Jean in Newcastle Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 On the gen ed board about the reluctant and disruptive c-op students. Some of the suggestions she’s been given are a lil 🤨 imo. But I have zero classroom management skills so I didn’t feel qualified to post. So I just let the cranky ol lady out here. I think that some posters don't realize that it is a middle school/ teen class. Some of the suggestions are fine for young elementary. Not so much for that age level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 'k. Guess this means I'd better start buying Lotto tickets, eh? Yes, please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 My hands super hurt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJosMom Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 My inner cranky old lady is vicariously annoyed on behalf of the students at the co-op who actually want to learn literature. Aaaaaaaand that’s yet another reason we don’t co-op. (Carve your notes in clay? WHat the flying fudgesicle?) Is this on a thread somewhere? I'm curious. On the gen ed board about the reluctant and disruptive c-op students. Some of the suggestions she’s been given are a lil 🤨 imo. But I have zero classroom management skills so I didn’t feel qualified to post. So I just let the cranky ol lady out here. I think that some posters don't realize that it is a middle school/ teen class. Some of the suggestions are fine for young elementary. Not so much for that age level. I think someone should go post "Duct tape." I dare ya. I double dog dare ya. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJosMom Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 My hands super hurt. There. All better. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Birthday season is coming at the Spuds, all three girls within a month. If dh agrees with my picks, Lego Lass is getting a nice rolling backpack so she doesn’t give herself a hernia carrying library books, Snugglebunny is getting a mermaid sticker book and rhyming dictionary for her poetry, and Twlight Sparkle is getting a DVD of the episode where Princess Cadence marries Shining Armour. I've been meaning to get John one of those electric dictionaries. Maybe you'd rather one of those? Growing up mine had rhyming, definition, thesaurus and word games. It was fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I cannot edit the Booya but just realized my step dad gave that to me in the visiting room which means he broke like 14 laws. Federal offence BOOYA! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJosMom Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Or we could just totally jump the shark and tell her to conduct the class in interpretive dance. There are no wrong moves, only accidental solos!! But I’m a chicken. Hiding in a tree from your double dog dare. You'll note that Miss Big Mouth here is NOT posting over there.... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Sounds breakable. I don’t trust them new fangled things. Plus books smell nice and feel nice. And we already have a dictionary and thesaurus. How did he break federal laws? He was in prison so he got the thing into prison and then to the visitors area and then told us how to get it out. He probably just broke rules, not laws, but it's kind of a tomato tomato thing with convicts. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 I have such good stories. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 (edited) EdPo: School is now prepared for this week. That is all! Except COFFEE!!,☕ï¸â˜•ï¸â˜•ï¸â˜•ï¸â˜•ï¸â˜•ï¸â˜•ï¸ Edited January 15, 2018 by KrissiK 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Trying to ketchup a bit here.... See, THOSE I know (tostadas and taco bowls). That is NOT what I got on an English search for taco salad, and isn't what those ladies at Bible study meant. I get this, which is what they were talking about, thus my confusion about the "taco" part of it: I don't care whatcha call it, but if you make it, I'll eat it! :drool5: :drool5: :drool5: I needed to know about this so that I could tell you to Stop It. ;) Ironing is optional. You are sick and recovering from surgery. (Disclaimer: I don't iron. Anything. Ever.) :iagree: No ironing! In my defense, I was ironing a watercolor painting that I'm seriously thinking about matting and framing. :D In that case, we'll issue an exception. I'm seriously thinking of getting a puppy as a substitute child when ds goes out of state to college in the fall. You said "when" not "if." But I don't think the ITT aunties have been notified yet.... :toetap05: EdpoI am so fed up with history. Yet again they have a discussion question in the back of the book that they don’t give enough information in the chapter to actually, you know, discuss. I suspect the real problem is that the writer of the book assumed it would be taught by a nun with lots of free time to lesson plan this stuff that the book only hints at. 😡😩 :svengo:I am fed up with history in general. It’s extra annoying that I can’t seem to find something that works in one of my favorite subjects.Maybe it’s time to consider Spud’s Seton Slammer. Grumble grumble grumble. :grouphug: Change it! (And sing "Born Free..." as you write your new plans....) Not weird.Hope it all works out. Is he definitely going? Great minds and all that. That's my question too! Qdoba? Yes! What time do you want me to meet you there? