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Demonstrates an adequate understanding blahblahblah. (Riley) needs encouragement to investigate the structure and function of the major organs of the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, urinary, skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems. Well hell, so would I :tardbang:
Riley is encouraged to participate in daily activities. errrrrrrrr......
I wish they'd go back to where the teacher could write what they thought and not have to make disjointed sentences fit together. 3 pages per report card and I have no freaking idea how my kids are actually doing/conducting themselves in class.
Schedule parent/teacher meetings and tell them you want it straight, no sugar coating.
Professur
11/28/05, 05:42pm
Schedule parent/teacher meetings and tell them you want it straight, no sugar coating.
We did. The teacher appologised for the system the school makes her use. And then she gave us the actual grades.
It's really horrible what they do now. Pick and choose out of a list of comments and try to make them fit the child. Useless waste of paper.
Gato_Solo
11/28/05, 05:57pm
It's really horrible what they do now. Pick and choose out of a list of comments and try to make them fit the child. Useless waste of paper.
But nobody's feelings get hurt, and that's the important thing...:tardbang:
Riley is encouraged to participate in daily activities.
as opposed to the forced wall-staring he does now? :confuse3:
Gato_Solo
11/28/05, 06:00pm
as opposed to the forced wall-staring he does now? :confuse3:
How long has he been doing that?
he hasn't...I dunno wtf theyr'e talking about there. do activities daily? :alienhuh:
Maybe like...the class calendar, volunteering to walk the attendance to the office, etc etc. Things that need to be done on a daily basis and people volunteer to do them :eyebrow:
Gato_Solo
11/28/05, 06:17pm
he hasn't...I dunno wtf theyr'e talking about there. do activities daily? :alienhuh:
Sounds like forced volunteering...aka voluntold...if Nixy is correct. They think pressuring him to do something is the only way to get him to do it. He could be trying to get things straight in his head about Mom and Dad being divorced and Paul coming in, so he just doesn't want to participate. :shrug: I'd suggest going beyond the parent-teacher conference, and get into some family counseling the first chance you get.
Nah, he's participating as much as he can. You see, if you participate and volunteer, then you get to leave class, and he's clued into that :lloyd:
He recycled today for over an hour when he should've been in class.
Maybe they want me to like...talk to him or do stuff with him. :eek:
paul_valaru
11/28/05, 06:39pm
Nah, he's participating as much as he can. You see, if you participate and volunteer, then you get to leave class, and he's clued into that :lloyd:
He recycled today for over an hour when he should've been in class.
Maybe they want me to like...talk to him or do stuff with him. :eek:
NOOOO!!!!!!!!!
I talked to him once, and now he like, talks to me all the time, asking me how I am etc.
it's intolerable
Gato_Solo
11/28/05, 06:42pm
Nah, he's participating as much as he can. You see, if you participate and volunteer, then you get to leave class, and he's clued into that :lloyd:
He recycled today for over an hour when he should've been in class.
Maybe they want me to like...talk to him or do stuff with him. :eek:
You don't talk to your kids? :eek: (Like I really believe that) Seriously. Adults have a hard time with divorce, and we understand the whys and wherefors. As much as you explain, a child will not get it. My kids used to be the same way. I think they grew out of it, but, since I'm not the primary parent, I can't haul them off to a counselor whenever I please to have them 'checked'. You have that option. Most likely it's school problems that he won't tell you about, but better safe than sorry...
SouthernN'Proud
11/28/05, 09:06pm
Recently, the budding adolescent who haunts this house brought home a permission slip for a field trip. Pretty standard form, we're going here to do this, we'll leave at this time, your demonspawn should bring $X.00 for lunch and all that happy horseshit.
Because I was bored, and because I just DO stuff like this, I actually read the whole thing.
And there...there on the bottom of the page...away from everything else on the bottom of the page... I saw it. I quote:
List of all prescribed medication's your child needs to take
That's right, pedanticfolk. Possessive. Not plural.
