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Here if you get tested you have to stay home until you get a negative result - but you can't self test so it is more controlled. But it is rarely longer than 24 hours. It will probably resolve itself before you get the results. I have a terrible asthmatic cough in winter and people looked at me badly enough before Covid.
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On 9/25/2021 at 10:50 PM, kristin0713 said:
I don’t know, but my kid is pretty consistent. He actually doesn’t mind wearing a mask in Taekwondo. And this studio has been very strict all along. (They are still doing temp checks, etc.) They did have breaks for lunch. I’d say it was as consistent as any camp could be, which of course is not going to be perfect when you put a bunch of kids together. He still got a cold . 🤷♀️ I certainly don’t begrudge anyone for wearing one or roll my eyes when I see someone masking. I just don’t think there is enough of a benefit *for us* to continue masking if it’s not required, especially if no one else is wearing one.
Or he got a cold just before he went to the camp? Colds are tricky. We legally have to mask in shops etc. The kids don't have to at school. Ds14 carries one but since there hasn't actually been a case in the South Island for over a year I am not that concerned.
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12 hours ago, DJB said:
Even if it's a homeschool coop? This is what I'm confused by. She's home, and we go 2 days a week for her to take classes at a Christian homeschool program.
Where I am there are no such things. So you calling it a school confused me.
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5 hours ago, Arcadia said:
I once worked as a temp software tester for a printer company. We had a certain amount of testing to be finished by noon and another amount of testing to be completed by 5pm. Our supervisor don’t care if we take two hours lunch. He also didn’t care if we play computer games or surf the internet after we completed our assigned work. We could eat at our desks. It was a minimum wage temp job but it was relaxing.
See most minimum wage jobs they expect you to clean if there is any down time. In my experience the less they are paying the more they want their pound of flesh.
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On 9/21/2021 at 12:06 AM, Melissa Louise said:
My kids hardly remember all the pouring out of creativity for their benefit, lol. I'm sure many people do have that impact, don't get me wrong, but I am pretty sure it wasn't as significant in our case as I thought at the time.
I actually don't mind a small life, in some ways. It can have very happy moments. It's just, well, small.
We don"t remember a lot from when we are kids but we are shaped by it.
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I ordered something from Memoria press last year. It took 2 months to transfer from domestic in to international out at the same airport.
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On 5/24/2021 at 8:20 AM, HomeAgain said:
Oh. My.
I can say this, my youngest was not ready for Pinocchio before age 8 and it's listed as a 2-7yo book. Vividly reading the chapter where he killed Jiminy Cricket about threw him over the edge. It's a rough read for a child who only knows the kinder, gentler story.
I have many more thoughts about the others, some of which my kids have read, some I have not bought.
I can't imagine reading the Water Babies to a kid under 7 either.
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On 9/13/2021 at 4:07 PM, Not_a_Number said:
Assuming she'd actually pay attention to the test, I guess 😕 . If she's flunking tests due to lack of caring, she may do the same here...
Is it likely she is just writing the answer on tests and not showing any working?
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On 8/21/2021 at 6:20 AM, Dmmetler said:
Vet med is one of the hardest programs to get into here, too, but it's a grad course, so she's got some time. And she may well end up as a vet tech or something a little less rigorous.
Two weeks in and they still haven't gotten her schedule straightened out. She's actually enjoying it because it's easy. Sigh....
We don't do the 2 step thing you do so that probably explains this. Entrance to many selective courses us based on first year university results (though vet seems to have just changed to first semester). You are simply not going to get the grades required in first year without really solid high school results. Here get is a 5 year course so it must end up being 8? Years there.
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On 9/20/2021 at 6:40 AM, Daveid said:
At this point I'm starting to think you are the teacher in question. My daughter has been in 1st grade for just 16 days and I believe it is expected that a 6 year old will take off their mask and it is the teachers responsibility to ask them to put it back on. There is nothing behavioral about a 6 year old having difficulty in keeping their mask on for all 6 hours of school. This happened a lot with other kids during virtual kindergarten but i saw her kindergarten teacher (a very nice woman whom i still have a very goo relationship with) tell the kids taking their mask off to put it back so they can stay healthy.
