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conulySo Jenn arranged for Deniz to tutor her once a week. Apparently, last week they got bored with 5th grade math, so Deniz worked on her with HER homework... 8th grade math homework. Which Ana breezed right through.
This is so her, by the way. It's not even surprising, just mildly aggravating.
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There are 10 times more mentally ill Americans in prisons and jails than in state psychiatric hospitals, a report published Tuesday found — adding that those individuals’ conditions often deteriorate while they are incarcerated.
http://alj.am/1qy5sVn
Just in time for Mayor Bill de Blasio's speech touting his first 100 days in office, the City Council plans to introduce a bill this week to allow municipal identification cards, multiple sources told Capital.
http://bit.ly/1ql0BIP
The CIW’s Campaign For Fair Food has been very successful at improving conditions in Florida's tomato fields. Even Wal-mart has signed on, agreeing to pay an extra penny per pound. But some large corporate buyers continue to refuse to cooperate, including Wendy’s, Publix, and Kroger.
http://www.metafilter.com/138174/Target-Wendys-Publix-Kroger
Snowden to NSA: Go ahead, deny I tried to raise the alarm legally
Speaking to Vanity Fair, the whistle-blower says that before leaking secret documents, he contacted people within the spy agency about its surveillance practices -- and that email records will prove it.
http://cnet.co/1ql01L2
Without funds to pay fines, minor incidents can mean jail time
Not only is this not constitutional, it's not smart. Jailing people costs money, and while they're in jail they aren't earning money to pay their fines, nor yet their taxes. The only people who profit from this travesty are the prisons.
http://to.pbs.org/1kNRux0
No evidence of forgery in ancient text mentioning ‘Jesus’s wife’
New tests show no evidence of forgery in ancient papyrus
http://b.globe.com/1kNwUwt
How ‘colorblind’ education reform policies actually ignore racial inequality
http://wapo.st/1hiTBKc
When baby animals must be rescued from their own mothers
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/baby-animals-rescued-mothers/
Saudi considers lifting ban on girls sports
Conservative country mulls allowing girls to play sports in state schools after consultative council's recommendation.
http://aje.me/1huDt9B
Apparently, people used to stick frogs in milk to keep it fresh.
http://discovermagazine.com/2014/may/27-milking-frog-skin
After Florida cut down on protections for children in troubled homes, deaths soared. The children died in ways cruel, outlandish, predictable and preventable.
http://www.miamiherald.com/projects/2014/innocents-lost/stories/overview/index.html
Hand Soap Ingredient Can Up Body Bacteria Burden
Residues of the antimicrobial agent triclosan can paradoxically boost bacterial growth in our bodies, by giving microbes a comfortable biofilm in which to rest.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/triclosan-biofilm-staph/
This is so her, by the way. It's not even surprising, just mildly aggravating.
There are 10 times more mentally ill Americans in prisons and jails than in state psychiatric hospitals, a report published Tuesday found — adding that those individuals’ conditions often deteriorate while they are incarcerated.
http://alj.am/1qy5sVn
Just in time for Mayor Bill de Blasio's speech touting his first 100 days in office, the City Council plans to introduce a bill this week to allow municipal identification cards, multiple sources told Capital.
http://bit.ly/1ql0BIP
The CIW’s Campaign For Fair Food has been very successful at improving conditions in Florida's tomato fields. Even Wal-mart has signed on, agreeing to pay an extra penny per pound. But some large corporate buyers continue to refuse to cooperate, including Wendy’s, Publix, and Kroger.
http://www.metafilter.com/138174/Target-Wendys-Publix-Kroger
Snowden to NSA: Go ahead, deny I tried to raise the alarm legally
Speaking to Vanity Fair, the whistle-blower says that before leaking secret documents, he contacted people within the spy agency about its surveillance practices -- and that email records will prove it.
http://cnet.co/1ql01L2
Without funds to pay fines, minor incidents can mean jail time
Not only is this not constitutional, it's not smart. Jailing people costs money, and while they're in jail they aren't earning money to pay their fines, nor yet their taxes. The only people who profit from this travesty are the prisons.
http://to.pbs.org/1kNRux0
No evidence of forgery in ancient text mentioning ‘Jesus’s wife’
New tests show no evidence of forgery in ancient papyrus
http://b.globe.com/1kNwUwt
How ‘colorblind’ education reform policies actually ignore racial inequality
http://wapo.st/1hiTBKc
When baby animals must be rescued from their own mothers
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/baby-animals-rescued-mothers/
Saudi considers lifting ban on girls sports
Conservative country mulls allowing girls to play sports in state schools after consultative council's recommendation.
http://aje.me/1huDt9B
Apparently, people used to stick frogs in milk to keep it fresh.
http://discovermagazine.com/2014/may/27-milking-frog-skin
After Florida cut down on protections for children in troubled homes, deaths soared. The children died in ways cruel, outlandish, predictable and preventable.
http://www.miamiherald.com/projects/2014/innocents-lost/stories/overview/index.html
Hand Soap Ingredient Can Up Body Bacteria Burden
Residues of the antimicrobial agent triclosan can paradoxically boost bacterial growth in our bodies, by giving microbes a comfortable biofilm in which to rest.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/triclosan-biofilm-staph/
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Date: 2014-04-11 01:33 am (UTC)Still, I remember being in school and being so. bored. Maybe this is her version of that. Eva certainly suffers from it.
As far as the name goes, so long as we all refrain from spelling it Coney, I don't get too too upset. Sadly, people spell my name Coney with appalling frequency. I feel certain that phonics could help, but then, coney used to be pronounced to rhyme with honey and money, so maybe not.
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Date: 2014-04-11 04:44 pm (UTC)Look, some very serious problems can hide in the shade of high IQ. Intelligence winds up compensating imperfectly for all sorts of problems that really need to be addressed directly. For instance my advanced ability at math entirely hid the fact that I couldn't read blackboards -- I had a serious vision problem and needed glasses, and possibly had for years before I was picked up in a vision screen. A normal kid would have been flunking math, the on class that made heavy use of blackboard instruction; I was getting As, because the material was so beneath me academically, I actually could do it blindfolded.
I strongly encourage you to get your girls tested. If you don't have an IQ baseline, you lose the ability to notice something's wrong by flagging academics -- because you don't know what constitutes reasonable academic progress and because unchallenging academics won't flag in the face of serious problems.
ETA: get the school to pay for it by telling them you got her private tutoring and some very weird things came up, so now you're suspicious she has a learning disability, so you want her tested.