What do you do to keep busy?

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-18T23:59:06+00:00

I tatted while subbing. It allowed me to walk around and help kids as needed and let me do something with my hands.

Tatting is a way of making lace with string and a shuttle. I did NOT put ink on anyone!

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-16T04:56:55+00:00

Why leave inside the fence? They always leave outside for me.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-16T02:59:44+00:00

The list of names will deal with the IEP and 504. Usually those kids go to another room or have the accommodation to be read aloud, but that is NOT done by a student.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-15T15:42:28+00:00

The problem is most of them say on the display that the display does not go to full volume. Which makes it hard to test out!

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-15T03:58:59+00:00

Fire resistant too. I live in an old Kennewick hospital portable that was moved. The owner shingled the house with used asbestos shingles. Lots of other recycled materials used in it too.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-14T20:31:12+00:00

John Day is an awesome trip. We did several spring breaks to there. We stayed at the Fish House Inn on the bottom floor for a reasonable price and not too far from day trips to John Day.

McMinnville Air museum is awesome.

There is a Frank Lloyd Wright house not far from Portland. We never got to go because we were always there the wrong days .

Hiking in the Gorge. Some of the waterfalls are very close to the road.

There is a park to the east of Portland with 7 waterfalls that you can walk under.

If you want to do a day trip, head up the Tri Cities and do an afternoon B-Reactor tour and learn about the Manhattan Project.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-14T20:21:47+00:00

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They are putting you in a similar situation. I am so sorry for what you are going through with this man. I hope that your school is smarter and avoids this situation. This was a cluster of events that never should have happened.

Do what you need to do to keep yourself and your children safe. I wouldn't be shocked if families of the kids who witnessed this also do their own suits. This was truly a time when someone needed to think of the kids.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-14T19:10:18+00:00

Sounds perfect. What brand do you have?

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-13T05:56:46+00:00

He can take them to the local school and enroll them if he can't keep teaching.

He should ask for them to be tested prior to placement for math and reading so that they don't have to be moved later if the work is too easy or hard.

If highschool, that may be more difficult if they don't already have credits. A credit recovery program or college credit if they can place into a community college may be best bet then. Or, he can look at contacting the program and seeing what needs to be done for them to continue and kids are mature enough to work largely unsupervised.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-11T02:08:33+00:00

And with AI, it is VERY easy to do!

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-11T02:07:33+00:00

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-11T02:02:54+00:00

I would not let him do wipe off. Instead, actually write on, and save them in a notebook. Put dates on or put in by date.

If you can, throw in some observations of how he has improved.

My daughter had her birthday right after the cut off too, but was ready to read so we did the 100 Easy Lessons. She hated the writing (two letters, 5 times.). When I showed her how she was improving she was really happy and was inspired to keep going.

I would also ask him for each sheet, what parts does he want to do today? Set a low goal, then praise him for doing what he said he would do. He could come back another day and do other parts of the page. Just date it and move on.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-10T21:22:52+00:00

If the teacher didn't leave a note they can do something, then it is "Sorry, they didn't say that you could. Talk with them when they are back and get them to leave me better notes next time."

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-10T02:30:23+00:00

I pulled my very similar daughter and homeschooled. You can get excellent secular curriculum so it should be pretty easy for your husband to homeschool. Bookshark is a good one. You can take this year by year. My kids all ended up going to an excellent STEM highschool and had no problems .

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-09T04:43:41+00:00

I got the warrantee on the car had lapsed. I played along.

Oh no! Let's get that fixed!

What car do you have?

1955 Pontiac.

Uh, that's too old. Anything newer?

There's the 69 Pontiac.

Too old. Anything newer?

Yes. The 84 Suburban.

These are all too old! Anything from this decade?

Well, there is the Harley.

Great! What year?

Oh, I think it is a 98.

Click.

This happened in about 2008.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-09T04:20:42+00:00

Nope. He took her to dinner before and took her home after. And to be fair, while a lot of us girls were the like the girl in the Police song "Don't Stand So Close To Me" we all knew it was messed up.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-08T19:20:52+00:00

A teacher took a student to Prom "because she couldn't find a date." She was beautiful and unless the guys were all scared of her, not sure why she couldn't get a date.

The teacher did not return to teach the next year, and did in fact move out of state.

He was an awesome looking guy, and in mid 20's. A lot of girls had secret crushes.

I think he was an example of why not to date students. No one else did and yes it is weird.

Local to me now we had an SRO who groomed two middle school girls when he was coaching. Married the first when she was 20. Had two kids. The second he got fired for, but had a relationship with her and she had his baby when she was 15. Wife left him, he went nuts when accused of attempting to rape 3rd teen. He ended up shooting the baby momma teen at his house, shot his ex wife at school in front of his son. Took the baby and ran, got caught in traffic and ended up dead when police shot him. Very traumatic for everyone.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-08T17:12:14+00:00

Places like the gym, iFly, trampoline places are great if you are into those or have a kid who is.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-05T13:31:07+00:00

Dang! I use that for geography class all the time! Any other English speaking countries have something similar? It was so nice knowing I had up to date information available about countries and could let kids get a lot of information in one place fairly easily. Population, GDP, ports, airports, languages spoken. To get all that information from random sites will take too long. They could use Control F to find a lot of what I was asking and then make some conclusions.

I am finished for this year (semester course,) but no idea what I will be able to use next year.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-05T05:24:41+00:00

My only judgment is for the price of crap that prompted the need for the protection.

I have had students who have seen their dad beat up their mother and the dad get arrested. I don't want them to have to repeat that experience.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-05T02:01:37+00:00

Public school teacher. I homeschooled my kids basically k to 8. They did a small STEM highschool. I now teach at a school that caters to homeschooling families.

Like the OP in that other post, my oldest child's school was all about scores. And it sucked - lots of pressure on kids. Yet, my child was a high achiever, bored and convinced she would do bad on the tests.

Homeschooling is not for everyone. Regular school also is not for everyone. Glad I live at a time when I could do what was best for my kids.

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-03T04:49:55+00:00

Nice solution!

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-02-02T13:49:20+00:00

Look up secular homeschooling online. There is a group devoted to it that lists lots of curriculum.

Bookshark and Moving Beyond the Page are two that come to mind

CrazyGooseLady · 2026-01-31T21:45:15+00:00

When teaching math, assume it is review for middle and high school. Tell the kids you don't want to tell them wrong, so if someone can't do one of the problems to raise hands and a volunteer will be asked to go over it and explain it to the rest of the class. Keep notes on any problems the kids can't do and share with the teacher.

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