What day is his birthday?

Indeed. >:

Is he on meds, or are you trying a holistic approach toward treating the disorder (there's nothing wrong with either, IMO). Just askin'.

Our school system always sends the RC's home with the kids, so I'm trained to look out for them. This being said, I'd also have the teacher's, counsellor's, and other administrative flunky's direct dial telephone numbers so I could bitch directly to these idiots. You might even want to research what other districts have gone through in Cali (?) to see what your legal options are regarding this most egregious lapse in oversight courtesy of your school system.

Wait - they know he could not have gotten an "A" yet they also state they don't know what grade he earned?

How does this work, exactly? :confused

By the way, you are correct - Parkinson's makes you shake and lose the ability to communicate or even walk (in severe cases) but generally your mental faculties are as sharp as ever.

If not, then start one. I can't believe you're alone in this.

Good luck.

My daughters both got straight As, in the honor society and many clubs in high school. They are in college now with straight As and on the Deans list.

That's why when the school shrink indicated the problem starts at home with little or no parental support I call bullshit.

What my son will do when he graduates, I don't know. Probably college, but which one will depend on how well he does in high school.

Good plan. :)

I've used a similar strategy on my high schooler with somewhat mixed results (more positive than negative). What grade is he in, exactly, if you don't mind telling? Does he have favorite subjects, or is he school-neutral (a.k.a. hates everything)?

@ Willie
Yep Skyrim...I thought it was and expansion, good to know its a full game.
@Ghost
Nov 25th
@ Flagg
Thank you for the info.
Thanks everyone, I'm feeing better.

He is in 10th grade, will be 15 years old in November. He likes school ( hard to believe) but its true. Its the teachers he usually falls out with. He hates the teachers who play videos in class but don't instruct, teachers who dont have the time to explain things...ect.
He likes science, he is good with math ( although he says he does not get it, often times he explains his homework to me) hates english and writing.
Oh and the meds question. I resisted for a long time putting him on medication till last year in JR high. He is now on Concerta 15mg. He says it helps, and other than keeping him awake too late no ther side effects. We upped the doseage once because we we not sure the 15mg was working, but we had problems with headaches, sleeping and appetite, and no benefits with his grades or school.

What I mean is that you're either in the top 10% or it doesn't matter anymore. This is my personal experience today talking as I was an extremely average high school student and now I'm making all the right plays at university and mingling with the right people. As a result, I can pretty much do whatever I want. When I'm done with this shtick, I can make some things happen.

It's all in posturing. Far less work than trying to butt one's head against an uncaring system, but that's a deeper philosophical/scholastic issue. (The point of a bachelor's/master's, how much they are really worth, et cetera.)

If I could do things over again, I wouldn't bother with university and head, instead, to a community college or vocational school. Knowing people and learning are both things that can be done for free.

Thanks FZ
This is kinda where my mindset is at now. Of the options after high school ( I want him to have a diploma not a GED) He can either go to community college, trade school or work. His father can get him into the training program to be and electral distribution worker (lineman like his dad). It pays well. Or he can apprentice with one of his friend's dad who works for the studio building props for the movies. Shitty hours but it should pay decient. He would not need a college degree to make his way in the world, but I want to get him through high school. Hell he could even do what I do and be animal control, but the pay is shit.

Life's pretty good on $40/hour in a medium-size town.

My friend's got a GED, had no intention of going to college, but he's starting his apprenticeship soon. Working with metal, I hear.

I kinda want to go to UTI to work on motorcycles, but that's a while down the road if at all. I'd be all over that, though.

Motorcycles. I would have never guessed.

I can't take them seriously because of the name of it.

Aww, middle of the month is where its at.

For what its worth ghost, he was born a week and a half late from my due date.

I hate those teachers too. ;)

Sorry for the emphasis. :D

I hated English and writing as well, but managed to convince myself that it was more important to do the work and do it well, than to slack off and just get by. That was just before my senior year, so he still has time to figure this out for himself.

You are following the med-mantra - "LESS IS MORE". Good. :) The key point in all this is that if he says it is helping him focus, then it's a good choice.

And give those bastards Hell. :)

@B² - He's precisely 6 years older than my daughter. :party

My mom, sister, and my birthdays are all within 5 days of eachother. Nov 20th is my sister, 22nd is mine, and 25th is my mom's. So I just tell them not to get me anything because I don't want to spend much on them.

They should have came home a while ago, but I was kind of being sarcastic when I said it was cool of Obama to do that. I'm not a big fan of Barry

UPDATE ON PUNK ROCK CHICK I HAVE A CRUSH ON FROM MY BIO CLASS

We're having lunch in a week or two :)

Punk rock chick sounds like she would be more fun than opera chick.

The late November birthday, kinda glad I did not have to deliver on turkey day.
My daughters(twins) turned 19 on Weds.

I'm feeling old.

I very nearly failed high school, then went into business for myself at 21. Then after actually failing out of that, I went back to school at a community college but was motivated to actually try this time and got a 3.98 or something, which allowed me to go to pretty much any university I wanted. Today I just got my diploma for my BS in business, Summa Cum Laude :>

I guess what I'm saying is that Fatmom is right that high school is shit, but you'll have to pay for fucking off later by going to community college, which is basically the 13th and 14th grades. I think almost everyone should work for a couple years between high school and college, though.

