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I learned how to write here (thanks to advice from Nobodyshome and Kalindlara).
Reading was never a problem.
Math is a struggle, although that was self inflicted I suspect.
My mom always thought I had dyslexia but the only way I see I might have it is I get ahead of myself and will omit a word or six here or there.
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99% of the people homeschooling around here are doing it solely for religious reasons, on the grounds that public school is "too worldly (secular)" and they don't want their children exposed to any conflicting ideas or worldviews. It's incredibly common.
That's all well and good, but there's a nasty implication inherent to the results that middle-grade reading comprehension is a "conflicting" idea.
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I learned how to write here.
Reading was never a problem.
Math is a struggle, although that was self inflicted I suspect.
My mom always thought I had dyslexia but the only way I see I might have it is I get ahead of myself and will omit a word or six here or there.
Right. It's not an issue for every homeschool situation, but it's absolutely true for my area. Huge achievement gaps between the homeschooled kids and those who weren't when they get to our building.
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99% of the people homeschooling around here are doing it solely for religious reasons, on the grounds that public school is "too worldly (secular)" and they don't want their children exposed to any conflicting ideas or worldviews. It's incredibly common.That's all well and good, but there's a nasty implication inherent to the results that middle-grade reading comprehension is a "conflicting" idea.
My best guess is they do very little reading that isn't straight from scripture (which let's be honest, after that many years of religiously-motivated homeschooling, they have the major scriptures memorized) or biblical workbooks (which even the ones made for adults are never more difficult than 5th grade reading level or so).
Granted, I'm speaking mostly about my area. I have no idea if that's the reasoning and pattern in yours.
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Oh I agree, it's definitely an issue, we were an anomaly in that my dad was a teacher.
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John, do you have any MRE stories you'd like to share, or are the memories (MREs?) still too painful?As I was picking him up from the after-school care room today, my son looked at a box of "multi-grain" crackers and read aloud "military grade crackers". He got mad because he couldn't understand why I was laughing.
And it gave me a great idea:
I'm going to go to the military surplus store and pick up a couple of MRE's.
So the next time he complains that whatever really good meal I just spent two hours making is "DISGUSTING", I can quietly take his plate away and serve him an MRE instead.I am not John, nor were I in the military, but about 20 years ago or so I did eat an MRE. I remember it being unpleasant but not disgusting.
Also, I think memories about MREs are properly called "meMREs".
They're very much like the shadows of your mind, however you spell them.
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I learned how to write here (thanks to advice from Nobodyshome and Kalindlara).
Reading was never a problem.
Math is a struggle, although that was self inflicted I suspect.
My mom always thought I had dyslexia but the only way I see I might have it is I get ahead of myself and will omit a word or six here or there.
or, you know, clothes.
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Same. Our district has a lot of kids who are homeschooled K-6...and they get to junior high with staggering gaps in basic reading/writing. Like...complete emotional shut down over simple reading comprehension questions. I've heard there's similar for math, but that's not my department, so I've not really noticed.
...really makes me wonder what exactly they're doing for that stretch of time.
I mean if they were good teachers they'd probably be teachers for more than just their own kids. They're doing the same job with fewer people for free. They probably, well...suck at it.
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Gave English a logic puzzle today because everyone's basically checked out. We're finding that the story premise absolutely collapses if you think about it too hard.
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There's a lady that moved in down the street this summer, she likes to spy on people from her window and after I waved to her one morning she put homemade crosses on every window.
Today I saw her splashing the outside of her house with boiling water.
Interesting.
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Geez. There are few things as irritating at concerts as self-righteous potheads.
We went and saw Tenacious D last night at the Fox theater in Oakland, an enclosed building. California has laws against smoking indoors, but potheads insist, "It's not tobacco smoke; it's harmless."
Er, no. Having just a few weeks ago taken a day off because of wildfire smoke, which I guarantee had no tobacco in it whatsoever, I can reassure you, any smoke is a lung irritant.
It's particularly irritating because California is a legalized state; on that block were dispensaries selling all forms of edibles: Gummi bears, brownies, what-have-you, and security at the door was letting people in with pretty much anything that wasn't a weapon.
But NOOOOOOOO...., smoking is the *only* way to do it "properly".
So the concert was a thick haze of pot smoke and vaping whatever, and this morning both my and NobodysWife's lungs are burning, and the potheads' response is, "If you don't like the smoke, don't come to the concert!"
