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From: Aimee S
Date: 05-19-2004, 07:55 PM (1 of 27)
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 05-20-2004, 12:45 AM (2 of 27)
UGGGHHHHHH Aimee don't remind me. Ours will be out next week. They are already planning to swim everyday at MawMaw's house.   ......................but I'm going to do like they say, ..................if you can't lick'em join'em. Think of me floating on my raft with a tall cold glass of caffine free diet coke. LOL  Chillin
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From: paroper
Date: 05-20-2004, 10:16 AM (3 of 27)
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My 16 year old twins are out today. I'm expecting my son with his drumline buddies and girlfriends (perhaps as many as 25 total) here any minute. They'll be in and out all day. I'm trying to decide on a economical lunch for an expanding crowd. Any minute, the trap set will be going along with DVD players in about three rooms in the house. I really DO look forward to it...it's kind of a right of semester passage around his school. The kids check out after tests are done and come here...I love it because I know that they won't be drinking, smoking, doing drugs, getting in trouble, etc. and it is a lot of fun. HIs sister is going to a local town to go out to eat at a nice restaurant with her crowd this year instead of bringing them back here too.
pam
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From: Jay
Date: 05-20-2004, 01:29 PM (4 of 27)
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I can't wait for school to be out! Of course, I am a teacher!! Jay 
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From: mamahoogie
Date: 05-20-2004, 01:54 PM (5 of 27)
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Schools in Ontario are not out until the last week in June and they go back the day after Labour Day in Sept. I won't tell my grandkids that some kids are out in May!!! Violet I've decided to live forever - so far, so good.
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From: paroper
Date: 05-20-2004, 02:02 PM (6 of 27)
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My kids go to a country school where I attended (grad 1970) and my mom taught for 33 years. The schools here have always gone to school in mid Aug. so that they could be out in time to help with harvest. As the little sleepy town grows more urban, fewer of the kids help with harvest. Now even the bigger city schools get out then too...they end the semester at Christmas and it just works out better that way.
pam
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From: weB2cats
Date: 05-20-2004, 04:28 PM (7 of 27)
| My daughter is out June 9th. I don't think it's sunk in yet how close that is. We'd like to go to the beach for 4 days to visit my brother. I love the beach!! |
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 05-20-2004, 09:48 PM (8 of 27)
| Well today we finished the last coat of water seal on our deck and put all the patio furniture back out. Then Me and the grands went swimming all evening. Oh that water felt so good. The water temp was 85 F. I went to clean the skimmer basket and there was a dead lizzard in it and I almost had a heart attach I'm deathly afraid of the little devils and I put my hand right on him. My granddaughter told me, "Oh MawMaw you are afraid of a little lizzard?" and she picked him out of the basket and made a motion like she was going to throw it on me. I told her, "Kayla!!! if you throw that on me I'll beat you till you bleed." I'd never even punished the child much less hit her but she got the pic and threw it over the fence. |
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From: weB2cats
Date: 05-21-2004, 11:12 AM (9 of 27)
| Gee, I hope the poor child doesn't start having granny-lizard nightmares. |
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From: MaryW
Date: 05-21-2004, 11:20 AM (10 of 27)
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ROFLMAO, Susie, I would love to see that. My son David comes in our house and scares the ^%$#@!!~ out of me every chance he gets. Jordan goes until the end of June. I know he is counting the days. MaryW
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From: Sherri
Date: 05-21-2004, 11:27 AM (11 of 27)
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My kids go to the end of June to. I can't beleive the americans get out so early. Sher My website
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From: weB2cats
Date: 05-30-2004, 12:51 PM (12 of 27)
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Hey Sher, Well, I don't know abou the rest of the US, but here in Portland we have had severe cuts in the school budget that have made it mandatory to reduce school days. This is rather odd, considering there was a push by the mayor to build a sports arena to the tune of 2+ million dollars. How does that rate over the schools? That mayor is departing and as far as I know the plans on that arena are on hold. But you can bet, the revenue will not go back into the schools. There is a lot of volunteering parents that help to make programs work. At my daughter's school, there was a push to get donations from parents to support the installation of a "climbing wall" in the grade school gym. At the time time, however, the teachers sent notes home in the children's backpack (this is a tricky maneuver on their part) saying they needed donations for pencils! Well, take the money from the accident-waiting-to-happen climbing wall and put pencils in the hands of students. Seems obvious to me. But you can see that schools need help all around. Managing limited money they do get for necessities first. |
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From: Sherri
Date: 05-30-2004, 01:42 PM (13 of 27)
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Don't you have to buy school supplies. Pencils are on the list here. We also have had big cutbacks but doesn't shorten the year just makes bigger classes. Sher My website
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From: paroper
Date: 05-30-2004, 02:05 PM (14 of 27)
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Pencils and on our lists here too. When the twins were in kindergarten, the total cost of the supply list handed to us (for both kids) was over $350.00. It even included a major brand of Chalk (2 pks per kid). We still had a second grader to buy for...I early cried. By the time we bought the 2 dozen boxes of Kleenex, etc...it was terrible! I couldn't wait for my kids to get out of grade school!