I got all A's in highschool until I decided about junior year that they were just giving grades away and that the shit was way too easy. So I just kind of stopped going and only came in to pass the tests. The school didn't like this even though I was getting 90's to 100's on these 'tests' that were supposed to show that I learned everything. When I passed the final exams at a higher grade than everyone but 3 people despite staying at home and smoking pot, they couldn't fight the fact that they were dumb dicks and let me have it as long as I was passing tests. I graduated despite only going to class maybe once every two weeks during my last year. I made a whole lot of cash working and smoked a whole lot of pot.

I regret not taking a year or even just a semester off. But I would've been doing what I was already doing at work, anyway, so I didn't see the point. I also regret giving a shit about this one girl at the time, so I guess I fucked up a lot. Still think university's a sucker's bet for most people, though.

But hey, you can camp out in Zuccotti Park after you graduate!

Pornography. Just listen to it.

i can't wait till those idiots resort to cannibalism

jk they're all wealthy faggots who are tweeting about how they're changing the corporate world on their iPads

I never got the whole motorcycle and car lovers. To me, when I hear a motorcycle I just think "that shit better not come through my neighborhood at 4 in the morning". And cars are just a way to get around. I don't care what kind it is as long as it doesn't break down for me.

I appreciate machinery and engineering very much. I have a hard-on for good design. Every part doing exactly what it was made to do, always in synchronization, to create the smooth kinetic poetry.

I should write greeting cards.

I just said fuck it and gave him his computer back. Hopefully he will wow them with his awesome gaming skills.

I saw this while looking for a halloween prop. I so want to make this. Too bad we don't get trick or treaters.
http://www.spookyblue.com/halloween/.../scarecrow.htm

today's dictionary.com word of the day is "loll"

the last two definitions for it made me lol

in brief, i became a loll

yeah this, idk wtf

B-but the Galaxies, man!



The Lotuses!



The Gran Torinos!



The fucking Falcons!



How can you not want to make love to these machines? <3

Granted, cars got kinda ugly during the 70s.

This

Except for how you actually need a degree to even urinate in the real world

Get a GED and you're more or less fuct

God, water chestnuts are fucking revolting.

They're delicious in ways that can't be measured.

at work today a customer was running behind me at my table, bumped me and I spilled a margarita and two beers directly into a womans face. she had to leave because salt and lime juice was in her eyes. now she can't see why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch.

That's not a pickle.

@Koko As for the love of cars and motorcycles, IDK either. I went to school to fix them but if anything it'd be just something to do for me. I can see if you really like the thought of performance and efficiency, which just makes you an insignificantly slight step up from MAD GAMING PC PLAYA because you don't really need to get all the lovely graphic details for a game to enjoy.

ASSUMING MANUAL CONTROL

why'd you make your eyes do that

So I went to a bar tonight. I don't think I'm going to go to any more bars.

The women got drunk and acted like retards, the men got drunk and leered at the women like rapists.

Also, there was karaoke and it was pretty fucking awful. It was so loud it took like half an hour to pay my tab and I got out of there two hours after I thought I would.

This is another chapter in my diary of endless hatred for the rest of humanity. I swear to god, I'm going to murder every last one of you fuckers before I die.

or maybe don't go to shitty bars

OR MAYBE GUN DOWN THE FILTH

On the bright side I had dinner and got pretty wasted for about 26 dollars. I dunno if that's good or not, but it seemed pretty low to me.

Granted, if I had just bought a fo'ty and stayed home playing TF2 I would have gotten wasted and actually had a good time for 3 bucks.

You could always go two a nice, quiet, and spectacularly shitty bar where the same old guy comes in from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm to drink one beer and never stop talking to the bartender, who for his part will insist, if queried, that the bar is "poppin" all the time, just not tonight


you're right about water chestnuts though, they're fucking terrible

i love waterchestnuts in kung pao chicken and other asian dishes.

gw you're asexual and antisocial so why would you goto a bar anyway

the only purpose in going to a bar is to get laid and maybe poolshark people

personally i like to combine the sports and poolshark bitches

yeah that sounds like the shithole i used to go to before i found a better bar

still has karaoke but sometimes it's more than 50% listenable singers, plus the actual bar's in a separate room from it if you don't want to have to shout over it

also i've never seen a fight break out in there, unlike the old place lol

and yes, drinking at home is preferable if your modus operandi at bars is ignoring everyone and drinking like a haunted sea captain pining for his lost love

yeah why pay someone five times what the liquor cost just so you don't have to pour it yourself

unless you've got parkinsons or something and would just fling it all about the room, idk

Between San Antonio and Austin, I have a really wide array of bars to choose from. I choose to not go to the shitty bars. Works pretty well.