How about, "Don't inflict your **** on other people!"
I have no issues with recreational drug use. But when people are a$$hats about it, I get p****d.
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Geez. There are few things as irritating at concerts as self-righteous potheads.
We went and saw Tenacious D last night at the Fox theater in Oakland, an enclosed building. California has laws against smoking indoors, but potheads insist, "It's not tobacco smoke; it's harmless."
Er, no. Having just a few weeks ago taken a day off because of wildfire smoke, which I guarantee had no tobacco in it whatsoever, I can reassure you, any smoke is a lung irritant.
It's particularly irritating because California is a legalized state; on that block were dispensaries selling all forms of edibles: Gummi bears, brownies, what-have-you, and security at the door was letting people in with pretty much anything that wasn't a weapon.
But NOOOOOOOO...., smoking is the *only* way to do it "properly".So the concert was a thick haze of pot smoke and vaping whatever, and this morning both my and NobodysWife's lungs are burning, and the potheads' response is, "If you don't like the smoke, don't come to the concert!"
How about, "Don't inflict your **** on other people!"
I have no issues with recreational drug use. But when people are a$$hats about it, I get p****d.
As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, every 4/20, I am reminded why I do not care for recreational pot use.
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And the a#%@+!!s are back. Although maybe I shouldn't call them that right now. There are fewer of them (6 instead of 13), they aren't playing music on their phones (although I could hear the bass pounding in their car as they pulled up), and they are sitting together so they can speak in a normal volume. Still getting drunk at 5:00am, though.
Speaking as a 10-year alcoholic, I never once drank at 5:00 am. That's pretty pathetic.
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And the a#%@+!!s are back. Although maybe I shouldn't call them that right now. There are fewer of them (6 instead of 13), they aren't playing music on their phones (although I could hear the bass pounding in their car as they pulled up), and they are sitting together so they can speak in a normal volume. Still getting drunk at 5:00am, though.Speaking as a 10-year alcoholic, I never once drank at 5:00 am. That's pretty pathetic.
I did, once.
But it was my 21st birthday weekend, so.
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And the a#%@+!!s are back. Although maybe I shouldn't call them that right now. There are fewer of them (6 instead of 13), they aren't playing music on their phones (although I could hear the bass pounding in their car as they pulled up), and they are sitting together so they can speak in a normal volume. Still getting drunk at 5:00am, though.Speaking as a 10-year alcoholic, I never once drank at 5:00 am. That's pretty pathetic.
the only time I drank at 5 am was when I was keeping the party going from the night before. I am not sure what the occasion was, but I was pretty drunk.
I remember the sunlight hitting me like a fist at about 5:15, and retreating to the safety of my bedroom not long after.
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It's interesting -- I worry a great deal about my nephews for many of the reasons mentioned above: My sister-in-law firmly believed that young children should never experience negative emotions.
Seriously.
So she shielded them from computers, televisions, and any disappointment. And yep, they grew up to be tantrum-throwing little ****s who would have complete meltdowns if they didn't get their way. She ended up taking them to a psychotherapist, who (to his credit) immediately recognized that the problem wasn't with the kids, and started training her to actually let them, y'know, experience life.
She relaxed on the TV, but only for professional sports. She let them go to a private, extremely-controlling school.
So now they're sports-obsessed little monsters with almost no social skills whatsoever. And they turn 18 in just a few years. I pity both them and their parents.
Trying to shield your kids from reality really never goes well.
(I would not use the term "monsters" for them because they are generally polite to adults, but the last couple of times they've interacted with my kids it's basically been, "You're from San Francisco? Then you're a 49ers fan! And they SUCK! You're a moron for liking the 49ers! How can you be so pathetic?"
And yeah, my kids don't follow sports to the point that they've never even heard of the 49ers, much less could they name what sport they play.)
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There was a bowling alley in Marshfield called The Rose Bowl, I still remember being super disappointed we couldn't go to the parade.
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Just getting around to the list requests, those who messaged me should be getting responses as the day goes on. Those who haven't, still feel free to peruse the list and message me, or post your requests here, and I'll get to them asap. :)
Squee!
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Boyd sure is an idiot!
Hell hath no fury like an angry captain.
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Geez. There are few things as irritating at concerts as self-righteous potheads.
We went and saw Tenacious D last night at the Fox theater in Oakland, an enclosed building. California has laws against smoking indoors, but potheads insist, "It's not tobacco smoke; it's harmless."
