Finally, someone came forward. Will it change anything? Highly unlikely. The whole point of these standardized test is not for the benefit of the kids but allows the State to get more funding when they show their students are doing wonderfully.

don’t get me wrong, I love the warm weather but I hate it when May brings in stiffing heat which requires the a/c be turned on. It results in my electric bill being high for an extra month of the year.

Did you know that on a state math test 10 + 5 can be 2, 5 or 15 – really, I kid you not! It’s all about method, show you know the method and it doesn’t matter if you’ve missed the fact the question clearly states “find the sum”. If a kid subtracts or divides the numbers correctly, they get full marks.

Why put mathematical signs in there at all, let the kid choose.

Our future is doomed.

I’m not liking the way parents get blamed for the ‘I’m special’ attitude their kids have developed. My kids get a pat on the back when they’ve done something worth the pat. When I tell them they can do, or be anything they want, the conversation stresses ‘but you have to work your ass off, nothing is handed to you on a silver platter’.

Both my children are under the sole influence of others (it’s called school) 7hr/day who follow a ’script’ put forth by idiots in charge who dictate what they should learn, how they should learn it and how long it should take for them to know it. So many times I hear the words ‘but my teacher/friends/news said…”. It’s a constant battle to instill my belief system in their minds as I’m competing with so many others.

A simple thing as Math. – I know easier ways to do things than what my son is being taught, I can come up with the answer, but can’t show him because he has to do it a certain way on tests (learn the ‘correct method’) or it’s deemed incorrect. Apparently it’s not the answer they look for, but how you got there.

He’s taught ‘approximation’ – I’m told it’s a real life lesson. When he goes to the store and hands over his money he’ll know approximately how much change he should get back  Ya know what…. when I was in school I was taught exactly how much money I should get back in change, because I was taught that $1.00 – 86c was 14c not approx 10c.

Friggin urks me when parents get the entire blame for the nitwits their children become. We can only show them the right path to take – unfortunately outside forces are sometimes pointing in other directions and we can’t be there all the time.

15 minutes – that’s all it took for my kids to piss me off this morning!

C – lets see, got a box of 64 crayons over the weekend. Now let me just say he’s probably gone through the entire stock of toys r us when it comes to crayons and pencils since September. I send him to school with an 8 box every month, never to be seen again. The 64 crayons comes in a box split up into 4 boxes of 12. He was allowed to take ONE small box. He argued and played up and cried and omg think ‘Damian’!!! He’s still upstairs shouting down at me trying to justify why he needs to take 64 – the latest “but I won’t be able to draw you a magnificent picture if I don’t have them all”

BAH!!!!

M – Has raffle tickets to sell ever so often. I noticed two books in his bag about a fortnight ago and asked him if he wanted me to take a book to school and sell. No said he, they’re not giving us a dress down day so I’m not selling them. WHATEVER! This morning he comes down without his uniform on – apparently the school was now giving a dress down for each book he sold and he was paying $40 out of his own money. He earns minimum wage – financially not a good investment paying $40 to wear your own clothes. I ripped the books in half.

Friggin kids – do they not know not to piss me off in the morning?

Really!? Now I know you hate me.

Have you any idea how friggin annoying these things are – two toys in one – but do you know how hard they are to transform?! No of course you don’t  because you don’t have to transform them. Do you know how long it takes Tim and I to decipher the instructions? – NO YOU DON’T, because you arrive, hand over the toy get a smile and a hug then leave.

These toys were devised by the devil himself to turn parents into raving lunatics so we do something bad and end up him hell when we die.