You still haven't told me how my daughter would score very high on the test if she wasn't reading the question and just randomly selecting answers
It is obvious you have nothing constructive to offer so it is better you stop responding. If you have kids you would understand how young a 6 year old still is. Some of them just stopped wearing diapers about 3 years ago.
Generally when six year olds test the teachers read the questions out loud (or the computer does). This would actually explain a lot of staring and seemingly random behaviour as it can seem painfully slow for any child in about the top 25%. Laughing may at the questions. On the other hand while all the behaviours you have mentioned seem trivial the teacher may be trying to draw your attention to an underlying concern rather than being concerned about each incident. Set up a meeting with the teacher and in the meantime talk to her about shutting doors, washing hands and keeping masks on. Having not been in school before she may just need more explicit instructions.
ETA. Teachers are pretty busy so the probably didn't contact you the first, second or third time they talked to your daughter about it. Also it is possible it is the teacher that is the problem. I homeschool one of my kids to protect him from teachers who don't understand ASD or have time to help.
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I never heard of gifted until I had kids in my late 30's. It just wasn't a thing in rural schools in NZ in the 1970's. I don't know whether I would test gifted but if I did I would probably be 2e. But I have 2 HG+ kids and their father and I have a lot in common intellectually so I assume I contributed something to the mix. I have an honours degree which puts me in the top 1/3 of my university class and at the time only the top 1/3 or do went to university. I remember find some parts of school way too easy and overwhelmingly shallow but I did also have areas of challenge. I have a gifted/ASD kid and I see myself in him.
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On 10/22/2014 at 2:07 AM, Indian summer said:
I find that when I take the time to get to know (ahem) non gifted people, I usually find them to be gifted in, perhaps, non academic areas, but it completely amazes me that it appears most people have some giftedness. To say that a person gifted in schoolish subjects is somehow above those who aren't is incredibly rude. I understand where our society places its value, but I think it's incredibly ignorant.
I don't think anyone thinks that. Where I live it is fine to have a kid who is gifted in sports and encourage them and even boast but completely unacceptable to have a child that excells academically.
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I don't know anyone who has died of covid. But then I don't know anyone whose baby died of a cot and I still too precautions. For that matter I don't know anyone who has died of measles, influensa or lung cancer. That doesn't mean it is OK to smoke, not get vaccinated or ignore chest infections. I do know someone who died of AIDS back in the early 90's but that doesn't mean we should all focus on AIDS.
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9 hours ago, Spryte said:
Gyn suggested estrogen cream, small amount twice weekly. I’ve had a recent increase in UTI frequency, and she’s thinking it may help prevent them (they end up scary-serious for me). Also, well, I’m past menopause age.
Anyone tried it? Pros? Cons?
Alternatives?
(I can’t be the only one to be past menopause here, can I? 🤣)I
I had surgically induced menopause in my mid 40's and was recent prescribed it for the same reason along with a spiel that they were more or less sure it wouldn't increase my breast cancer risk (the reason for ovary removal). The prescription has been sitting in my bag unfilled for 2 months because I can't get up the nerve.
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I don't think it is unreasonable to expecr a class to be what it says. Sure there can be some flex but a ceramics class needs to teach ceramics, a history of film needs to teach history of film and a swimming class should teach swimming. I have never heard of anyone enrolling in a swimming class then being told we have decided to teach the history of water sports instead - have you?
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5 hours ago, chocolate-chip chooky said:
I'm in Australia, so we're a few steps behind in our vaccine roll out. Covid vax for 12-15 has just started this week, and I've snapped up the first possible appointment for my daughter.
I'm sure this question has been asked and answered in other threads, but I don't know how to search for it.
What are the current recommendations regarding exercise after the Pfizer vax?
Nothing intense for 24hr? 48hr? I've even seen a week mentioned somewhere.
Obviously, I'll ask at our vaccine clinic for their recommendations, but I'd love to hear what you all have learnt.
Thank you 🌻
I am in NZ and ds 12 and ds14 had their first dose last week. Exercise wasn't mentioned. No one said anything when I had mine either.
