It comes to mind, no matter what subject he was "teaching": what was the actual quality of what he did?

Probably good, he used the smart kids in the classroom to help out. A good manipulating imposter. He finally faced his fears and got help was the best lesson he could have taught anyone.

I was in the 4th grade before anyone found out I couldn't read or do math. Just like him, three girls knew my secret always sat on each side of me doing my work. All I had to do is sign the paper with 2 letters.

My parents were never home, never questioned anything always to busy working. I'm not going to say it can't happen, because it did. My Aunt had to baby sit me and asked me to read to her, my secret was out when I said I can't. She spent the next summer Teaching me to read, still to this day I don't write correctly and write as I speak. I'm better with Math than English. So, when I write it won't always look proper.

I plan on taking some classes in the future to help my literacy, but until then I apologize to anyone reading what I write.

kv

 

My parents were never home, never questioned anything always to busy working.

I consider this unnecessary neglect.

I work hard and often -- always have. But I've made it a point to read to/with my daughter every single night before bed. Today, in 5th grade, she reads and writes at an 8th to 9th grade level.

I suppose I am fortunate that I am an older parent. My values are different today than when I was younger. "Personal time", i.e. time out carousing with buddies, hasn't been on my list of things to do in at least 15 years.

I know a lot of younger parents. They'd rather be out partying with their friends during their off time rather than spending it with their kids. They have no idea what they are missing. And they have no idea what their kids are missing.

Edit: Last school year, she read over a million words -- and this was in addition to the reading we do together. She's on track for another million this year.

Edit 2: Does anyone know how to find good age-appropriate reading material at a high reading level? Most 9th+ grade level books include a lot of "social" and behavioral situations that I am not yet comfortable with.

 

I consider this unnecessary neglect.

I work hard and often -- always have. But I've made it a point to read to/with my daughter every single night before bed. Today, in 5th grade, she reads and writes at an 8th to 9th grade level.

I suppose I am fortunate that I am an older parent. My values are different today than when I was younger. "Personal time", i.e. time out carousing with buddies, hasn't been on my list of things to do in at least 15 years.

I know a lot of younger parents. They'd rather be out partying with their friends during their off time rather than spending it with their kids. They have no idea what they are missing. And they have no idea what their kids are missing.

Edit: Last school year, she read over a million words -- and this was in addition to the reading we do together. She's on track for another million this year.

Edit 2: Does anyone know how to find good age-appropriate reading material at a high reading level? Most 9th+ grade level books include a lot of "social" and behavioral situations that I am not yet comfortable with.

I think most English Teachers have a list of books my Granddaughters are 14 this year. J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck.

I found these if those aren't what your after. https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/9th-grade

Glad to hear you participate in her education, my Dad was kicked out of high school for knocking out the principle, I once asked him to help me with Algebra, but instead he became angry when I was upset about not fully understanding him, I was just supposed to get it with little effort, it was easier to punch me, broke my nose that day and never asked him again or talked to him for that matter, my Mother didn't pass the 9th grade so she wasn't any help either.

kv

 

Mark Twain...

Don't you know that Mark Twain is politically incorrect?

 

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/0...-to-death-by-retiree-protecting-his-home.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/12/police-hither-green-tributes-henry-vincent

“It’s terribly sad, a man of 37 with children has died, but he shouldn’t have been doing what he was doing. What’s the saying? ‘You live by the sword, you die by the sword.’”

“People are forgetting somewhat that an elderly couple lived here and this man was burgling them. They will probably never be able to get back here again because of the circumstances. What are they going to do? You have got to grieve, even given the circumstances, but it can be done in a better way. Not opposite the house. Perhaps if there are going to be flowers then they should be left at the hospital where he died.”

 

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/0...-to-death-by-retiree-protecting-his-home.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/12/police-hither-green-tributes-henry-vincent

Wait. Knives are illegal in the UK...

I think I know what happened: he was cleaning his knife when it accidentally went off.

Guns don't kill people...knives kill people.

 

What price for this diversity. Fear.

 

Eleven years ago today, all the ambulances and police cars left Roanoke and zoomed to the Blacksburg campus. Virginia Tech. Shooting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting

I had been in Blacksburg earlier....and was on the way back to Roanoke on I-81.

Saw dozens of ambulances, rescue/fire vehicles and seemed like hundreds of police cars....all with lights on and moving quickly.

The only thing I could figure was the Radford ammunition factory. But soon heard on the radio what was happening.

 

Edit 2: Does anyone know how to find good age-appropriate reading material at a high reading level? Most 9th+ grade level books include a lot of "social" and behavioral situations that I am not yet comfortable with.

Not actually to the point, more a comment: when my youngest daughter was suggested by me, The dandelion wine, she discarded it. Boring, inconsistent and I don't know what else.

Two years later she discovered it and was fervently recommending it to anyone.

Now, openly digressing: I tought her to read in loud voice simply by asking her doing it, shouting as loudly as she could. She got the idea and even today is a superb reader in public.

 

Dandelion Wine...

6th grade reading level. Looking for 8th+ grade.

 

three girls knew my secret always sat on each side of me doing my work.

Ahhhh! ... the old I-don't-know-math trick so you could get surrounded by three gorgeous babes at a precocious age! .. and you had them do your work! ... maybe you weren't math-smart, but you definitely out-smarted the rest of the dudes in the class...

 

Ahhhh! ... the old I-don't-know-math trick so you could get surrounded by three gorgeous babes at a precocious age! .. and you had them do your work! ... maybe you weren't math-smart, but you definitely out-smarted the rest of the dudes in the class...

But he sure was resourceful!

What did you think I meant?

You need to learn to read between my lines.

 

What did you think I meant?

You need to learn to read between my lines.

I already have to read between the lines of two different languages, dude ... and also between the lines of assembly, .net, pascal, fortran, etc...

 

Watch at .25

 

Watch at .25

Holy canola, Batman!

 

 

Going for a pub crawl in Australia by helicopter​

 

Beer party by helicopter.

During the setup for Operation Eagle Claw I was on a repair trip to the Carriers in the Persian gulf in support of that mission. The USS Nimitz wanted a steel beach party with beer so they 'asked' us to provide ch-46 and ch-53 helicopter loads of beer from our ship (USS Okinawa) to theirs. So we loaded up and flew across the Indian Ocean "Gonzo" Station for hours with the beer. My destination was USS Coral Sea but we first stopped at Nimitz for the beer run. We pop'd the top on a few in flight and toss'd the empties out the back door before landing.

Those helicopters (the green Marine ones) were loaded with beer, not bombs.

On the Nimitz with the beer.





It wasn't all fun and games. On the way to the IO we saw and rescued a few Vietnamese refugees while headed to Thailand.

 

A bridge over troubled very expensive waters:

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/04/16/ny-family-charged-15000-in-fees-crossing-free-bridge.html

Residents of Rockaway, Queens, are supposed to get a free pass on the Cross Bay Bridge that connects the peninsula they live on to the rest of the city, but issues with a new cashless toll system have led to one family racking up a $15,000 bill in just six weeks.

 

A bridge over troubled very expensive waters:

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/04/16/ny-family-charged-15000-in-fees-crossing-free-bridge.html

If they have a free pass why do they need any money (even $1.41) trapped in the system forever. They aren’t supposed to be paying a dime for the crossing yet they're receiving huge bills? The E-ZPass account limit for them should be a big, fat zero for that trip. Obviously someone didn't want to alter the software for 'free' transactions so they substituted a add charge, subtract charge system with bogus below balance violations.

Sounds like a intentional misfeature to grab cash.