How in hell do you have to repeat third grade?
It’s not like they are teaching brain surgery or physics.
3rd grade is refining finger painting and memorizing multiplication tables.
:: refining finger painting ::
AKA, using water-colors with a small brush.
#stayinsidethelines
Maybe JB wanted to be with the younger girls!
How in hell do you have to repeat third grade?
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My dh repeated 2nd grade. We have figured out that he was somewhat dyslexic before dyslexia was cool (or diagnosed).
Of course in Florida, at one point, a child can't exit 3rd grade until that child could read on grade level (I believe it still applies).
My 3rd Grade teacher would have flunked me if not for having to have me back another year. We did not get along. This was when you were taught cursive writing and being mostly left-handed, I did everything wrong and ignored her attemts to correct my style. As a result I learned to write poorly (thanks to keyboards I have to really concentrate to write a check or something now) - but she was also a mean bitch who used it as a source of ridicule. For example, we’d all pass our papers to the kind in the front desk of each row and she’d pick them up. When she got to my row she’d shuffle thru til she found mine, and then after preening over the nice handwriting of the girls she’d hold my paper up and go on about how messy it was. A real ego booster, that was.
And I returned the favor by acting up and getting in trouble which landed me nearly permanent stay-after-school status. I figured I’d get murdered by my folks, but after the first parent-teacher conference my mom sat me down and had a talk. She could tell the teacher had it out for me, but also knew I was part of the problem. So the deal was, I’d try a lot harder to obey and be nice in class and she wouldn’t tell my dad and make a big deal out of it. Which I guess I did. All I know is my 2nd grade teacher was wonderful and set me on my career path and my 3rd grade teacher was what Hillary would have been if she’d become a teacher instead of a politician.