Meeting with principal

So I finally had the meeting with the principal about my son's teacher..that didn't do us any good. All the principal wanted to do was make excuses about how the teachers are frustrated with this common core crap.  Is that really a good excuse for these teachers to take their frustrations out on our children.  I think not! I was able to find out that my son does not have to do the upcoming state testing and that we are not the only parents choosing to opt-out our children from the tests this year. I also found out today that this week we should be getting letters from the school board letting us know if our children got accepted into the magnet program here. I really hope they do. For my son the culinary program he applied for is the best chance he's got. Regular college is just not going to work for him. A vocational school is the right choice for him. As for my daughter who will be going into kindergarten this coming school year, she is very imaginative and loves to dance and sing. So for her we applied for a performing arts program so that she isn't being turned into the zombie like the rest of the students in our school district. Kids should be allowed to be kids. The government should not have the right to control how these students are being taught. They should understand that no child is the same, learns the same, or thinks the same. Our children should have the right to develop in their own way. As parents we try to raise our children to be themselves, not to follow the in crowd because it's cool and to do the right thing for them. With this common core crap the way we choose to raise our children is being undermined because the government wants all of our children to think the same way. I can not be the only parent that feels this way. I don't know about any of you but for me I don't learn like most people I can't just read a manual and understand how to do it.I need someone to walk me through it as I do it myself. It's like a map..I can't read one to save my life but if I have driven somewhere once I can get there again months or even years down the road without direction. My son learns the same way whereas my daughter is highly analytical.
    Thanks for taking the time to read my rants. Please feel free to give your opinions.

MadhouseMomma

Poop on my neighbors door

First I have to warn you I have a tendency to use foul language when I get pissed enough and after being up and down all night reassuring my five year old that the bogey man wasn't going to get her and still not getting to have my conversation with my 14 year old's principal I am pretty pissy today....
...sooooo I live in an up stairs apartment of a fairly large complex.a couple months ago we got new neighbors to the right of us.First month I didn't really notice much difference there were a couple nights my 5 year old woke up crying and wouldn't tell me why so I figured she had a bad dream not uncommon for her age called her down put her back in bed then it started happening more and more and she started telling me it was the bogey man so I started sleeping with her. And boy does she have one helluva bogey man...I know I get loud.  Neil would say I have little dog syndrome because of how short I am(4'11") but at least I have the common courtesy to obey the sound ordinance..  After 10pm my home is quiet the kids are all in bed and all you can hear is my tv in the living room but not even that's up loud.  That first night I slept in her room every couple hours I could hear my neighbor cussing out her kids (they are all younger than my 5 year old) she was so loud I could hear every word clearly at one point she was screaming at one of them for wetting the bed..um don't some kids have bladder control issues at night as old as 10? Needless to say I got no sleep that night.a week or do later the youngest over there was screaming for hours and I heard no one else over there so I called the police to have them check a couple nights after that she was blasting her tv all night in her room which is the room against my daughter's I called the police they showed up about 3am could hear it outside they knocked on her door for a good 15 mins before she answered then she turned it down..ah finally peace and quite. Nope try again it's been loud over there a few times a week since and last night was no different and my daughter won't sleep without me.she cries if I tell her I wanna sleep with daddy tonight. I don't know what to do any more. But I'm debating putting dog shit on her doorstep.

Thanks for listening to me vent,
MadhouseMomma

Round two with R.S.'s school

Good morning friends let's see what kind of trouble I can get into today. I have round two of trying to talk to the principal and I'm trying to keep myself from putting a pile of dog poop on my neighbors door for keeping my 5 year old up all night.This should be an interesting day...
....ok y'all I just got home from my son's school and wouldn't you know his principal was still not there today.I'm sitting here reflecting on the school year and wondering how these people are collecting a paycheck..my son has maybe one teacher that has only missed one or two days tops this year and one that was out on maternity leave but his other ones miss two or more days a week and have bad attitude and most of the students are like my son on an iep and many of those student again like my son don't like change and yet the school wonders why over 75% over the student body either has failing grades or their grades have dropped drastically.between the common core being a total disaster and the teachers only in it for a paycheck it's no wonder they are failing...

