Please tell me this isn't because they can't provide smarter kids with an education appropriate to their abilities.

Also damn funny:

If MG's kid is in the same program as mine... its a tester program.
Along with giving the 'smarter' kids work at the level they need, they have this pull out time...
My son goes once a week, and its a either a group enviroment, for talking, to help them , in his case him, deal with having to wait for the other kids to catch up to him. Or for the teacher to teach to the other kids before moving on to him.
Since they dont test for GATE till 3rd grade, they cant really segregate the faster kids away from the less than average.
We lucked out last year, and he was in a 1/2 mix, so the not so sharp 2nd's with the sharp 1st's. This year... no such luck.

Anyway... they do this group thing... then they also have like a play room. THis counselor stays with him for an hour.. talks to him, and does whatever he wants to do. None of the time is her choice.
They can play a game, just talk... whatever.

They fell it lets these kids have control over part of their day.

Anyway.. as I said.. her kid may be in a different program.. but thats kind of how ours works.

Awesome shirt! That led me to onehorseshy.com and they have some other great shirts.

I want to wear this on election days.



This one's for Lisa



:evil:

hehehe! I need this for my collection of Evil shirt. Oh, and the kitty is nice too. ;)

Speaking of cute and evil...

My librarian coworker needed to make a flyer of fantasy books for kids. The head librarian didn't like her graphic choice (books and stars) and said she needed to add a unicorn. She, like me, has had plenty of unicorns and rainbows, so I suggested a knight and/or dragon. She came back with a flyer cover that cracked us all up: A huge wicked angular dragon about to destroy a tiny cute princess and a tiny cute unicorn. :evil:

Now that is something I would like to see :D

I need to have a really healthy lunch. I just don't know what I want.

I did not have a healthy lunch. I feel blah and overstuffed...

I had chocolate donuts for breakfast.

They were not little.

I did drink milk though.

Whole milk.

Everything sounds dramatic if you just put a short sentence on each line.