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dustergal

dustergal

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In our school district the kids don't really get regular grades (A,B,C,D etc.) until fourth grade. Therefore, the honor roll doesn't start until fourth grade.

This year the school district got rid of the honor roll system for elementary students because "feelings got hurt." Who's feelings, I don't know, but I'm assuming the parents of the kids that didn't make it. So I have a fourth grader who worked really hard and got four A's and a B+. But now she can't be recognized or have her name in the local paper like her older sister did, which she was looking forward to.

Ironically enough, I remember not making the honor roll a couple times and my mom told me to try harder. She didn't call the school district complaining that her feelings (and mine) were hurt. Sigh.
 
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A sign of the times unfortunately. :(

The coddling of todays kids is only going to come back and bite us in the ass in the future I'm afraid. Depressing. Sad. Stupid.
 
been to a store lately? been out on the highway?

Teach em lines,

lines and shut up,

lines , shut up, conform, and spell wright
 
dustergal said:
Ironically enough, I remember not making the honor roll a couple times
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lets see, I went to school for twelve years, there were six marking periods in each year, so if I knew what twelve times six was, I'd know how many times I wasn't on the honor roll.

But if I did know twelve times six, I might have made the honor roll a few times, and so that number would change, and I still wouldn't know how many times I missed it.

So I'm right back where I would have been.

I guess I was ahead of my time, now they bring edumacation down to the level I was at in the 50's and 60's.
 
beeper*71 said:
A sign of the times unfortunately. :(

The coddling of todays kids is only going to come back and bite us in the ass in the future I'm afraid. Depressing. Sad. Stupid.
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It already is biting us in the ass.

I have had had the distinct pleasure of having to deal with lazy, mouthy, insubordinate little bastards for the last 5 or 6 years of my professional life. They have been brought up to believe they are special and that the rules of life like respect and hard work do not apply to them. If they do manage to make it past the first few months of employment, they get to thinking that they know more than you do and can't understand why they are not being paid at the same rate as people who have years of experience and real ability.

The young guy who we have had working for us over the past year got his nose all out of joint when we hired an experienced tech at a higher rate of pay than him. He couldn't grasp the fact that the "new guy" has spent the past 7 years on the road touring with the likes of Rush, Bette Midler, Metallica, Disturbed through 22 countries around the world. It just doesn't seem fair to him that this guy is worth more - even tho the "new guy" accomplishes more in a couple hours than he does in a day.....:huh:

Then there was the kid that brought his Mom with him to the job interview....:doh:
 
Not A Duster said:
It already is biting us in the ass.

I have had had the distinct pleasure of having to deal with lazy, mouthy, insubordinate little bastards for the last 5 or 6 years of my professional life. They have been brought up to believe they are special and that the rules of life like respect and hard work do not apply to them. If they do manage to make it past the first few months of employment, they get to thinking that they know more than you do and can't understand why they are not being paid at the same rate as people who have years of experience and real ability.

The young guy who we have had working for us over the past year got his nose all out of joint when we hired an experienced tech at a higher rate of pay than him. He couldn't grasp the fact that the "new guy" has spent the past 7 years on the road touring with the likes of Rush, Bette Midler, Metallica, Disturbed through 22 countries around the world. It just doesn't seem fair to him that this guy is worth more - even tho the "new guy" accomplishes more in a couple hours than he does in a day.....:huh:

Then there was the kid that brought his Mom with him to the job interview....:doh:
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Been through that several times in the last couple of years. We had one here that, I'm sure, thought she was getting paid just for showing up.
 
9 out of 13 years of school, I had perfect attendance. My reward at school was a ribbon. My reward at home was, "Of course you had perfect attendance, and you will continue to do so. Go mow the lawn." Unless a body part was missing or dangling, I went to school (other than 2nd-grade chicken pox).

We didn't have an honor roll in grade school, so I never made it until high school. The only time anything was said by my parents about it was when I didn't make it, or made the "B roll". Excellence wasn't rewarded, it was expected.
 
Dr.Jass said:
We didn't have an honor roll in grade school, so I never made it until high school. The only time anything was said by my parents about it was when I didn't make it, or made the "B roll". Excellence wasn't rewarded, it was expected.
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how true! After 8 years at Catholic grade school, I was stupid enough to win a scholarship to a Catholic high school, where my older brother was attending. After 1 year, he graduated and I begged my parents to let me go to a 'real' high school, not a Catholic one. My mother countered, "There are fewer students at the Catholic high school. It will look much more impressive to graduate in the top 10 at a Catholic school that the top 10% at a public school." Well, somehow I mananged to convince them that I could do equally well at the public school, and 3 years later graduated 8th in my class of 635 students. However, the work was soooo much easier. I didn't have to apply myself at all to get good grades at the public school. My parents said it was that, at the public school, they had to 'teach down' to the lowest students. I told them it was because the public school had real teacher that received a real wage and knew what they were doing, and not just nuns and priests. (Mom was a teacher, this one really got to her.) That was 1973, and upon entering Arizona State University, I promptly learned the joys of Mopars and Rock and Roll, and lost all interest in school. I did get a degree, for all the good a B/S in Mathematics has ever done me. [smilie=::
 
Me 4, but the last of the nuns left at the end of my kindergarten year.
So, it wasn't anything at all like the stories with which my older siblings had scared the bejeezus out of me.
 
They don't make nun names (they don't make nun names)
Like that no more (like that no more)
No more cool nun names (where did they go?)
That's for sure. (wo, wo, wo, wo, wo)

Times have changed
Nuns use their real names today
But, I remember those cool nun names
Like Sister Bob and Sister Ray.
 
I recieved a few punishments from them. Severe by todays standards, but the norm, then. And I'm not bent...........:shifty: Now where's that bell tower........:toot:
 
Did the penguin show until 4th grade, we both agreed to go back to our corners and never be seen together again:mad:
Hell, they beat one kid for eating his glue. He's so dumb he eats glue, what good is it going to do to beat him some more?.:doh:
 
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