My kid is always on the 4.0 honor roll.
Takes all the hard classes.
He works hard at and it doesn't come easy.

4.0 = Guitars, mountain bikes, and other good chit.

The school posts kids on the honor roll in the local paper.
Usually it's just him and another kid in his grade.

This year there are 7 others.
All full blown specials.
Most of them don't even do homework.

Are you kidding me????
WTF????
How about our society start dealing in reality?

Faa King liberal public education system is soft and lame.

Agreed, at this rate even an entitled, well below average intelligence, lying, cheating class clown can come to be president.

I personally was a slacker and have payed a high price for it.

lol

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...

"Don't give up! Get down!"

Instead of mountain bikes and fishing rods, I've taken the liberty of doing some shopping for you...

Is your son named Stephen?

Gotta protect that money maker!

College chicks dig dudes with sweet kicks

And nice hair. Get that blow out comb yo!

Last but not least...

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

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.

WDFW and I should switch titles,he can be resident crybaby and I'll be cool.

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.

For that, I deserve a damn trophy!!!!

Fvck you, Covid!

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

I'm not worried at all about my son or anything else other than our world rapidly becoming laughable.

Specials are special ed students you faa king retards.

They made the 4 point list for eating crayons just like everyone else here except Dan.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

3 stars

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.

4.0 GPA’s are not hard to obtain. It is more about work ethic than intelligence. If people applied themselves effectively a lot of people are capable of achieving it. Many of the smartest people on the planet did not have 4.0 GPA’s.

A failing from your point of view perhaps, Jason, but the only bit of brightness for students who otherwise found school dull and an unproductive use of their time. My two daughters were in a one day a week elementary school pull out program for gifted and talented students. It was the one day each week they weren't bored stiff with school. I don't know if it made them insufferable, and I don't care. I know that it presented them with academic challenge and opportunity that otherwise wasn't available to them.

True, one of the elementary teachers I highly respected was opposed to the program. He was of the "every student is special" mindset. Yes, but they are not all equally gifted academically. Consequently, both my daughters took honors and AP classes whenever possible when they reached high school. The funny upshot there is that they didn't graduate with 4.0 gpas. The classes were challenging enough that they ended up with 3.9-something instead. Still, academic records like that gained them acceptance to selective colleges and universities: Smith - 14% of applicants accepted, Stanford - 14%, and Wesleyan - 8%. Not a bad outcome for public school education that spends a token amount for academically gifted students.

I find it hard to see the harm that their educations did them. Fair or not, degrees from selective schools open career doors that degrees from state universities don't. One thing you're right about, with their educations and experience, they aren't well suited to working with people outside the "bubble" of other intelligent people. So they don't.

Jimmy was always defined by the fact he was half black.

Is it wrong to call a person that is half black...........half white?

Interesting you never hear that way.

public school and college are [Bleeeeep!], I did both and can tell you neither is worth a chit. I scraped by, did not do my homework, barely paid attention and got a 2.4 GPA.

I went to college because the department of the navy paid for it, in order to keep my job I had to get a C average. Once I moved on from that job I never considered finishing college. I needed 10 credits to finish my associates. Form the few years that I took classes I could tell that I wanted nothing to do with the people who foolishly spent their money for a worthless piece of paper, so that they could be a member of a [Bleeeeep!] club that condones discrimination against people who did not purchase the "piece of paper".

Soon enough college degrees will have zero value and universities will be exposed as the frauds that they are.

I have told both of my kids that I don't care about school, just get through it, go through the motions and be done with it, keep them off your back and just nod your head. If you want to drop out and get a job go for it but neither did that. I told them do what you want with your life but don't take out debt, don't enslave yourself.

The best thing you can do is pay cash for a house or pay it off as soon as you can so that you can make the choices you want in life. If you own a place to live you do not have to take chit from anyone, you do not have to keep a job you hate or stay in a bad situation, you always can tell them to shove it if you are not dependent.

I am in the process of building my oldest daughter her own house right now, my gift to her so that she will always have her very own place no matter what happens. Not a big house, 1 bedroom 400 SF, but easily could build on a second bedroom.

Get this, I am doing it myself, the entire thing, saw'd the framing lumber and siding, about to put the roof on in the next week. I have all the materials to get windows and doors in and totally sealed up. Got some free stuff and some really good deals but we are into it about $3200 right now. Still need insulation for the walls and cielling, wiring stuff and fixtures and sheet rock. Total cost with electricity, water and sewer is going to come in at under $10,000. Not kidding, I am in the construction business, if you were to build the same thing with permits it would be over $170,000.

regarding free or almost free stuff, I got 52 sheets, 14 foot x 16 inch snap lock metal roofing for 200 bucks, most of it brand new. From a retired state parks employee who salvaged it from work, he was selling a boat trailer for $200 bucks but you had to take the roofing as part of the deal. People wanted the boat trailer but no one wanted the roofing.




Doing the entire thing myself, I may hire a guys to help with installing skylights and help with finish sheet rock but that is it.

Something like that. My kids are enjoying their white privilege working with other whites, blacks, Hispanic, Indian-Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans, and Korean Americans who managed to clear the hurdles of dumb in public schooling.

I really do believe that in Rich G's case, school and college, public or private, would be a waste. He is so much more accomplished as an ignoramus.

Going to a lower rated public school has been a mixed blessing for my kids so far. Because they are smarter and more determined than most of the other students, they pretty much get first choice at anything they want. Because the school routinely scores low and has many low income students, money flows in. On the flip side, the AP classes my daughter took were as hard or harder than any college class I took. In the end they have to be, or the students will not pass the test required at the end to get their college credit. Same test state wide, so when a student scores well, you know it is against all the other "higher class" schools. Same with the high SAT Scores. One of my son's classmates was accepted to West Point last year, so it isn't like a top end school is not possible.
I doubt half the options available to them would not be possible at some of the higher rated schools, as the competition would be that much more intense. PLU is offering any student from their school a guaranteed free ride, provided they get the grades to get in. My daughter wants to go out of state, but other wise it probably would about a $45,000 benefit. With everything going the way it is, she probably will get a free ride anyways, but the PLU option is pretty incredible. The school is also incredibly diverse, so my kids have no problem getting along with anyone.

It's obvious ,dude.