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Trying to ketchup a bit here.... I don't care whatcha call it, but if you make it, I'll eat it! :drool5: :drool5: :drool5: :iagree: No ironing! In that case, we'll issue an exception. You said "when" not "if." But I don't think the ITT aunties have been notified yet.... :toetap05: :grouphug: Change it! (And sing "Born Free..." as you write your new plans....) Great minds and all that. That's my question too! Yes! What time do you want me to meet you there? It’s 90% in favor of him going. But he flies out to visit next month so not 100% decided yet. God has provided finances. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 LOL. My inner cranky old lady comes out on occasion on different threads as well. I want to have an entire website dedicated to questions that are really "how do I manage medium to large groups of people who don't really want to be there" problems. We could answer questions related to public school, private school, Sunday school, low-wage jobs, community college for teenagers, homeschool co-ops, after school activities including the YMCA, the draft, and youth rec sports. But your main answer is always going to be, "Yeah that work is really hard and horrible and you are all underpaid and underappreciated and you're absolutely right, about half of all parents are entitled jerks." In addition, I bet you could have one really good leader from the local Boys and Girls club after school program in your local "low performing" school who could answer like 99.95% of the questions about how to deal with non-compliance. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 (((Celery))) I think the serious flu going around is a body-aches-fever-congestion flu, not so much tummy flu. (Could be wrong about that.) Yeah, he's fine now. Thanks for the well-wishes, guys. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Yeah, he's fine now. Thanks for the well-wishes, guys. :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandwalker Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 That to me is a Mexican layered salad. It looks very low-carb. Too low-carb for my taste.I'd have some brown rice in there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I have a boatload of assignments that I have to grade. #don'twanna #procrastinator I think I need an incentive. And we don't have enough chocolate. :glare: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 What's the closest place I can drive to that has 70+ degree weather? I Googled it... it's pretty much Miami, which is a 20+ hour drive (not counting stopping for gas, food, sleep, sanity). Sigh. Round-trip flights are only $244 tomorrow afternoon (return trip a week later). I might just run off. Except I've got a dental appointment on Wednesday. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I Googled it... it's pretty much Miami, which is a 20+ hour drive (not counting stopping for gas, food, sleep, sanity). Sigh. Round-trip flights are only $244 tomorrow afternoon (return trip a week later). I might just run off. Except I've got a dental appointment on Wednesday. I think there are dentists in Miami. Just sayin. Or drive through KY; we have a great dentist. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Seattle felt like 70 today. It was so sunny and nice! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Some of my roses once started blooming in the middle of January in NL. It was like 15C for a few days, which is NOT normal there that time of year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Yeah, he's fine now. Thanks for the well-wishes, guys. Glad he's doing better! You OK? You know, I'd bet there's an elderly New Yorker heading down to FL about now for the rest of the winter - might take on a hitchhiker. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I'm sewing fleece rat-cage-shelf bedding cases. Have I gone mad? Why yes, I believe so. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I'm sewing fleece rat-cage-shelf bedding cases. Have I gone mad? Why yes, I believe so. #stopthemadness 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 #stopthemadness :LOL: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Hey, I turn 700 on this page. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanalouwho Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Captain Mal is supposed to go to the dentist tomorrow. I will probably cancel if there is even a smidgen of ice on the road. #canttrustTexansinthewinter Sent from my HTCD160LVW using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I can't find out when next year's school year is supposed to start at the college that ds is planning on going to. I had to send them an email to ask. All they have is this year's academic schedule published. But surely they know when they are planning on starting next year. . . I'm running into a possible conflict with my teaching at Bible camp. :svengo: I'm conflicted between wanting to help ds get settled and my responsibilities at camp. It may seem weird to worry about this 7 months early but if I have to do some adjusting of things it has to be started NOW. Not weird at all. Better than realizing an hour ago that Wednesday's dentist appt for Broccoli, Celery, and me overlaps with guitar/violin for Broccoli & Celery. Not sure what to do... the dentist could probably get 1 or maybe 2 in and we'd still have enough time to get to guitarolin, but no way that all 3 is going to work, and it's already a