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| Sat, 08-01-2009 - 8:42am |
DYK Thread for August
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Yeah..free!
I still would love to know how public schools can charge instructional fees & such. Doesn't make sense to me.
I do know that Louisiana is one of the states that has free textbooks--not all states have free textbooks. But Huey P. Long is the reason for Louisiana (all students...public or private) students not having to pay to use textbooks--they can be charged if they lose or damage a textbook, though.
When did they get their teeth?
Aly got her first tooth at 13 months old, then didn't lose her first until she started first grade at 6-1/2. She's 12-1/2 and still has 5 baby teeth.
Texas has free textbooks, we also have to pay to replace any lost or damaged books. In m/s they actually got two sets, one to keep in the classrooms and one to keep at home so they didn't have to transport books back and forth to school. I wish they did it in high school too, but I can see why they don't.
My first day back was sooooo loooooong!!! We had meetings from 8 until after 3 with a half-hour lunch and a 15 minute break all day!
Tomorrow, we have meetings until 12:30..lunch, then work in our rooms prepping for Open House while some have meetings to attend. As of right now, I don't have any meetings to attend, but I'm on two major committees this year (one ends in October), so if we can meet for either of those, I'm sure we will.
Gina
No, we have to set up our classroom BEFORE school starts. It has to be completely set up before Open House, and the administration comes in to inspect. We don't get paid to set up our classroom, that's on our own time.
I got access to Aly's schedule (and all the other 7th graders' schedules) last week when I attended the Powerschool workshop. We just went online with schedules & grades, but parents won't have access until January--we have to get comfortable with it first, and they have to work out all the kinks.
If she weren't in my class, I would have had to get her schedule from one of her teachers or from the office as I don't have access to any other grade's schedules.
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