Posted by Dinah on August 18, 2005, at 22:47:55
In reply to Re: We won the jackpot in class assignment » Dinah, posted by annierose on August 18, 2005, at 22:13:52
> So here's the thread! I couldn't remember what board, just remembered the conversation.
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> It's always such a guessing game. My daughter always got, by chance, the teacher I wanted for her. My son started off with a great kindergarten teacher, and the total pitts for first grade. He was completely, utterly bored. She needed to retire in 2000 already.Sigh. That was the old teacher for this class. At the open house last year, she was visibly burned out. My husband would have had a fit had we landed her. We were relieved to hear she was retiring.
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> I have my fingers crossed. I got the strongest teacher academically. Be careful what I wish for. And I smiled seeing the class list. I have so few adult friends in this school (place is chuck full of sorority sisters, country club folk and the like) that I'm happy to have my few friends in the same class to commiserate with at class functions. Luckily, my daughter has moved onto Middle School where parent interaction is null (yippee do da de).Sounds like our school. I feel like the parents of my son's friends tolerate me and maybe even like me, but there's a whole dress code and language that I just don't speak. I never feel really like I belong there.
> I think your take is right. The unknown teacher is usually a good thing. And lots of positives are pointing in her direction. Does your son start son now? He sounds like a neat kid, very mature for his age. Proably annoys adults who can't relate to his maturity level since your son is ages ahead of them :)
That's more or less what his therapist says. Or at least she says that about his peers. That he just doesn't understand kids his age (and vice versa). She has to kind of translate for him. So he is very mature, and has an eerily precocious sense of morality and right and wrong. It's also a bit idiosyncratic. (Like mine. Except mine has a completely different idiosyncratic set of rules.)
It's funny. We went to a parenting class on difficult children once. But there was no-one there who could relate to this particular type of difficult. Your son's too good? Oh, big deal. People don't understand that too good, too smart, and too sensitive can also be difficult.
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> Normally we would start school next week. But due to construction issues district wide we start August 29th. Happy to have the extra week, I think. I lost my babysitter to her teaching job so it's been tricky piecing together babysitters (especially with therapy times thrown in).I'm almost sorry to see school start. The house seems rather empty. (Although it shouldn't since we have my mother's dogs at the moment, while she goes on vacation.)
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> Let me know how things are going once the school year gets underway.
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> AnnieroseI will. You too. Your daughter is all set, classroom wise?
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