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I volunteer in an after-school program. We don't really "tutor"; it is more like we are there to nudge them to complete their homework so they can go play.
Today I was helping a 5th grader with her math homework. She absolutely couldn't do the long division problems. As we tried to work through a single problem it became clear that she didn't get the basic concept of what she was to do (figure out how many times 37 goes into 111). She also doesn't know how to round (I suggested rounding to 40 for the first guess attempt), nor does she know basic multiplication facts other than 2s and 5s. She couldn't skip count as a "cheat" for the math facts (I suggested she count by 3s, and she started with 3, 6, 8...)
I want to ask the program director if I can arrange 1-2 hours a week to work with her individually but wanted some advice before I approach her; my kids are in college so it's been a long time since I've taught elementary math!1. Do you think 1-2 hours a week would help this student improve meaningfully? (I'm *assuming* no real learning disability; according to the program director the student has moved frequently and may have fallen behind because of that).
2. Since these concepts are foundational for long division, and it's what I noticed she was having trouble with, I think time would be best spent on :
a) math multiplication facts/skip counting
b ) division with single-digit divisors
c) rounding concepts
3. I don't have any materials left from when I taught my kids elementary math. I hope to find something free online - is there anything specific you would recommend?Please help me help this student! -
Smoking cigarettes and loud fights (arguments) are also criminal? What about running up and down hallways disturbing others? Throwing furniture into the pool? Lying about housekeeping services to try to get a rate reduction? Demanding a refund on Superbowl weekend, because your private jet service has been cancelled, even though these rooms were sold out months prior as ABSOLUTELY NO REFUNDS? What about customers that shove dirty underwear into vending machines as a joke? Or people who deliberately leave behind used condoms and sex toys for housekeeping?
Is that all criminal behavior, or is it just the customers being right again?
P.S., I have many more "red herrings" to add to the above list. I'm sure others in the business do too.
I'm sorry. Your experiences sound truly horrifying.
You know that "the customer is always right" is a thing? That I didn't make it up? It applies in the way I used it - in the case of a customer asking for a lost item to be returned. For you to continue to compare it to vile, criminal, anti-social or otherwise aberrant behavior - I just have no more words. :huh:
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My ds is going to Hawaii for 3 months...sending you a PM!
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Also, I wanted to add that we put EVERYTHING on a credit card that gives air miles (and pay them off monthly). We have earned countless free air tickets this way. We were even able to put some of our kids' college tuition on a credit card; we get tons of air points that way!
I know this is an unpopular position sometimes, but I do the same. I've heard Dave Ramsey mock that he's never heard anyone get rich off their credit card points. No, but I've been on more free trips than I can count using air miles & hotel points. England, Peru, Hawaii, etc. Trips that we couldn't otherwise pay cash for. When my mom-in-law died 2 years ago, all 4 of us went to Texas on award tickets (would have cost us well over $2000 cash). My hubby earns a lot of these points with his business travel, but I also highly recommend credit card sign up bonuses. Google that phrase for tips. :)
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I don't understand the nastiness you're receiving in this thread. :confused:
I don't understand the prevailing tone of this thread. Compare it to the thread from a few days ago when somebody asked WWYD with found cash. Almost every poster would go out of their way to try to find the owner! People told stories of following another customer back into the store, leaving their name with the customer service desk, etc. All for an unknown person who lost cash that could never be traced back to them. Nobody said, "Well it was their own fault they dropped the $20." as wonderchica and I have been told. We're all human - people drop stuff and forget stuff. Some of the stories on that thread were very touching! So we'll all happily go out of our way for a stranger, and yet if we work at a hotel we won't do the same for the people who paid us to stay in the room last night.
Edited to add link to the thread: Surprisingly I noticed many voted for "finders keepers" but nobody really promoted the idea in the body of the thread.
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They are not your personal servants. And no, the customer is not always right. Especially when they are smoking cigarettes or weed in their rooms, trashing furniture, having loud fights in the hallway, cursing and screaming at the front desk, sexually propotioning the staff, or worse, harassing them, stealing items from the room, and including blaming staff and making threats because of their own mistakes or bad behavior.
People are people, and deserve basic respect, no matter the "industry." Having experienced every single incident above, please remember the customer is not only wrong at times, but egregiously so.
Sigh. Did I really have to say "except in the case of criminal activity"? Because all you've described is criminal activity which I would never condone. Throwing that in there is a red herring, but for clarity I've edited my post.
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When do you think a hotel's obligation to you ends? Do you feel a hotel should still serve you even after you have checked out? I would be thankful I got the necklace back and not complaining they didn't go above and beyond, when the hotel could have thrown the necklace in the trash.
