Back to School

[otherindigo]

Teachers started back today. Students start back next Monday.

I'm super-pumped this year as I will be getting an LCD projector, sound system (I told them to make sure I had special bass and tweeters installed ), and an ELMO (not of the Sesame Street variety).

Very excited.

[hermillion]

and an ELMO (not of the Sesame Street variety).

Very excited.

I LOVE my ELMO. I have had one in my room for several years, and have rigged up ELMO, a DVD/VCR, and a projector on a 3-shelf rolling cart. It's absolutely fabulous when I'm lecturing, as I can switch back and forth between the various display items. I can take ELMO from top-to-under lights, and have both a DVD and a VCR cued and ready. I use the projector so my students can view on a 6' x 6' screen instead of having to watch everything on a TV screen.

However, the sound only comes through the projector speakers. I envy your rockin' sound system!

Have a great year!

[MarleysGh0st]

Still, I wrote a check to Maddie's school for $143, for her yearbook, ASB card and planner.

ASB card?

[Bob Juch]

To me August school is a sacrilege, like gas breaking the invisible $2 barrier. It is like March Madness in April, the Super Bowl in February, and the World Series in November. Soon July 4th will be the traditional end of the summer season, and what Labor Day used to be.

New York City schools start on September 2, just after Labor Day. On the other hand, NYC always runs well into June. I suppose fewer autumn and winter breaks as well.

That's because most NYC schools do not have air conditioning.

[Appa23]

To me August school is a sacrilege, like gas breaking the invisible $2 barrier. It is like March Madness in April, the Super Bowl in February, and the World Series in November. Soon July 4th will be the traditional end of the summer season, and what Labor Day used to be.

New York City schools start on September 2, just after Labor Day. On the other hand, NYC always runs well into June. I suppose fewer autumn and winter breaks as well.

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That's the way it used to be here, back in the olden days when I went to school.

The kids start tomorrow, but they get out in the middle of May. The district where I live now started a week or so ago!

Our school district decided to extend the school year into the first week of June. Plus, they turned the one-week fall break into only a 4-day weekend (maybe 5 days). Unofrtunately, my wife and I had planned for the kids to be out of school when we planned for our cruise in October.

It is a guess on my part, but I think that the school district added days because the State of Nebraska has switched from allowing the districts to write their own tests to now utilizing standardized tests.

[minimetoo26]

New York City schools start on September 2, just after Labor Day. On the other hand, NYC always runs well into June. I suppose fewer autumn and winter breaks as well.

That's because most NYC schools do not have air conditioning.

Yeah, but my nephews are still in school much later into June than we are. They seem to have more breaks, like they get a week at President's Day when we get a day, which wouldn't make sense from an air-conditioning standpoint, since we tend to hold President's Day in February around here, and it's January when we get the freakish 80-degree temperatures.

One city around here is contemplating a four-day week to save on gas for the buses and electricity for the buildings.

[Ebeneezer Beast]

To me August school is a sacrilege, like gas breaking the invisible $2 barrier. It is like March Madness in April, the Super Bowl in February, and the World Series in November. Soon July 4th will be the traditional end of the summer season, and what Labor Day used to be.

New York City schools start on September 2, just after Labor Day. On the other hand, NYC always runs well into June. I suppose fewer autumn and winter breaks as well.

That's because most NYC schools do not have air conditioning.

Air conditioning!?!?!? Rubbish! There shouldn't be air conditioning in schools! And they should have those little urchins in class all year round too to keep them off the streets and out of my pocket! They'll still have plenty of time on Saturdays to sweep chimneys and mine coal....

[Appa23]

and an ELMO (not of the Sesame Street variety).

Very excited.

I LOVE my ELMO. I have had one in my room for several years, and have rigged up ELMO, a DVD/VCR, and a projector on a 3-shelf rolling cart. It's absolutely fabulous when I'm lecturing, as I can switch back and forth between the various display items. I can take ELMO from top-to-under lights, and have both a DVD and a VCR cued and ready. I use the projector so my students can view on a 6' x 6' screen instead of having to watch everything on a TV screen.

However, the sound only comes through the projector speakers. I envy your rockin' sound system!

Have a great year!

How did we learn anything as students, when all we had was a nun with a blackboard?

[Bob Juch]

and an ELMO (not of the Sesame Street variety).

Very excited.

