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betty rose

betty rose

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donaldtoo said:
Oldest DD had pancakes and hash browns, and youngest DD had the Mexican Omelette (sorry, no pics of those).

My Chocolate Freeze...! :hungry:

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DWifey had the Mardi Gras sandwich, DS had the Doc Brinkers Special, and I had the One Eyed Buck Burger...

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The food was outstanding! :hungry:
We finished it all...! :happy:

Of the 5 places we ate on this trip, 3 were recommended by a coworker of oldest DDs that used to live in NOLA; The Ruby Slipper, Napoleon House, and The Camilla Grill. We already knew about Acme Oyster House, and Cafe Du Monde.
We highly recommend all of them...! :happy: :)

As always, thanks for indulging me gang! :)
I'll post a short wrap up at some point tomorrow...! :)
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Thank you, I loved all the pictures, and loved "our" vacation with your family!:joyfull:
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
I can't say that I'm sorry cursive is going away. I learned it and I don't use it. I was using it for a while in middle/high school, but people complained they couldn't read it. If I take my time, my cursive looks nice. But I mostly use print. I have yet to meet a college kid who uses cursive. Most professors don't even use it. If parents want their kids to learn cursive, there are plenty of practice books out there. I think mastering print is more important than the time wasted teaching cursive.

As far as handwriting goes, it's not like teaching handwriting is going away. And some people probably were taught how to write properly but just can't. Personally, I was taught handwriting. I was taught cursive. I still don't hold a pencil properly, but somehow have better writing than most of my peers (and my father, who went to school a long time ago and whose handwriting is chicken scratch). My handwriting has actually gotten better as I've gotten older, and not because they've been teaching me handwriting. As good as my handwriting is, thoguh, I spend far more time typing. I think there needs to be a balance between learning handwriting and learning touch typing. Most of my papers in college have been typed. Several of my classes have had online tests exclusively. Students who don't know how to touch type aren't going to do well either. If handwriting were going away completely, they wouldn't be making pens for tablets and phones.

Like I said, balance.
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We spent a great deal of time in school on cursive and did my kids. My handwriting isn't and never was pretty, very legiable but ugly by teachers standards for girls, I was at a male standard, teachers 'bar' not mine. We could not have the privledge of writing with a pen until the teachers subjective 'bar' was reached, one standard for girls and one for boys. I'd like cursive to still be taught but lighten up the skill requirements, homework practice and grading.

I agree with the touch typing though. 4th grade all students in computer lab 3x a week were taught touch typing, keyboarding from a program. There was a mat that eventually went over the keys so the students could not peek. Every student had to complete the program sucessfully. One of the better skills our elementary students were taught. Both of my kids had excellent typing skills that greatly improved through high school and college.

Me I'd like to pull the rug out completely on the common core philosophy. Could be the strangest, poorly conceived concepts ever inflected on students. The check a father wrote to a school district demonstrates how silly it is if applied in real life.

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StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Gabe1 said:
We spent a great deal of time in school on cursive and did my kids. My handwriting isn't and never was pretty, very legiable but ugly by teachers standards for girls, I was at a male standard, teachers 'bar' not mine. We could not have the privledge of writing with a pen until the teachers subjective 'bar' was reached, one standard for girls and one for boys. I'd like cursive to still be taught but lighten up the skill requirements, homework practice and grading.

I agree with the touch typing though. 4th grade all students in computer lab 3x a week were taught touch typing, keyboarding from a program. There was a mat that eventually went over the keys so the students could not peek. Every student had to complete the program sucessfully. One of the better skills our elementary students were taught. Both of my kids had excellent typing skills that greatly improved through high school and college.

Me I'd like to pull the rug out completely on the common core philosophy. Could be the strangest, poorly conceived concepts ever inflected on students. The check a father wrote to a school district demonstrates how silly it is if applied in real life.

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What I find ridiculous is the differing standard for boys and girls. The standard should have been the same across the board. Although my experience is that boys have poorer handwriting in general than girls, there are men with nice handwriting and women with lousy handwriting. Standard should have been legibility and for individual students to improve to that standard. Hmph.

The amount of college students who can't touch type is almost silly. I did an online typing test a while back and can do about 80 words a minute. Not bad. And is why I prefer to type when possible. We were taught in middle school how to touch type, but the tech ed teacher made it fun. He had us use online games for practice. When you were finished your work, that was what you were allowed to do. That's how I learned. That, and with playing piano, it came naturally.
 
catmom46

catmom46

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MinnieM123 said:
Happy Tuesday to you and everyone. This morning at 4:30 AM, it was 51 degrees out. :joyfull: :joyfull: @catmom46 , I wish I could send a little refreshing cool air your way.

Meanwhile, while @figmentfan423 does all this massive cleaning, I haven't done a thing except spot clean (only where it shows . . .. :p) and throw stuff in closets so that the place doesn't look cluttered. But my excuse for not deep cleaning is that I'm going to work . . . although I'll need another excuse for the weekend! :cat:
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I wish you could, too! And I'm right with you on the spot cleaning stance - weekends are meant for relaxing, not cleaning! :D
 
catmom46

catmom46

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
Unfortunately, he thinks his class is the only one we have and that we do the problems at the same speed he does. Given that he gives us problems that he hasn't shown us how to do in class and we have to use the textbook to figure it out, I'd say it takes us a bit longer.
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That seems to be a common trait with most professors thinking their class is the only one you're taking!
 

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