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I’ve been in a frustration rage all night, dealing with a specific teacher from my kid’s new school. I knew this clown was going to be trouble when we were ushered into his classroom on “Parent-Teacher Intro Night.”
First sign of a problem– his advanced (freshman) Biology classroom is festooned with Star Wars and Lord of the Rings paraphenalia. It’s so chock-a-block with Lucasfilm and Tolkien goo-gaws that you get to mixing up your Yodas and your Gollums as your eye flits from poster to plasticine sculpture to quarter-scale Death Star diorama.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m as big a nostalgia geek as the next guy, but when a dude who is supposed to be in a position of authority starts taking on the trappings of his 14-year old charges in an “I’m gonna be your buddy, see?” fashion, my inner alarm-bells start ringing.
And of course this decorating style, along with his “wildly enthusiastic wide-eyed and energized” schtick is all just a big passive- aggressive foil. You see, he’s really been put on the planet to show all these AP-level kids how freaking lazy they’ve been all their lives and what a real boot-camp ass-kicking class is like, courtesy of his over-caffeinated, Napoleanic personality. You see, they may all be going places, but this day, they’re his!
But that’s not the worst of it. The worst is his bizarre insistence on using all these notoriously buggy “cloud computing” academic “aides” in order to process simple things like homework essays.
So if have been stupid enough to encourage your kid to read books and play sports instead of staying in his roomand learning to dissasemble his PC (blindfolded), guess who become the guinea pig in the great “figure out how this new-fangled 64-bit double-key encrypted 16 password entry bullshit works” process?
Hint — it’s not dear old Mom.
So here I am writing my post at post-midnight because I spent much of the evening visiting 53 separate websites and checking nine different on-line syllabus entries to find the proper “log-in information” so my son could submit his quotidian two page homework essay “the modern way.”
In case you were wondering (I know you are lock-jawed asleep right now), that way was “late” — as we didn’t get it into the bullshit cloud computing thingamijig (it allegedly checks for plagiarization, spooky, no?) until after the 10 pm deadline.
So I just e-mailed the damn paper to the geeky homunculus, 1998-style. I am hoping he bitches me out about it. Look for the results in the local paper, “Violent Crimes, unsolved” — section.
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The Dollar is down below $81, as forewarned, thanks to Ben doing as much cocaine as my son’s Bio teacher, and now the buck looks headed for the “neckline” of a pretty dismal head and shoulders pattern. More important to me than that (imho) bogus pattern is the return to the 38.2% fibonacci level after bouncing off it once already and not quite making it all the way to the 61.8% only to feel the tug of gravity all over again.
This second return may force the break we’ve been talking about, or it may simply be grounds for another bounce. Because of the relative overbot nature of my silver and gold plays, I’m hedging right now for the latter, but I will not rule out the former. Check the dollar weekly (weakly?) one more time and see if you can see a near term return to the $77-78 level in its future:
Yours in the fight against overzealous teacher-tyranny,
Jake.
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Watch out for the teachers who want to be buddy, buddy. You might have to punch his mustache off and teach him a lesson. In a distinguished fashion of course
I know what you are saying, but I’m not worried about paedophilia (sic), here. This is a different brand of bad teacher.
This guy is a serious wackjob who’s all about “fun” on the surface, but deep down he’s really about busting balls in a big way, in the name of “rigour” (sic).
I may throttle him before the semester is out.
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I wasn’t going down the paedophilia path, but that is probably a good point. I was thinking he might be more interested in being buddy buddy and friendly and not actually teaching the students much and then a big giant test at the end of the term that happens to be 99.9999% of the grad and the kids have no clue.
The guy sounds like a ‘dweeb’.
I learned that word a few years ago from my daughter, as in, ” eee-yoo, the drama teacher is a gay dweeb”.
Homework with the kids is the bane of my existence. It’s even worse than laundry, and that’s saying a lot.
btw, Gold is flying tonight. Wish I hadn’t sold so much of it. 🙂
Due for a pullback, and a bounce off of that $80 dollar index fib line would make sense for it. If we bust $1300 tomorrow, I don’t think it will be for long. Even a bull needs a rest.
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Don’t know if this has occurred to you, but…..
….in one corner we have the U.S dollar and all the rest of the fiat paper currencies, subject to inflationary risk, and in the other corner, we have a fractional reserve banking system subject to runs and deflation. So, the wonderful powers that be, have created two monsters with the ability to coexist during extraordinary periods, that give rise to the two destructive forces of inflation and deflation.
In other words, the rise in the gold and bond markets may be telegraphing the spawn of these two monsters in an epic battle, being fought on the stage of the global capital markets.
