Confessions of one sahm

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Registered: 01-09-2009
Confessions of one sahm
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Fri, 04-03-2009 - 1:58pm

I've been thinking about this *debate* lately, and I think that many of my

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Registered: 03-06-2009
Thu, 06-11-2009 - 1:22pm
below 70 was failing in thepublic high school I grew up going to and it didn't seem to have scarred me any LOL -- and there were no extensions either.
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Registered: 01-08-2009
Thu, 06-11-2009 - 1:25pm
I remember one time when my kid was in the 6th grade or 7th grade and he got a call from one of his friends who wanted him to go with him to the school play (he attended a different school from my kid). I said yes, but also expressed surprise that this kid wanted to go to the school play, because he didn't seem the type. My kid explained that the friend was getting 10 points extra credit in three different classes for going to the play, and some more points for bringing friends. I thought that was bizarre. Still do.
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Registered: 11-22-2000
Thu, 06-11-2009 - 1:41pm

So do I.



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Registered: 01-15-2006
Fri, 06-12-2009 - 7:54am
i don't know that my family of teachers chose that profession for the schedule.

 

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Registered: 11-22-2000
Fri, 06-12-2009 - 8:44am
I agree.

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Registered: 03-26-2009
Fri, 06-12-2009 - 9:46am
Hey, let me tell you that I KICK myself now that I did not go to school for some teacher related career :)
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Registered: 01-15-2006
Fri, 06-12-2009 - 10:01am

LOL.

 

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Registered: 03-26-2009
Fri, 06-12-2009 - 10:06am
I see the time off too and have spoken to teachers who are so glad they chose that occupation. Stupid, stupid-lol!!
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Registered: 01-08-2009
Fri, 06-12-2009 - 11:29am

It's not too late. Several of the teachers at my kids' school are either people who raised their kids and then went back to school to get a teaching credential or people who are on their "second career." I think there is even some value to having some experience in another career and bringing that experience to the classroom. The boys' biology/chemistry teacher worked in private industry for twenty years before she decided to go into education. It is interesting to the kids to hear her stories about how the science they are doing can have real-world applications. I am not saying a first-career teacher couldn't do that, too, but there is something authentic about hearing it from someone who has lived it.

I worked in another industry for about a decade before becoming a college teacher as well.

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Registered: 03-26-2009
Fri, 06-12-2009 - 11:34am
True but I don't have the head to go back to school-lol!! I also have other things I have to think about paying for right now like braces :0-lol!! By the time I was done and got a job, my kids would probably be out of school or at least wouldn't need me at home during their days off.

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