Changes in Education

He says he wants to be an EMT.
I feel he is just sabotaging himself with his "friends".
He could get his GED. Two year community college is free in CA except for books and lab stuff. He can do it. Just needs a boot up his ass. Life can really provide that proverbial boot.
 
He originally wanted to go military, but i am not sure he is thinking that way anymore.
I thought it would be great for him. He thinks Mom and Dad are controlling? HA! Sign your life over to the government for a couple years :lol:
He wanted to be a Marine like his bio dad and cousin. Couple of his buddies from scouts went there too.
Seems everything else is important to him. All testosterone driven 6'5" man child.
 
My Mum went to a evening where you meet your kids teachers (Mine)

Teacher: “I’m afraid Michael has fallen in with some boys who are a bad influence....”

My Mum: (in an Irish accent) “Don’t go blaming those other boys, it’s him he’s the bad influence!”
 
Tell you another one.

I had commited some misdemeanor or other and was up in front of the headmaster, heading for 6 of the best.
The rules at the time stated that he had to phone a parent to check that was allowed.

If she says no, I walk out of there.

So he phones up and explains to my mum what I’d done and why he felt corporal punishment was appropriate.
Then he said nothing, just umming and nodding and after a minute or two said “I will certainly pass that on Mrs Dempsey, thank you and goodbye”

He looks up to me and says “she said to give the little bastard 6 more from me”
 
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Someone told a story on here about how he was out walking with his mother and there was ice on a little pond.
His mother says not to walk on the ice as was it’s too thin, the kid, being a kid walks onto the ice and says “look mum it’s fine” to which she picked up a rock, threw it onto the ice near him making it all break and he gets freezing water up to his waist.
She just turned and walked away.

Lesson learnt.
 
Sometimes it just take getting all the frig upps out of your system on your own.


Dealing with buyers is tough Stephen.....speaking from someone who used to absolutely rely on them!


I never did any buying when I turned 21 however.....which is funny on account of the fact I swore I would buy for any kid that asked when I was a kid in need.
 
Hell i was 19 and running over 200 bucks a week in illegal booze for others :lol: had one buddy over 21, one buddy with a minivan, and i knew everyone. It's how i was able to buy booze and smokes. Always gotta have a side hustle.

My parents were very strict, a few more deserved beatings and i might have been a doctor :lol: i was working for hire ever since i was 12, helping the family do work was considered mandatory, and taking money was cause for getting your ass tanned.
 
Hell, I would sometimes buy booze and throw parties for under 21. But they had to be adult age. Not <15, 16, 17.......
I worked at a 2 year private college for a while in MA. Primarily girl college, like 400 women to 60 men business college.
The girls would go over to some of the larger schools and the frat parties. There was a lot of date raping, for lack of a better terminology.
A lot of slipping mickies and rape as well. SO I would open up my house, provide professional bouncers, and sober rides.
SO yeah. Guilty.
However........ The kid is a cundrum hairs width away from getting a record. Not modifying.
 
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and to think they used to give some a choice....jail or military....times they are a changing
 
Dave you sound like Betsy Devos. It maybe a symptom of breaking the system so thoroughly that now its worthless. Like trashing a wilderness area so there is nothing to fight for. Why pay for something so shitty? Schools once served more than educating, they were community centers. The community revolved around them. So much is lost when we dilute them.
 
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Dave you sound like Betsy Devos. It maybe a symptom of breaking the system so thoroughly that now its worthless. Like trashing a wilderness area so there is nothing to fight for. Why pay for something so shitty? Schools once served more than educating, they were community centers. The community revolved around them. So much is lost when we dilute them.

Key words "once served" . The frontier one "meeting house" towns of yesteryear, where that building served as school, church, & meeting house, hardly exist any more. As I wrote, times are changing...

I'm not in any way advocating for Betsy's "privatise for profit" scheme.

I'm wondering on the prospects of a more affordable, more efficient, greener, and safer, manner of publicly educating children.
 
One of the better programs we had here was a home school charter that was connected to the public schools. So like Levi and Seth has access to sports and labs provided by the public system being on their campus. Bussing as well.
Unfortunately, our superintendent at the time, saw fit to fug it all up.
One campus, out of town, was a middle school. But funding was limited by keeping it just a middle school. Her solution, that also injected more funding was to combine basically 3 campuses there.
The home school charter
Adult education
Troubled teens and special education.
Now, that screwed the pooch on bussing. Save for special ed.
All else had to drive themselves or be driven to and from.
If the kids were in sports, they had to be driven back to the other campus from which they were originally and sometimes to the fair grounds.
Due to adults being on campus, fences had to go up around class rooms and kids had to be escorted to and from restrooms.
Some of the older kids were touble enough to be under house arrest with ankle bracelets.
The bullys removed from main stream campuses went there as well. So often, a kid that finally got relief from a bully, found themselves with that very same bully at the school they just got shipped to.
We lost a few good teachers over that one.
They ended up losing some funding due to students getting pulled out by parents.
Cost our law enforcement more money since they had to man the damn thing.
All for someones political aspirations.
The superentendant you ask?
Oh well, she got pulled over for drunk driving. Bit the arresting officer. Was forced to resign and publish an apology.
Well.. the schools got their additional funding for adding adult ed and gearing up special needs better. But nothing else got fixed.
The original set up saved tons of fuel and time. Even the offices for staff were right there. Meetings, right there. Arts, sports, labs.
Sometimes when you think you need more beans when you count them, and decide to try to make more beans by spending them. You are probably going to end up with less beans if you dont consider all the angles.
Or listen to parents at your board meetings.
 
I am a passionate advocate for technical education...having been in formal education delivery, so many time I saw young men and women who had been shunted through traditional classbound education come in with eyes dull and motivation destroyed because they had been fed the line that they were 'not academic'... aka 'stupid' if you can't manage to succeed in what is shovelled at you in 'normal' school (I was fortunate to do well in school) . But given the opportunity to now see HOW and WHERE and WHY those confusing principles which up till now had been confined to paper....actually worked in the real world, measuring planting beds, estimating and pricing plants, actually planting them...to see the lightbulb moment, to see the motivation return, to hear ...oh NOW I get it!!!
And even some of those students did not remain in horticulture, but now they had the tools to succeed wherever they wanted to go.
 
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