The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[ajrwdwgirl]

I'm too late to vote, but I think the one on the right is sinister/creepy and the one on the left is more...goofy. So if you were going for scary, yours wins hands down. I'd really like to see them lit up, though!!!

We didn't light them this year, at least not for long. We don't use candles with them, instead I have little battery powered lights and of course the batteries went dead. Oh well, maybe next year.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Trick or treat is done and for the first time in years the kids could wear their costumes without jackets, and I didn’t freeze. So a great night for begging for candy.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

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Do you remove it to use it, or is there a plug behind it?

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

She was angry because the teacher took her phone and Ruined her Snapchat Photo

I took one of my high school student's phone away last week and she got snippy with me. I said if she didn't like it she could go talk to the principal. She said she would and that he would be giving her phone back to her right away. So she went and talked to him, she got her phone back at the end of the day....after she served a detention.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Not to further push a stereotype but she has Tesla, AND has the iPhone X

Okay, as far as the Tesla, I could maybe see a 16/17 year old getting their parents' used Tesla if their parents was buying themselves a new car and did it as a hand me down. Maybe. I mean, I got my parents' hand me downs as my first two cars.

But brand new? Now admittedly, I'm in the always-buy-new-cars camp. But even so, either get yourself a new car and give your teen your car, or buy your teen something cheap and safe. Teens should not be trusted around expensive cars. Even when I was a teen, I understood why I wasn't allowed to drive the brand-new Buick Enclave.

And no teen needs an iPhone X. iPhones can be good given that they're really easy to lock down and monitor activity, as well as track, but no teen needs that one. Not unless they bought and paid for it themselves.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

There's a new girl sitting behind me at work, who's been here for maybe a month, and she's wearing this black dress with spaghetti straps and no back to work. I'm seriously struggling with 1. How on Earth she thinks that's an appropriate work outfit, and 2. How she's not cold; I'm freezing.

Halloween costume possibly? I am cold in sweats.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Florida= 49 in education system

When in Florida, homeschool.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Happy Halloween!
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Pass.... @figmentfan423 can have my share.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

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and would be too busy cleaning with to any time for either of the first 2

I had the thing in the picture on top, made the the thing in the middle, and still use the thing on the bottom to clean crevices between the counter and sink in my kitchen.

 

[MinnieM123]

Pass.... @figmentfan423 can have my share.

And @figmentfan423 can have my share too.

 

[donaldtoo]

Happy Halloween!
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Buddy, what are you doing trick-or-treating at @figmentfan423 ’s house...?!?!?!

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

So, my two went trick or treating with friends tonight, and they said that most people they could see were home, but didn't answer the door. Some answered but didn't have candy....they got cough drops, one gave them a bag of candy to share in their group, one went to the store just to get candy for them because he felt bad he didn't have any. One person stopped their car to give them marshmallows, and DD said they had a toddler in the back that waved and said "Bye bye" when they drove off....apparently it was adorable. I actually had 3 groups of trick-or-treaters besides my kids' group!! That's never happened! And they all seemed so surprised that someone actually answered the door.

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The first one is my two (obviously), the 2nd is my daughter, her best friend's little sister, whose face I didn't cover because you can't see her face through her zombie makeup anyway, the little sister's best friend, and 2 boys from DD's and her best friend's class at school. The 2 boys play fortnite with DD and her bestie....it's a good group of kids. The last one is DS and DD's best friend, who I didn't scribble out, again because of the zombie makeup. (which looked AMAZING...her face was unzipped halfway. Very cool.

Cool! They look great. We got 16 houses in our development. Here if you put your front porch lights on, you know it is okay to ring a doorbell.

 

[MinnieM123]

I took one of my high school student's phone away last week and she got snippy with me. I said if she didn't like it she could go talk to the principal. She said she would and that he would be giving her phone back to her right away. So she went and talked to him, she got her phone back at the end of the day....after she served a detention.

See, that's what I don't get--it's the challenging attitude. When we got busted in school, we'd cringe at the thought of getting kept there after school, or having a note sent home to parents, etc. I honestly don't recall any kid back-talking a teacher like that. Our parents would have gone ballistic if they found out that one of their kids had acted like that.

