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IRL, I wonder if people know how stupid they sound...

If the kid's a prodigy, he may have no use for the 'rules' of mediocrity.
 
MaggieD said:
Yesterday we went to Tom's nephew's 5th birthday part at Chuck E. Cheese. It was very nice. Some 20 kids and half parents. Pizza and an arcade.

A woman sat next to us (one of the moms) and, as we visited, she said she home schooled her 7th grader. She was obviously very proud and talked about the things she'd had to learn as she went along . . . and a bit about the process.

I asked her how she made the decision to home school (since 4th grade), and she said she was always getting calls from the teacher that her son was disruptive. And that he just didn't like to follow rules.

"Like, for instance," she said, "he'd never write his name and class at the top of his papers. And he'd always get in trouble for that." THAT'S an important enough reason you use that as an example of why you decided to home school one of your kids? (She has two others in public school.) I said, "Well, at some point, he's going to have to learn to follow instructions and write his name at the top, yes?" She said, "Well, he doesn't have to do it in MY class, does he?"

I just smiled.

She shortly got up and moved.

Some people are screwballs.
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Get this. I have to see a neurosurgeon because my spine is all jacked up from a traffic accident. So we have gotten to know each other a little and we were talking about this very thing one day and he told me a story....this patient came back to him after surgery (a matter of maybe a little over a week) and said her neck kept hurting her and she could not understand why. So he talked to her some more and tried to figure out why she was still having so much pain. He finally got to this "it hurts when I stand on my head". So no, people don't understand how stupid they sound.
 
opendebate said:
Get this. I have to see a neurosurgeon because my spine is all jacked up from a traffic accident. So we have gotten to know each other a little and we were talking about this very thing one day and he told me a story....this patient came back to him after surgery (a matter of maybe a little over a week) and said her neck kept hurting her and she could not understand why. So he talked to her some more and tried to figure out why she was still having so much pain. He finally got to this "it hurts when I stand on my head". So no, people don't understand how stupid they sound.
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Maybe he can see me. I took a Viagra and got it caught in the back of my throat. I've had a stiff neck ever since.
 
MaggieD said:
Some people are screwballs.
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I've never heard that one before. :lamo As for the OP, I can't even comprehend the mothers thinking. Well he gets told he has to write his name and he doesn't so home school! :doh
 
Gipper said:
Maybe he can see me. I took a Viagra and got it caught in the back of my throat. I've had a stiff neck ever since.
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badaboom
 
opendebate said:
badaboom
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I knew a kid like Gipper in grade school. He was the class clown. One day, he walked up to the front of the class, and took about 20 really deep breaths, then put his thumb in his mouth and blew. He passed out, keeled straight over backwards and hit his head on the blackboard ledge. We all laughed like hell!! :lol: :lol:

Gipper. How's your head?
 
MaggieD said:
Yesterday we went to Tom's nephew's 5th birthday part at Chuck E. Cheese. It was very nice. Some 20 kids and half parents. Pizza and an arcade.

A woman sat next to us (one of the moms) and, as we visited, she said she home schooled her 7th grader. She was obviously very proud and talked about the things she'd had to learn as she went along . . . and a bit about the process.

I asked her how she made the decision to home school (since 4th grade), and she said she was always getting calls from the teacher that her son was disruptive. And that he just didn't like to follow rules.

"Like, for instance," she said, "he'd never write his name and class at the top of his papers. And he'd always get in trouble for that." THAT'S an important enough reason you use that as an example of why you decided to home school one of your kids? (She has two others in public school.) I said, "Well, at some point, he's going to have to learn to follow instructions and write his name at the top, yes?" She said, "Well, he doesn't have to do it in MY class, does he?"

I just smiled.

She shortly got up and moved.

Some people are screwballs.
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His job application will look real good.... without his name on it.. knucklehead...
 
Superfly said:
A friend of mine is homeschooling both of her children, simply because the little boy has behavior issues. Nothing diagnosed - just misbehaves on a regular basis. Instead of actually making them behave, she pulled them both and is now home schooling them. SMH.
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I think home schooling is a good idea from an academic and in some cases a safety view point. (The schools where we lived were like armed fortresses.) However, if the child is not socialized and has difficulty in normal social settings, the child is not getting the help he/she really needs.
 
I agree. She's not helping him by pulling him out of the situation. He needs to be taught to manage his outbreaks - not be pulled out of them and hidden away.
 
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