack of access to wifi. Please
You don't have to be rural to not have access. You could just be poor, but not totally impoverished by govt. standards, and not be able to get yourself or your kids across town to the wifi.
Which is wht communities who face these issues are probably doing.
But they aren't. Our district doesn't allow books anymore.
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When ipads arrived on the educational scene, one could see this issue coming from a mile away, that ipads can't make teachers better teachers nor unmotivated students better learners. As is typical, school boards - or whatever administrators make such decisions - are "sold a bill of goods" in that they seem easily swayed by corporate salespeople, just as they are with lame curricula from the big publishers, as if they really don't know what they're doing, if you know what I mean. I blame the purchasers.
Even though I prefer PCs, I have no issues with Apple's ipad sales though one can easily understand the motive, getting the student accustomed to Apple products when they don't have a choice, though that has been their angle for many years - before there were ipads, there were apple computers in the school's computer room.
An ipad is simply a tool to facilitate input and output, and I'd guess that a savvy teacher or student will find ways to use the ipad for greater efficiency. Unmotivated students and teachers will not. I do think there is special utility in ipads for at least some subsets of students with learning issues, though again personal effort and motivation to learn are involved. The fact that my husband and children (dh is a teahcer) recognize that ipads are not necessarily more efficient, and they do better with books and paper, does not make them unmotivated. They recognize the extreme limitations, and are quite frustrated. My kids are highly motivated learners, and think Ipads are great as a tool, especially if they need to look something up quickly. However, the ipads have proven to be less efficient than books, paper, and laptops. Daily assignments take much longer on ipads, because of the constant flipping back and forth between files to read, and then answer questions. My husband used to be able to grade an assignment in 20-30 seconds, then spend another 20-30 seconds or less entering it into a gradebook on the computer. Now it takes anywhere from 3-5 minutes per assignment, for the same reason. All the flipping between different programs.
FWIW, for students required to use ipads, I would recommend taking a look at the many separate keyboards available - from what my dd tells me about the various ones used by her friends, quality does not always equate with price for these, though this sort of tech purchase involves a little research.
eta, personally, for sensory issues I prefer cursive. However, for middle and high school, I do think that typing is the way to go regardless, especially for a student already proficient in cursive.
You are correct in that school boards were sold a bill of goods.
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The homeless are given free internet. Families making less than X amount of money, are given free internet. Families making just above that line, don't qualify, and can't afford internet, or cell phones, etc.
The OP asked for potential problems, and help with issues that might crop up. I told her some of the problems. I don't understand why you feel a need to insult anyone who has issues with them, or who recognizes that sometimes technology isn't always better. I'm glad they work for your dysgraphic kid. They don't work for everybody.
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Well it sounds to me like your school system has some implementation issues.
It's 2014. Not having internet isn't an option now. It's available to needy families here for $10 a month. I live in Podunk IN
You obviously have no experience w/ having $5 to get you through the next week or two til payday. I get really tired of people saying "It's just ten dollars, or just 20 dollars, or even five. Some people just don't have that extra five or ten dollars a month. And it doesn't matter where you live. Internet is just not an option for a lot of people. Period. There's a new middle class in this country. They make just enough not to qualify for aid, but not enough to really live on, either.
And yes, the school system has issues, which is why ipads should not be the be all, end all of someones education, as they are making them.
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I think for textbooks, it is because your child's access is probably a web access version. I bought from the iBook store so the entire book is downloaded to my kids iPads which eats up the storage space.
When your kids turn in work to the teacher, see if you can get a notification with time stamp or a screen shot. Sometime school servers crashed or the email server is clogged up.
Yes, but the school assured all parents that having internet wasn't necessary, as the books would be on the actual ipad. Not everyone can afford internet. One of my best friend's doesn't have it. Her kids have to scramble everyday to find someplace to go w/ internet. And when you have kids w/ ad/hd and need to cut off wifi in order to cut out distractions... you can't because then they can't do their work either.
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I'm not sure how an iPad crash could cause lost work. Work should be backed up in the cloud. Electronic communication is the norm now whether people prefer it or not. Seldom do things simply disappear in cyber space when using an appropriate server etc. As for people owning stock in e books pushing technology into schools... Hmm doubtful that this is really the reason technology is being integrated into most school systems.
Our district has removed FaceTime and messaging. Devices are not ancillary to kids. They are part of every day life. So is social media.
I'm not sure that test scores can possibly be blamed on a tool that delivers curricula.
My complaints about the iPads are that they simply are not used very much. We still have textbooks in every single class. It's still easier to type on a computer.
It wasn't just that an ipad crashed.. every single ipad in the district got wiped clean..all at the same time.. on more than one occasion. And one of my kid's ipads would not back up on the cloud..ever.. and tech couldn't figure it out, and wouldn't issue a new one.
