Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for November 04, 2012

Oh, I don’t know. For sure ’twasn’t your grandmother Evie or Aunt Joan.

Just what have you been smoking? Nobel Prizes by country:#1: United States – 337#2: United Kingdom – 116#3: Germany – 102No other countries in triple digits.Pretty good for “anti learning USA children.”

124, including the Nobel Prize for Graphic Literature (Matthew Inman, “The Oatmeal”, 2033).

are you joking? (no never, a comic strip joking?) What would you say if your job would expect you to do your work at home when you’re sick? Schools shouldn’t be any different!

Our school doesn’t mail homework – it is in that internet to see whenever I want to log in (so I could check it if my child told me he has no homework to do).Still, I would not make bedridden lousy-feeling red-nosed children to do homework – I dump all they missed on mine when they are out-of-bed-but-not-yet-fit-for-school kind.

When my kids went to school when sick we did not then receive homework on Internet, but then they were not sick that often. Most teachers do not children in class sick.I survived day light savings time, we changed our clocks Saturday evening, went to bed early, and I slept somewhat through but woke up 5am.

I’ve been taking on-line class for Medical Coding at my old age, one subject we have quiz for every chp, this way I have better idea good or bad we do. this one class open book repeat quiz if needed. I found a bad one when submitting. all answer wrong. I go according by book. including terms with quiz. I notified instructor by email then called instructor. Instead of fixing quiz removed same chap not on final test. I’m ahead of all.

In my day, the teacher would phone my mom or send the homework assignments with a classmate who lived nearby. With current technology, only the communication options have changed.

All I know is I’m feeling like the girls today. Ugh. Happy Sunday all.

The internet has been around for at least 25-30 years, way back with Comp-u-Serve and Prodigy. That would make Nobel Prize winners in their 40’s or 50’s who have benefited from the internet.

My son took part in a Canada-wide math test when he was in grade 9. He was awarded a medal for having the highest score in the school for his grade. However, the test’s national website showed the winners for the whole country, broken down by province (BTW, there were four sections, one for each high school grade, 9 to 12). Of the several hundred names that were posted, 90% of the names were quite clearly Asian. No prejudice intended, but our school systems – both Canadian and American – aren’t encouraging our children to excel.

Well, I still think that anyone so sick is absolutely allowed to be anti-learning, at least that day.

When I was young, we OURSELVES called our classmates (on landline, of course) and asked what had be given for homework if we had missed school for some reason.

The point of going to work while sick so as to make colleagues and possibly clients sick as well is rather questionable IMO… an employer should want to keep such a person far away from its workplace. :)

Make schoolwork interesting and fun. Then kids will excel. Takes good teachers, given a free hand.

With homeschooling, I had a simple rule: If they were so sick that they were lethargic, I’d count it as a sick day. Of course, that pushed the end of our school year back by one day, but they didn’t have to do any work if they were truly sick. If they could still be contagious, but wasn’t lethargic, we would stay home from co-op classes, but they’d work on other schoolwork.My husband gets so many “personal days” off per year. They can be used as vacation, sick or whatever. Of course, if he knows ahead of time he will be gone, he notifies his boss, and tries to coordinate his absence with others who are in his department.