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Does your daughter have health insurance? If she's not interested in testing via that program, can't she get tested at Rite Aid using her insurance instead. Most people I know that have been tested paid nothing out of pocket through their insurance. This includes clinics, urgent care facilities hospitals and even pharmacies.
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15 hours ago, prairiewindmomma said:
Other regional quirks:
1. Do you greet the checkout clerk?
2. Do you thank the checkout clerk when they hand you your receipt?
3. Are you obligated to empty the cart of trash even if you didn't put it there before returning it to the corral? ie--you inherited a cart with receipt tucked into the frame at the bottom--what do you do?
4. Do you ever aid someone else who is trying to pick out produce?
5. Do you feel guilty for not letting someone with 1-2 items behind you go ahead of you in line when you have a full cart?
6. Do you make eye contact with strangers in the aisle and smile?
7. Do you small talk with people in line (strangers)?
I would answer yes to all of these things and I would let the person with a few items ahead of me on line. I also am often reaching items on high shelves for people because I am fairly tall. But, if some one said "watch yourself" to me I would probably be annoyed. To me that is rude. It would be one thing if I was about to step in a puddle I didn't see and could slip(where people here would say "watch out") But you are both headed towards each other. You can control your actions but are telling her to control hers. People don't like to be told what to do by strangers.
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7 hours ago, Lori D. said:
What I have seen most frequently:
. . . . . . . . . remedial . . . . . . . standard #1 . . .standard #2 . . accelerated
grade 6 . . . math topics . . . . . grade 6 math . . grade 7 math . . Pre-Algebra
grade 7 . . . math topics . . . . . grade 7 math . . .Pre-Algebra . . Algebra 1
grade 8 . . . math topics . . . . Pre-Algebra . . . Algebra 1 . . . . . Geometry
grade 9 . . . Pre-Algebra. . . . Algebra 1 . . . . . . Geometry . . . . . Algebra 2
grade 10 . . Algebra 1 . . . . Geometry . . . . . .Algebra 2. . . . . Pre-Calculus
grade 11 . . .Geometry . . . . . . Algebra 2 . . . . . .Pre-Calculus . Calculus
grade 12 . . Consumer Math Pre-Calculus . . . Calculus . . . . . . Statistics, Advanced Math, post-Calculus, etc.Aside from this there is sometimes also an accounting or business track with a variety of accounting classes after Geometry.
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When asked if we could do something where the obvious answer was no. my grandfather would always say "you have a good case for judge schmuck." A schmuck in Yiddish is a foolish person. My mother also sometimes says that too.
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Here it is illegal for a driver to use hands free devices until they are 18. You may want to double check your state laws.
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Oh OK - I misread you then I apologize!
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How interesting. High School level teams wouldn't play other teams outside of their league during the season so they would never be playing a homeschool team in the first place. Public and parochial schools play each other in one division of the league and prep schools and vocational schools have their own divisions. The only crossover would be the occasional scrimmage that doesn't count for anything. There are rec and travel leagues off season and premier level teams, but I've never seen a league where there weren't rules regarding age. Even if our local rec league had no age requirements the state rec league that sanctions the games does so you have to follow those rules. If a homeschool league wanted to play by their own rules that is fine but they would have to play among themselves. I can't image they would ever be allowed to play other teams that abide by the state designations. There are so many rules that high school level athletes have to follow that a game against your team with the rules you have in place could never really count for anything.
Also the things happening on your team directly defy rules in place by many leagues to eliminate shady practices. Not just the age differences, but a player new to a school or eligible to play on a new team has to wait out one season to play, to eliminate schools recruiting players out from under each other. If a student moved to a new school and started playing on a team immediately every game played by that team would be considered a forfeit because they were playing with an ineligible player. I am saying this all because I think you are seeing what you perceive to be prejudice and suspicion against homeschoolers when the concerns of the other teams may be well justified. I would look into your state sports governing rules to see exactly what these teams are up against.
Sorry to derail this thread OP!
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5 hours ago, teachermom2834 said:
I don't have any real answers but we were involved in a variety of homeschool sports/private school that allowed homeschoolers to play when my boys were in high school.
The one thing I would note is that while some things are legal in that no governing body has authority over homeschool sports...they can promote ill will that prevents the success of the program. For example, if players played for multiple homeschool organizations, while it might not violate any rule officially, it can get public school folks, others frustrated and upset and it can feel like cheating. Even if no one is actually "cheating" the feeling can lead to enough animosity that no one will agree to play the homeschool teams. We were involved a couple times where homeschool/private schools were doing things that, while legal, left a bad enough taste in the mouth of competitors that other schools refused to schedule and state sanctioned officals wouldn't officiate. So, I would just suggest that while there may not be anything legal governing homeschool sports in your area, avoiding the appearance of impropriety is also an issue. Even if you aren't outside any rules, just the appearance of being shady can make it so no one will play you.
