And you expect us to believe that! (I mean: that a teacher could come up with such an excellently imaginative and believable excuse )
My whole semester worth of work did blow out my car window once. I have had my dog eat my homework. (I had a saint bernard that ate washcloths, nightgowns and socks...what's a little homework after that! lol) Thanks to all the students who fib I had to make up a story because what teacher would have believed the truth. It's payback time. The schools have to have a pretty good excuse for me to believe them now.
Speaking of school... Well, My mom is a teacher, and recently recieved her iMAC G5, She was suprised to find out it was the Dean's computer last year (the computers were taken back to have Mac OS X installed). Well, they were supposed to have formatted the thing, but they didn't to a good job, so it has Internet History, Emails, and photos on it from the Dean. And they "Lost" grades? They can't lose things that can be erased with the push of a button!
Oh...I don't think they "lost" them at all. It's a state requirement that the principal sign each report card. It's possible the principal never did his part so they couldn't be mailed. (That happened last year so I assume that's what occurred this year.) I have no idea what the real problem was...I know they were never sent home though. I did check with other parents. I was incredulous that they actually told me they "lost" them. I choose carefully which issues I take on. This one wasn't very important to me. You don't want to get the rep as a parent that complains about everything. If I don't receive it in the mail next week it may become an issue though!
Hehe. Not yet. Maybe next year. I haven't figured out what I want to do yet - so why waste the money, right?
Zy, I can't imagine our school system "loosing" 500 (or so) report card records. I'm like you, I believe that someone didn't sign them or mail them out like they were supposed to. But our school is completely computerized, and we get a computer print-out of report cards, with no signatures of a principal. If this is a Statewide thing, why doesn't your school just issue a new print out?? Surely they aren't out of comptuer paper!! LOL
Well, I'm too lazy to read all of the posts, so I'll just say what I wanted to--everyone else starts school way earlier than me! Mine is starting tomorrow, and I'm absolutely depressed. Most other kids--no matter what race--are starting to get sick of summer by now, and want to see their friends. But, pshaw, if my friends really wanted to see me they would've arranged for some time for us to hang out at the mall (who my only true friend, Karyn, did.) or something. Anyway, the point is that I am devastated. I want summer to go on forever! It was a real shocker when I looked out the window earlier and saw that the sky was really dark, at only 7 pm. Does anyone else share my views?
Our report cards are computer generated. The year-end high school report cards have a place for the principal's signature. There is a statement on it that says the state requires this document be signed by the principal. My daughter's four years worth of high school reports are signed. My son's freshman report is signed. We got a new principal his sophomore year. I never received his year end card. I called twice and finally in October of his Junior year one of the teachers quietly laid it on his desk...unsigned. I have not received his Junior report. He is in the third week of his senior year. (It occurred to me that since he is in the gifted program these were separated from the pack and under review elsewhere. Perhaps only these have been misplaced. I only know parents whose kids are in this program. Most of my son's classes are AP. Since these are tested differently, I do get AP test results from an outside source to show whether he earned college credit. I'm not terribly concerned about the actual report card at this time.) I think it's funny that this was the part of my rant that grabbed people's attention. Mirelly had made a comment wondering if the majority of the funds for a British school had gone toward painting the teachers' break room. I'm upset at the lack of common sense the bureaucracy uses. Schools complain constantly about the lack of money and yet it's obvious that much is wasted or allocated poorly. I mentioned the report cards only in that it showed that with an office full of computers, I couldn't obtain a computer generated report card.
I always hate to see summer end, 123, though this year not as much as most. I've had a horrible summer, all sorts of bad things happening ... all I can say is my family and I are due for some good karma. Plus the weather was horrible, much too hot. It's much nicer now. I usually love fall weather, just hate that it doesn't stick around long before sliding into winter. What does race have to do with hating school? Just wondering. One of the things I love about living in a metro area is we have friends of all shades and backgrounds, especially true for my daughter, who attends a public school. Much of our neighborhood is recent immigrants, so she has children from Somalia, Korea and India in her class as well as children from families who have been here longer. One of my best friends is from Korea, and my sister-in-law's family came from Jamaica a few generations ago. It's true that most of my friends are white, but then most of Minneapolis is white. I find it's hard to make friends across superficial barriers sometimes, if only because I don't encounter that many people of different races on a regular basis, other than passing them on the street. I am equally friendly to all, and usually make friends with people if I get to know them long enough. Background don't enter into it. Don't know where that came from. I must be avoiding work or something. Back to the grindstone with me! :(
Well, someone--I forget who, but it wasn't on this forum--made a comment about how I was not acting like a stereotypical Asian because I wasn't sick of summer by the time school started (don't worry, it didn't offend me), and it was just going through my head as I typed the last post. With my siblings and I, I find that as we get older, we tend to not spend as much time with the friends we once had that are of a different race and become part of a big circle of Asian friends. I know it's pretty racist, but, really, none of the other non-Asian people really wanted to be our friends either. But, please, don't make this thread into a big racist issue, everyone.
Don't worry, Sweetie, I won't. I was just curious. I do think it's easier to meet people from your own "group" so to speak, as I mentioned in my previous post. That doesn't make you racist. It's just a fact of life that people of a type tend to flock together. Methodists, musicians, Norwegians, whatever ... It doesn't mean others aren't welcome.
Thankyou, Person 123 and Kristal! I was scared to post myself as an Asian. When I was a little kid, people would tease me about it. You guys have given me the courage to admit it. I always thought people would judge me about it... But I suck at learning chinese! Gotta go every Sunday. My parents always say I'm New Zealander at heart. I wa born here, after all.
Girl, don't you ever be ashamed of your roots!!! No matter what your race, who your ancestors were, or where they came from, it is something to be proud of!!! (This from a half scotch-irish, half German hillbilly Coal Miner's Granddaughter, married to a man who's part English, part Irish, and just recently found out that instead of Cherokee, his great-grandmother was Melungeon, so he is the ultimate Hienz 57 Mutt. And I still love him! )
You're Asian? *jaw drops* Yay, another Asian TS2 junkie! It seems none of my friends are interested in any of the sims games, except Karyn, who is my bestest friend ever--besides Archibald. We should be the dynamic Asian duo of Worldsims! Of course, you're younger than me, but not by much. By the way, when we used to live in Pennsylvania (moved to NJ in summer of '99) people made fun of our family, too-that's pretty much the reason we moved to NJ. It wasn't much, just people stretching their eyes longer to look like the "stereotypical Asian" and stuff. I completely understand how you feel. Do you have many Asian friends?
People are so stupid. If it makes you feel any better, 123, I got made fun of when I was a kid for being the "wrong" religion. Some kids look for a reason to make fun of you, no matter what.
I'm a quiet person, so I sometimes get ridicule for that. Fortunately on a message board, it doesn't matter how quiet you are, and I have a voice on one.
Plenty! My group of friends are all from different parts of the world. I've got a chinese, singaporian, yugoslavian, and russian friend. Everyone says its disturbing. Like you, I can't find many Asian TS2 fanatics... But for some weird reason, everyone in my class seems to be into Maxis games! I'm suprised boys like it. The dynamic Asian duo of WorldSims does sound tempting... My best friend in the whole wide world, Amanda (the Simgaporian), is into the sims just as much as me. In fact, that's how we met!
My best friend in the whole wide world, Karyn, is Philipino, and I recently got her into TS2. Maybe I'll convince her to join the forum.