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On 9/18/2021 at 8:13 AM, Homeschool Mom in AZ said:
Since public education in every state gets federal dollars, it's time the feds mandate online options in every state in order to receive those tax dollars.
Am I the only one who thinks in person ps and online ps in each state should be aligned by week now that we've been through a year and a half of a pandemic? If they're aligned, then couldn't they switch the quarantined kids over to online (those kids with internet access) and then switch them right back into in person when quarantine in over? Maybe not in every class offered in person, but the core subjects like math, reading, English, foreign language, history, and some science. I'm betting science is trickier, but a lectures and demonstrations can be online.
It just seems to me that recording each class as it's taught and providing online access to those videos to students who can't be in class for whatever reason (the flu, broken bone recovery, pandemic quarantine, family vacation that overlaps a bit with school days, etc.) is something that should've happened a long time ago. We have the technology. Is it the same as being in person and interacting with a teacher? No, but it's better than absolutely nothing. And it could be a homework help. Maybe the kid is a little fuzzy on the new concept the teacher covered in class. Being able to review the video before diving into homework could really help kids who need more repetition to get it into their heads, and parents wouldn't have to take on as much homework help themselves. Most parents send their kids to institutional schools because they don't want to do teaching/explaining.But wouldn't each school teach different things on any given week or day using different resources?
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On 9/18/2021 at 7:48 AM, PeterPan said:
They plan to shut down education every time someone tertiary tests positive??????? Unbelievable. What a stunt.
Well we shut down the whole country for one case so that seems quite reasonable.
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Yes I do. If I know that doing or something will cause a major problem and I keep doing it then I really should learn from experience. This doesn't apply if it is an essential thing your are asking them to do or doing (putting on a seatbelt etc).
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11 hours ago, regentrude said:
Your kids are not "failing"!!! The problems in AoPS are designed to be hard, and students are not supposed to get them all correct. The problems are learning tools, not an assessment of mastery - that comes much, much later.
I do not grade any homework in math - homework is for learning. Punishing learners for struggling with new concepts accomplishes nothing but frustration and discouragement.
I gave one comprehensive final at the end of the semester to ensure long term mastery of the material.I recommend you read:
https://artofproblemsolving.com/news/articles/perfect-scores-set-students-up-to-failYes. He says the correct level is getting about 70% right. The other 30% might take a second or third or more try.
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On 9/18/2021 at 10:28 AM, Staysea said:
I just meant that it seemed that it was expected that a beginner 7th grader could hand write a 5 paragraph essay in about 40 minutes. That is why she seemed behind to me.
It was expected and you could. Probably a lot of the kids couldn't and didn't though.
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5.5 hours is more than the kids here do at school. They do 4.5 hours when you take the 1.5 hours outside play at morning tea and lunch and it jumps up to about 5.25 at high school. We do have a 40 week years but there are probably a week of public holidays and teacher only days so 39 is probably more accurate. I would be inclined to have 2 hours quiet time a day with audio books and a hard copy book to match and count that as reading plus an hour outside play a day and call it PE. That would leave you with 2.5 hours to do the rest.
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On 9/15/2021 at 4:34 AM, Jean in Newcastle said:
We don't. Not really. I require a minimum of four hours to be able to pretend to function. I celebrate if I make it to seven hours. Even six and a half is pretty good. (I am actually in bed for over 8 hours.)
Me too. I can function on none for a day of two and four for a week. I have functioned for the past four years on four hours sleep most nights. But I am not function well under the surface. I struggle to make complex decisions and I forget appointments.
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22 hours ago, Hilltopmom said:
Here if you are quarantined by the health dept for an exposure you are expected to stay home for 10 days regardless of symptoms. It’s NOT optional. You can test on day 5-6 but that does not get you out of quarantine. If you actually test positive, your quarantine is checked on by the state troopers to be sure you are at home.
Yeah here it is 2 weeks for the entire household and the infected kid and his family would me moved to a quarantine facility.
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Math Problem
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The error is usually half the smallest marking so 1/2 oz.