I think the hotel's obligation extends to holding lost items for a reasonable amount of time and then sending them back at the owner's expense. If you want to call that "serving you even after you've checked out" then yes, I do. Things get left in hotels every day. This is why, as other posters have mentioned, hotels have policies about sending items back to their guests. Do you really think it's OK for hotels to throw left-behind items in the trash? It sounds like you are proposing that as a reasonable alternative on their part. :confused1: :confused1:
My husband spends approx 50 nights a year in hotels. I spend about half that amount. Only one other time can I remember either of us leaving something in a hotel other than a phone charger (gah, the bane of my traveling existence!). The day he checked out, before dh even noticed it was missing, the hotel had called his office and spoke with his assistant, who then called dh to make sure he wanted to authorize the charge to send it back. That was great customer service. Throwing lost items into a bin and waiting for the owner to call is a reasonable policy, but I'm still completely baffled that it's described as "above and beyond".
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Hate? Really? I hope you are kidding!
Not kidding, but using it in a slang way that's not uncommon on the internet when someone disagrees with you. :unsure: Maybe I'm hanging out with too many young people who throw around "haters gonna hate"
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If they pay attention, they will know you unfriended and blocked. You could keep them as a friend, but unfollow and restrict. This way they will see you on their list of friends, but won't see any of your posts. You will not see any of their posts, either. It will seem like you have gone inactive.
HTH
Yes, do this! Several posters have mentioned the unfollow part, but you should also go the extra step of restricting her access to your feed, or adding her to a list like acquaintances, and they have all of your posts exclude acquaintances. I've done this with a few people who aren't really "friends" but I don't want to unfriend for whatever reason.
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Wow, that person keeps a mighty close eye on their friend count, lol!
I know, what a nut.
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I'm not aware of any purity balls in my circle of friends or acquaintances. I do wonder if the phrasing has different context depending on the region. I am, obviously, in Texas. :)
Well, I'm "from" Texas but moved to the West coast 18 years ago, so I'm not sure how I'd answer a poll. Have I been deTexed after 18 years? :laugh:
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I have a friend who does this. Everyone that does something with someone else is going on a date. Girlfriends. Kids. Kids with other kids. Men with other men. To her 'date' is just a term for 2-4 people getting together, I think.
I think it's humorous.
I don't like it either. I hang out with my kids, together and separately, at different times. Not ever do I call it "a date". It's just weird. I don't date my kids. :0
I wonder if it's regional or ?? that some people think the word date only means romantic dating.
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I go on "dates" with my husband, son, daughter, & girlfriends. I don't think the word "date" itself has a romantic connotation, but I agree with the others who've said there are some creepy ways father/daughter dating is being done.
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How would they have known it was unique and expensive?
My post said it was gold, so that covers the expensive part. I guess uniqueness is in the eye of the beholder, but I frequently get comments on it. I still say that although it was negligent of me to leave it behind, it was equally negligent of them to pop it in a flimsy letter envelope and have it go out with their daily correspondence.
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LOL - where's the gratitude people? The necklace could have been forgotten 3 people ago. It also could have easily disappeared behind a dresser or desk not to be found for a long time or ever. I would see why the hotel would wait and see who called for the necklace. Then they bothered to mail it and you received it in a timely manner. All above and beyond the call of duty. Most professional handling? No, but it was your mistake they were rectifying.
No kidding! Instead of being upset because of how the hotel shipped it, I'd be thrilled to get back an irreplaceable necklace that was left behind due to my own negligence.
Didn't know I would get hate on this one...I know it was my mistake, hence the bitter tears of regret...it was my own carelessness. I was effusively thankful on the phone with them and they knew how important the necklace was. When I asked specifically how it would be sent I said something like, "Oh, good, insurance is included" when they said UPS/FedEx. As relieved as I am to be wearing my necklace again, I still think it was very badly handled on their part!
Customers might be wrong (careless) but in the service industry they are still always right except in the case of criminal activity. In my case, the hotel would have earned a ton of goodwill if they had done what they said they'd do and charge me for shipping by an insured, trackable method. In wonderchica's case, I'm willing to bet the hotel which has mail going out every day, had a way to pay postage on a large envelope without sending an employee to the post office. Yes, I'm glad to have my necklace back & OP is glad to have the pillowcase back, but in both cases the hotels would have had THRILLED customers instead of merely relieved customers, if they'd done what they said they'd do.
ETA: I just noticed the 'above & beyond the call of duty' statement. Nope. They are in the service industry. They serve.
