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Out of this world lines from an RFer

Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Here's an outrageous line I saw last month......
"I have unusually high reading comprehension. (That's an empirically verifiable fact)."

Let's allow the author of this self admiration society remain anonymous.
 
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Majikthise

Majikthise

nude
I loved reading krsnaraja's posts. Sometimes I could make sense out of them and sometimes they just gave me a good laugh.
I found he was banned the other day.
My friend list is turning into a banned list.
Lawrence, if you text again tell him Majik said hey.
 
Alceste

Alceste

Vagabond
Revoltingest said:
Here's an outrageous line I saw last month......
"I have unusually high reading comprehension. (That's an empirically verifiable fact)."

Let's allow the author of this self admiration society remain anonymous.
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It's funny cuz it's true. (They test these young whipper snappers on such things these days).
 
Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Testing for reading comprehension is nothing new. I started school in 1968 and I had my reading comprehension level tested about once a year till I graduated.

And I'm a middle aged whipper snapper.

I do think, though, that the humor in the quote is the phrase "empirically verifiable." If something is actually TESTED scientifically (and let's hope that all those reading comprehension tests they give in schools are scientifically sound!) then there's no need to fall back on empirical verification.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Any time I was tested, I noticed a lot of face palming by the adults.
They never told me the results of those tests, but they did suggest that I wear a helmet all the time.
 
doppelganger

doppelganger

Through the Looking Glass
For a target rich environment for these sorts of quotes, do a search for a former member named "Wizanda."

An example from just the third hit in my search:

"He [Jesus] also showed a cure of the nations in the form of the anointing oil containing Cannabis, which heals many alignments...."
 
Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Poor Wiley - I miss him too!

You know, this bothers me. How would we know if something really bad happened to a person?

I leave this page "up" on my computer all the time. I have told my husband that if something truly tragic happens to me, please get on here and let people know.

It might not make any difference to some people, but I think it would to a few. Personally, even with RF members that I disagree with vehemently - I still care what happens to them, and would want to know if something happened to them that kept them from coming back to the forum for an extended period of time.
 
Majikthise

Majikthise

nude
Last year my son was in third grade.
The teacher has them bring in a book of their own to read quietly when they are done with tests or lessons.
After finishing a test my son took out his book and started to read. The teacher must have noticed what he was reading and did something strange IMO.
She told him the book was too high for his reading level, confusing him.
He told her he liked the book and was having no trouble.
To make her point she called him up to the front of the roomand told him to read aloud. He was nervous now, didn't know what he had done wrong, so he stumbled through it. She told him he needed to read something she aproved from now on.
He came home and told his mother and I about it and we discussed it together. We told him he could read anything he wanted to and it hasn't effected his enthusiam for reading, thank goodness.
She also had us get him checked for ADD and ADHD. Two counsilors and a psychiatrist later it turns out he has no problems, just mild anxiety issues that they believe are inherrited from me. Smart kid bored with the cariculum level. The school counsilor had us thinking he needed to be put on drugs at first, which led to the proffesional counsilor going to the school and giving the school counsilor an earfull. His teacher this year is much better. I
t's a good school, my daughter went there and excelled, all the teachers still ask about her when we go there.
 
Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Majik -that doesn't surprise me. Your son wasn't conforming!

When I was in grade school, I read far above my grade level, which meant that sometimes I had trouble finding books on "age appropriate" topics. Consequently, I read just about anything I could get my hands on (in that day and age we didn't have the internet, so I had to fall back on the school or public library, or my parents' bookshelves).

Thank God I had parents who gave me free rein with my reading, and who encouraged me to read ANYTHING I was interested in. They not only took me to the library whenever I wanted to go - they also never censored me when it came to books I requested as gifts.

Sounds like you and your wife are on top of this issue. It's a shame that you and your son had to deal with it at all. The lack of professionalism from some teachers is absolutely amazing. With my four kids (now all grown) I could tell stories for hours on end, both great and terrible, about experiences with public school teachers and administrators.
 
Vinayaka

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Not to defend this teacher in any way, but ... her making the situation public was the main unprofessional thing to do.

The judgment call on appropriate level was certainly something I did lots of times. There were a lot of kids who selected high level books in an effort to disguise their actual abilities. So they'd pick up some big book like the last Potter books, or some longer fantasy books (like the one with the Dragon....(Aragon maybe?) can't remember right now) and I'd encourage them to read something different.

But the more appropriate method of handling it is to go one on one with the kid, probably in the hallway, or at recess time, and do a private evaluation, and suggestions if necessary. It truly is a waste of the child's time to be 'reading' something far above grade level.
 
Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Vinayaka said:
It truly is a waste of the child's time to be 'reading' something far above grade level.
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I totally disagree with this. Children with high reading levels should not be forced to conform to what's "expected of them."

I was reading at college level by the second grade. I read everything from medical journals to college history books - anything I could get my hands on. Frankly, no one could have stopped me.

I am so thankful that I had teachers and parents who didn't curtail my reading - other than, of course, to make sure I did my assignments for school (which usually bored me to tears, but oh well...)

I can't imagine what I would have done if a teacher in school had tried to tell me I couldn't read Ray Bradbury during our "free time" in the second grade. She would have had to wrestle the book out of my hands!
 
Majikthise

Majikthise

nude
Kathryn said:
Majik -that doesn't surprise me. Your son wasn't conforming!

When I was in grade school, I read far above my grade level, which meant that sometimes I had trouble finding books on "age appropriate" topics. Consequently, I read just about anything I could get my hands on (in that day and age we didn't have the internet, so I had to fall back on the school or public library, or my parents' bookshelves).

Thank God I had parents who gave me free rein with my reading, and who encouraged me to read ANYTHING I was interested in. They not only took me to the library whenever I wanted to go - they also never censored me when it came to books I requested as gifts.

Sounds like you and your wife are on top of this issue. It's a shame that you and your son had to deal with it at all. The lack of professionalism from some teachers is absolutely amazing. With my four kids (now all grown) I could tell stories for hours on end, both great and terrible, about experiences with public school teachers and administrators.
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Thanks.
My daughter is 15 now and we don't censor what she reads either. She asked me about the holocaust when she was 12 after she saw a show on tv about it. I knew some but she wanted to know more. She ended up reading alot of other books on the subject and related historical subjects. Her class had a holocaust survivor as a guest speaker in junior high and she was able to have a great conversation.
She's moved on from the serious subjects as she gets older, it's all about the vampire novels now. She's a teen, she's all over the place these days. But she is intelligent enough that I can trust her.
 
Renji

Renji

Well-Known Member
UltraViolet said:
Do your thing hun.

But you DID give him your number. :p
That's all I was saying.
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Don't worry. It's just one of my two cellphone numbers. The one is my "public" number, which I use for texting my friends, classmates and some other people. I have a "private" number which only my close relatives know about ( also the cellphone number I use in texting or calling the girl that I dated recently.:p).
 
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