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February 3, 2012 at 5:16 pm · Filed under From The Trenches

Please Stop

July 25, 2011 at 4:29 pm · Filed under From The Trenches

Please stop telling me how bad the public schools are.

I know. I get it. Hell, I agree. The absurd testing. The tendency to encourage parents to medicate. And, let’s face it, gifted kids get shafted and one of mine is, all “I’m bragging on my kid” aside, gifted. Not “holy fuck! It’s Mozart” gifted. More like “learns fast, leaves other kids behind, gets bored, gets squirmy, makes paper airplanes, could you medicate this ADHD child” kind of gifted. Oh, and fighting for your special ed kid WILL take up all your time. Just start scheduling that in and be prepared for the arguments on how, no, you do understand the child is not flapping or painting with feces but said child still does actually require some interventions which the school is legally required to provide but if I could afford a good lawyer would be be here?

Which is, of course, why we’ll be going to public schools for grade 1. Money.

The school we are at, which I adore, will be over 30K per year for the pair of them for elementary school. Renbrook, another local excellent private school, would be over 50K for the pair. I have no doubt that it’s worth every last farthing but you can only scrape so many quarters out of the couch and, well, it would be a pretty big couch if it were hiding 50K. For one year. We’d planned on my going back to teaching and then funneling that extra income into tuition but you may have noticed this wee little global recession going on and that safe-as-houses public school teacher’s certification turns out to not be worth the paper on which it’s printed.

So, could you stop telling me how shitty the public schools are? Because unless those pennies I planted in the backyard really DO sprout a money tree we’re kind of stuck there.

Thanks.

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They are too imaginary

April 16, 2011 at 8:39 pm · Filed under From The Trenches

Look, I know that negative whole numbers are not really “imaginary” numbers but from the point of view of a 4-year-old they are because you just can’t have -3 apples.

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