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January 6, 2007
Hectic Weeks
I know I have been awful about updating these past two weeks. K2 finally went back to work, but the kids are on Christmas break until Monday and they have been in my grill constantly. Mother nature has seen fit to give snow to southern AZ, but nothing but rain and wind in Germany.... Not just a little rain- but a constant onslaught of mud making wet, and gusting winds. Out of the last 2 weeks, they have been able to go out and play maybe 2.5 days. In the mean time, I have been making a sincere effort to not lose my mind and pull my hair out... I am not bald yet.
So- they will go back to class on Monday. YAY! Then we will be back to my frustration over my son's class load- as his second grade teacher thinks it is appropriate to assign so much homework that he is at it for 2 hours a day.... I didn't do that much fucking homework in high school... and he's 8 years old. It's pissing me off. He should have time during the week to go out and play after homework. He is still sitting there when my husband gets home from work. Fan-fucking-tastic.
There is driving the kids to excel- then there is useless busy work. If he is needing to do 2 hours of work every afternoon- it makes me curious- what the fuck does he do all day in class? Can't they fit some of this shit in during the 6.5 hours he is at SCHOOL?! No wonder kids these days are on Prozac and Ritalin.
Got an email today from the school admins. They want the parents feedback and suggestions on how to improve the educational experience. I haven't filled it out yet- as I am sure an email full of references to "Fuckers" and "Assholes" would not be received well, nor taken seriously. The biggest piss off? I am not the first parent to express concern.... I am not even a rarity. It may take me a few days to compose my survey response in my head, as right now I feel like signing it "Kiss my ass, Sincerely, Mrs. K"
Posted by TheFreud at January 6, 2007 3:01 AM
Comments
Clearly, the answer is home schooling and, of course, a Roomba!
Posted by: placebo at January 6, 2007 3:46 AM
First of all, Fuck Home schooling. school is more than book learning. It is a social setting that a child must suffer through to either make him/her a better person or a pscico serial murderer (depending on how much of a loser the kid is). I know this is a fucked up thing to subject your kids to, but it is necessary to build character. Without a public school setting, all you will have in 30 years is an unsocial fat fuck sitting at his computer, eating chips and posing at a 12 y/o girl trying to get into the pants of a 15 y/o boy (in MOM's basement). Good Stuff. Just keep your kids out of the house as much as you can. This is better for everyone.
Second, what the fuck is Roomba? I keep seeing it and i wanna be in the loop.
Posted by: JPatt at January 6, 2007 5:49 PM
Or they end up writing a blog in their off time.
Posted by: Machine at January 7, 2007 2:47 PM
Cheers to that.
I happen to be in high school (as I'm sure you know, as my age was given in the review haha) and we do a lot of homework after school but it's still not nearly as much as they're making younger kids do.
I think my 7 year old cousin has to do more homework in a night then I do in a week - and that's saying something.
Posted by: Miss Misery at January 14, 2007 12:43 AM