pam
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From: dmoses
Date: 05-30-2004, 06:50 PM (15 of 27)
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Sherri, My kids finished on May 27, but they start early here...mid August. I think it all adds up to the same thing in the end. Take care,
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From: plrlegal
Date: 05-30-2004, 09:44 PM (16 of 27)
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Pam: The subject of the supplies list for Oklahoma County schools makes my blood boil because I heard a teacher say that the reason the list is so extensive is they figue that those who can afford it will buy enough to also the supply the ones who can't afford to or don't want to buy the entire list. That system is a total scam on parents who are conscientious and want to make sure their children have the things required for their education. I also heard the same teacher make the statement that the surplus Kleenex are thrown out in the garbage at the end of the year or the techer can elect to keep any extra supplies that have been provided and left over for his/her next incoming class. I think it stinks that parents are required to spend so much money at the beginning of the year. And, also, the school system in Oklahoma County is a complete shambles and the legislataors keeps passing new tax bills, bond issues, etc to fund the schools but they keep getting worse. Duhhh! Do they think the citizens haven't figured out that a lot of pockets are getting lined while education continue to suffer and go down the tubes? Patsy Patsy
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 05-30-2004, 11:04 PM (17 of 27)
| Patsy, that's not just for Oklahoma County Schools it's all over. We have the same problems here. This years school supply list for one of my grandkids for next years supplies comes to 90.00 and that's just for one and they have to wear uniforms and also pay a 15.00 book fee at the beginning of the year and if they don't pay it they can't get their first report card. Also, most the of the kids in schools here qualifly for free or reduced lunches and all my grands don't. It makes me so mad. Most of these kids come from two income homes or two homes with four incomes but know how to get around the system and fill out those papers in a way that they qualify. I went to school and helped with the older grands and some of these kids look like their clothes are not washed the white shirts are so gray. Soap is cheaper than cigarettes and I bet most of the parents buy their cigarettes and don't buy the proper soap for their poor kids clothes. These are the same kids that the teacher puts up money to go on field trips during the year because the kid worked hard and didn't bring in the money. |
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From: paroper
Date: 05-31-2004, 01:12 AM (18 of 27)
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Funny, I never realized the school list was "optional". We had to do without a lot of things so that my kids could take all those boxes of Kleenexes to school....and we never bought them at home because they weren't in OUR budget. Whenever my kids came up with that $350 dollar bill for kindergarten, we did without 350 dollars in groceries that month...most of the grocery budget. Fortunately my older daughter's bill for 2nd grade was around 90 dollars that month. I had left a very nice job to stay home with my kids at that time and was sewing to help supliment the salary that we had just cut in half the year before. My husband is and was a state employee and we didn't have the money to spend on things like that, we didn't go out to eat or to the movies...an evening out was at the Midwest City park and a vacation was a day trip to the Tulsa Zoo...an hour away. We sure didn't plan to spend our grocery money on school supplies that were better than what we had at home. I supplied what I thought my kids HAD to have...but let me tell you when they told me I had to buy chalk for the teachers...and not just ANY chalk, my blood boiled! My mother taught in that system for 49 years and she took a lot of things out of her own pocket and she would have NEVER thought to ask a child for a box of chalk...let alone one that had to be bought in a special store. In the 1940's she drove basketball kids in her own car to the games..and if they didn't have money to eat, she squeaked it out of OUR budget. When I hear teachers gripe about having to spend a night a week at the gate to take tickets or not being paid enough to take care of the cheerleaders for a year, I think back to the teachers like my mom who were required to do it for free. Teachers don't know how nice they have it now.
pam
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 05-31-2004, 07:30 AM (19 of 27)
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Since my kids entered the public school system I have not seen a supply list. The school has to provide everything that is required except a backpack. The students may bring binders & notebooks if the want but they are not required. They give each student 1 pencil per month. My kids always took extras because they get stolen. The school principal is trying to figure out how to get to the end of the year with the paper supply. I found out last week that some teachers are hording it in their room so they will have enough & the honest ones lose out. He just gave each teacher 1 ream of paper & said make it last you don't get more. They got to the point of using toilet paper instead of tissues because it comes out of the maintenance budget & that was the only money left to spend. School is out here on June 8th. This is earlier than usual because they cut down on 1/2 days off during the year. We always go back the week before labor day & get a 4 day weekend for the holiday( State mandated). DS who is a sophmore will be out early because his grades & attendance were good enough he doesn't have to take the final exams. DS (Junior) has at least 2 to take because he has stuggled with a couple of classes. DGS can't wait until his Uncles can be here with him. Barb
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From: paroper
Date: 05-31-2004, 08:13 AM (20 of 27)
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I don't have a problem with supplying my kids with what they need: Crayons, pencils, paper, notebooks, pens, scissors, ruler, backpack. Those things are reasonable...a few of those things are around most homes, and some of those things I made my kids bring home after kindergarten and use next year so they used the same scissors, ruler, etc., until they got out of sixth grade. It is some of the expensive stuff that they come up with that really makes me upset...I can't buy school glue for 33 cents before school starts because they have to have a dozen glue sticks...that kind of thing. I would watch the ads and go to Wal Mart when the back to school sales started and stock up on paper, pencils, glue, folders, etc...those are the things that I always planned to do. At our school the teachers themselves make up the school list.