So the gold bugs are right, but so is the bond/deflation camp….for now.
A comparison of gold vs long bond by Tony @ OEW found the following pattern:
> In the 1920’s when credit was flowing rates were declining. Then heading into the depression rates spiked momentarily after FDR increased the money supply dramatically when calling all the gold and raising the price from $20.67 to $35.00. Then during the main part of the depression rates continued to decline until the late 1940’s. After that they started edging up into the 1950’s until taking off in the 1970‘s and topping around 1980 or so.
Again credit started flowing as rates gradually declined, and they continue to decline. During the last deflationary cycle rates declined throughout the 1930’s to 1940’s. During this deflationary cycle rates are also declining as deflationary pressures persist. But here is the pattern.
The chart below notes the commodity bull market cycles, with ‘green’ arrows when they start and ‘red’ arrows when they end. Notice rates were declining heading into the depression. When FDR increased the money supply the commodity bull market began in 1933. That bull market continued until 1946, putting some inflationary pressure on the economy, and rates continued to decline. Rates did not start ticking up until after the commodity bull market was over in 1946. <
Then the exact opposite happened in the 70's as rates peaked with a prime of 18.75% in 1980 just as gold peaked at $875 with egregious oil/gasoline prices and a speculative metals market culminating with "strategic metals." I still have a Ferrovandium stock cert from OZ somewhere.
Point being, we got the worse hyper-inflation if you will while rates were rising rather than declining. If history does repeat, then we will end this gold bull without the hyperinflation most predict but pay the piper in the following bull market for hard commodities with Volker like interest rates to take the beast down while stagflation grips the nation. Something tells me that may be 25 yrs out and you'll be reloading for retirement.
Interesting historical perspective. Nice to see that this is not unprecedented.
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Jake
funny story. have your boy wrestle like we did, then you can go to practice and get down to your proper weight.
TRE has worked, wish I had ANV still. Sitting with a shit load of cash because of the NUHC take over. I must say, I have no idea what to do with it. Shit is too dicey at this time
what say you old man?
regards
chuck
I’d probably lighten that TRE rocket tomorrow into any strength. Cash will be prudent until we see what Mr. Dollar is going to do.
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I actually pulled my youngest from his first grade gifted program due the insane nature of his teacher ( my daughter had her last year).
Ultimately, we are their best teachers, as you know.
Yes, and tonight I taught him many a curse word, unfortch.
Male first grade teachers should be disallowed.
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I’m not sure how old your kid is and I can see from your post that you are a wonderful father trying to do the right thing.
However, remember at about 12 or so, you are no longer in cortrol,even thought you may think you are.
You must become friends and relinquish power or you loose your ability to influence him/her altogether.
Parenting is harder than making money. Godspeed!
Thanks, he’s 14, and we’re friends still. Same w. my 13 year old. Now, the daughter may be a different matter… lol.
It’s really the teacher I’m having a tough time with.
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Treu story:
My boy is 2, maybe 3. He’s in the back yard with his cute plastic mower. You know like we had when we were kids, before all the internets and the twitters.
My boy, with furrowed brow, arm cocked, and stomping foot, keeps whispering something.
Shhh? No.
Sit? No.
Uh oh.
Mrs. Moobs not happy.
Get him a blower and an edger so that he can be ready when he is older.
Fisher Price’s Illegal Immigrant Play Set? I loved that when I was a kid.
Boom — my four year old said something like “I’m going to call you the A-word (and he actually said “A-word,” not anything else) if you don’t stop blah blah blah” to his older sister the other day, and my wife nearly hit the roof.
She’s already banned him from playing with a local “unsupervised” 7-year old whom she thinks is the source of such bon mots.
Sheet, she makes Fly look pikerish with her banning policies.
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I like your wife’s style.
As a kindergartner my son wrote “poop” on the side of the school in chalk.
I made him pick up trash for two hours that Saturday. Poor guy was gagging back vomit the whole time.
Then we got ice cream and a movie because he didn’t complain, he just took his consequences like a man.
Love that boy!
My wife just corrected this story. Shit was my son’s 15th word.
She’s mad at me right now over it.
Shoot, I hope I didn’t ruin things for you tonight. 😉
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Your homework submission story reminds me of one of my old job security processes …
All my field work had due dates and we sent our work in daily from home or via mobile in the field. The daily deadline was 9:30 pm and we had to log in with some token ring using circulating security numbers … once linked up the token would display the log in code and once input you got through the firewall and into our departmental dumping station for completed work. Then the work was dumped and at some point the system would pick up the work and process it.
