Rant VII: Now With 25% Less Drama

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Gared

Gared

But if we give them zeroes it may damage their fragile little egos to the point where they feel bad about themselves and then they'll wind up drug addicts on the street because once you feel bad about yourself, you can never recover.

In other words - yeah, that's complete bullshit.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Frank said:
Fucking schools, this shit is God damn nonsense and I'm saying this as a kid who had PLENTY of zeroes in classes I didn't do work in or show up for.

http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/student gets a zero teacher gets suspended/6442651930/story.html
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Instead we have a comment policy where we’re supposed to put in comments indicating what they haven’t done. The problem with that is the marks program doesn’t count that for anything, so if a student had only done half the work then their average mark would be based only on that half the work. The average is calculated by whatever marks are in there.”
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This is the world's dumbest educational policy.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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I think I saw an article on FARK last week that said something about the average grade at the collegiate level nationwide is now an A. Aren't we glad we're all above average?
 
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SeraRelm

Well it's not like your masters degree in business will land you anything higher than a McDonalds Assistant Manager position anyway.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

That policy is worse than what I had to put up with. The lowest possible grade you could give for a 6 weeks/9 weeks period was a 50. So if Mary Jo Rottencrotch only comes to class one day a 6 weeks she is just 10 points below a D. While if another student earns the 50, that is all I can give him. Needless to say, that I had a hard time failing the kid that shows up every day, does his work (half assed,) and is unable to make over a 30 on a test - just because he is a little dim.
 
Adam

Adam

sixpackshaker said:
That policy is worse than what I had to put up with. The lowest possible grade you could give for a 6 weeks/9 weeks period was a 50. So if Mary Jo Rottencrotch only comes to class one day a 6 weeks she is just 10 points below a D. While if another student earns the 50, that is all I can give him. Needless to say, that I had a hard time failing the kid that shows up every day, does his work (half assed,) and is unable to make over a 30 on a test - just because he is a little dim.
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The way their policy works, I could do one assignment and get an A on it, and then refuse to submit any either assignments. And get an A! woot!
 
Frank

Frank

Jeez, if only that nutty God damn policy was in effect when I was in school. I would have been an honours student.
 
strawman

strawman

LittleSin said:
I am left a broken woman.
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I'm sorry, but I can't help but smile about this. Hopefully you too will see the humor eventually...

Regarding the training to stay in bed, we tried many things, but the one thing that seems to work best for us when they are around 3 is simply holding them so they can't move much. It only takes 10-30 seconds of not being able to move their arms or legs (one hand holding the wrists, and one on their knees while they are lying on their back, or while in your lap) for them to feel very uncomfortable. I'd hold them just barely enough so they couldn't free themselves. If they didn't struggle, it wasn't more than merely holding hands, but if they tried to move away I would hold a little more so they couldn't.

It's the worst corporeal punishment I've ever had to give - timeouts and taking away privileges work for most everything, but staying in bed was already a kind of time out in their mind anyway, and a quick reminder that things could be worse was enough. Have not yet felt the need to do spanking, or anything more physically uncomfortable. I don't recall having to hold more than a handful of times for even my most difficult child.

Usually it was enough to hang out outside the room (out of view) and when hearing them get up telling them to go back to bed. Good time to catch up on words with friends. But when they make a game of it and deliberately disobey they got a few dozen seconds of not being able to do much more than wriggle.

On the other hand most of our kids could be reasoned with about 2 years old and up, and it seems like that might not be the case with most 2 and 3 year olds. By the time they're four time outs and taking away toys and treats works very well, even if they aren't willing to listen.

On the other other hand, according to accounts of others watching us parent, we're very easy going and let our kids have a loooong leash, so to speak, so it may well be that we simply have lower standards for children's behavior. We literally don't have anything within reach of the kids that we would be sad to lose if they chose to break it. They might still get punished on principle, but if it's important it's not something they can even get to.

On the other other other hand one thing we don't put up with is whining and temper tantrums. We pretty much ignore those behaviors and don't pay much attention to them unless they use words to express their issues. Unless they're obviously hurt, then, you know, we might pay a little more attention, you know, once America's Got Talent is done.

I dunno. Either way, I'm laughing with you - you just aren't laughing yet. Just be glad it wasn't house paint (yeah... have to act pretty quick for that, and we still didn't manage to get all of it before it set on objects where we couldn't use solvent).

And don't trust your kid further than you can hear him...
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

Thanks @Steinman. I have learned to laugh at it in a few short days. :p

As for getting him to stay in bed, the locking of the door seems to do the trick. He tries the door once or twice then he goes and lies down. I just have to remember to unlock after he's asleep so he can get out in the morning. :)
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Don't remember if I've mentioned it already, but we've been putting the child gate across the door. He can open and close the door all he wants, but the gate keeps him in. He learns privacy AND restraint.

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

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PatrThom said:
Don't remember if I've mentioned it already, but we've been putting the child gate across the door. He can open and close the door all he wants, but the gate keeps him in. He learns privacy AND restraint.

--Patrick
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All those gates taught my little brother was how to climb.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

GasBandit said:
All those gates taught my little brother was how to climb.
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I almost said this as well. The reason my parents locked me in at night is because I would get out and climb onto stuff at night. I'd literally pull out the kitchen drawers, use them as steps, and climb onto the counter to get to the good snacks. They tried the gate thing before locking me in but apparently didn't have very good foresight regarding a kid who was exceptionally good at getting out of stuff.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

The important thing is that, for now, it works. I have no illusions about how long this will last (I practically independently reinvented the process of climbing as a kid), but it will do for now.

--Patrick
 
evilmike

evilmike

AshburnerX said:
I almost said this as well. The reason my parents locked me in at night is because I would get out and climb onto stuff at night. I'd literally pull out the kitchen drawers, use them as steps, and climb onto the counter to get to the good snacks. They tried the gate thing before locking me in but apparently didn't have very good foresight regarding a kid who was exceptionally good at getting out of stuff.
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Because ElJuski can't make all of the Simpsons references:
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Had a date tonight with a gal that I'd been chatting with through Plenty of Fish. We played three rounds of pool and that was pretty much it. There was almost no chemistry between and, frankly speak, she was rather dull. Anything I asked, she was all, "Oh, I dunno..." like she wasn't sure of anything.

So back to square one for me. Here's my profile if you want a couple of laughs:

http://www.pof.com/viewprofile.aspx?profile_id=33840551
 
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makare

I meant gusto. On a related note I saw he took the Song of Fire and Ice quiz and since I am a compulsive quiz taker I took it as well.

However, I have never seen the show, read the books, or actually know anything about it. I got Tully is that good? It has a fish...
 
strawman

strawman

Nah, it's the basic pretty-strict setting for the new router. I didn't want to fiddle with blocking software on individual computers and it's easy enough to whitelist sites. So far this is the first block I've noticed, and no one else in the house has complained about it. Either they're not running into it, or they are but only for things they don't want to admit they're opening.

Many new routers will connect to and use a dns blocking service that uses blacklists to block all sorts of categorized content. I was surprised at the degree of control I could have if I wanted to fiddle with it.
 
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