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Are students failing at school or are schools failing students?

In my young days not promoting and skipping grades was in vogue.

My dream girl in fourth grade was the sexy and beautiful blond Stella Sue Carroll. She had been held back a few times. She was like a grown up movie star among kids.

Her fascinating attempts at cheating on spelling tests were excruciating to watch, as they were destined to fail.

My fear was that her behavior and the resulting criticism would ultimately cause her to stay home.

Turned out my fears came to fruition. Fourth grade was never the same.
Never been a Stella Sue on the planet smaller than a D cup
 
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In my young days not promoting and skipping grades was in vogue.

My dream girl in fourth grade was the sexy and beautiful blond Stella Sue Carroll. She had been held back a few times. She was like a grown up movie star among kids.
Bad news man---Stella Sue met McMurtry in college, and he ruined her. She now smokes about 2 packs of marlboro reds a day, wears a lot of Spanx clothes (mixed in with some sweat pants that say "juicy" on the butt side), and says "hold on let me get my cell phone and I will take pitcher of us".
 
Bad news man---Stella Sue met McMurtry in college, and he ruined her. She now smokes about 2 packs of marlboro reds a day, wears a lot of Spanx clothes (mixed in with some sweat pants that say "juicy" on the butt side), and says "hold on let me get my cell phone and I will take pitcher of us".
Hoot is 96 years old and still hasn’t forgotten her. Some just stick with ya

Stay single kings!
 
That was the same for both my kids in high school (grad years 2020 and 2022). Two hours of homework a night on average combined with a 2 hour soccer practice makes for a long day. The youngest kid at times was up until Midnight working on a project of some sort. Usually on Sundays both boys would get an hour and half of homework done.

Nowadays, I don't think either kid has had a textbook in college--all the stuff is available on line, and all papers turned in electronically in word format so they can be run through AI screener and the plagiarism bank of papers that universities share in.
On your second paragraph. The podcast Plain English recently did an episode of the end of reading. A focus was on providing articles or parts of a text. Kids are seldom reading entire books these days. I went to a crappy school district but we read books. I still read good books. I wonder if my kids will read as a hobby.
 
On your second paragraph. The podcast Plain English recently did an episode of the end of reading. A focus was on providing articles or parts of a text. Kids are seldom reading entire books these days. I went to a crappy school district but we read books. I still read good books. I wonder if my kids will read as a hobby.
My youngest reads a little when he is home from college, and the oldest doesn't read much when he is home--for sure they both get a lot school, but it has been a trend since that got to college that the pleasure reading dropped off. When they were young--like 10, they blew through the Harry Potter series, the Rick Riordin series things like that. I think they both read one or two Neil Gaimen books in high school. I can't put my finger on it, but they both played soccer in college, with a ton on their plate, plus trying to be McMurtry on campus--little time to read for fun. Hope it is just a phase.
 
Hoot is 96 years old and still hasn’t forgotten her. Some just stick with ya

Stay single kings!
hell yah they do. 6th grade in 1982. I had my heart set on Stacy H*********. Talked to her all the time. I sent her a note one day--and like a complete dumbass, it said "will you go to the dance with me on saturday? check box Yes or Box no". Oh, I sent the note through a frigging intermediary to make things worse.

Well, ole Stacy came up to me after school and I nearly pissed my pants. She said "I got your note, but I don't want to go the dance. Sorry". Well that was a sad day, and one that I can't forget. I found her a few years back living in Georgia. Divorced and looking like Anne Coulter had a baby with Ichabod Crane. Sometimes you win in the long run.
 
hell yah they do. 6th grade in 1982. I had my heart set on Stacy H*********. Talked to her all the time. I sent her a note one day--and like a complete dumbass, it said "will you go to the dance with me on saturday? check box Yes or Box no". Oh, I sent the note through a frigging intermediary to make things worse.

Well, ole Stacy came up to me after school and I nearly pissed my pants. She said "I got your note, but I don't want to go the dance. Sorry". Well that was a sad day, and one that I can't forget. I found her a few years back living in Georgia. Divorced and looking like Anne Coulter had a baby with Ichabod Crane. Sometimes you win in the long run.
I’d like more details on you “finding” her in Georgia. You use FB or the Gram? Monkey branching, McMurt. Monkey branching.
 
I’d like more details on you “finding” her in Georgia. You use FB or the Gram? Monkey branching, McMurt. Monkey branching.
I don't even know what monkey branching means. Just old fashioned google. It's not like I reached out to her and said "hey bitch, betcha you wish you checked yes on that box now and gone to the dance with me"--as far as you know....

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At the local Catholic school for 7th and 8th grade, there was on average an hour of homework a night.

South has something called Panther Plus, which is like an hour study hall, so I'm assuming most kids knock out extra work during that period.

Switched trimesters a couple weeks ago...daughter had to sign a "DEI pledge" for 10 points in her new, but short-lived, Biology 2 class. 😄

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At the local Catholic school for 7th and 8th grade, there was on average an hour of homework a night.

South has something called Panther Plus, which is like an hour study hall, so I'm assuming most kids knock out extra work during that period.

Switched trimesters a couple weeks ago...daughter had to sign a "DEI pledge" for 10 points in her new, but short-lived, Biology 2 class. 😄

cf27ab13-6660-4f00-a7cf-e018a0a71cb6_text.gif
Ben Stiller got the idea to put Adam Scott in Severance from watching Step Brothers. Said it was when he realized he had real acting chops.

No joke.
 
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At the local Catholic school for 7th and 8th grade, there was on average an hour of homework a night.

South has something called Panther Plus, which is like an hour study hall, so I'm assuming most kids knock out extra work during that period.

Switched trimesters a couple weeks ago...daughter had to sign a "DEI pledge" for 10 points in her new, but short-lived, Biology 2 class. 😄

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What was the DEI pledge all about? For or against.
For a school to give extra credit for signing is stupid either way.
 
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