| Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| exhaustion and starvation |
i did my nutty run-around with the kids today. it went well! i had plenty of time on all sides. the sad thing was that it started rain literally the SECOND the kids started pouring out of the school, so I had to walk them the 8 blocks in the rain. my kid is the only one who is used to having to walk in the rain, and the others were sort of narrowing their eyes at me for not having a car.
I have to say, at 5:30 when it was time to go back and get e., and then walk to get j., and the skies had opened up and dumped 9,000 gallons of water upon my head, along with assorted leaves and other fading vegetation, I rolled my eyes at MYSELF for not having a car. Either that, or not having on my more powerful rain gear. i had on a pretty water resistant rain coat, but otherwise, jeans. stretchy-jeans are MOST uncomfortable when wet.
BUT - i love kids these ages. 8 and 10. they're conversant, and interesting, yet still INTERESTED. they listen and are curious.
my nutty run-around, however, did not allow for lunch. so i'm starved. i had a bagel at 9:30, and some tea, and then just water. now it's 6:58, and I've ordered our Chinese food, but they warned me that it will take a LOOOOOOONG TIIIIIMMMMMEEE for it to get here.
there's a girl i sit next to in tax who has a real hippy heritage, as far as i can tell (she was one of my fellow teacher-people last year while we were 2Ls), and today, for the first time ever, when i told someone that we celebrate solstice, she said, "oh yeah, that's what we celebrated when i was growing up." that's never happened before.
i think i want her to be my friend. sometimes, we share a book (b/c our table is so stupidly small), and once, i tried to the turn the page, and it wouldn't turn, so i went to lick my finger, and then i stopped myself, realizing it was HER book, and thinking it would perhaps be kind of gross to smear my spit on HER book, and she saw me and she said, "you can lick it, I don't care." so, I think we're 1/2 way there. to being friends.
oh, and e's teacher wrote back and said the following, and ONLY the following: "she will miss social studies and it will be her job to make up her social studies work as homework." so, my daughter will be punished for her cognitive abilities by causing her to make up the work which is not challenging enough for her. we already struggle so much to fit this year's increase in homework into our day/night. we'll see how it goes. |
posted by Zuska @ 6:53 PM   |
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I was in a GT program in 3 to 5th grade. It was a half-day pull out program twice a week and I was bussed to the public school. My 4th and 5th grade teachers couldn't handle it for whatever reason. I had to eat lunch in the classroom to make up the math worksheets I had missed from the morning. Long division drill and kill excercises. Sorry to see education hasn't changed since the mid-80s.
Butterflyfish
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i don't know, i think 45 minutes once a week in the same building is a great improvement over what you're describing! I would definitely refuse the privilege if it was like that.
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FWIW:
GirlChild did the same sort of program. She loved it, and thrived. She still remembers a great deal about it, and it was a confidence booster. She sometimes thinks she's not as smart as her brother, no matter how often I tell her otherwise. The program was good for that.
Having said that, I think their success is highly dependant on the quality of the instructor
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I was in a GT program in 3 to 5th grade. It was a half-day pull out program twice a week and I was bussed to the public school. My 4th and 5th grade teachers couldn't handle it for whatever reason. I had to eat lunch in the classroom to make up the math worksheets I had missed from the morning. Long division drill and kill excercises. Sorry to see education hasn't changed since the mid-80s.
Butterflyfish