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StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Gabe1 said:
RIP Dear Friend. :inlove:

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Walter 2005-2016
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Aww, so sorry Gabe. Rough year for you
 
MinnieM123

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Gabe1 said:
RIP Dear Friend. :inlove:

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Walter 2005-2016
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Oh my God. I am also broken up over this unexpected, very sad news. :( So sorry to hear about "our" Walt--we all loved him here. You've shared many happy stories about him, and he was a loyal companion to you. This brings tears to my eyes this morning. Walt will live on in our hearts and memories. Can you spend some time with your DD today for some emotional support?
 
Songbird76

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Gabe1 said:
My Sis did a foreign exchange program to Germany in HS and Italy in College. My niece who attended a private academy in Ohio has had spanish since she was 4 years old all the way through 12th grade. She had gone to study in Guadalajara Mexico. My folks had 2 students sty with them from Germany.

I don't know of any schools here anyhow that have the same general education, I think those days are long gone in the US anyhow do to Federal Mandates. My DD was all over the place on the educational spectrum. She had an IEP for Special Education and also was bless with a high IQ so she was in a different type of Special Education for the Gifted. I am not a fan of TESTS to be a determiner of what track gets follow. There are so many kinds of Learners, auditory, visual but I'm not a fan for the way they determine what a student's learning style is. I'm a data driven person and I've yet to see and clear indicators that the methodology isn't flawed.

Some districts do track their students and I am a fan of that because it is usually a moving target. If you lets say have a student that just doesn't put effort into anything they are usually tracked lower to pound at least the basics skills down. When we have 4 classrooms in a grade The Gifted and Higher Learners that need less repetition are in group 4. Those moving a bit above the bar group 3, those right on target group 2 and those who tend to struggle for a multiple reasons are usually in group 1 and that class usually is packed with 1 on 1 aides or a few kids per aide depending on needs.

The good thing about the tracking is if Sally is in group 2 but excels in math she will move to group 4 for math instruction, that like reading can go a couple grade levels as they age and have more complex curriculum.
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That's pretty much how our school works, but we're a smaller school. Some grades only have 1 class for the whole grade. But they have 3 levels inside the class. Like, my daughter is in the plus group for everything. She gets extra, more in depth material for math, language, and reading comprehension, and now she was given an extra book to work in when she's done with all the other stuff, and she's the only one in her class to have that. Then they have the standard/average group, and a group that gets more instruction from the teachers. They also divide it up if there are 2 classrooms, one teacher will take the plus and the average kids and the other will take the kids who need more help. So it all works out. And they track them from kindergarten on to see if they are still on target or if they need some extra help. There was a little girl in my son's class a couple of years ago that skipped a grade and ended up in my daughter's class. And for that matter, for all intents and purposes, DS has skipped a grade. He BARELY made the cutoff, and the majority of kids whose birthdays are between October and December either get held back a year or their parents decide to make them do one more year of kindergarten. We let DS continue on to first grade because he was so bored with Kindergarten and he could already read and do basic math. So while all the other kids stayed in Kindergarten, he moved on to first grade, and he's still in all the plus groups, etc. I think the closest kid in age to him is still more than 6 months older than he is, so basically he skipped his 2nd year of kindergarten. (They start when they are 4 and do 2 years of Kindergarten). He's 8 and in 4th grade. Were we in the US, he wouldn't have made the age cutoff and he'd have had to wait a year to start. But they track each kid's progress and you get a graph twice a year that shows where your child falls in comparison to other kids in their grade across the nation, and shows their growth line from each grade level for each subject. If there's a big dip suddenly in one subject, then they try to figure out why so they can fix it. They are very good about tracking, but I have no idea how they are with fixing the issues that arise because my kids have never had a big dip. They've been pretty steady. DS had a dip last year in Math when he got the flu and I sent him back too early because I didn't want him to miss any more testing...so he was still not feeling well when he was given the math test, but he still scored well above average, and then on the next test, he was right back at the top. So the school didn't have to take action...it was just a bad testing day. But, they also track progress via classwork, because, as you said, not every kid learns the same and not every kid is good with tests. So they track it both ways so they catch it if there's a problem. And, that's also the reason that they stopped making the end test in 6th grade the sole factor in deciding which school a kid goes to. Teachers know more about the academic ability of their students than one test can possibly show, so the test is now just a guideline and the teacher's advice is what counts. Overall I think it's a pretty good system...education is more tailored to the individual. Some kids are only in the plus group for math, or the plus group for reading. My kids are both in every plus group they have, but in DD's class, there's only one other kid in ALL of the plus groups, and in DS's class, he's the only one in all of them. The rest only have one or two plus groups, and there was one kid in DD's class who was in a plus group for math and a remedial group for reading. It's not a one-size-fits-all education.
 