We weren't better kids than the student that gave you a hard time, but we accepted the fact that there would be accountability for anything stupid we did. That's the missing piece it would seem nowadays, with some kids (and their parents).

 

[MinnieM123]

Buddy, what are you doing trick-or-treating at @figmentfan423 ’s house...?!?!?!

Green broccoli for a treat -- that would be a scary experience ....

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

See, that's what I don't get--it's the challenging attitude. When we got busted in school, we'd cringe at the thought of getting kept there after school, or having a note sent home to parents, etc. I honestly don't recall any kid back-talking a teacher like that. Our parents would have gone ballistic if they found out that one of their kids had acted like that.

We weren't better kids than the student that gave you a hard time, but we accepted the fact that there would be accountability for anything stupid we did. That's the missing piece it would seem nowadays, with some kids (and their parents).

Some parents just aren't parenting. Luckily most of my students aren't too sassy.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Things were a bit more safer in my time in school, but what IamGroot! posted is nothing compared to what made the national news last week.

I am referring a 11 year girl and a 12 year girl at the same Florida Middle school got arrest last week. The two already got expulsion from School. The adults caught the two in girls bathroom before they found their first victim. What happened was the 2 girls watched scary movies and decided that they wanted to die and join Satan.

The adults found Pizza Cutter, Goblet, knife sharper, and knives on the two girls. The knives founded included a carving knife. The girls were waiting for students to enter girls bathroom and attack them with knives. The 2 students wanted to more than stabbings and kill themselves, but I don't want to go farther into details.

Oh my gosh. Thank goodness they were found before they could commit any harm.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

There are pretty dumb people that are not from Florida. I am bringing this up because early this year, I had to deal with a bank tell that can't figure out that 10 $20.00 bills equals $200.00. I thought being strong in math would be a requirement for being a bank teller.

Also there was a person checking out that didn't know 18 times four equals 72. The check out person admitted that she's bad at math and that is scary. I call it scary because it would be tough for the check out person to give back proper change.

What I know is I read that people were complaining about my old high school having teachers that actually have their students do math on a calculator only.

I am a stickler towards math because I had math teachers that had students figure math problems out without using calculators. My parents didn't believe in have in my younger and use calculators unless the teacher makes it a requirement to bring to school.

People always been impressed by me using a sheet of paper doing math instead of calculator. I also balance my check book without using a calculator and the bank statement is the same as my checkbook.

Whe n I was a kid I used to try and figure out the change before the cash register did. This was when you could only use cash or checks to pay at grocery stores.

 

[Figgy1]

So, my two went trick or treating with friends tonight, and they said that most people they could see were home, but didn't answer the door. Some answered but didn't have candy....they got cough drops, one gave them a bag of candy to share in their group, one went to the store just to get candy for them because he felt bad he didn't have any. One person stopped their car to give them marshmallows, and DD said they had a toddler in the back that waved and said "Bye bye" when they drove off....apparently it was adorable. I actually had 3 groups of trick-or-treaters besides my kids' group!! That's never happened! And they all seemed so surprised that someone actually answered the door.

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The first one is my two (obviously), the 2nd is my daughter, her best friend's little sister, whose face I didn't cover because you can't see her face through her zombie makeup anyway, the little sister's best friend, and 2 boys from DD's and her best friend's class at school. The 2 boys play fortnite with DD and her bestie....it's a good group of kids. The last one is DS and DD's best friend, who I didn't scribble out, again because of the zombie makeup. (which looked AMAZING...her face was unzipped halfway. Very cool.

They're growing up so fast

 

[Figgy1]

Oh my gosh. Thank goodness they were found before they could commit any harm.

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

It's only going to get worse. Around here, someone told me yesterday that along with no longer teaching Cursive, they no longer make any attempt to teach spelling or grammar. In about 18 years there are going to a whole lot of semi-illiterate people floating around.

Dumbing down of the populous. They figure with spell and grammar check in computer programs, they don’t need it. My kids learn all of that. I was told our local Montessori teaches cursive in first grade. I was also told that in the public schools it was up to individual teachers if they wanted to teach cursive or not. Without learning it, you cannot read our fohnding documents. So sad how the public school system is failing.