Registered: 10/26/10
Posts: 7204
Loc: Snohomish, WA
Even better, the "specials" will get a full ride to some fancy pants Uni and you get to take out Parent Plus loans to send Jr. to community. Congrats on being a non-special white family! Now don't you go letting that priviledge go to your heads!
BUT....don't you worry....I have a solution...
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Registered: 12/11/02
Posts: 5199
Loc: Carkeek Park
Odd something so sinister could ever happen in the 360. You should probably consider private schools. For $15-$30k per year, you don’t have to worry about this issue and you’ll sleep better. Probably better competition for your kid as well versus those public school special JV rats. If you tip good, you can get bigger trophies and be varsity first chair in everything just how you’d like it to be. SF
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Go Dawgs! Founding Member - 2025 Pink Plague Opposition Party #coholivesmatter
Remember when grades graded the students work and intelligence?
I do.
Let me get this straight, you are bent because more kids apparently are doing as well as your son these days? And more kids as smart as your son means there must have been some sea change in education where they lowered the standards?
I am not saying you are wrong but seriously, don’t fuk your kids head up with this nonsense. The smartest kids in my school were so fukt in the head from everyone bowing smoke up their asses about how special they were. I was a 3.95, so I was a nobody, perfect place to be.
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Maybe he's born with it.
I basically had to be a 4th grade teacher for my step-daughter this year. The odds are high that I'll have to do this again to some degree for her 5th grade year.
#1034311 - 07/10/2008:51 AMRe: Everyone Gets A Trophy
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Dan S.
It all boils down to this - I'm right, everyone else is wrong, and anyone who disputes this is clearly a dumbfuck.
Registered: 03/07/99
Posts: 16958
Loc: SE Olympia, WA
It's possible that 6 or 7 more kids find their house a better learning environment and their parents better teachers than they have at school.
It's also possible 6 or 7 parents are doing their kids' work for them.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. They'll get found out soon enough if they didn't do the work.
Unless any of them are from the Trump family. lol
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She was standin' alone over by the juke box, like she'd something to sell. I said "baby, what's the goin' price?" She told me to go to hell.
There are things in this world you can control and things you can't. You can't control what other families or their children are doing. You can only control what your family and your child does (to some extent). Don't waste your time obsessing over what others are about. Just keep an eye on the home front and take care of business.
Registered: 12/11/02
Posts: 5199
Loc: Carkeek Park
You should call up the other six parents and tell them how inferior their kids are. The other option is to keep bitching about it on a fishing board. SF
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Go Dawgs! Founding Member - 2025 Pink Plague Opposition Party #coholivesmatter
I went to school with an extremely gifted kid. Perfect SATs, perfect grades, never had to try, everyone saying how smart he was. He passed on a full ride to UW honors in order to write his book. Nowadays I hear he is just another urchin at the Silver Reef Casino. Dude finally found something he can’t master easily, house odds.
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Maybe he's born with it.
I went to school with a fuk off. Always fighting, always smoking weed in the bushes. Never had a shot at college, always planned to take over his dad’s plumbing business. People made fun of him for being a plumber et cetera and the son of a plumber.
And guess what? Dudes is [Bleeeeep!] LOADED from fixing [Bleeeeep!] pipes, travels the world all the time, fishes wherever he wants. Has people working for him.
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Maybe he's born with it.
I could also go on about all the doctors, dentists, and lawyers I grew up with who chose those fields for the prestige and money, not because they cared, and they are now unhappy and insufferable.
But I’ll tell you about my friend who didn’t graduate high school, was addicted to Oxys and fukt in the brain, now he is still clean, has a great job, is loaded (not capitalized but still), has a great family, the happiest person I know. From unahppiest to happiest, no high school A’s required.
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Maybe he's born with it.
Another failing of education I saw, that is both libtarded and Ayn Randian in its principles, was the Highly Capable Learners Group. What a great way to make all the smart kids insufferable and feel special about themselves and all the ordinary kids think they were dumb. I honestly know that the Highly Capable Learners program did more harm to the smart kids than good.
I remember people saying that their intelligent child shouldn’t be distracted by the unitelligent and what not. Well real life is all about dealing with all types of people so raising kids in a bubble of other smart kids is not readying them for anything at all.
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Maybe he's born with it.