Never been a Stella Sue on the planet smaller than a D cup
Are students failing at school or are schools failing students?
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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!
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.
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.
Over the last decade or so, many adopted the Lucy Caulkins reading program and eliminated or severely curtailed phonics. That was a huge mistake.
I’d like more details on you “finding” her in Georgia. You use FB or the Gram? Monkey branching, McMurt. Monkey branching.
YUP. MM's wheels were coming off. My God what a mess. He was looking to monkey branch.
Stay single kings!
Not 96 years old just yet.
However, in looking ahead am torn between celebrating 96 in either a Musk rocket vacation to Mars, or a Trump condo time share program in Greenland.
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....
Trump can’t unilaterally shutter DOE. He needs Congress.
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. 😄
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. 😄
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.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. 😄
No joke.
What was the DEI pledge all about? For or against.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. 😄
For a school to give extra credit for signing is stupid either way.
It was a "contract" you were rewarded to sign. Really frivolous, actually, but filled with the typical "feel good", leftist gobblygook you always hear.
Was worth 10% of your first weeks grade by signing it.
I'm assuming it's targeting the random backwoods kids from down in the hollows or by the lake that come to South, I dunno.
Had the typical:
"We welcome:
All races
All religions
All countries of origin
All sexual orientations
All genders
All brains
All bodies
We stand with you, you are safe here!"
and
"We'll also explore how identity, diversity, justice, and action impact science, both in practice, and in policy".
Followed by disciplinary actions you agree to should the teachers feel you weren't following the above philosophies well enough.
I mean, whatever, harmless, feel-good statements that most all would agree with, but quite honestly, something I would expect from a Social Studies or art class, I guess.
Matt, there was a time when Americans shared the "feel good" rhetoric of the of the Preamble of the Constitution, The Declaration of Independance, and The Pledge of Allegiance.
These days thanks to the divisive politics contained in the so-called Culture Wars the feel-good values of the above are being lost in the shuffle.
These days thanks to the divisive politics contained in the so-called Culture Wars the feel-good values of the above are being lost in the shuffle.
Feel good rhetoric not being lost. It is being repudiated by one side of the war on culture.
Conspicuously absent is welcoming ideas. People who believe they live by this code are notably intolerant people.
War implies 2 sides involved, which I think certainly is the case in these dumb culture wars.