If the state sanctioning body, that has no authority over you, forbids their member schools from playing you and their officials from working your games, that is a bad thing, even if you haven't broken any actual rule. BTDT
I'm a little confused by your post but perhaps it is because my state has different rules? If you play a high school sport, say soccer, during the soccer season you cannot play on any other soccer team, club, rec, or otherwise. Playing on a homeschool team as well would invalidate the player and could even lead to the school team having to forfeit games. The homeschool team wouldn't be doing anything wrong just doing their thing, but the high school players would be violating rules. So the public high school players would actually be cheating. Now off season it wouldn't matter.
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I didn't read all the responses but he can wear a sign or name tag that reads Fe and be Iron man
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Can someone let me know as well - This sounds awful
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I don't think there is a public school in the state of CT that doesn't have a nurse on staff, and most of our schools are small (each city or town is it's own district for the most part). Inner city schools usually have some sort of heath center that goes above and beyond the normal school nurse scenario.
I was just speaking with someone yesterday about what a terrible job being an elementary school nurse must be. Between vomiting and lice and now Covid - yuk!
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There are parts of the country where people just really don't know what homeschooling is and use the word to mean the virtual school public schools are providing. I can't tell you how many pics I've seen on Facebook where on the first day of virtual classes people have their children holding up signs saying "First day of 2nd grade Homeschool!" I've tried to tried to correct people in conversation and they look at me like I'm crazy.
I am 50 years old and have only ever encountered two homeschooling families in real life (and one flip-flopper who has probably tried every type of school).
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My son starts back Sept 8th with a hybrid model. There will be a mask requirement but people here have worn masks in all indoor spaces since March. It's sort of a given.
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My dog likes to sit in baskets (like a cat). She has one particular basket she sits in and instead of facing towards the room, she faces the wall, and licks it. I'm not sure why that particular part of my wall is so tasty
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My son has a 36" inseam so I feel your pain. Nike has tall length athletic pants and occasionally I find them at Marshall's/ TJ Maxx.
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An Amazon cart is not like a cart at Lowes. When you take something off the shelf at Lowes and put in in a cart no one else can buy it. A cart on Amazon is more like a wish list. Something you would like to or intend to buy but until you do it isn't allocated to you. The price can change at any time and often that is a reflection of the price they pay for the items. When their cost goes up or down the price they charge goes up or down.
When you purchase a mattress at a store, even if you have a period of time to pay, you still purchased the item. You just owe them the money for whatever that period of time is.
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I hate the beach too, always have. The best part about living near the beach is that you can go for short periods of time. Only an hour or two maybe. It's not a vacation destination where you feel you have to make the most of it and sit there for hours.
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I have two High Schoolers in PS. About two weeks before the shutdown the schools system started planning in the eventuality that they may have to close. Surveys went out to parents to see if people had access to devices and internet. On the last day they were in school which was a Friday Chromebooks were handed out to all students from 3rd grade on up. K-2 received work packets and links to on line resources. The school system and the town worked to make sure students had access to free internet/hot spots. There are also daily breakfast/lunch pickup locations for the town.
I really don't know how it is going with the younger kids., but by the following Tuesday the High Schoolers at least started e-learning. They have 8 25 minute periods and are still being given assignments, tests and quizzes. Attendance is also taken every day. The marking period just ended on the 31st and e-report cards will be issues (although via Power School most parents know their kids grades anyway).
Some of the classes have to be more creative than others. But it actually seems to be working. My kids aren't happy, they miss a lot about school, but it is what it is.
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I've not seen anyone call what is happening homeschooling either. K-2 parents received packets for their students as well as links and resources to supplement at home. Perhaps that is the closest to actual homeschool? 3rd grade on up are all received Chromebooks and they have class schedules and work that will be assigned. They are calling it e-learning. I am more familiar with what they are doing in the high school and they have a schedule of eight 25 minute periods of instruction with corresponding assignments assigned. My son even received a keyboard to take home for his music theory class. Classes like gym or culinary that were a mix of written assignments and hands on will be using videos to replace some of the hands on which is a bummer. Labs as well I believe. It starts tomorrow so I am unsure how everything will work but I definitely know I wouldn't say I'm homeschooling them.
The problem I'm seeing is like with everything, there are parents who have absolutely no idea what is going on and they are the most vocal. Ok this is just a vent, but we've received countless e-mails, texts phone calls and surveys about this whole process on a daily basis and have been for weeks. Every few a days a parent posts something on Facebook basically stating they have no idea what is happening or that they weren't informed. It is maddening because I know some of the people complaining. They are involved parents so how they don't have this information is beyond me. Every time the superintendent sends a message I get it via my home phone, my work phone, my cell phone, I also get a text and e-mails to my home and work. It is posted to the school Website, their Instagram page and their Facebook page. Then it is reposted by the Booster club, the PTO and half the parents in the school.
