Posted on 11/18/2011 1:45:25 AM PST by MacMattico
I helped raise a niece because of unfortunate family circumstances and I always kept track of her grades the same way. You mentioned wait till college— well this girl just graduated with a BS in Nursing with honors from South Carolina after 3 years. She is working toward becoming a Nurse Practitioner and in a cardiac unit. She's 21, has an honors degree, a decent job and a plan. To the other poster— Minn— on this board who keeps trying to make me feel like a terrible mom, I guess all my “hovering” when she was young worked out. This is her dream job. She's not out occupying Wall street.
Interesting. My daughter went to North Georgia College and State University and graduated with honors in nursing. She too is working towards her NP while working in an Alzheimer’s/hospice unit on second shifts. I am glad your neice is doing so well.
I am also glad that your daughter went in and talked with her teachers. That will serve her well in life and in further education. I made my daughter do the same thing because I learned early on that if you build a rapport with your teachers (profs) it always is worth a little extra AND you get the help you need.
Apology accepted. I have been known to be cranky on occassion myself. I hope you and yours have a blessed Thanksgiving
I agree generally with your post, but you’ve got me puzzled about the journalism assignment.
Obits seem a basic and straightforward part of journalism, and giving students the assignment to write their own, a fairly common assignment BTW, seems a chance for them to have some fun, be creative and think about what they’d like their lives to be. Even if it’s not something to your daughter’s taste, that’s pretty common to have to deal with in school, journalism and life.
Perhaps there is something about the OCD angle that I’m not getting?
The sooner kids learn that teachers are not infallible and that it is an imperfect world generally, the easier it is for them to get through school.
In this case, however, there are clues that a typical adult, for example, would have read into the question and probably have got them through it to the teacher’s expected answer. It may be a good chance to show even a first grader that there is an understandable cause for confusion or different interpretation, and kiddo could either take the opportunity to explain herself in a respectful manner or to let it pass. Certainly, this is only the first of such situations your kiddo will face.
I just saw this post of yours. Looking at the picture you posted, the key words in the question asked were: “How many more?” Those words mean subtraction....even when you can’t see the different colors you should go by what the question is asking.
In our math units, the first graders are taught to look for key words to solve the problem.
Here the question asks, "How many more?" This is not the first time the student would have seen these key words.
It wasn’t the obit part that bothered me. The teacher required that the obit be CURRENT (if you are 12, the obit is for you dying at around 12). They could not write an obit for yourself at 98 or something.
Seemed a bit gruesome. The OCD part came into play because she obsessed about writing her own obit for present time, and it being a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Ah, yes, that is gruesome—and I can see it taking her down an unpleasant path as well.
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