I LOVE my ELMO. I have had one in my room for several years, and have rigged up ELMO, a DVD/VCR, and a projector on a 3-shelf rolling cart. It's absolutely fabulous when I'm lecturing, as I can switch back and forth between the various display items. I can take ELMO from top-to-under lights, and have both a DVD and a VCR cued and ready. I use the projector so my students can view on a 6' x 6' screen instead of having to watch everything on a TV screen.

However, the sound only comes through the projector speakers. I envy your rockin' sound system!

Have a great year!

How did we learn anything as students, when all we had was a nun with a blackboard?

Because she also had a ruler!

[jaybee]

To me August school is a sacrilege, like gas breaking the invisible $2 barrier. It is like March Madness in April, the Super Bowl in February, and the World Series in November. Soon July 4th will be the traditional end of the summer season, and what Labor Day used to be.

New York City schools start on September 2, just after Labor Day. On the other hand, NYC always runs well into June. I suppose fewer autumn and winter breaks as well.




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You want sacrilege???? Sacrilege is the fact that I spent my elementary school years in the Northeast - a place where school started AFTER Labor day and ended in mid to late June. After the 5th grade, I moved to Tennessee DURING THE SUMMER VACATION. Meaning that I got out of school in late June and started back in early August. Three weeks of blissful summer vacation time that I'll never get back.

That anguish combined with years of rejection at the hands of pimple-faced BAM AP's may eventually cause me to go on a squirrel-killing rampage.

[Here's Fanny!]

Still, I wrote a check to Maddie's school for $143, for her yearbook, ASB card and planner.

ASB card?

I think it's probably the equivalent to an Activity Card, that gave you free admission to all the games, a yearbook and all the other things I can't remember because I never had one.

The one that surprises me is a planner. I didn't realize that school was now such an executive endeavour. Then again, BITD I don't think even executives had planners, they had appointment books.

[christie1111]

But Son1111 went out for the freshman football team today. At 14 yo, he checked in at the Dr's this morning at 6 ft. 3 in and 195 lbs.

Gasp! Please don't eat me. He is the one on the far left? The Giants might need help at linebacker in about seven years.




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Yes, he is on the far left.

[minimetoo26]

The one that surprises me is a planner. I didn't realize that school was now such an executive endeavour. Then again, BITD I don't think even executives had planners, they had appointment books.

Stephen's school has planners on the supply list, and you get them at the bookstore, school logo and all. Rain Man's school gives you a free planner, and you can buy a replacement for 5 bucks. Both of these are pretty cool, with those kind of 3-D covers and spiral binding. Mini-me's school has school-logo folders with prongs and a paper planner/calendar inside.

No excuse for not writing down assignments!

[christie1111]

The one that surprises me is a planner. I didn't realize that school was now such an executive endeavour. Then again, BITD I don't think even executives had planners, they had appointment books.

Stephen's school has planners on the supply list, and you get them at the bookstore, school logo and all. Rain Man's school gives you a free planner, and you can buy a replacement for 5 bucks. Both of these are pretty cool, with those kind of 3-D covers and spiral binding. Mini-me's school has school-logo folders with prongs and a paper planner/calendar inside.

No excuse for not writing down assignments!

Our kids get one free at the start of te year and can buy a replacement.

Getting them to use them is another thing though!

[Here's Fanny!]

The one that surprises me is a planner. I didn't realize that school was now such an executive endeavour. Then again, BITD I don't think even executives had planners, they had appointment books.

Stephen's school has planners on the supply list, and you get them at the bookstore, school logo and all. Rain Man's school gives you a free planner, and you can buy a replacement for 5 bucks. Both of these are pretty cool, with those kind of 3-D covers and spiral binding. Mini-me's school has school-logo folders with prongs and a paper planner/calendar inside.

No excuse for not writing down assignments!

So it's basically a fancy Trapper Keeper (as if anything could be fancier than a Trapper Keeper, ha!)?

And I bet they still have excuses for not writing down assignments. It seems to me that at least one of the kids had at least one teacher who required them to show that they had written down the assignment before they could leave class.

And we wonder why it seems that there's no personal responsibility anymore. Kids have their hands held, their asses wiped and their meat cut for them well into their twenties and beyond (this has nothing to do with planners, just that I'm old and crotchety).

[minimetoo26]

But Son1111 went out for the freshman football team today. At 14 yo, he checked in at the Dr's this morning at 6 ft. 3 in and 195 lbs.

Gasp! Please don't eat me. He is the one on the far left? The Giants might need help at linebacker in about seven years.




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Yes, he is on the far left.

Your 14-year-old makes mine look puny. And that is no small feat! He finally got a classmate who was 6-2, so he wasn't the tallest last year. Now he'll be in High School, so he can blend a bit better...