I cannot WAIT for the next school function. I want to know how a school that cannot discern between possessive and plural purports to teach a kid a DAMN thing.
What I'm trying to figure out is why I learned the difference between plurals and possessives and between the words that sound alike but are spelled differently when the people that had the same classes with the same teachers in the same schools didn't learn all that.
The last school was HORRIBLE for that!!! Newsletter after newsletter with misspellings, and bad grammar, bad or no punctuation. GAK!
Gonz, I would if I could, but I just can't.
likely it's school problems that he won't tell you about, but better safe than sorry...FTR, I should say that today I got the best report cards ever from these kids. Each and every one of them did superbly marks-wise, far better than ever before, and just about all the comments I could decipher were positive. Or at least not overwhelmingly negative. It was a happy day.
So I took them out and poisoned them with McDonald's to celebrate :eyemouth:
I just hate the report card system now. They're far too hard to dredge any meaning from without the teacher taking the parent line by line.
Gonz, I would if I could, but I just can't.
The only thing she ever said that I agree with:
Can't can't do anything
Recently, the budding adolescent who haunts this house brought home a permission slip for a field trip. Pretty standard form, we're going here to do this, we'll leave at this time, your demonspawn should bring $X.00 for lunch and all that happy horseshit.
Because I was bored, and because I just DO stuff like this, I actually read the whole thing.
And there...there on the bottom of the page...away from everything else on the bottom of the page... I saw it. I quote:
That's right, pedanticfolk. Possessive. Not plural.
I cannot WAIT for the next school function. I want to know how a school that cannot discern between possessive and plural purports to teach a kid a DAMN thing.
I get it. You're (your, yore ;) ) one of these radical liberal parents who think the teachers should actually know more than the students. :lol: I won't even get into smarter than. If they were smart, most of them wouldn't be teachers.
Professur
11/29/05, 09:28am
Recently, the budding adolescent .
Please, please don't use that term. I'm having a hard enough time with V2.0 parading around the house in a training bra and panties. Makes me wanna go beat up some kid with a 2x4 just in case he might date her one day.
Have you filled the moat yet, are the alligators in, and are the claymores pointed the proper direction?
Professur
11/29/05, 11:34am
Moat's dug, full of ice at the moment. Claymores are sharp. Gators are back ordered. Noone wants to send them to me. They worry about them getting cold. I've got booties for them, damnit.
Sharp?
The Claymore to which I refer:
Gato_Solo
11/29/05, 11:56am
Moat's dug, full of ice at the moment. Claymores are sharp. Gators are back ordered. Noone wants to send them to me. They worry about them getting cold. I've got booties for them, damnit.
Gators won't survive the winter. Stock the moat with these (http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/recordfish/alligatorgar.jpg) instead. Just be sure to keep them visible.
Professur
11/29/05, 11:57am
Oh, them. I was assuming you were making a Scot reference to
http://www.armor.com/2000/catalog/images/100.jpg
Good for individual targets. I was thinking area coverage.
Professur
11/29/05, 12:06pm
this from a guy with no daughters in sight.
Gato_Solo
11/29/05, 12:14pm
this from a guy with no daughters in sight.
Unless you have herculean strength and stamina, a claymore is a one-swing weapon. Otherwise, it's a two-swing weapon. It's too slow for a fast-moving hormone-fueled teenager. The mine would be a better choice...
Professur
11/29/05, 12:23pm
Gato, one day I'll show you how wrong you are. A claymore isn't a steel baseball bat. It takes strong wrists and hands, but a claymore can more almost as quick as a staff, and with a similar range of motion. If you look at the tip, you see it's round. A claymore is more intended as a full length edge ax or pole weapon than a sword. A footman can use it to cut the legs right out from under a horse. A horseman can reach grounded targets. But the important thing is that it will cleave through and keep it's momentum.
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