Er, no. Having just a few weeks ago taken a day off because of wildfire smoke, which I guarantee had no tobacco in it whatsoever, I can reassure you, any smoke is a lung irritant.
It's particularly irritating because California is a legalized state; on that block were dispensaries selling all forms of edibles: Gummi bears, brownies, what-have-you, and security at the door was letting people in with pretty much anything that wasn't a weapon.
But NOOOOOOOO...., smoking is the *only* way to do it "properly".So the concert was a thick haze of pot smoke and vaping whatever, and this morning both my and NobodysWife's lungs are burning, and the potheads' response is, "If you don't like the smoke, don't come to the concert!"
How about, "Don't inflict your **** on other people!"
I have no issues with recreational drug use. But when people are a$$hats about it, I get p****d.
I apologize on behalf of the stoner community. We do love to share and are generous, because smoking alone is about 1/4 as fun as with a friend, but most of us aren't forcers cause...more for us.
#notallpotheads
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Trying to shield your kids from reality really never goes well.
Yep. See that a lot. Small town means a general lack of exposure to differing opinions or disappointment. So when we do in-class discussions, they get very uncomfortable with devil's advocating. They've never had to cope with differing ideals, and a lot of them get very hostile when having to confront the uncomfortable idea of disagreement.
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I apologize on behalf of the stoner community. We do love to share and are generous, because smoking alone is about 1/4 as fun as with a friend, but most of us aren't forcers cause...more for us.
#notallpotheads
Oh, you don't need to. My stepfather-in-law was a regular user, even growing stuff in his back yard, but he was always careful to have us come outside with him when he wanted to toke up so we wouldn't have to deal with the smoke.
Just like driving, there are many, many conscientious users you never notice.
Then the ones who aren't ruin everything for everyone.
(Just like Freehold, I remember 3-4 years ago when a 4/20 festival in San Francisco caused over $60,000 in damage to a public park, including human feces strewn throughout the park, and the organizers insisted that the "misbehavior of a few" wasn't their problem.
YOU organized it, YOUR guests made a mess, so yes, it is YOUR problem.)
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There's a lady that moved in down the street this summer, she likes to spy on people from her window and after I waved to her one morning she put homemade crosses on every window.
Today I saw her splashing the outside of her house with boiling water.
Interesting.
It's a house-warming party.
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It's a house-warming party.There's a lady that moved in down the street this summer, she likes to spy on people from her window and after I waved to her one morning she put homemade crosses on every window.
Today I saw her splashing the outside of her house with boiling water.
Interesting.
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There's a lady that moved in down the street this summer, she likes to spy on people from her window and after I waved to her one morning she put homemade crosses on every window.
Today I saw her splashing the outside of her house with boiling water.
Interesting.
That's it. Between this crap and the people from Orthos's town, I'm changing my religious affiliation to "Jesusian", just so I don't have to be lumped in with other Christians. Or maybe "Joshuan" just to snarkily smirk as I explain to uneducated people that Joshua is the Hebrew translation for Jesus. Nothing better than out holier-than-thou-ing than the holier-than-thou crowd.
(I'm not holier-than-thou myself, but it's just like...I don't correct people's grammar, unless they themselves are Grammar Nazis; then I take it to the extreme, and look for endings with prepositions, run-on sentences, and the like. If you're going to be a judgmental a%$+!+$, prepare to be judged under a super fine microscope. Holy crap! I'm doing my duty! Judge not lest ye be judged!)
My ex was right. I really am a contrarian for the sake of being contrary. Or maybe I'm just a jerk. But I'm a jerk versus jerks. Like an antihero. Does that make me an antijerk? (Before Scint corrects me, I realize I started a lot of those sentences with contractions, and at least one was a fragment. Don't Internal Affairs the Internal Affairs. That's just getting meta.)
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Oh I lump people like that in to their own category, Batshit Crazy.
Irregardless of her religion, something there ain't right.
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I'll twitch and grumble privately, but I try not to go all English teacher when I'm not getting paid to do it. Internet's too big to fix. :P
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Fool am I, since I agreed to work extra tomorrow. I'm looking at a shift from 8 PM till 5:30 AM. At least the money will make it worth the effort.
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I've done shifts like that. Take your breaks, you'll need them.
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I've tried to moderate the habit of correcting things. I've learned that many many things that people contradict are honestly not that important to get correct. So it has to be a serious matter before I speak up, even if I preface it with a qualifier. And if someone persists in the original information, I've done my part, anything that happens after is on them.
