Guest guest Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 > Now that I've expounded on this my chances of having a list mate come > here are probably slim to none. > > Um, well, it IS supposed to be beautiful countryside. Salli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 It's almost one and I should be long asleep, but I am not because my darned hip hurts too much. Yes, I took something for it but it is not enough. I'm sorta hungry, but not, cause what I really want is junk and we don't have any, and I should go to bed but the hip would keep me awake. Ergh. Ah, and we have a four day weekend coming up. The kids are off Monday and Tuesday as part of the budget cuts. Lovely. Blech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 From: " egcjssmom " wrote: > Ah, and we have a four day weekend coming up. The kids are off > Monday and Tuesday as part of the budget cuts. Lovely. Blech. Um, I get the feeling I've been living a sheltered life ... they are cancelling school for the purpose of budget cuts? Since when? Is this normal? (The other day I pulled into an elementary school near my ST, just out of curiosity. The building was so sad and run down looking it looked like an industrial warehouse. The playground was pitiful and the grounds dotted with trailers, which I imagine are improptu classrooms ... teaching in trailers, sounds barbaric to me. How did things get this bad?) (SAHM in GA) MSN elizabethloht@... n 33, mo, no formal dx Phoebe, 10 wks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 Don't get me starte . Don't get me started. I am so disgusted with what I see in reguards to some areas and education it is one of the main reasons that I chose to homeschool. In the state of Ohio the schools are exempt from building code standards (unless this law was changed in the last five years since we moved from there). There are kids going to school in the state of Ohio that have no bathrooms in the schools and the kids have to walk to the gas station next door. They don't have cafaterias. Some of the buildings don't pass fire saftey standards, others should be condemned. In the city that we were living in, they were more interested in replacing the football scoreboard every year or two than spending money on text books. My friends daughter was using a history book that was more than 10 years out of date and their math books were from the 70s. Not that math has changed that much but can you imagine the condition of those books?? This same girl stayed up until almost 1am once working on her science notebook and she ended up with a D on it. Her mom called the teacher at the school (I was standing right there) and the teacher told her that she didn't have time to talk to her because the phone call was making her late for a class and that she had just better get used to the idea that her daughter was lazy and would never amount to anything. Around here we are told that there is no money for special ed. They are building a lot of new schools because of overcrowding and the use of trailers but there is no money for special ed. The county that we moved in before we moved here tried to tell me that the schools there were the best in the state, that they had this awsome special ed program that would be wonderful for my kids, blah blah blah, and yet there is a Yahoo group just for that county and everything that is wrong with sped there that gets something like 600 messages a day. Public education has become really sad in a lot of areas. Georga Re: Oh Bother > > From: " egcjssmom " wrote: > > > Ah, and we have a four day weekend coming up. The kids are off > > Monday and Tuesday as part of the budget cuts. Lovely. Blech. > > Um, I get the feeling I've been living a sheltered life ... they are > cancelling school for the purpose of budget cuts? Since when? Is this > normal? > > (The other day I pulled into an elementary school near my ST, just out of > curiosity. The building was so sad and run down looking it looked like an > industrial warehouse. The playground was pitiful and the grounds dotted > with trailers, which I imagine are improptu classrooms ... teaching in > trailers, sounds barbaric to me. How did things get this bad?) > > (SAHM in GA) > MSN elizabethloht@... > n 33, mo, no formal dx > Phoebe, 10 wks > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 > Um, I get the feeling I've been living a sheltered life ... they are > cancelling school for the purpose of budget cuts? Since when? Is this > normal? Oregon has had some severe budget problems the last couple of years, and this last year being the most severe to date. It is a long complicated story of how Oregon's school funding came to be managed in the way that it is, but the short of it is that we do not have stable funding for the schools and are dependant upon the welfare of the state. This means in times of plenty the schools do well and in times of poverty they suffer severely. Oregon has lost a tremendous amount of it's industrial and corporate base and there is nothing to take it's place so there is less revenue. Each school district is paid by the state on a per student basis which is supposed to cover the cost of thier education, the facilities, etc. The state does not have enough money and so funding is being reduced and school must find ways absorb that reduction. Around the state school districts have been suffering through cut after cut and there is nothing left more to cut basically. Our district only cut an additional five days off the school year which still kept us within federal minimums for school year days. Other districts, like Portland, cut almost SIX WEEKS of school days in order to absorb thier cuts. Now that I've expounded on this my chances of having a list mate come here are probably slim to none. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 I'm staying put, . But I will think of you often. Maggie ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 I was born in Alaska. It's better than here. Anything is better than this area. I hate all the people in this area...then again, I grew up in the country where your nearest neighbor was a cow. Georga Re: Re: Oh Bother > Hey Georga, > > I used to live in Frederick, MD, and then in Baltimore. So I am familiar > with your neck of the woods! > > Maggie > > p.s. Alaska is cold. Read Jacquie's poem and substitute Alaska for > Canada. > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 Ok. I feel your pain. I understand now. Remember, I am not getting all my email right now and I am behind and I don't have my computer. I don't drink coffee..... But beyond that... You do know that I have people calling me at all weird hours don't you? LOL! Georga Re: Oh Bother > > Remember, I am homeschooling so none of that matters to me. > > True. > > Why do you need > > a listmate to come there? > > Because it would be nice to have someone here to have coffee with, > etc. I have no life. There really isn't anyone here that I know > that totally gets it, except for the kids new psychiatrist, but I > can't call her at odd hours and say I need coffee, NOW! > > I keep trying to talk into moving out of > > this hellhole known as DC Metro. I really want to move to > Alaska.... > > Oregon is beautiful. The beaches are wonderful. The fishing is > great, and there are alot of very very nice people here. I do like > where we live for the most part. > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 DC Metro is hell! I don't care what anyone says. It is hell! Georga Re: Re: Oh Bother > I didn't know you were born in Alaska, so repress my p.s., okay? Yes, DC > Metro area is too crowded, too busy, too yuppie, too....yes. I like it > better in TN too. > > Maggie > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 Sounds like heaven to me. I hate it where I am too. :-( ellen Re: Re: Oh Bother I was born in Alaska. It's better than here. Anything is better than this area. I hate all the people in this area...then again, I grew up in the country where your nearest neighbor was a cow. Georga Re: Re: Oh Bother > Hey Georga, > > I used to live in Frederick, MD, and then in Baltimore. So I am familiar > with your neck of the woods! > > Maggie > > p.s. Alaska is cold. Read Jacquie's poem and substitute Alaska for > Canada. > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 I stayed in Columbia, MD, last summer for a week with a friend. I felt like a fish out of water. I was glad to come home. Maggie ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 Very frightening. Maggie ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 25, 2003 Report Share Posted April 25, 2003 HEY! RE: Re: Oh Bother Sounds like heaven to me. I hate it where I am too. :-( ellen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 25, 2003 Report Share Posted April 25, 2003 > that stinks. How is your hip? Well staying off the foot has not been too much of a problem as the hip is too damn sore to be up much. I stand up it feels like a hot knife. I called and got an appointment for May 7th. All in all for my doc at the ortho clinic that's not too far out. Blech. I really hope I can convince him to shoot it with steroids for me. I know the cost. It's less pain and more function now, and eventually an earlier hip replacement, but I can't hardly do anything right now with it. Damn nusicance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 25, 2003 Report Share Posted April 25, 2003 The last thing you need...I'm sorry, . Maggie ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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