You are lucky that your district still has textbooks.. ipads are used in totality here. NO paper, NO books. Kids are no longer writing, they use spell check for everything, rarely use complete sentences for any answers to anything. Reading, and writing scores have dropped tremendously as a result. As for the ebooks stock, we've known about their involvement for years, before the ipads were implemented.
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Again we have none of these issues. They belong to the child not the iPad.
The majority of the problems were not due to the kid. And just FYI, test scores have dropped, and continue to decline since the inception of the ipad in our schools. Unfortunately, it's a known fact that certain higher ups in the district own stock in ebooks, so they won't admit that they aren't working. Quite frankly, I found your comment to be rather rude and harsh. The OP was worried about distractions, and I gave her examples of such. I didn't list all the problems that occurred, and still haven't. But I quoted my other post just to give a small sampling of other problems that had nothing to do w/ the kids themselves.
This year, the school took up the ipad over the summer, so they could delete the app store, and only have school apps... we shall see. Can't get rid of facetime though. Last year, we tried disconnecting the wifi, and the kids couldn't access their books. The first page would load, and then nothing. Another huge problem we had, was several times, kids lost work due to some school-wide ipad crash.. sometimes stuff didn't save/ get turned in, when the kids thought it was turned in. It was a massive headache, and negatively affected my kids grades. Oh, and then you have the teachers w/ weird due times. Like midnight... on a Friday... during football season. Most of those kids don't even get home until after midnight on Fridays! They are horrible.
At least if they used an android tablet, then the kids could back up work on a flash drive, and not have to redo it. Dh did say there were some better updates on a couple of programs. He's a teacher, and this will be his third year using them. He hates them too! They actually create a lot more work for him.
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This year, the school took up the ipad over the summer, so they could delete the app store, and only have school apps... we shall see. Can't get rid of facetime though. Last year, we tried disconnecting the wifi, and the kids couldn't access their books. The first page would load, and then nothing. Another huge problem we had, was several times, kids lost work due to some school-wide ipad crash.. sometimes stuff didn't save/ get turned in, when the kids thought it was turned in. It was a massive headache, and negatively affected my kids grades. Oh, and then you have the teachers w/ weird due times. Like midnight... on a Friday... during football season. Most of those kids don't even get home until after midnight on Fridays! They are horrible.
At least if they used an android tablet, then the kids could back up work on a flash drive, and not have to redo it. Dh did say there were some better updates on a couple of programs. He's a teacher, and this will be his third year using them. He hates them too! They actually create a lot more work for him.
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They are a flippin nightmare!! Don't plan on being able to cut off wifi. The books that are supposed to loaded on to their ipads, aren't actually on the ipad, and don't work w/ out internet. Half the stuff they do will require internet, even if the school says differently. You can't turn off face time, as it's on the ipad, and the kids can just go in and turn it back on. If they are allowed socail media, then you will have games, kik, snapchat, etc to deal with as major distractions. And deleting any program like facebook or games that they download, they just get it back through the cloud next time they get on.
You have my sympathies.... they suck! (excuse the language, but I have an extreme hatred of them)
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I'm not normally one to complain, but heck yeah, I'd write a letter and complain. And tell everyone I knew. As Jean said, just copy your post here. Ugh
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.Probably someone else in her family has it and is asymptomatic, and just keeps passing it back to her. The carrier can even be the family pet. They should get everyone tested and treat; that should break the cycle.
This. 2 of mine kept getting strep one year.. as in the first week of every month! Got us all tested, and turns out child #3 was a carrier. And when they got it 2 months later, best friend got tested, and she was a carrier. After those two girls got treated, we didn't get it again for several years!
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I stopped reading replies, but yes, you can. Life is too short to forgo a friendship, because you believe differently. I do think you should be honest, and let her know your feelings, but that you enjoy her and her wife's company. You might grow spiritually from the experience. Do you think Jesus would have turned his back on her, or befriended her? Something to think about...
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I NEED my social groups!
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I'd send her. Along w/ the abx, I would send mucinex and sudafed. It's 3 nights. If her ear still hurts when you pick her up on friday, take her to the doc then.
Living with a disorganized husband who thrives in clutter **RANT
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I'm impressed that some of you have room in your garage for a car. Our cars have never seen the inside of a garage, except the one at the mechanic's shop.
I just want to mention, that closed storage is a nightmare for people w/ ad/hd. Open storage, like the bucket for tools is perfect! Having to open a lid, whether it's on a box, clothes hamper, or even a dresser drawer is an overwhelming obstacle and almost certainly won't get used. At least they don't around here. Sigh. There's 5 of us. We all have issues. :P