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  1. So we spent more time meeting with my daughter's kindergarten teacher last year than my daughter probably spent in class.  She was constantly getting in trouble for not paying attention, being disruptive, etc.  I figured it was mostly due to her having done kindergarten already once at Primrose but being forced to do it again since her birthday is 5 days after the cutoff and AISD bends rules for NO ONE!!!!

    Turns out that while that was definitely a problem, she's apparently really fucking smart.  We had her do one of those all day assessments where they test everything from ADHD and Anxiety to whether your kid is a complete retard or Einstein junior.  Well, she's borderline ADHD (no surprise, her mom has a pretty serious ADHD), but it wouldn't be much of a problem except that she tested above 92nd percentile on every intelligence test, including one that was 99.9th percentile.  On the academic stuff, she scored as performing in line with late 1st grade in most things, 2nd grade in several and 3rd in one.  

    So she's in 1st grade now.  When we got the results from the doctor, frankly, we were a bit overwhelmed but I managed to ask the doctor if these results meant she just needed to be challenged a bit more or where we talking look at private gifted and talent programs.  His response was that she would definitely qualify as gifted and we should explore what AISD has to offer as well as private options.

    We've shared the results with the school counselor and her teacher and had one meeting.  Nominations for the AISD gifted program don't happen until January, but her teacher is GT certified so that's good.  We're at Clayton and we've met with the asst principal that runs their gifted program.  We went to an info session today.  At least from what we heard there and from other people, we're in the right place if we're going to keep her in regular public school.  So it then begs the question, should she stay in regular public school? 

    I've hear there are AISD magnet schools at middle and high school, but I didn't see anything on  AISD's site for elementary school.  We have friends that have a 'legitimately gifted' 3rd grader and he goes to Regents, though his dad told me while he likes the school, at the elementary school stage, he didn't think they were doing anything special for the gifted students.  He recommended St. Francis and said if he didn't live and work in South Austin, that's where he'd send his kids.  He was not impressed with AISD's options and said the general education was better than the gifted program in AISD (can't remember which elementary school though he's zoned for).  

    So, any of you deal with this before and have any advice?  I'm kind of all over the board.  On one hand, I want to do whatever I can so that she reaches her full potential, on the other, I've never been a huge fan of private schools and while she may end up doing better academically, in the long run is it really going to make her life any better?  Any advice is welcomed.

    Thanks

     

  2. 25 minutes ago, scottsins said:

    I definitely agree that a truly informed assessment can not be made at this point. However, this is nothing like the NCST thing, for many reasons.

    Every clusterfuck is unique for its own reasons, but they have in common that both were loses to teams we should have soundly beat due to multiple coaching failures and poor player execution.  Certain different coaching failures and player execution.

  3. 13 minutes ago, CBHorn said:

    This is surly. Keep that rationalism and cautious thinking out of here.

    Also, username doesn't check out.

    I've become mellow in my old age.  Well, except when I yell at clouds.

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  4.  

    3 hours ago, Texasrocks said:

    In case anyone forgot, here's the roster when Strong took over. There were some really talented seniors, but not much after that. Take out the seniors and I don't see many guys who would start on this year's team.

     

    Name    Pos    Ht    Wt    Class
    Dominic Espinosa    C    6'3    308    Sr.
    Quandre Diggs    CB    5'10    195    Sr.
    Ryan Roberts    CB    5'8    170    Sr.
    Sheroid Evans    CB    6'0    190    Sr.
    Brandon Allen    DB    6'2    200    Sr.
    Cody Boswell    DB    5'11    180    Sr.
    Devin Huffines    DB    6'0    195    Sr.
    Cedric Reed    DE    6'5    272    Sr.
    Nate Boyer    DS    5'10    195    Sr.
    Desmond Jackson    DT    6'0    298    Sr.
    Demarco Cobbs    LB    6'0    221    Sr.
    Steve Edmond    LB    6'2    258    Sr.
    Tevin Jackson    LB    6'2    245    Sr.
    Jordan Hicks    LB    6'1    234    Sr
    Desmond Harrison    OT    6'8    313    Sr.
    William Russ    P/PK    6'3    206    Sr.
    Michael Davidson    PK/Pv    6'4    200    Sr.
    Miles Onyegbule    QB    6'4    230    Sr.
    Eddie Aboussie    RB    5'9    221    Sr.
    Malcolm Brown    RB    5'11    222    Sr.
    Josh Turner    S    5'11    175    Sr.
    Mykkele Thompson    S    6'2    191    Sr.
    Chris Terry    TE    6'3    243    Sr.
    Geoff Swaim    TE    6'4    250    Sr.
    Greg Daniels    TE    6'4    246    Sr.
    Chris Giron    WR    5'8    160    Sr.
    Dakota Haines    WR    6'1    195    Sr.
    David Thomann    WR    6'0    184    Sr.
    Jaxon Shipley    WR    6'0    190    Sr.
    John Harris    WR    6'2    218    Sr.
    Duke Thomas    CB    5'11    178    Jr.
    Dillon Boldt    DB    5'10    167    Jr.
    Logan Mills    DE    6'3    223    Jr.
    Shiro Davis    DE    6'3    253    Jr.
    Malcom Brown    DT    6'2    320    Jr.
    Alex De La Torre    FB    6'1    241    Jr.
    Dominic Cruciani    FB    5'11    225    Jr.
    Dalton Santos    LB    6'3    252    Jr.
    Peter Jinkens    LB    6'1    237    Jr.
    Trey Gonzales    LB    6'0    219    Jr.
    Sedrick Flowers    OG    6'3    320    Jr.
    Taylor Doyle    OG    6'4    298    Jr.
    Marcus Hutchins    OL    6'5    278    Jr.
    Ben Pruitt    PK    6'1    215    Jr.
    Nick Rose    PK    6'2    203    Jr.
    David Ash    QB    6'3    230    Jr.
    Gaston Davis    RB    5'11    193    Jr.
    Johnathan Gray    RB    5'11    215    Jr.
    M.J. McFarland    TE    6'4    249    Jr.
    Marcus Johnson    WR    6'1    193    Jr.
    Daje Johnson    WR/RB    5'10    178    Jr.
    Bryson Echols    CB    5'10    184    So.
    Dylan Haines    DB    6'1    194    So.
    Tyler Lee    DB    5'10    185    So.
    Tyler Marriott    DB    6'1    192    So.
    Bryce Cottrell    DE    6'2    247    So.
    Caleb Bluiett    DE    6'3    261    So.
    Johnny Tseng    DE    6'1    220    So.
    Kyle Ashby    DS    6'1    227    So.
    Alex Norman    DT    6'4    288    So.
    Hassan Ridgeway    DT    6'4    307    So.
    Paul Boyette Jr.    DT    6'2    302    So.
    Timothy Cole    LB    6'1    236    So.
    Curtis Riser    OG    6'4    324    So.
    Clark Orren    OL    6'0    260    So.
    Daniel Rodriguez    OL    6'2    299    So.
    Camrhon Hughes    OT    6'7    324    So.
    Kent Perkins    OT    6'5    330    So.
    Nick Jordan    PK    6'1    175    So.
    Logan Vinklarek    QB    6'1    217    So.
    Trey Holtz    QB    6'0    190    So.
    Tyrone Swoopes    QB    6'4    243    So.
    Adrian Colbert    S    6'1    206    So.
    Kevin Vaccaro    S    5'11    188    So.
    Blake Whiteley    TE    6'5    250    So.
    Jacorey Warrick    WR    5'11    172    So.
    Ty Templin    WR    6'0    195    So.
    Jake Raulerson    C    6'5    281    Fr.
    Antwuan Davis    CB    5'11    193    Fr.
    Jason Hall    DB    6'2    207    Fr.
    Jermaine Roberts Jr.    DB    5'9    171    Fr.
    John Bonney    DB    5'10    181    Fr.
    Derick Roberson    DE    6'3    219    Fr.
    Chris Nelson    DT    6'1    307    Fr.
    Jake McMillon    DT    6'3    290    Fr.
    Poona Ford    DT    5'11    280    Fr.
    Cameron Hampton    LB    6'1    202    Fr.
    Naashon Hughes    LB    6'4    232    Fr.
    Darius James    OG    6'5    304    Fr.
    Alex Anderson    OL    6'4    320    Fr.
    Elijah Rodriguez    OL    6'3    292    Fr.
    Frank Lopez    OL    6'2    300    Fr.
    Terrell Cuney    OL    6'1    278    Fr.
    Mitchell Becker    P    6'2    190    Fr.
    Jerrod Heard    QB    6'2    199    Fr.
    D’Onta Foreman    RB    6'2    215    Fr.
    Donald Catalon    RB    5'10    195    Fr.
    Edwin Freeman    S    6'1    220    Fr.
    Erik Huhn    S    6'3    209    Fr.
    Andrew Beck    TE    6'3    242    Fr.
    Matt Center    TE/DS    6'2    218    Fr.
    Armanti Foreman    WR    6'0    189    Fr.
    Connor Huffman    WR    5'9    170    Fr.
    Dorian Leonard    WR    6'3    201    Fr.
    Garrett Gray    WR    6'4    211    Fr.
    Hunter DeGroot    WR    6'1    207    Fr.
    Jake Oliver    WR    6'3    214    Fr.
    Lorenzo Joe    WR    6'2    201    Fr.
    Roderick Bernard    WR    5'9    170    Fr.
     

    The problem with that comparison is that you're looking at how those guys played under Strong for the most part and saying "Hey they turned out to suck!"  Well, their coaching sucked.  Who knows how they would have performed with even moderately capable coaching.

  5. 2 hours ago, UTDD said:

    I think an important difference this time is that Texas has now suffered for a longer period of ineptitude and just went through the culmination of the Kansas loss with Strong so I would think patience wears more thin the longer it lasts.

    And this is what concerns me.  Herman may not be the guy to get us back where we belong, but there's no way you can tell that 1 game into the second season.  Anyone want to remember NCST?  Based on that game, I wouldn't have thought Mack would have managed a winning season that year, much less become our second all time winningest coach.  When we are immediately ready to toss someone under the bus one game into their second season, we start becoming like aggies.  

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  6.  

    1 minute ago, Bevo VIII said:


    Not sure if serious.

    Completely serious.  Charlie fucked us good.  Wanting to can the guy simply because he didn't immediately bring us back to the level we expect is down right aggieish.

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  7. I think Herman inherited a far worse situation than Strong so you can't compare the two.  Strong inherited a team that had under-performed, but still won 8-9 games the previous 3 years.  He turned them into a team that had three consecutive losing records, to which Herman inherited.  It's going to take more than 13 games to change that.  I'm willing to giver Herman a real chance to do it.

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  8. Well trip was a success.  Thanks for all the ideas.  Wife and kids were there Sunday to Wednesday without me.  Wife went to a cubs game with our friends we were visiting, said it was awesome.  They went to the children's museum too I believe.  Once I was there, we went to Millennium Park, just kid of walked around and enjoyed the nice weather, spent a day at the Museum of Science and Industry, kids really loved that, spent a morning at the Lincoln Park Zoo and the afternoon at one of the beaches nearby.  Overall pretty fun.

  9. For anyone interested in the Academy series by McDevitt, he published the 8th book in the series in March of this year.
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    I plan on picking this book up on my next payday and will probably take a break from my non-fiction books for a little bit so I can read this and give my mind a little reprieve from the intense critical thinking required for those. I've always enjoyed McDevitt's work and like his ideas.
    What is the academy series about? I'm looking for a new Scifi series to start

    I do not like OU

  10. Had my formal Monday but not really. It had already been rescheduled twice. Went to sign in and they told me to sign in for an informal too as there was no line for it. Even though I did the online informal I rejected the offer, they still had me do the informal.

    Guy was real nice. We discussed the comps they used vs. The comps I wanted. He ended up adding in all but 1 of my comps (he couldn't find one in the system) and then dropped the two highest from theirs. Went groun them trying for a $20k increase to about $8k. While thing only took about 20 minutes.

    I do not like OU

  11. I'll debate this point by restating what I brought up earlier: If you get the nylon bags like the ones on Amazon I linked to, they are thin, washable, light and easily carried, and we've had a set that we've used since the 1990s because they simply will not die.
    That said, I like the "charge 25¢/bag" strategy that California wrought.
    If they were requiring nylon bags to be sold you might have a point. Besides overtime would probably just throw those away too

    I do not like OU

  12. Why are you posting this? Plastic bag ban is about trash management, not about energy consumption.
    And an inordinate amount of the reusable bags are ending up in land fills long before their time and take a heel of a lot longer to break down. If trash managment was the main issue they just would have switched to something biodegradable

    I do not like OU

  13. 9 hours ago, zork said:

    These are great for shopping at ALDI or Sams since neither provides bags and the nearly always warm temperatures can affect your grocery item freshness.(wilting lettuce, melting ice cream, etc, etc)

    0007874223551_A?$img_size_380x380$

    https://www.samsclub.com/sams/shopper-tote-insulated-2-pk/prod21045351.ip?&source=ifpla&CAWELAID=730010300001935708&pid=_CSE_Google_PLA_1013571787&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=260269102078&wl4=pla-297455083836&wl5=9027195&wl6=&wl7=&wl9=pla&wl10=1247713&wl11=online&wl12={productid}&wl13=&wl15=53139724443&wl17=1o1&veh=sem&kclid=0f9637fa-cc82-4e66-bc33-659e1ccceb88

     

    We keep 2 or 3 in each vehicle and other bags inside them for boxed goods and the like.

    We have one Coscto one like that plus a smaller HEB one.  They are excellent.  I usually put the frozen/cold stuff in them while I shop to keep them cold.  That said, I'm not bringing in the Costco one when I just need one or two things, and I'm not sticking a cooked rotisserie chicken in them either.

  14. 43 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    I have yet to see a reusable canvas bag stuck on a fence flapping in the wind

    I've found quite a few of them on the greenbelt I walk my dog on, but that's about it.  I do think people are being more responsible in disposing of them, but again, the net effect is not positive from what I have read.

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