Stupid schools. Stupid Dinobots. Stupid stupid stupid.

[nightwind69]

Is it me, or do kids in school get more stupid projects to do now than they used to? I mean, this kid's in high school, and it seems like every week he has some stupid project to do for some class or another. I remember doing stuff like that when I was in like 6th grade, but high school? Nah. Weird

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[liana_bluestar]

I think it depends on the school and the area . . . I haven't heard of any "stupid" projects for Kyla. -shrugs- I don't know.

[nightwind69]

It does depend on the school, I suppose. This school is a pain in my ass. And Frosty's ass. :p

[liana_bluestar]

I remember Kyla making a cake that resembled a plant cell or something like that. But that's a tasty project because then we had cake. Hehehe.

I think it does depend on the school and the area. /hugs/ Hopefully, despite the school being a pain in the ass, it's a good school.

[mommimus_prime]

My daughter has had her share of silly projects which have required trips to the art supply store or office supply store. Best use of a weird item: she turned a old fashioned TV refrigerator magnet into a fireplace to represent a hearth.

Most of her projects have required powerpoint presentations though.

Fortunately, she has to juggle her time so carefully that she gets all her projects done without waiting till the last minute. That would be disastrous for her.

Son's middle school project has been his science experiment. That didn't require too much effort on my part.

[nightwind69]

Yes, well this kid has nothing to clog up his schedule other than a half-hour guitar lesson a week, so...for him it's just a case of not wanting to do the work. At least he's not as bad as he was last year, when he'd just not do the projects at all and then wonder why he was failing his classes. *rolls eyes* Still, he totally procrastinates because he'd rather, say, play/write music than do stupid projects. Not that I don't sympathize; I always hated stupid school projects, too. Still, I get frustrated that it becomes work for Frosty or for me. That's just not fair.

I wish he just had to do Powerpoint stuff. His school seems to be more into artsy-craftsy types of projects. It's...really not his thing. Nor mine nor Frosty's, either. :p

[mommimus_prime]

Sometimes these projects just feel like busy work. I'd rather see them do writing projects.

I'm thankful that my son doesn't procrastinate yet. He gets down to his homework and does what he has to do without any fighting. Our biggest problem with him has been making up missed assignments. He can't seem to get it through his head that it's his responsibility to speak to the teacher and get the missed assignment and then to turn it in. When he cut his hand, he missed one day of school, missed a math assignment and a social studies assignment and lost his folder and neglected to mention any of this. It affected his grades in those two classes and he's been struggling to make it up ever since. Unfortunately, I don't think he learned a thing from it.

[nightwind69]

Yeah, Frosty's kids had trouble with that, too, the whole making up missed assignments and taking responsibility for finding out what the assignments were and such. I attribute it to them being "out of the loop." Frosty homeschooled them for a few years, taking them out of school when they were still in elementary, so it took them a bit to get in the swing. Well, actually the younger boy still isn't in the swing, mostly because he doesn't care, but at least older boy is getting with the program. Slowly. I expect he'll be fully with the program about a month before he graduates. :)

And yes, I believe the projects are stupid. Like, he had to put together a travel brochure about a foreign country, with pictures and such. In my day, back in the Dark Ages, we just wrote research papers. ;)

[ayngelcat]

Oh the joys of school kids stuff Teehee. But look on the bright side. At least the kid GOES to school. Having to drive around re projects is better than having to drive around to the cop shop for yet another showdown about why he ain't there. It was a few years ago but the memories are not fun - Trust me!

** ex Victimized parent of ex school wagger extraordinaire**

[nightwind69]

Ugh. Well, that would be more the problem of Frosty's younger son...who actually just got into heaps of trouble at a school sports event on Thursday night. Now he's suspended for next week and might possibly be expelled. Yippee. Have no idea what we'll do if that happens. He's only 14. *rolls eyes*

[mommimus_prime]

Geez, I'm thankful my son, who hates school more than anybody I've ever seen, is not eager to create problems because he hates having any attention trained on him. He also hates getting into trouble. But he's only 12 so who's to say how'll he'll be when he starts hormoning. It's starting but isn't too bad yet.

[nightwind69]

*sigh* In the grand scheme of things, it's not the end of the world, what he did. He and his friend smoked some pot at the friend's house and then went to the game and thus were caught stoned on school property, which is apparently a Big Deal. Granted, there is a problem in this little town with pot; someone is deliberately selling it to kids. An 8-year-old was found with some on him recently.

Frankly, I support the legalization of marijuana and feel that it is far less dangerous than alcohol (though I don't approve of kids using it, obviously), so I don't feel the same "zero tolerance" urgency that the school does. But...it was totally a bad judgment call on his part. Stupid kids.

[ayngelcat]

There's a problem everywhere with pot, I think - often largely exacerbated by its illegality. The State Govt here decriminalised it - in the name of feeing up the cops to they could deal with "real" law and order. Then the conservative mob got re-elected and criminalised it again - in the name of "real" law and order. No wonder kids get confused :-)

My kids did all that - I spent a lot of time driving around and looking for my daughter when she was 14. They loved the suspensions - they considered that to be the achieving of their objectives. The problem was they didn't do too badly when they applied themselves but it was not that great a school. I had trouble sometimes counteracting very logical arguments about why they shouldn't go. FUN !!!!!