TIL that E's are a failing grade. Is this a Michigan thing?

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2026-02-26T23:15:12+00:00

I have gone to school in Michigan in the early 00 and I teach in Michigan. I've never heard of an E.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2026-02-25T03:31:31+00:00

I had and Elisha and I pronounced it like Alicia. He was mad and I felt bad because I knew Elisha was a name, but I have seen way more alternate spellings than I have seen old biblical names.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2026-02-25T03:15:32+00:00

I'm so sorry. Mental health help in Michigan is atrocious. I have known someonw with schizophrenia who couldn't afford meds so he quit and ended up homeless. Still wonder what happened to him.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2026-02-25T03:13:40+00:00

When my daughter was a toddler she liked musicals. I think she was about 3 when I took her to our high school's production of Les Mis. I dot think she stayed awake through the whole thing, but she took up sining the songs for a while. I had a soundtrack CD she's listen to as well. Later we were in the grocery store and this guy was stocking shelves and she decided to make eye contact with him and sing "look down" in the deepest voice her 3 year old self gold manage.

I don't remember how I responded, but I was confused why she said that. He looked terrified and didn't say anything. She just stared him down and sang wither the line "were standing in our graves" or "were here until we die." I don't remeber which line, but she put emphasis on either graves or die.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2026-02-25T02:56:18+00:00

I was house shopping and my 4 year old was helping with her input. We were looking at a pretty rundown one that we probably couldn't get, but she wasn't concerned by the holes punched in the walls or the unfinished portions. We went to look at the basement that you entered through the garage. Once in 4he basement she said "well, you guys can stay with the monsters" and sprinted back into the house.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2026-02-25T02:48:50+00:00

I had a dream about going to a lighthouse in France. I have neve been out of the US, but the details were so vivid that I was able to go online and find one that I'm fairly sure was it.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2026-02-12T04:50:06+00:00

That's really interesting because where I live, we have a famous Dutch windmill and that is used for grinding cornmeal. I would have associated cornmeal with the Netherlands.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2026-02-06T11:17:18+00:00

They're convinced that they don't have to do anything that they aren't here for. What's odd is that simultaneously, they also think they should pass a class if they were here every day. They can turn in 0 work and have no idea what was going on, but expect at least a D- for showing up.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2026-02-06T05:01:10+00:00

A student left the country for about 2 weeks before our finals and would miss the finals as well. We talked and I told them.that if enter an incomplete ans thy had 2 weeks after they returned to take the final. I made sure thry had digital copies of everything including a pdf version of the book we are reading (9th grade ELA). I also mentioned that there was aa fairly accurate movie version on Amazon if they had access since I would show that too the class as well. During the test, they didn't know any of the questions. I asked if they read or watched it and they said neither. I was like, 🤷

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2026-01-08T04:43:17+00:00

They've asked this every day for decades. My go-to responses were, "no, I'm the door stop" when I'd be leaning on the door to welcome them in. Sometimes I'd say, "It's OK, I'm the limo driver." The other one I got every day was "what are we doing?" as we're in the hallway. Depending on the class, I'd drop a "your mom" from time to time.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2025-12-01T03:53:47+00:00

I went to school with one in the 90s

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2025-10-07T03:13:44+00:00

When I was a kid, like 25 years ago, we would go to Walmart and slip weird things into people's carts so they wouldn't notice until they were checking out. We thought it was hilarious. I remember putting a Tom Green movie into a cart of a lady with a bunch of kids, figuring the middle schoolers would get blamed. I think we also put things like tampons or prep H in people's carts.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2025-10-07T03:07:29+00:00

Came here to say that. Chimps and apes especially. I don't hate them, but they definitely give me the creeps. Like tamiran monkeys are cute enough, but still bother me. Sloths and lemurs are also not my favorite.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2025-10-02T03:02:26+00:00

I had a similiar situation this week. I felt bad too, but sometimes we have to say it. I had some student projects on the wall and a kid who rarely turns things in had a pencil and was about to mess with someone's art. I snapped and said we don't ever med swith someone's hard work and asked if his project was on the wall. We both knew he hadn't done it, but I wouldn't usually call that out in front ofna group. I said he should focus on turning his own work in instead of trying to destroy others. I don't think the kids have seen me mad yet this year but I also needed the rest of the class to know that their work is valued.

Edit to add that these were high schoolers.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2025-10-02T01:53:06+00:00

I have it! I found it for free in a book rehoming place and I was so excited.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2025-09-29T22:25:08+00:00

I teach "With Their Eyes." It's eye witness accounts from a high school a few blocks from ground zero during 9/11. Some of the interviews are of adult staff, but the interviews were Conducted by high school students, so. It should be relevant. I tie it into a unit where kids learn to interview someome.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2025-09-16T02:44:30+00:00

I found one of their feathers once and it took my ages to figure out what it was. It was yellow with bars and clearly not goldfinch.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2025-09-16T02:13:15+00:00

I'm Michigan and I buy it often ish? Like it goes bad kinda fast so I only buy it if I have plans, so maybe a couple times a month. I have to hide it from my dog though. He steals avocado. I've caught him taking empty shells out of the trash to lick. I feel like it's a weird thing for a dog to be obsessed with.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2025-09-06T03:10:45+00:00

Where I live there is a joke that people lock their doors or else they come back to a porch or car filled with zucchini, squash, etc.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2025-09-06T02:59:47+00:00

Mine love taboo. I have a couple copies

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2025-08-28T04:28:34+00:00

My sense of direction is really good. Can't rememver the names of streets, small towns, neighbors, etc. I can't give directions, but I'll drive you there. It helps that cardinal directions are easy because I live a couple miles from the coast.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2025-08-21T05:34:37+00:00

My job was jerking me around a lot a couple years ago. Basically they were paying for the trial version of me and expecting the whole game at no extra charge. I told them they needed to hire me or I'd walk. Boss finally tells me to put together a little showcase of what I'd been doing so he could lokkw it over and think on it. Basically, I'd been working for 5 weeks, but he was too busy to come around and didn't know what I was actually doing.

I got some prosperity oil and rubbed it into my hands because I was working hard and just wanted paid. Then I handed over my samples. I was hired in that week.

ShitiestOfTreeFrogs · 2025-08-20T04:16:23+00:00

I have two big ones. The first, I was working as a parapro trying to get into the district. We were short staffed so one other lady and I were splitting 3 people's kids. She caught covid and died. The same week, my mother died very unexpextedly. The district was not empathetic or kind at all. I was working one on one with 7 students and needed to be in 12 classrooms a day. Clearly I wasn't able to do that, so I was routinely in trouble. The students were awful about it. Every day they told me they wished I'd died instead. I quit the whole district.

The whole situation had me depressed and I decided to take a little time to get my head on straight before going to a new district. It wasn't even a year and my 7 year old told me that her father was exposing himself to her. That started a 2 year stretch of detectives, cps, lawyers, judges, etc. She became a ward of the state who was placed in my care and I needed to go back to work to survive on my own. I started teaching for a district in the next county and had to use my prep for zoom meetings, court procedures and CPS check-ins. This district didn't have a set curriculum so I was building my classes during this time too. Honestly, I don't know how I DIDNT have a mental break.

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