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  1. Have a senior right now and he is in the middle of applying to schools.  I went to UT and there is no way I would get in now.  He is no where near top 10% only for lack of trying and the school he goes to is extremely competitive.  He is in the top 10% of SAT scores and he has no interest in AP courses unless they are a subject he likes.  He is a brilliant kid...skips a generation, my dad went to Dartmouth.  

    That being said I work for a university that pays his tuition where I am, so we are fortunate.  The university also has a tuition exchange program where he can go to other schools with tuition paid.  He will probably end up where I work, but he has the option for a ton of other schools.  It is not UT, but he will get out of school debt free.  That is all I can ask now a days.

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  2. Kids are dropping like flies in our school
    District. Son brought it home and I have had it since Thursday night. Used an old test for both my son and myself and it popped almost immediately. Son got over it in a couple days. Hoping tomorrow is better for me.

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  3. On 6/1/2023 at 8:55 PM, choripan said:

    Ha. Thanks everyone (and to those that DMed).

    He will plead ignorance -- that he didn't know he could plagiarize himself  -- but that he should have been aware of the policy, in any case. He will maximize contrition and point out that he has no record of academic dishonesty and it's something he never would have done had he known it was wrong, and from now on he'll work to be aware of all applicable rules and regs.

    Guessing he gets something like a zero for the assignment, some sort of wrist slap, maybe has to write an apology letter or a paper on academic integrity or so on. Fingers crossed it's that easy.

    I was talking about this with some folks the other day.  What was the result of the hearing?


  4. There it is. Now this thread has all that it needs.

    Is there a site where one can build a bracket for people to vote on? I’ll wrap up the list soon, and then invite a select committee to share their ranking so we can seed the entries, and will build a bracket.

    Understand that I’ll still make shit up and do wackadoo shit like make an egg salad sandwich a 3 seed, because chaos and outrage are fun.

    Do we get a bracket of who is eligible to be on the committee and then we vote on that?
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  5. Had the "is a taco a sandwich conversation with the 17yr old man child" after reading this thread.  He insists that it is not because it is one continuous piece of bread and therefore not a sandwich.  I like the way he thinks, but not sure I agree with him yet.  It would also knock out some really good "sandwiches" if I choose to agree.

  6. 37 minutes ago, HamsterHookah said:

    Sounds like it's your fault for the genetics that English isn't a strong suit. Just kidding dude, glad they are getting her some help with the Dyslexia. We had a similar issue but with dyscalculia (think of dyslexia but with numbers/math).

    You are absolutely right.  I am self diagnosed dyslexic and probably passed down a lot of other crap, ADHD included.  I use that damn red line to auto correct spelling all the time.  It doesn't help that I am also color blind.

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  7. My 6th grade daughter failed the English portion last year and the school said she had to come into summer school.  We talked to a teacher friend in the district and told us that was bullshit.  She was able to keep all her electives and they put her in an Inclusion English class.  During class she was pulled aside at various times with other kids in the same situation and then made up the 30 hours during the school year.  We didn't get notice this year that she "may" have failed so it seems to be a good thing.   I don't know if all districts have inclusion classes or not.

    The silver lining on it was that we had been telling the school that she might have dyslexia for years.  They tested her in 4th grade and she didn't qualify.  We brought it up again when she failed and they did a more comprehensive test which showed that she does qualify for help with dyslexia.  She will have to loose an elective next year as there is now a "dyslexia" class, but there are 4 electives and she is in the 2 that matter most so she doesn't care.

  8. I am on the board of our Water Control and Improvement District(Similar to a MUD).  Most of the area in our neighborhood is controlled by this entity and not the HOA.  I initially got on the board to keep up to date with the things going on in our area. 

    The amount of crazy and entitlement that people have started to actually voice in the last few years has increased dramatically.  Residents wanted the board to pay to cleanup their personal property from the freeze.  We had another guy request that we plant live oaks in the common area adjacent to his property so people walking down the sidewalk couldn't see into his house because they would forget to close the blinds.   It is never-ending in the amount of things that people think they are owed or have a right too.

     

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