Tag: school
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Math
Boy #3 is headed back to the Math Tournament this coming March! He’s very excited to go. He participated in the mental math category, where you write your answers in pencil and get no scratch paper to figure things out. He won second place and got a trophy last time. He’s hoping for first place […]
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Letter grades are bullshit
They don’t tell you how much effort went into that subject. They don’t tell you that someone who really struggles with it gave it everything they had until they were mentally exhausted and couldn’t get it quite right. They don’t tell you that someone actually gained more ability than anyone else. That’s right, they put […]
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Success!!
Two weeks ago the youngest did amazing on her spelling test after really struggling with spelling. We did some studying and she worked really hard. She also got moved to another class in her grade that is more advanced in math. Today I found out that Boy #3 was named one of the two students […]