[Ptarmigan]

Colleges only look at what you did in high school, like your grades and SAT score.

[upchuck]

Thanks! Dave is a fav.

[netmilsmom]

This is too true!

[Vic3O3]

rotfl!

[prairiebreeze]

Parents can make a choice to either allow themselves to be coerced into buying this pressured-up crap, or NOT. This certainly isn't rocket science.

My kid was at the young end of her class with an August birthday. The pre-school tried to get us to hold her back from starting kindergarten because they said she didn't hold her crayons and use scissors well enough. We listened, and after deciding they mostly just wanted another years fees from us, told them a firm "no" and enrolled her in kindergarten.

She graduated as an honor student and is doing just as well in college studies.

[therut]

Muuuummmm-------paste. I loved it. Held me over till lunch.Recipe for paste. Get a clean sheet of papter. Make about 4mm drops of paste.(hide is slide in place in desk) Wait till just slightly dry====texture of a marshmellow. Scrape off and eat as needed.

[cmsgop]

So true, My friend has his kids in a Exclusive Private school in San Francisco at $25,000 a year Each!!!

Did I mention they are 8 and 10!

[nuconvert]

Dave Barry Pong

[Graybeard58]

I'm a little older than Dave Barry but my school didn't even have a kindergarden. You started in the first grade and that was that.

The only choice was between the two first grade teachers and that choice wasn't up to the student or parents but the school.

I was horrified to learn that I would be in Miss Thelma's class because word on the street was that she had an automatic paddling machine.

[clee1]

Give your kids the BEST possible education: homeschool them.

[facedown]

Or learning disabled gifted?

Idiot-savant school is where I wound up.

[Our man in washington]

Guess I'm weird. If I ever have a kid, when he gets to be about 25, I'd rather hear the following:

"Dad, great to see you. You know I'd never miss a family reunion. Hey, I volunteered to do a shift on flipping the burgers, so let's chat by the grill. Anyway, the job's going okay. Still a lot to learn, you know, but I'll get by. All I can do is do my best and hope to move up someday. Hey, how about those Eagles?"

Then hear the following:

"Dad, got the invitation for the reunion, but you know I'm far too busy for that kind of thng. Looks like my work will be getting published again and I'm being profiled in a leading journal. If I get around to it, I'll send you a web link. Did you hear I'm now running five miles a day and I've learned to live on five hours of sleep? Gotta go."

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[facedown]

I just want a ******* cheeseburger.