[littlebeast13]

The one that surprises me is a planner. I didn't realize that school was now such an executive endeavour. Then again, BITD I don't think even executives had planners, they had appointment books.

Stephen's school has planners on the supply list, and you get them at the bookstore, school logo and all. Rain Man's school gives you a free planner, and you can buy a replacement for 5 bucks. Both of these are pretty cool, with those kind of 3-D covers and spiral binding. Mini-me's school has school-logo folders with prongs and a paper planner/calendar inside.

No excuse for not writing down assignments!

So it's basically a fancy Trapper Keeper (as if anything could be fancier than a Trapper Keeper, ha!)?

Trapper Keepers RULED!!!!!!

lb13

[minimetoo26]

Stephen's school has planners on the supply list, and you get them at the bookstore, school logo and all. Rain Man's school gives you a free planner, and you can buy a replacement for 5 bucks. Both of these are pretty cool, with those kind of 3-D covers and spiral binding. Mini-me's school has school-logo folders with prongs and a paper planner/calendar inside.

No excuse for not writing down assignments!

So it's basically a fancy Trapper Keeper (as if anything could be fancier than a Trapper Keeper, ha!)?

Trapper Keepers RULED!!!!!!

lb13

All supply lists clearly state NO TRAPPER KEEPERS!!!!! I suppose the 80's were unkind to teachers.

[littlebeast13]

So it's basically a fancy Trapper Keeper (as if anything could be fancier than a Trapper Keeper, ha!)?

Trapper Keepers RULED!!!!!!

lb13

All supply lists clearly state NO TRAPPER KEEPERS!!!!! I suppose the 80's were unkind to teachers.

Yeah..... so they can sell all the parents those stupid PLANNERS.....

Certainly my parenst weren't the only ones who basically threw those school supply lists in the trash when we brought them home. Take the basics, and if that ain't enough, screw the teachers!

lb13

[Here's Fanny!]

So it's basically a fancy Trapper Keeper (as if anything could be fancier than a Trapper Keeper, ha!)?

Trapper Keepers RULED!!!!!!

lb13

All supply lists clearly state NO TRAPPER KEEPERS!!!!! I suppose the 80's were unkind to teachers.

You can hide "stuff" in Trapper Keepers. They are obviously the Devil's Official School Planner.

[Nit Picker]

Certainly my parenst weren't the only ones who basically threw those school supply lists in the trash when we brought them home. Take the basics, and if that ain't enough, screw the teachers!

lb13

Too bad a dictionary wasn't among the essentials...

[Byrd]

Trapper Keepers RULED!!!!!!

lb13

All supply lists clearly state NO TRAPPER KEEPERS!!!!! I suppose the 80's were unkind to teachers.

You can hide "stuff" in Trapper Keepers. They are obviously the Devil's Official School Planner.

They won't get anything by me!

[minimetoo26]

Trapper Keepers RULED!!!!!!

lb13

All supply lists clearly state NO TRAPPER KEEPERS!!!!! I suppose the 80's were unkind to teachers.

You can hide "stuff" in Trapper Keepers. They are obviously the Devil's Official School Planner.

Stephen is in private school, so he has the Devil's Own Trapper Keeper. It is seriously Unzip at Your Own Risk. I think Elvis and Amelia Earhart are partying in there...

[littlebeast13]

All supply lists clearly state NO TRAPPER KEEPERS!!!!! I suppose the 80's were unkind to teachers.

You can hide "stuff" in Trapper Keepers. They are obviously the Devil's Official School Planner.

Stephen is in private school, so he has the Devil's Own Trapper Keeper. It is seriously Unzip at Your Own Risk. I think Elvis and Amelia Earhart are partying in there...

The plastic seams on mine were usually stretched to the point of coming apart by the time the year was over....

I look at my desk now and see the same mess of papers stacked up in a corner. Some things never change.....

lb13

[minimetoo26]

You can hide "stuff" in Trapper Keepers. They are obviously the Devil's Official School Planner.

Stephen is in private school, so he has the Devil's Own Trapper Keeper. It is seriously Unzip at Your Own Risk. I think Elvis and Amelia Earhart are partying in there...

The plastic seams on mine were usually stretched to the point of coming apart by the time the year was over....

I look at my desk now and see the same mess of papers stacked up in a corner. Some things never change.....

lb13

But you can reach into the stack and pull out what you want quickly, right? I'm physically disorganized but mentally organized, so I can find stuff in the disaster that is my desk. I suppose I can ditch last year's school papers now...