pam
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 05-31-2004, 03:08 PM (21 of 27)
| All the grands came home with a supply list with their report cards. They also have a place called PATH, (Parent And Teacher Helpers) which pull together all the school supplies for each school and each grade and they get the supplies wholesale and pass the cost on to you. They are great but I think it's only down here in our parish they do this. Not sure. Anyway they cut a lot of headaches of finding just the right folder the teacher wants and the cost is a lot cheaper for the supplies also. But the thing that gets me is what Patsy said about those that can't afford it we supply them with their supplies. Also, Pam I think that's all my kids whipped their noses with when they were little was toilet paper. I think I might try sending them with a roll of that and see what happens. LOL Some of the new toilet paper is softer than kleenex. |
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From: paroper
Date: 05-31-2004, 05:13 PM (22 of 27)
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The good news is that now the twins are 16 and headed for their Jr. year of high school....but I just really feel for the parents that I know are in the same boat I was in. We don't go to Harrah Schools or Choctaw Schools (which are 6A schools with big bugets and new people moving out to huge homes.) We go to a smaller 4A school (barely) which is where our farm is located and where we lived before my mom became ill. A large number of the parents that have kids there are the same as we are...working class people who spend large amounts of their budget and time commuting from the community where they were raised, many living in smaller homes on the family farms and there are thousands just like us all over the place. I can't even imagine what coop type buying would do for the school though. That is a WONDERFUL idea! I'll mention it to the principal at the grade school...it seems so much more fair and even for the parents, not to mention cheaper!
pam
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From: plrlegal
Date: 05-31-2004, 06:48 PM (23 of 27)
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I have a friend whose 2 little girls have been in Cleveland County Schools (Norman) for the last couple of years and that is how they handled their supply list. It made is a lot less expensive and a lot less of a headache/ Patsy Patsy
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 05-31-2004, 09:57 PM (24 of 27)
| I think that is how all schools should try and handle the supplies. That way the teachers would get exactly the type of notebooks they are looking for and what kind of markers and so on. This is just an options, the ones who want to buy their supplies themselves are more than welcome to do so. The money for the supplies has to be in by July 15th I think so if they are on a budget and can't get the supplies all at once then they get a little here and a little there. But at least they have this options to save and no hassles. |
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 06-17-2004, 12:39 AM (25 of 27)
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We got High School report cards in the mail yesterday. Both boys passed!!! Ds with ADD got 1 A and all the rest B's & for the first time in years perfect attendance for the quarter. Other DS had a slight problem with AP physics but he passed with a D. I am glad that is over. & he got a C+ on his English Final which was a big accomplishment since he has failed most of the vocabulary tests all year. He brought his final grade to a C. Did great in all other subjects A's & B's. Now we are waiting for DD's report from middle school. It should be mostly A's from what I was told by the teachers a few weeks ago but I always worry until it comes. DGS. did great & was prommoted to the 1st grade. Ds (15) said he was bored the other day & ready for school to start again. I think he is just anxious to start his Auto Technology course that both boys decided to take next year. I think I finally convinced them to at least look into vocational schools instead of full blown Colleges & Universities. They both struggle so much with test taking that I am afraid it would stress them out so much taking entrance exams & they are both so good with there hands & problem solving skills that I think they would do very well in a vocational setting. But I don't want to discourage college if they really want it. I hope everyone else is having a good summer so far. If it ever stops raining here we might be able to do something outdoors.
Barb
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 06-17-2004, 01:14 AM (26 of 27)
| Hey MomofSix, Good job on the kids reports. Our summer high pressure is over us keeping us dry at the moment but here in South La you never know when one of those thrunder boomers will get ya. Have a safe summer. |
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From: paroper
Date: 06-17-2004, 08:48 AM (27 of 27)
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Hey, Mom of 6...I know what you mean. My son was hit by a car at the age of 6 (car was doing almost 60 when it hit him)...he suffered frontal lobe brain injury. We'll never know how bright he might have been. It has really affected how much short term memory he has...he does have it, but he doesn't retain a lot of directions or information at once. What he does retain he remembers....and never forgets. He is brilliant at logic and astounds science teachers at what he just seems to know....can work algebra beautifully off the chalkboard...cannot do it at all on paper (requires a different type of memory). Doesn't do well in English to save himself. We want him to go to Vocational school. He loves engines! We'd like to see him go into aviation mechanics which is a big field around here and pays well. He has recently decided he wants to go to college. The people who have done testing on him think that he will do very well in Vo Tech and think that because of his type of disability he can get financial assistance. I think that is wonderful that he wants to go to college but I don't want him to fail and I'm afraid that he will have a horrible time. His twin sister, on the other hand, with two years of high school left has already scored a 27 (of 36) composite on her ACT with an upper end score of 33 in English. She is rated number 1 in their class. It is so tough for these people with learning disabilities especially when they live with the competition.
pam
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