Also I think there is confusion about the 180 day waiver here as well. School was supposed to end June 9th. We are currently scheduled to be closed two weeks well till March 30th) and will still have to make up the two weeks at the end of the year we just can't go past June 30th. The waiver means that once we hit June 30th we can stop having to make up days even if we haven't hit 180. So basically schools closed for two weeks are just on an extended spring break and students wouldn't need to make anything up or even need to do school at this time. Our district chose e-learning because those days count as days that do not have to be made up at the end of the year.
Now of course other parts of the country are handling things completely differently but this is basically what is happening in most schools in my area. and if the closures are extended past the two weeks that could completely change the game.
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I absolutely hated it. My favorite part of the story is watching the girls "grow up," and seeing how who they are when they are young influences they women they become. The time jumps distort that entire aspect of the story for me.
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48 minutes ago, HeighHo said:
If your children are going to a school where they can be expelled, they are in private school. My children attended public. Yes, there is a big difference between public and private...wealth buys a lot of grades when switching to underresourced public high school.
Hard to hide grades here......scholar-athlete is publicized, although NHS, honor roll, and class rank are not.
My kids are in public school. I don't think I've encountered a public school system here where students cannot be expelled. They usually end up at parochial schools or taking advantage of home tutors that the school system must provide if they do not find an alternative option.
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4 hours ago, HeighHo said:
It helps the student whose grade was figured incorrectly. Seen plenty of times when the essay quality was scored with the wrong rubric...and students learned to go talk to the teacher about it rather than stay home and cry.
It also helps keep the parents from cheating badly. Its quite common here for extra credit to be offered...but only to part of the class. That results in students who earn the state scholarship for highest Regents Exam average never being in the top ten for class rank.
It also uncovers student cheating....my kid received the lowest grade of his life in eighth grade. At conference, I was shrugged off as a tiger mom. I pressed, and found out two grades were recorded as zeros. The teacher did not have a secure chain to pass papers in, and the cheaters had not passed my child's papers forward. We of course had documented issues with the same cheaters in previous grades, so were able to get that resolved quickly. (note: 8th grade here has certain classes for high school credit, so no need to have the gpa tanked at the beginning because of cutthroat competitors).
It's lovely living on the east coast amongst people who would rather cheat than put effort in and actually learn the material.
Well I live on the east coast and my kids never seems to have the same experiences that yours do. Everything is on-line so if assignments were missing you would see in Power School or whichever program your school system uses that those assignments are missing. I don't think kids talking about grades with each other is the way to uncover discrepancies. And someone stealing another students assignment so it can't be handed in. I can't even imagine that - Those students would be expelled.
My kids are now both in high school and say that kids don't really discuss grades that often. Like anything some are more prone to doing so more than others. There are times, like after a particularly difficult test that everyone might compare notes.
There is honor roll here and high honors, but it is something that shows up at the bottom of your report card. In Middle school there is a ceremony at the end of the year with certificates but nothing for high school. It really doesn't matter when comparing students across the board. You can have a student with a 4.0 GPA in all honors and AP classes and a student with a 4.0 GPA in remedial classes. They would have both made high honors but comparing the two is apples to oranges.
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The K-2 Elementary here that has about 350 students has:
1 Psychologist
1 Social Worker
3 SPED Teachers
3 Speech
1 ELL
2 Reading Specialists
3 Tutors
1 Math Coach
3 PT/OT
13 Paras
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19 hours ago, Little Green Leaves said:
I don't really understand why cursive is important. I hope that doesn't sound snarky because I really don't mean it that way. I'm teaching my 8 year old cursive (or "script," as my teachers used to call it) just because I feel nostalgic for it. I associate it fondly with my grandmother, and with quiet time in the classroom, and I think I also read somewhere that learning it is good for your brain. But I'm not super committed to it. Those of you who are, and who encourage your kids to write only in cursive, why?
I liked this post but I actually was referring to you mentioning "script." I said script to my two teenagers the other day and they had no idea that I meant cursive. It is funny to me that modern children recognize the name I see as more formal.
I do think think that cursive is important. My children learned cursive in 3rd grade in p.s. so at about 7/8 y.o. By 4th grade most assignments were required to be in cursive. If they hadn't been taught I would have taught them myself. I think most adults I see actually use a hybrid of print and cursive. I know my handwriting developed from what was the quickest and easiest when taking notes in school.
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Why must people be so incivil? Venty-vent-vent.
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