reschedule from Nov or thereabouts (scheduled before I got the guitarolin schedule). Ugh. I really don't want to miss guitarolin, because while they did have class last week, the week before their heater was broken, the couple of weeks before that was xmas break, the week before that we were sick, and the week before that only Celery had class because the violin teacher was out. The reason the reschedule of the dental appt is from so long ago is because one of their hygienists is out on maternity leave. I *might* be able to just reschedule one of our appts for that, but they're probably going to be very unhappy if I tried to reschedule all 3. And I'm sure that if I just reschedule 1, they'll be running late (which they never do), and the weather and traffic will be terrible, and we won't make it to guitarolin on time anyway. What to do??? :willy_nilly: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Seattle felt like 70 today. It was so sunny and nice! Yeah, and I'm sure it's so much closer than Miami!!! ... 39 hour drive. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Seattle mostly does a great job of making Miami seem positively next door to me. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Oh, and I'm ketchupped. For the first time in like a week or something. :party: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Seattle mostly does a great job of making Miami seem positively next door to me. Surrounded by such engaging natural beauty in the east and south, that we have managed to keep our city under one million people for over 100 years. We make you all look like a real city. Third grade is awesome and horrible, horrible at the same time. She knows how to calculate a perimeter. She knows how to add. She is a critical thinker and doesn't flinch at two start problems in Beast Academy. But it has taken us a full hour to do three addition perimeter problems. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Surrounded by such engaging natural beauty in the east and south, that we have managed to keep our city under one million people for over 100 years. We make you all look like a real city. ? Seattle has about three times the population we have. And Seattle metro area also has about 3 times the population our metro area has. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I'm sewing fleece rat-cage-shelf bedding cases. Have I gone mad? Why yes, I believe so.You’re doing Whaaaaat????? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 ? Seattle has about three times the population we have. And Seattle metro area also has about 3 times the population our metro area has. Seattle's had a bigger population than Buffalo since sometime between 1950 and 1960. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Seattle's had a bigger population than Buffalo since sometime between 1950 and 1960. That said, in 1860, Buffalo's population was 431.5 times as big as Seattle's population. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Because in 1860, Seattle's population was like, 188. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Seattle's metro area became bigger than Buffalo's metro area sometime between 1940 and 1950. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Okay, that's enough for tonight's demographics lesson. Sorry for going off on a tangent, guys. Back to our regularly scheduled programming! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Where's Rocco? I need a drink. With an umbrella. And that flight to ITT island, of course. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 You’re doing Whaaaaat?????Sewing fleece rat-cage-shelf bedding cases. Seattle's metro area became bigger than Buffalo's metro area sometime between 1940 and 1950. You know the weirdest things. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 You know the weirdest things. I have Wikipedia. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I finished the grading: 2 chemistry tests 2 marine biology tests 5 computer skills tests and I updated the gradebooks! Now I have to write the assignments for the rest of the week. :thumbdown: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I have Wikipedia. And oodles of time, now that I'm ketchupped. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I finished the grading: 2 chemistry tests 2 marine biology tests 5 computer skills tests and I updated the gradebooks! Now I have to write the assignments for the rest of the week. :thumbdown: Go Junie!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Yes! The 3 high school assignment sheets are written. I still need to write dd11's assignments, but her books are in her room and bedtime for her was 2 hours ago. Methinks it can wait until morning. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 In other news: I cleaned out part of the pantry tonight. Dh wondered why there was a can of baking powder in the trash. I told him we had two that were opened, so I threw away the one with the oldest date. 2012. :svengo: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Yeah, well I'm a slob. For realz. I can't eat without spilling on myself. It's my only flaw. :hat: I sent picture evidence of eating a taco bowl as a finger food. :tongue_smilie: I did not send any evidence of spills. :leaving: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Qdoba? No...sounds interesting though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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