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There's a lady that moved in down the street this summer, she likes to spy on people from her window and after I waved to her one morning she put homemade crosses on every window.
Today I saw her splashing the outside of her house with boiling water.
Interesting.
Maybe, following the example of the Three Little Pigs, she'd made a house of tea.
Or maybe it was special water that boils in the presence of Unclean Spirits.
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Tac's up, guys.
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There's a lady that moved in down the street this summer, she likes to spy on people from her window and after I waved to her one morning she put homemade crosses on every window.
Today I saw her splashing the outside of her house with boiling water.
Interesting.
That's it. Between this crap and the people from Orthos's town, I'm changing my religious affiliation to "Jesusian", just so I don't have to be lumped in with other Christians. Or maybe "Joshuan" just to snarkily smirk as I explain to uneducated people that Joshua is the Hebrew translation for Jesus. Nothing better than out holier-than-thou-ing than the holier-than-thou crowd.
(I'm not holier-than-thou myself, but it's just like...I don't correct people's grammar, unless they themselves are Grammar Nazis; then I take it to the extreme, and look for endings with prepositions, run-on sentences, and the like. If you're going to be a judgmental a###@!+, prepare to be judged under a super fine microscope. Holy crap! I'm doing my duty! Judge not lest ye be judged!)
My ex was right. I really am a contrarian for the sake of being contrary. Or maybe I'm just a jerk. But I'm a jerk versus jerks. Like an antihero. Does that make me an antijerk? (Before Scint corrects me, I realize I started a lot of those sentences with contractions, and at least one was a fragment. Don't Internal Affairs the Internal Affairs. That's just getting meta.)
It's probably not an original conclusion, but I've learned that about 90% of the time that people complain about a broad group of people (religious, conservatives, liberals, potheads, etc), they aren't actually complaining about something unique to that group of people, but rather they're just complaining about a**%$+$s... and a!+@**+s can be in any group.
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Watching another class with the logic puzzle.
"What the heck is this guy's job that he's paying for seven different colleges?!"
"How are they all still in college?!"
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Captain Yesterday mentioned writing. Considering this is my last day off, I should try working on my visual novel script. School and work have both prevented me from getting any work on that done, and the second draft's still in the beginning parts.
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It's probably not an original conclusion, but I've learned that about 90% of the time that people complain about a broad group of people (religious, conservatives, liberals, potheads, etc), they aren't actually complaining about something unique to that group of people, but rather they're just complaining about a@$+@+*s... and a#@#~+*s can be in any group.There's a lady that moved in down the street this summer, she likes to spy on people from her window and after I waved to her one morning she put homemade crosses on every window.
Today I saw her splashing the outside of her house with boiling water.
Interesting.
That's it. Between this crap and the people from Orthos's town, I'm changing my religious affiliation to "Jesusian", just so I don't have to be lumped in with other Christians. Or maybe "Joshuan" just to snarkily smirk as I explain to uneducated people that Joshua is the Hebrew translation for Jesus. Nothing better than out holier-than-thou-ing than the holier-than-thou crowd.
(I'm not holier-than-thou myself, but it's just like...I don't correct people's grammar, unless they themselves are Grammar Nazis; then I take it to the extreme, and look for endings with prepositions, run-on sentences, and the like. If you're going to be a judgmental a###@!+, prepare to be judged under a super fine microscope. Holy crap! I'm doing my duty! Judge not lest ye be judged!)
My ex was right. I really am a contrarian for the sake of being contrary. Or maybe I'm just a jerk. But I'm a jerk versus jerks. Like an antihero. Does that make me an antijerk? (Before Scint corrects me, I realize I started a lot of those sentences with contractions, and at least one was a fragment. Don't Internal Affairs the Internal Affairs. That's just getting meta.)
While true, some groups have a clear greater volume of as&¥§μtery than others, or are more likely to attract/produce a÷*£©Ωμ§s.
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There's a lady that moved in down the street this summer, she likes to spy on people from her window and after I waved to her one morning she put homemade crosses on every window.
Today I saw her splashing the outside of her house with boiling water.
Interesting.
Maybe, following the example of the Three Little Pigs, she'd made a house of tea.
Or maybe it was special water that boils in the presence of Unclean Spirits.
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Have you ever tried senna leaf tea?