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We make Spam chips. :) Slice a block of spam very thinly, approx 16 slices. Fry on both sides in a non-stick skillet. (you won't need any extra fat to "fry", trust me). Salty goodness.
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I had the opposite situation happen to me last month. I left behind an irreplaceable gold necklace (I'd had one of the charms since childhood, the other since I was a teen). I didn't realize it until a few days later when I finally realized the last time I'd worn the necklace was in that city. I called the hotel and it turns out they had the necklace. It took 24 hours for them to get back to me so I was sure it was gone and was crying bitter tears. They said they'd send it to me by FedEx or UPS and charge it to the credit card on file which sounded great to me; I'd gladly pay $24! Imagine my surprise when it showed up a couple of days later in my mailbox in a plain letter envelope with a stamp on it. I was so mad that A) they KNEW who had checked out of that room; why didn't they call to ask, "Hey did you maybe leave behind a piece of jewellery?" and then B)they tossed an obviously unique and expensive item in a letter envelope and sent it by USPS!
Oh, and I did check my credit card statement to make sure they at least hadn't run a charge through for shipping!
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Pimsleur if you can get it from your library. And Duolingo. Spend as much time as you possibly can on both of these. You can listen to the Pimsleur while you drive, run, walk the dog, clean the house, etc.
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I, too, am a towel hoarder. I don't have time to count them now, but between bath towels, hand towels, beach towels, and worn-out bath towels that I've saved to dry the dog - it's probably 100. (I'm not counting anything in the kitchen)
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We had a similar situation. Members are also required to attend a "Child Safety Training for Abuse Prevention" class if they are in any way interacting with the kids-teaching, chaperoning, working in the nursery, etc.... No one is allowed to take a child to the bathroom unless another adult is present, all classrooms are to either have a window to the hallway or doors are to be left open. From what I've heard from friends who attend different churches, this is the norm. I guess I'm totally flabbergasted at the idea of ministers and church members trying to "keep things quiet" or "protect the abuser". I've not done any internet searches to find out how widespread this is, but to blame the "church" or "Christians" in a blanket statement is pretty harsh. Why do we seem to always attack a group when something awful happens? Does everyone have to be lumped into some sort of group???
I agree. I think here we are talking about conservative Christian homeschoolers, because that's the case at hand. But anybody reading this thread without any context could conclude that sexual abuse of children solely happens in Christian organizations! I like what maize had to say about that:
I think a tendency to sweep things under the rug exists in most if not all organizations. Universities, sports programs, scouting programs, and the military are just a few of the places I can think of where similar problems have been uncovered in recent years.
Of course sexual abuse happens in neighborhoods, families, etc. In looking at the Megan's law offenders in my city - I don't have all the background but it looks like many of them abused family members, neighbors, etc.
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I don't know if your mind is made up and this is a JAWM thread. But I'd go, for the reasons some others have already mentioned. UNLESS it would really be totally irresponsible (you have to use a credit card for next month's rent, etc.). Only you know the financial trade-off.
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I just had to laugh when I saw the title of this post. Ordering from RR is one of the things I DON'T miss about being done with homeschooling.
Anybody remember Great Christian Books? I was just happy they refunded my credit card for back-ordered items before they went under. I like to order from "somebody other than Amazon" but sometimes it's just nice to know you'll have your books in 2 days no matter what.
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Have a baby. Toddlers will find every cigarette butt or wad of gum on the ground.
Or take a class at the local junior college. Ours is a NON smoking campus, and yet, cigarette butts aplenty. And gum under the desks. I feel like I need a bath when I get home. But I just wash my hands really well.
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Just Curious, if it was "Great Uncle Joe" staying at the house for a week or so and one night he went out with his friends but had a key to get it in, would he be expected to call or text as to keep the family updated on his ETA? I think females especially teen and young adults get the brunt of "its just common courtesy". My mother kept way tighter tabs on me than she did my younger brother and it did in some instances breed resentment. At this age she seems to possess many of the qualities you had hoped and not texting every time plans change is just a part of her living her live and gaining independence. Nothing more should be read into it.
22 years ago, my adult brother lived with us for a while. He stayed out all night one time, unexpectedly. I was worried. (this was before cell phones). I think it's courteous to let people who love you and might be worried about you know approximately when you'll be home. It's not a male/female thing in our house; it applies to both our dc.
5th grade math (long division) tuturing help needed
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Thanks, that looks like a good lesson on division; I've saved it and will check out their other samples.
Yes, this is what I had in mind for that. I also volunteer in a 5th grade classroom, and they start off every math lesson with this warmup!
Thanks to you both; after looking at your suggestions and googling some other stuff, I feel confident that there are materials that I can use to help her. So I've just emailed the program director.