Well, I'm done with all the online stuff of the morning. As soon as I with letter requesting help at old home days for the hockey booster club, I going to get some serious work done one the letter I for Margaret's project.
Than the returns and a BJ's trip and maybe a little back to school shopping for DD. (I wish the HS would give you a list of required materials before school starts, but no. Instead, it's a frenzied stop at Staples with the ravaging hoards the afternoon school starts)
Then back to the rink and maybe a little stitching after DD and I get home
Sounds like a good day - sort of. I just watered the daylily sprouts a while ago - about 80% of them are showing new growth - one is up about 3" already. Woo hoo.
Supposedly on stitching marathon - but DH reffed last night, and is home with aches and pains - can you say don't feel like going to work? So, I'm just doing the electronic connex now, and will go stitch.
On topic - I've come up with another design - I'm doing a needlebook on canvas. Playing now - deciding if it's better to put on congress cloth (24 ct) which wouldn't need a you see it kind of backing (besides the book structure) or canvas - which would need something that shows thru. My dilemma - I want to do the "fleur de lis" crescents with soft-sheen Fyrewerks ribbon - but it's too wide for the 24 ct. Anyhow - I'll likely post some pix later. Or just make a decision.
Other dilemma - I think on canvas I don't need to put something hefty (like skirtex or foam core or mat board) in the layering as the canvas will retain some body, with batting, lining behind it.
Why another design? I needed to pull another original together, which I could finish totally. And, Donna contaged me so that I woke up at 1:30 in the am the other night, and couldn't sleep - so spent 2 restless hours drafting a design in my head. Go figure.
Some teachers specify certain brands or colors or .....
I got a complete, or nearly so list, of what DD needs this year for 6th grade. Complete with different style pens, roller ball, ink colors, flair markers etc.
Oh for the days when the school districts actually could supply students. I don't recall any fancy pens, pencils etc in school. Just good old pencils. And we, never, never had to purchase supplies. I guess that's what happens as we pay more and more per student and get less and less.
Funny, I don't remember ever being supplied beyond my textbooks, and huge vats of Tempera paint. We always got our own supplies, composition books, and the like.
I'm just amazed that it's legal to specify a brand of colored pencils for example. Honestly, I think it's not legal - just the teachers do it anyhow. Should be something like "box of colored pencils with 12 colors" , black pens, #2 pencils, etc.
Well, it probably isn't, but the problem is if they don't specify, the kids come with the colored pencils and crayons etc. from the dollar store that won't sharpen/write/bleed/etc. Not that there isn't a place for it - but what happens is that the teacher then winds up spending her own money to get decent supplies.
Around here, in K-2 particularly, the teachers collect the supplies and hand them out as needed.
Nancy wrote: > Oh for the days when the school districts actually could
I agree that it would be wonderful if school districts could supply things, as it was in my youth. But I can't agree with the "Pay more and more per student and get less and less" part of your comment. I think schools today do SO much more than they did in my youth ("the good old days.") Just the staffing is very different...we had a part-time counselor shared with three schools, music and instrumental music and gym and art teachers did three schools (there were three elementary schools in the town I grew up in, and one high school). Principal had one sec'y - no assistant principal, no buses, no cafeterias, no librarian (parent volunteers ran the library), one nurse for all three schools. My kid's elementary school had paid staff positions for all of those, plus more. And special ed? Fuggedaboudit...you were either "retarded" or you weren't. If you were "retarded," there was one classroom for the whole town - and not much was expected of you; if you were high-functioning, you might be trained to be a janitorial assistant. Everyone else just had to cope as best they could. Blind, deaf, autistic kids didn't exist in the regular public school system...there were "special places" for them.
Not to mention, the cost of the technology that schools try to keep up with. We had one TV per floor of the school, that got wheeled around to whatever classroom signed up for it. No computers. One movie projector shared for the whole school. We had workbooks (which at that time cost a fraction of what they do now) that we could actually write in, which is probably actually cheaper in the long run than printing out reams of paper.
Teachers were paid abominably, because in most cases it was perceived as "women's work" and "second income."
I find that those who long for the "good old days" tend to remember the smell of the roses, and forget the fertilizer mounded at the base of the plant!
Its so I don't buy DD the fancy color pencils at $12 a box versus the $2 no name brand ones. And yes people do that. Sent "water color" pencils in for the 1st grader.
Ummm, if the specific calculator does the stuff that is needed for the others, I'd expect one will do it. Probably needs the trig graphing functions and logs. I honestly don't have a problem with those for calc once they actually learn how/what logarithms and trig functions are. It's faster than looking up on log tables. The other courses I bet require just the basics and memory. But, hey, what do I know?
Well, lets see, most kids walked to school (only if you were more than
2 miles away did you get bused) and I don't think there was as much obesity. We went home for lunch in elementary school. Western PA is fortunate to have a school for the deaf (over 100 years old) and a school for the blind. And the county (long before it was widespread) had a school for the developmently disabled. Yes, we shared the art instructor with the junior high but more and more schools here are cutting out art and music completely in the elementary schools. Instead they spend it on field turf for the football field, the soccer field and a new baseball fields while also cutting the teacher aides. I know what teachers earned. DM was a substitute. I had a calculus teacher who left industry to teach despite the difference in the pay.
The local school district was a "forced" merger that years later the judge said was the biggest mistake he ever made. Not only did he destroy 3 good school districts and send our taxes skyrocketing but he destroyed several municipalities. A neighbor wondered why all the kids in the neighborhood were going to the the local Catholic school and private schools. Despite all the $$$ it's not a very good education. If I had kids I wouldn't be living here and sending them to the high school I attended.
Nancy...now off her soapbox about the local school district
In elementary school I don't recall my parents having to buy any supplies at all. Paper and pencils to use at home but nothing for school. Eventually we did get "looseleaf notebooks" and "notebook" paper and probably just used whatever colored pencils we had at home. And rarely took the colored pencils to school. As for what art supplies were needed in senior high, who knows. By then art classes were not required and I definitely passed those by. I do recall buying a copy of "Tartouffe" (sp) for my French class but otherwise we were never given a "list." That's a much recent invention.
Sometimes the calculator requirements for higher math classes have to do with the calculator models allowed on state, AP, IB, or other exams related to those classes. And since the teachers have to plan to teach the kids how to do things on their calculators, they are not keen on having to figure out how several different models of calculators implement the same functions ;-) It's also tough for teachers to know enough about all the different models of calculators to know which ones have features that can be used to "cheat."
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