I bought some once from an herb shop because it was randomly placed with the other herbal teas and (a) I hadn't heard of its special properties and (b) didn't want to admit it to the snooty girls behind the counter.
Later that week, I brewed a strong cup for my ex, right before he went to work as a night-shift baggage handler at DFW.
The other guys on his crew made fun of him for MONTHS.
Lol thanks, I'll look for it. :)
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Sal-EE-dar and TRACK-hand were my immediate assumptions of pronunciation upon seeing the words written.
Salidar: Sal-ee-dar, rather than Salədar
Trakand: Trak-and or Trak-ond, rather than Trakənd
I make a lot of straightforward (and inconsistent ones too) assumptions about fantasy words too; it's just hearing them repeated out loud over and over again that makes them stick out like a sore thumb.
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While true, some groups have a clear greater volume of as&¥§μtery than others, or are more likely to attract/produce a÷*£©Ωμ§s.It's probably not an original conclusion, but I've learned that about 90% of the time that people complain about a broad group of people (religious, conservatives, liberals, potheads, etc), they aren't actually complaining about something unique to that group of people, but rather they're just complaining about a@$+@+*s... and a#@#~+*s can be in any group.There's a lady that moved in down the street this summer, she likes to spy on people from her window and after I waved to her one morning she put homemade crosses on every window.
Today I saw her splashing the outside of her house with boiling water.
Interesting.
That's it. Between this crap and the people from Orthos's town, I'm changing my religious affiliation to "Jesusian", just so I don't have to be lumped in with other Christians. Or maybe "Joshuan" just to snarkily smirk as I explain to uneducated people that Joshua is the Hebrew translation for Jesus. Nothing better than out holier-than-thou-ing than the holier-than-thou crowd.
(I'm not holier-than-thou myself, but it's just like...I don't correct people's grammar, unless they themselves are Grammar Nazis; then I take it to the extreme, and look for endings with prepositions, run-on sentences, and the like. If you're going to be a judgmental a###@!+, prepare to be judged under a super fine microscope. Holy crap! I'm doing my duty! Judge not lest ye be judged!)
My ex was right. I really am a contrarian for the sake of being contrary. Or maybe I'm just a jerk. But I'm a jerk versus jerks. Like an antihero. Does that make me an antijerk? (Before Scint corrects me, I realize I started a lot of those sentences with contractions, and at least one was a fragment. Don't Internal Affairs the Internal Affairs. That's just getting meta.)
Yup. And don't confuse what I'm saying with horseshoe theory either (extremists are all the same; it's a lazy, dumb idea IMO).
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I was going to post about something else, but speaking of scary math:
Berkeley, CA:
- Mean income: $111,643
- Median income: $67,691
Really says everything you need to know about income disparity right there, and how easy it is to make everyone look prosperous if you feed everybody means (not memes).
Flame on, Fritzy!
Shiro took a Yeti on his Jeep trip into the desert and absolutely swore by it. I've been wanting a Yeti for my backpacking trips ever since, especially since everyone I've ever met says that they more than live up to their name ("The last cooler you'll ever need.") Even our relatively low-income chaperone group has two families with Yetis. They're just that good.
So I took an early lunch, toodled over to REI, and got an appropriately-sized Yeti. And yes, they're ridiculously expensive for coolers (mine was $400, with a $75 gift card with purchase), but I'm at the point in life where I'd rather pay ONCE for something that will work well and last me the rest of my life than keep buying crappy Wal*Mart stuff every year or two for eternity. Plus landfills.
And every REI employee marveled that I could afford to buy one. And the people in line ooohed and aaaahed and stated their jealousy. And I was thinking, "I live in one of the most expensive places to live in the world. And I'm at one of the higher-end stores in this area. Everyone here should be able to afford a Yeti. What gives?"
Which led me to look up average household income and see the appalling disparity.
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Yep. Statistics be evil in the wrong hands.
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Yep. Statistics be evil in the wrong hands.
I taught a whole class on it. Probably the second-most-fun class I ever taught.
The most fun being another stat class where one of the students declared me Dr. Evil so I spent the rest of the semester in costume and their tests were all figuring out whether or not my latest nefarious scheme would succeed in conquering the world.
Best answer ever: "I refuse to assist you in your nefarious plots, and therefore in good conscience cannot answer this question."
The guy was failing horrifically, but I gave him half credit for THAT particular gem.
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Trying to shield your kids from reality really never goes well.
As I understand it, being shielded from negative emotions is a common theme among addicts.