My daughter, future miss teen Idaho

[Dirk Legume]

Ides,

No kidding, this is what worked for my daughter.

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

I aced my states and capitals test in fifth grade ... but only after the teacher decided to give me back the half point she deducted for spelling out Saint in St. Paul.

 

[Dyno]

I aced my states and capitals test in fifth grade ... but only after the teacher decided to give me back the half point she deducted for spelling out Saint in St. Paul.

I guess I'm really not smarter than a fifth grader. I got a ****ty education.

 

[Idaho]

Speaking of edumacation:

Found this on an unnamed blog.

Webster's to publish new words and def's this week.
I do some consulting for the publisher of Webster's Dictionary. After the TT this weekend I traveled non-stop around the globe to most of the English speaking nations. Our crack team of professionals submitted this elite list of new words and def's... as always, you are first to know.

- Reintarnation: coming back to life as a hillbilly.

- Bozone (n.): substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating; the bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

- Cashtration (n.): act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

- Sarchasm: the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit & the person who doesn't get it.

- Inoculatte: to take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

- Hipatitis: terminal coolness.

- Osteopornosis: a degenerate disease.

- Decafalon (n.): the grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

- Glibido: all talk & no action.

- Doppler Effect: the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

- Beelzebug: Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning & cannot be cast out.

- Ignoranus: a person who's both stupid & an ...

 

[Sam Mills 51]

But I'm guessing North Carolina is the easternmost.

Yup ... stretches further east AND west than South Carolina. Of course, not further south.

 

[DanOregon]

Add another point for our education system. Don't know how many of you saw the video of the Indian girl roller skating under a bus with a clearance of 13 centimeters (thats 5.11 inches) reported on the cablenets yesterday. Yet nobody thought, hmmm 5.11 inches, shorter than the short end of a steno book and about the width of a human hand. And yet the story was repeated throughout the day.

 

[Football_Bat]

The answer is
NORTH: North Dakota
SOUTH: South Carolina
EAST: North Carolina
WEST: (tie) North and South Dakota (on same longitude)

West is not a tie.

If you look at a map of Soath Dakooota, its Wyoming border lies a mile farther west than its border with Montana. Therefore, S.D. wins westernmost by a nose.

 

[Idaho]

I have an udpate.

The quiz she was given at the start of the school year was a prelim. She (and the rest of the class) got to do a retake and she got 95 percent.

Thanks to those who supplied the online tests. She played on those for a few hours over the weekend and it seems to have really helped.

 

[spnited]

So now the kid knows her geography but has no chance of being Miss Teen Idaho ... tough trade-off.


Besides, aren't you in Utah now?

 

[Idaho]

We'll move if she decides being Ms. Teen Anything is that important to her. Luckily, we don't think it's important to her.

What's important to her is her cell phone. Her school's website tells us her current grades in each class and the scores on each assignment. If she has a grade below a B- or a zero on any assignment, she gives us the phone until the grade goes back up.

 

[Ace]

We'll move if she decides being Ms. Teen Anything is that important to her. Luckily, we don't think it's important to her.

What's important to her is her cell phone. Her school's website tells us her current grades in each class and the scores on each assignment. If she has a grade below a B- or a zero on any assignment, she gives us the phone until the grade goes back up.

I believe the official title is Miss Teen Whatever!

 

[zeke12]

Such as.

 

[Idaho]

Guh

 

[slappy4428]

Has she improved yet? Does she know what the capital of Cleveland is?

 

[mltru2tx]

Stupid South Africa and The Iraq.

 

[Moderator1]

She has a cell phone? She's 13? You are a way nicer dad than this dad.

 

[Idaho]

Yes, she has a cell phone. She earned it through meeting various pre-required academic and household steps. I'm OK with letting her earn certain privileges through hard work. She's a good girl, just wasn't ready to name her state capitals.

It's set to be text message non-compatible so she can't spend all day sending or receiving LOLs from her BFFs. I call her once or twice a day at school to see if it's turned off and it always has been. She gets a zero on an assignment, we get the cell phone for a week. She has a grade dip to a C or lower, we get the cell phone until the grade is a B- or better.

So far, no problems. But she has been able to reach us when her ride home from the movies with a friend forgot to pick them up at 11 p.m. once this summer.

 

[Ace]

Moddy,

Where you livin? I'd say 90 percent of the 13-year-old girls in my neck of the woods have cell phones.

 

[crusoes]

BTW, I will hunt down and kill any of you who post pictures of her in her swimsuit or talk about her long legs. :D

I was wondering where the usual clamor for pictures had gone. Based on the assumption that men in newspapers generally, if inexplicably, marry attractive women, my hopes were she would resemble her mom. Even without ever seeing her dad's rugged mug.

 

[Moderator1]

Moddy,

Where you livin? I'd say 90 percent of the 13-year-old girls in my neck of the woods have cell phones.

I got my kids their cell pieces when they started driving.
Don't they have some "simple" cell phone with like four buttons you can pre-program. Home, Mom, Dad, Someone else? That's all they can call? No texting?
Of course they are so cheap now that I guess it is good to get them in kids' hands for safety purposes. My first plan was 100 whole minutes a month. Now I pay about 10 bucks more than I did then - for unlimited calls and text and no long distance.