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Originally posted by opiesilverIf it makes you feel any better, I graduated high school with a 4.0 average. (4.0 being highest possible) I can't spell either. I never, in all my education, had a higher grade than a C- in spelling. It took me 20+ years to be able to type a line without having to use spell check.I have an average composit on the ACT of 32.5 . You can break those scores down and notice that I have an composit score of 22 in English/Grammer. Go figure.I don't know why it doesn't compute in my brain, but it never has. I was also placed in special ed. I spent my 3rd grade year there before they figured out that I perfectly normal, well sort of, and that I couldn't read. Or so they thought. I just didn't like to in class and would refuse to do it. I guess you could say that I was kinda stubborn. (Shut UP Andy!!)My daughter who is 7 years old has just spent the last year going through the same thing. At last the school agreed to have her tested by a real psychologist. The report came back by saying the she was emotionally normal and that at age seven her IQ was 136, and she scored in the 99.7% range for her age group. You should have seen the faces of the school administrative staff and her teachers. It was one of those priceless moments that you will never forget. Wanna know what kept her from being labled as a genius? She can't spell to save her life and her hand writting is almost as bad as my own. I once had one of her teachers tell me that she was going to be nothing in life and that she would always need help. That was the teacher who put her in special ed and that I had fired from teaching in the Bellevue public school system.I really dislike and have no respect for teachers who don't put the interest of the kids first. Then again wasn't it a teacher who said that I would never amount to anything?
Originally posted by [303]JollyRogerIt's not that I don't respect teacher, well I respect teachers that deserve respect. My issue is that alot of teachers fear students, and they don't demand respect from their students either. If a teacher commands and demands respect then most of the time the students will give them respect.And for this poor student he'll have this stupid suspention to look back on and laugh at. The fact that it happend all because the school system was ignorant in the ways of computers is angering to me. And now they will make a rule about not using net send.We all complain that the youths of our nation are falling through the cracks, and it is because of the lack of support in schools and at home. The schools are saying that it's the parents fault or they have ADD, or whatnot. But if the schools would stop passing the buck and start teaching and really helping kid then this may not happen. "But the government is cuting funding.":cry: get over it! it is not the government resposablity to pay teachers. Besides a real teacher is not in it for the money (though it help) they are in it for the student. I have seen real teachers in my life. I have also had crummy teachers. About at home well, I'll save that for another soap box.I have worked with kid of all ages and have seen some amazing stuff in both directions of good and bad. I have experience with horrible teaching through my schooling career (half of my spelling issue, the other half is me) If you want to hear about the bad side of school just ask I will tell you a story that will make you shutter.I hated all of school! Everything I know I fetched for myself. The schools placed me in "Sped. Ed" class room and said I amount to nothing. I am a Free Lance Computer Consaultant who can't spell. Who is looking for a real Job but until the I can make a buck or two.
Originally posted by opiesilverHere is my story.High School GPA at graduation 4.14 out of 4.0. I did a lot of extra work. My first year in high school was a disaster. I had a 2.7 GPA that year. I was doing the typical teenage rebellion thing but I got lucky and got pushed in the right direction by the best teacher I ever had. I used to never go to class and if I did would never stay awake. Come to think of it, I still can't stay awake in classes.:lolI never had any help or direction from home. My parents could have cared less. My children will not be raised in the same way. You can ask Sonic what she does every day after school if you don't believe me. I don't push her hard but she doesn't get to slack either.I took both the ACT and SAT. The ACT was the same score every year, 33. I scored perfect in everything but English:mad: every time. I took it agin just before I got out of the Air Force and scored exactly the same again. The relative score on the SAT was higher than the ACT, but it's been a LONG time and I don't remember what it was.I went to college and did pretty good the first semester, ok the second, and stayed drunk the entire 2nd year. Partied myself right out of college and my full scholarship in Mechanical Engineering. Worked for a year as a fry cook and decided that the only way to better myself and my life was to go military.The next 8 years I spent doing various things for the government and then got out. I got my first real job with a company that went belly up, but learned then work politics are extremely important if you want to survive. I went three months unemployed and nearly bankrupt when God gave me a chance to do even better with my life. Guess he was just testing my beliefs. The rest is history.
Originally posted by FraggsterQuoteOriginally posted by opiesilverHere is my story.High School GPA at graduation 4.14 out of 4.0. I did a lot of extra work. My first year in high school was a disaster. I had a 2.7 GPA that year. I was doing the typical teenage rebellion thing but I got lucky and got pushed in the right direction by the best teacher I ever had. I used to never go to class and if I did would never stay awake. Come to think of it, I still can't stay awake in classes.:lolI never had any help or direction from home. My parents could have cared less. My children will not be raised in the same way. You can ask Sonic what she does every day after school if you don't believe me. I don't push her hard but she doesn't get to slack either.I took both the ACT and SAT. The ACT was the same score every year, 33. I scored perfect in everything but English:mad: every time. I took it agin just before I got out of the Air Force and scored exactly the same again. The relative score on the SAT was higher than the ACT, but it's been a LONG time and I don't remember what it was.I went to college and did pretty good the first semester, ok the second, and stayed drunk the entire 2nd year. Partied myself right out of college and my full scholarship in Mechanical Engineering. Worked for a year as a fry cook and decided that the only way to better myself and my life was to go military.The next 8 years I spent doing various things for the government and then got out. I got my first real job with a company that went belly up, but learned then work politics are extremely important if you want to survive. I went three months unemployed and nearly bankrupt when God gave me a chance to do even better with my life. Guess he was just testing my beliefs. The rest is history. You named your daughter Sonic?:bounce: