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[Chickielady]

Holy Moley!!!

Yes DO attach wire on top & bottom of your fence:

"no Dig" keeps digging dogs & coyotes out:

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Congrats. Around here we call that an outie, girls have innies.

 

[SadieSue]

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Yes, I totally agree.
Not all our kids can work at Burger King.
LOL...the immigrants have taken most of the "starter" jobs like that.
I would love to see more vocations open though, welders are a plenty.
What about CNA work, or fisheries, something useful!!
These kids are so bored in HS, they need serious input, not dragging boring useless books & lectures on Social Studies or commercial studies..blah blah...
How about vocational Architecture?
Engine workings & repair..
Something that leads to GAINFUL employment EVEN IF the kids decide to go on to college, at least they can immediately be hired on in a doctor's office, for example WHILE they attend college.
Far too many kids dropping out of college cuz they cannot find gainful employment.
They cannot work at Burger King part time & go to school and pay their apartments, car payments & utilities nowdays.

My son with the disabillty loved wood working and had an awesome wood shop teacher in middle school. Brought home lots of great projects including adirondack chairs and a table that is in our living room. He was so excited to get to High School and take wood shop. I'm not going to go into detail about the story because it makes me so angry and I still cry when I think about it but his experience with that teacher was so horrible he has never had an interest in wood working since. That teacher could have continued to nuture his love for wood but instead broke his sweet heart. He just crushed him and blew any self esteem he had. Working with wood was one thing he was good at. That teacher had a kid in his class with a disability and an IEP. He never once helped him. My son never brought home even one finished project. That experience as a High School freshman set the stage for many future problems his remaining High School years.

I agree there should be lots more opportunities. The technical school offered several. Welding was what the kids were interested in. Still, there are lots out there they could offer. Unfortunately, there is no funding. The Government has their priorities screwed up.

I agree. Not everyone is college bound, nor is there any reason for them to be. My daughter graduated from SOTA, Tacoma School of the Arts. The founder of the school had a dream that there could be a public school for kids who learned differently, weren't necessarily sports oriented and might not thrive in conventional schools. The school district allowed him to begin his little project with just a few hundred kids figuring his radical idea would fail, but nearly 10 years later not only is School of the Arts is thriving, but they have also opened up SAMI, Science and Math Institute another alternative high school located within Point Defiance Park, where the park and the bay, our local natural resources, are their classrooms. There is also talk about opening up a school for high school age young people offering classes for real life trades for those students who do not see college as part of their future but want to get right into their chosen field upon graduating. The best part is that these are all PUBLIC schools, funded by the school district, although they depend on professionals within their specialties as adjunct artists, and some volunteers. I'm not sure how close they are to their goal, but I think the closer folks can get to understanding that not all kids learn the same way and that the closer we can get to helping them find their passion and guide them towards a future making a living that way, the better off we'd all be.

Now, back to regularly scheduled programming. I'm going to go visit my chickens.

 

[Chickielady]

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LOL, I agree. I guess if its the kids idea and they come up with something on their own because they really like their teacher I would help them. I would encourage that kindness in my kid. But I never mentioned it if my kid didn't. SOME teachers do go above and beyond. We should let the good ones know we appreciate them but we could go broke giving gifts to all the folks at school who bust their butts for the kids.

When we gifted it was usually Lily's idea. I was always appreciative of teachers who would go the extra mile for students especially because my kid was in speech therapy since she had been 2 years old and had delayed learning because of hearing/speech issues. When she could not be understood by ANYONE, not her peers, her family, but only by her day-care Mom and was speaking in full sentences but not being understood it was very frustrating for all of us. She was in special programs from the time she was 3, (getting picked up by a schoolbus from daycare) until she was in 2nd grade. She had some delayed learning and as hard as she tried would always be a little behind most of the other kids in class and it was only with some additional attention from a few teachers (and us) that she was able to catch up. When she nearly FAILED some of her classes in 4th grade because of a terrible teacher who I tried to work with and was isolated from the other kids to the point where she said her only friend was "Tornado", a swirling group of leaves on the playground, I pulled her from that school and put her in St. Pats where her grades immediately began to improve.
When she learned in 6th grade that the only way she could serve on student council was to have a 3.5 or higher, she buckled down and got 4.0 from then on, because she figured it was time she began to have a say in how her environment was run.

So I've had my share of really rotten teachers and some pretty excellent ones who could recognize potential in a little girl who was almost left behind. If that little girl wants to reward those people she has a special affinity for, then I'm all for it, the same way I will give extra to the guy who prunes my trees, the gal who cuts my hair, the person who delivers my mail etc.

 

[Chickielady]

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ALL schools should have a uniform, and ALL schools should NOT allow cell phones, ipods or calculaters IN the classroom.
This would eliminate bullying, gangs and so many low grades.
May sound mean, but back in the day, we actually had to learn math, not use a calculater.
And the kid with less money who cannot afford so many nice clothes was not bullied and laughed at.
And gangs did not roam the playgrounds wearing gang colors & bandanas.
You are there to learn, period!
Nuns should run ALL schools!!!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I do think that there is a deffinite difference between proper employee care and your legal rights compared to greedy people who just want to take advantage of us little people and line their pockets more.

Our local PUD just built a multi-million dollar building (they did not need it - they had one). Also all the big cats got big-fat raises. Well as of June 1st EVERYONE in the county had their electric bill increased. There was picketing there...but it was the locals against all of this. No onee listened. Many people's power bills doubled.

 

[Ogress]

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Yes, I totally agree.
Not all our kids can work at Burger King.
LOL...the immigrants have taken most of the "starter" jobs like that.
I would love to see more vocations open though, welders are a plenty.
What about CNA work, or fisheries, something useful!!
These kids are so bored in HS, they need serious input, not dragging boring useless books & lectures on Social Studies or commercial studies..blah blah...
How about vocational Architecture?
Engine workings & repair..
Something that leads to GAINFUL employment EVEN IF the kids decide to go on to college, at least they can immediately be hired on in a doctor's office, for example WHILE they attend college.
Far too many kids dropping out of college cuz they cannot find gainful employment.
They cannot work at Burger King part time & go to school and pay their apartments, car payments & utilities nowdays.

My son with the disabillty loved wood working and had an awesome wood shop teacher in middle school. Brought home lots of great projects including adirondack chairs and a table that is in our living room. He was so excited to get to High School and take wood shop. I'm not going to go into detail about the story because it makes me so angry and I still cry when I think about it but his experience with that teacher was so horrible he has never had an interest in wood working since. That teacher could have continued to nuture his love for wood but instead broke his sweet heart. He just crushed him and blew any self esteem he had. Working with wood was one thing he was good at. That teacher had a kid in his class with a disability and an IEP. He never once helped him. My son never brought home even one finished project. That experience as a High School freshman set the stage for many future problems his remaining High School years.

I agree there should be lots more opportunities. The technical school offered several. Welding was what the kids were interested in. Still, there are lots out there they could offer. Unfortunately, there is no funding. The Government has their priorities screwed up.

Alex is goign to need a job that involves a lot of physical labor and analytical skills. He needs heavy work or physical activity or else he gets very agitated. I can't see him in an office, nor in any position that involves good social skills. If some %*Y(($U@) teacher broke his spirit and his love of a vocation he could likely succeed at, like that one did to your son, I'm not sure what I'd do, but right now I feel like finding him and cramming his face into a dirty toilet bowl! That makes me ssoooooooo angry. The kid is already at a disadvantage and the teacher was an @$$ why? Because he wan't like his favorite students? That teacher has a disability, and one that should keep him from teaching as it does a lot of damage to the kids he has been entrusted to teach.

 

[Chickielady]

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I do think that there is a deffinite difference between proper employee care and your legal rights compared to greedy people who just want to take advantage of us little people and line their pockets more.

Our local PUD just built a multi-million dollar building (they did not need it - they had one). Also all the big cats got big-fat raises. Well as of June 1st EVERYONE in the county had their electric bill increased. There was picketing there...but it was the locals against all of this. No onee listened. Many people's power bills doubled.

I wish those of us on Medicare could picket!!!!
As of last year (Obama care) they now take my medical premiums out of my disablity check..so my whopping $854 a month went to $695
Plus when I DO get a prescription or see a doctor, I still have to pay half or more.
Medicare does not pay 100% of any service.

 

[Chickielady]

Ogress we need to put our thinking caps on & think of something that would occupy and inspire passion in Alex.
There are asessment tests available that ask alot of Q's and in the end you get a handful of ideas about what you like, and dislike.
Maybe that would help ?
Employment Offices used to have one that was really good.
After taking this test, I learned I was difenitely in the wrong occupation !
I wanted outdoors, surveying or working with either forestry, in biology or fish hatchery work.
Does Alex like fish hatcheries, or just fishing boats ?

 

[Chickielady]

Well, I am gonna do some work, I am bored (see what I mean?) and have a hard time laying around even when I am sick...gonna try to do a little on the coop.
I might just get my Sandhill shipment tomorrow, who knows ?
For all that money they better ship my order or pay me back!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK bye guys!!!!