I regularly got “delinquent reports” for work completed but not processed in time to make the deadline. Upon inquiry and stubborn headed displeasure with the “delinquent” by one day monthly reports I complained to the manager as did many others. His explanation per the IT dept was that there were “buses” that traveled unscheduled trips to our dept to pick up the work. So even though it was there, it wasn’t picked up in time to be processed to make the deadline – too bad, send it in sooner. My response? Send some more buses to my Fukin’ Hood more often – WTF, like I’m sitting at a bus stop in Jackson Hole, WY!
That is so seemingly retarded it must be a gov’t thing. Why in the eff would you bother with electronic submission only to have carbon burning vehicles be part of the collection process? Why not send it all electronically?
Retardo.
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Sorry for the confusion … the boss referred to the computer process that picked up our work as a bus that didn’t make regular stops like every 5, 10 or 15 minutes. It was retarded! You sent in the work on time then were charged with late items cause their program had a flaw … BS!
Fisrt-grade gifted program? Sorry, but what a joke. There comes a time, like Hawaii said, when it’s time to step back and let your kid learn how to handle schoolwork and its demands independently. All this gifted shit is largely about overzealous parents who would die if their kid ended up going to a community college or maybe even a state school. The dropout rate for college freshman is roughly 50 percent. Let your kid do the work because that’s who signed up for the class and your already jaded opinion of the teacher can only influence your son’s attitude as well.
That’s not my son, that’s the Fly with the first grade gifted program.
I think it’s a special school located on the third ring of Saturn, so you may have to make an exception.
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I always knew The Fly was “special”.
Jake, Good luck. Sounds like it will be a fun freshman year.
The one positive is that it is only one teacher and your kid won’t be seeing him again.
The other positive is that your kid’s performance on the AP exam at the end of the year will not be connected to having an asshole teacher.
My kids enrolled in almost all of the available AP classes and exams.
They both had different work ethics and personalities. My daughter worked very hard in school and my son not so much (he would rather play golf).
I recall at the end of my son’s senior year my wife (who is a teacher) noticed his books for English AP (his teacher was a loon) were untouched (he got A’s during the year so we didn’t question him then. He then went and got a 5 on the English AP exam. He would study his calculus (this teacher was incompetent) for a test in between waits on the golf course.
Both my kids had their handful of strange and terrible teachers (Public High School) and although it is hard at the time, 5 years from now it will be a distant memory and totally meaningless.
I am clueless on the whole AP thing. I went to Catlick school before they “got with the program” so all I knew about was the SAT’s as far as standardized tests.
Is 5 good?
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Have a cousin that just went to a private college in the midwest a few weeks ago. They (or seems like most other private colleges) didn’t give her any credit for any of the AP tests. She could have entered UCLA as a junior with all her AP tests.
I know the schools I looked at back in the day didn’t either. My high school had a “pre-college” senior course load you could take that would get you to mid-sophomore year at Hofstra University (go Jets!), but since none of the schools I was applying to took the advanced credits I saved the money.
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5 is the top score, or at least it was when I took the tests back in the Middle Ages.
A 5 will get you the college credits and thus your kid won’t have to take the equivalent class in college and they are that much closer to graduation
A 4 will get them the credits at most schools and I seem to recall a 3 could get one the credits at some schools and it would depend on the subect.
The exams are at the end of the school year and are administered by the dreaded ETS (educational Testing service) I seem to recall
Teenagers teaching teenagers.
Nothing against young people, but they should enjoy youth and leave older adult things to the older ones.
Sad thing is, this guy is at least early forties and maybe older. He has “issues” methinks.
He also has a son only a little bit younger than mine, so God help him.
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http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6916109/
Okay, I’m going to start fining people for posting repeats.
That’s at least the third time now…
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oo la la , pardon moi …. first temp pour moi, monsieur
Well duh. But you should be reading regularly enough to have seen that here before already… twice before.
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ROFLMFAO!
I want gold to go with my iPhone!
God, i know how you feel.
And, if thats not enough, my company just hired a real moron that i worked with 10 months ago, thought i shook that idiot off months ago. Wonder who i pissed off, god? Boss? A passed on relative?
Seems that the end of this month just hit the crapper, at least i have a 4 day weekend(paid), this week!
Jake,
Pull your kid out of that morons class! We had a jerk teaching our son at young impressionable age. In our case the teacher was a power freak that got off on belittling kids. We should’ve pulled him as soon as we smelled a rat but we made him stick it out and it took 2 years of home schooling to build his confidence back up. I’m happy to say he won “best personality” in his senior year…thanks to his mother.
Glad to hear it worked out. From our part, what I’m hearing is there is no alternative at this level and the school loves this freak.
IOW– balls it out.
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