Songbird76

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betty rose said:
I hope she is happy with her choice.
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You and me both! Right now, I'm grateful that she doesn't HAVE to make the choice quite yet. This is why we are starting nice and early...boiling a frog, I tell ya! Now we can take it nice and slowly and get her used to each new phase of information and decision making. Hopefully, by the time she has to make a choice, she will just know which one is the right one.
 
Songbird76

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MinnieM123 said:
I've been wanting to do something different with our livingroom, so I decided to replace the long red drapes on the 2 windows, with sort of a linen/light beige set of drapes. That's a significant change. Put them up about 6 hours ago. Do you think hubby has noticed yet? Heck no--he's walked past the livingroom 2-3 times and not batted an eyelash. (He's now down there on the sofa watching tv . . . hasn't noticed a thing . . . crickets . . .) :hilarious:
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I love it!! I always end up breaking down and asking hubby if he noticed when I do something. Makes you wonder how they can be so oblivious! Is your husband color blind, though? I forget a lot that my son is color blind until we're doing something and he asks "Is this blue?" It's an easy thing to forget when you aren't the one that can't see the difference.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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Thank you guys so much for your warm hugs. You guys are the best and why I love this thread so much.

My sad news is just too raw to go into at the moment as I keep loosing it. Been loosing myself in Trip Reports to keep myself focused on something else. It has just hit us very hard. But wanted to let you all know how much your support and kindness is appreciated and is helping me through this.
 
betty rose

betty rose

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Gabe1 said:
Thank you guys so much for your warm hugs. You guys are the best and why I love this thread so much.

My sad news is just too raw to go into at the moment as I keep loosing it. Been loosing myself in Trip Reports to keep myself focused on something else. It has just hit us very hard. But wanted to let you all know how much your support and kindness is appreciated and is helping me through this.
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I hope each week gets a little better.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Gabe1 said:
Thank you guys so much for your warm hugs. You guys are the best and why I love this thread so much.

My sad news is just too raw to go into at the moment as I keep loosing it. Been loosing myself in Trip Reports to keep myself focused on something else. It has just hit us very hard. But wanted to let you all know how much your support and kindness is appreciated and is helping me through this.
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I totally understand how devastated you are. Hugs to you!
 
betty rose

betty rose

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Gabe1 said:
Thank you guys so much for your warm hugs. You guys are the best and why I love this thread so much.

My sad news is just too raw to go into at the moment as I keep loosing it. Been loosing myself in Trip Reports to keep myself focused on something else. It has just hit us very hard. But wanted to let you all know how much your support and kindness is appreciated and is helping me through this.
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Nothing better for the soul, then arm chair travel.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Songbird76 said:
I love it!! I always end up breaking down and asking hubby if he noticed when I do something. Makes you wonder how they can be so oblivious! Is your husband color blind, though? I forget a lot that my son is color blind until we're doing something and he asks "Is this blue?" It's an easy thing to forget when you aren't the one that can't see the difference.
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No, he's not color blind--just oblivious!! ;)

ajrwdwgirl said:
You might need to give him a hint.
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I thought about doing that, but I really wanted to wait and see how long it would take him to notice. So this afternoon, (after hanging up the new drapes yesterday, in hopes of some wrinkles falling out), I decided that I still really needed to still iron them. I brought in the step stool near the window, to take down the drapes and rod, and hubs happened to come downstairs. Conversation:

"What's the stepstool for?" (Note--not, "hey those are different drapes." No, we must focus on the stepstool.) :rolleyes:

"I'm taking down the drapes to iron them."

"Oh. Oh wait . . .did you do something different? . . . No." :mad:

"It's been 24 hours and you haven't even noticed that the RED drapes are gone, and white ones are up?!" :arghh:

"Oh yah--red. What happened to the red drapes?"

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