Rock and a Hard Place

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Registered: 11-12-2003
Rock and a Hard Place
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Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am

There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.

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Sun, 11-30-2003 - 11:03pm
Do you two share any other stereotypes or slurs about any other personal life choices?

PumpkinAngel

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Sun, 11-30-2003 - 11:51pm
"The charts tell me a lot more than just my child's rank." Like what? I see you think that your teacher is trying to tell you you're doing everything right WRT your DD because of her class rank. Who's to say, however, that if the estimable CLW were at home that your DD wouldn't be doing calculus by now, given your insatiable need to teach to keep your mind busy? (And would a 5 YO doing calculus BE "better?") And because none of the other DC kids can even hold a candle to your DD - I suppose they're doing something wrong even though they're at LEAST sending their kids to DC where they're read to, unlike all the SAHs who never read, only watch TV? If no one in your town reads to children other than you and the DC providers, it's so much of a backwater that I am amazed an engineer can be gainfully employed there.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-01-2003 - 12:23am
I agree. The real question is, do we fail to understand what in the name of heaven she could possibly be talking about because we did not have the educationally enriching experience of attending CLW's DD's DC as children?
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Mon, 12-01-2003 - 5:56am
Boy, you're really shooting for stereotypes R us, aren't you? I work and I pick up my child every day. So does another mother. She works PT as a veternarian (sp). And another mother owns her own boutique, picks up her son, who is older, and takes him back to the shop with her where he does his homework. Another mother works PT as a medical device designer, she picks up her daughter every day. I could go on and on, but surely you get the picture.

This thread and your comments are becoming more and more sickening.

outside_the_box_mom

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Mon, 12-01-2003 - 6:04am
Obviously "Logic for non-math majors" wasn't part of your guy-math-gene program.
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Mon, 12-01-2003 - 7:04am

I am thinking socialization as in play well together at recess w/out beating each other up type of socializatoin.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Mon, 12-01-2003 - 7:10am

Who said anything about "well socialized?"

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 12-01-2003 - 8:12am
I pick up my child AND I work PT. I work on the weekends. Is this teacher aware that some working mothers have hours that DON'T coincide with school? Or is it the backwater effect again, the sidewalks roll up at 5pm.
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Mon, 12-01-2003 - 8:13am
The proper parallel then is "higher SES generally benefits families." NOT "WOH generally benefits families." To draw one from the other is like saying "dressing professionally generally benefits job success," "job success generally raises SES," and then concluding that "dressing professionally generally benefits one's family." It's the money, not the work itself.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 12-01-2003 - 8:13am
I wonder if she told the parents with SAHMs that the top half of the chart was inhabited entirely by kids of WOHMs? Or are you the only one wwho got that gossip?

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