Please feel free to post comments or send advice and as always thanks for listening,

MadhouseMomma

P.s. Check my post called poop on the neighbors door

Common core and stupid teachers

What is with this common core crop they are teaching or kids in school?  In 5th grade my 14 year old son got straight f's on his report cards they still sent him on to the 6th.  In 6th he was doing just as bad till we pulled him from public school and put him in k12 there for the most part he did well except his math.  The answers that should have been right showed as wrong.  Not teaching him to cheat just trying to figure it out so I could teach him how to do it I did a few of his problem and they still showed as wrong even though I knew my answers were right. My oldest son couldn't even figure it out he got the same answers I did.it was frustrating.so in 7th grade we put him back in public school where he went back to straight f's again we even got him set up with an IEP. That didn't help. Yet they still pushed him on to 8th grade. This year we ate in a different state I had hoped a new state with a better school system for him would do him some good and for the most part it has his grades are up this year no f's but not because he's away from common core. Here he's less stressed and had for the most part a better set of teachers.....for the most part, but I'll get back to that.  This year we was the year to decide how we would approach the high school situation.after long discussions on the matter hee decided when he goes to 9th grade he wants to do culinary in a magnet program rather than going to a basic public school.so I went to the school board and turned in his application and we should find out this month if he gets accepted, how ever his grades had to be maintained at a c average for him to even qualify.  Sooooo much for that..and that brings me back to the for the most part comment.  His teachers all know and it is written in his IEP that we do not have internet in our home due to lack of funds and that he needs extra time in class to work on it.sometimes he can get the net to work at the laundry mat but for the most part even that's down.he came home last week with a ton of homework and got in trouble because he didn't get it done on time.after tons of screaming and crying I got him to tell me what was going on in class.his math teacher told the entire class that he didn't pass or fail and that he was done trying to teach them.  I also found out that another child on his bus had hit him and no-one had done a thing about it...I was livid.the next morning I got up and took him to school myself I even called for a police officer to press charges.the officer refused and the vice principal moved my son's class around with only half a semester of school left...the vp didn't do anything to the monster bullying my son either he just said the boy that did it was annoying but he was just being a boy..I told him what the teacher said he said he had already been told by other parents...now here it is a couple weeks later and he's Damn near failing math again so I sent a letter to the teacher re-explaining the internet issue and how his iep is worded he sent back a note written on the one I sent saying that he gives him plenty of time in his class to get it done that my son doesn't manage his time. I asked my son what was going on because at this point I believe nothing the teacher is telling me apparently he had gone from saying he does not care if they pass our fail to he doesn't care if they pass our fail or get hit by a bus and the reason my son's time isn't managed well is because he doesn't understand it and when he asks for help the teacher either tells him to figure it out, tells him he's done trying to teach them, or just out right ignores him. I told my son don't worry I would make a trip to school the next day...This morning when I got up he asked me to sign the more I sent to the teacher and he sent back because the teacher wanted prof he gave it to me...like my son is the one that can't be trusted in this situation oh that pissed me off..I told him don't worry about it and that I would deal with it and that I was taking him to school today. 2 hours later I was speaking to the principals Secretary because the principal was out sick she said she would call me when he contacted her and she told him what was going on to tell me what he said..that was at 915 this morning it's now 430pm and I've still gotten no call.

Thanks for listening,

MadhouseMomma

MadhouseMomma

So I guess I should start by introducing myself. Y'all can call me MadhouseMomma.  I have 3 great children. G.K.(12),T.K.(11) , and L.C.(9). Though none of them live with me, I love them dearly and am a big part of Their lives....A Little over 3 years ago I moved in with my boyfriend Neil.he has 5 children.  H.S(19), L.S(17), R.S.(14), A.S.(12), and A.A.S.(5).  Yes friends that brings me to 8 children. Not to mention the small zoo...2 cats orion and calypso...and dog named red and a gerbil named Rufus.and these last few years have been a helluva ride.