IT'S NOT MADE BY GREAT MEN
IT'S NOT MADE BY GREAT MEN
IT'S NOT MADE BY GREAT MEN
IT'S NOT MADE BY GREAT MEN

THROW LIQUOR ABOUT THE ROOM AND GIVE PEOPLE A'S

At first it's like "Haha, they said Gay Gifts", but then, seriously, look how many times they use the word gay. That's shitty writing and I know shitty writing.



Edit: Frosty the snowman is a gay fellow.

Eski and Mo are gay painted girl and boy faces.

Teary and Cheery are gay clown faces.

Also, I found this nifty his-and-her underwear.

eighty dogs, all screaming

Hey so I have this skill when it comes to making shit, whether its on a car, or fixing something with little resources or construction in general, and I just discovered something that I enjoy doing that I could make money off of probably.

Making anything into a stashbox.

I've turned a little iPod speaker into an awesome stashbox, an original gameboy, and old corded house phone, all into awesome stashboxes.

The insides are felt too, it's pretty highclass and I used things to give it original weight (thats even too) and I can even make them scent proof incase people are hiding weed in it.

Anyways, what is the best way to make money off of this? Craigslist? Where would I post it? Any other ideas? Anyone want a rad stashbox made out of the item of their choosing? Cheap price for i-mockery members, you would just have to supply the item.

or eBay.

Don't go overboard with it. Then the crooks will know all the new hiding places.

I think I bought mine on etsy. Generally I hate etsy but one holiday I gave everyone fake shit, like hollow soda cans with screw-off lids and stuff.

When I was in highschool, I used to stuff joints in the bindings of my math book since the binding was coming off. I got searched about 3 times in school and they never found them. Even got searched by a cop once with them in there.

I'm at the point now where I feel like college was worthless :(

I've got shit for connections though, and maybe the economy really is a lot of the problem. Maybe I'm just bitter right now.

:slitwrists

:dylansnipples

You can't feel old until you're older than me. DAT'S DA RULEZ.

:tomsdick

:o

I said it

:eek

ridicilis

I HAVENT TAKEN MATH IN FOREVER AND IM GETTING ALMOST EVERYTHING RIGHT BUT IM STUCK ON ONE THING

IS ANYBODY GOOD ENOUGH AT MATH TO HELP ME

ABSOLUTELY NOT

I'LL BAN ANY HAMBURGER HELPERS

:lol

IM IN APICKLE HERE

kahljorn I will secretly help you!

BUT WHAT IF YOU GET SECRET BANNED

If I can help you, I will, and damn the banning. I must owe you a favor somewhere.

ok ill just post what i sent to esuolohim here

so i need to be able to tell if a graph is gonna be symmetrical along the x y or origin some shit

so here's the equation thing y=x/x(squared)+1

so thats y equals x divided by x squared and +1. x squared and plus 1 are both under the division sign.

i dont understand how changing y and the x's into negatives ends up equaling the same thing as if it were positive

the only way i can think to solve it is to do a graph which i dont want to do.
oooh. would i just fine a number that works like put 0 in for x, calculate it get an answer. Then make it negative and do the same thing and i should get the same number?

the other ones i can tell just by looking though so i dunno if im supposed to do all of that ;/

WHAT The hell GUSY

MAKING A GRAPH IS THE EASIEST WAY TO DO IT, ESPECIALLY SINCE YOU HAVE TO "SHOW" SOMETHING

So yeah, find a bunch of plot points by solving the equation a bunch of times with different y-values (OR X, WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT)

And I would probably do it that way with all the problems, whether they're obvious at a glance or not, just to show that you know the process.

nigga. is dis dat y intercept bullshit i did in 9f grade.

FUCK THE PROCESS

but alright :( i dont have to show shit all i have to do is say what kind of symmetry it is and i figured there was an easy way to do it :(

WHO THE FUCK IS TOM?

NONE OF YOU FAGS ARE NAMED TOM.

NEVERMIND, MULEHORSE IS NAMED THOMAS.

SOMETIMES I FORGET YOU GUYS ARE ACTUALLY REAL PEOPLE. :rolleyes

my names Tommy :)

That's not a pickle.

That's not a Tom.

I HATE BEING A REAL PERSON

"WELCOME TO THE INTERNET!! :rolleyes"

IS THERE A WAY TO TELL JUST BY INPUTTING NUMBERS WITHOUT HAVING TO DO ALL THAT JAZZ

Yeah

Spoilered for BORING SHIT

Fuck that dog

The canine

AND I CAN ASSUME IF I DO THAT THAT ITS PROBABLY SYMMETRIC ABOUT THE ORIGIN?

WHEN I INPUT THAT EQUATION INTO A CALCULATOR THE BOTTOM PART SHOULD BE IN PARENTHISSSISISSIS RIGHT? I JUST GOT A SCIENTIFIC CALCULATOR

DID IT SCIENCED YET

That's not a pickle.

YES :eek

YES :eek

KAHLJORN YOU'RE BRINGING DOWN THE MOMENTUM OF THE SPOOKY BUTT THREAD WITH YOUR POINDEXTER MATH ISSUES

Quick, starting talking about your most recent injury so we can get the ball rolling again

favorite food is good, too



but for my money, I'd rather talk about the Wire.

The Wire > Every TV show ever