TGI Saturday

Hi, I had class this morning and it was okay. The rest of the day has been uneventful. Keith took Hannah to work with him for the better part of the day.

Hannah scored in the top tier for her EOG tests that she took the week she had strep. The average score was like 300 - 700 and Hannah scored a 956. Factor that with her C in math, C in reading, A in social studies, and B in science, and it doesn't really make sense. So, does that mean that 85% of the state is making less than C's? Huh. Hannah scored just as well when we were in Florida, so I don't see that North Carolina is a better school system, or that Florida was a weak school system. I think she just had a bad year with this teacher's style, not that she's not capable. So, that was a statewide test. Go figure. I'm really proud of her for continuing to do well in a test environment despite what was happening interpersonally in the classroom.

I hate the whole standardized test mentality and don't think it really is fair to the students or the teachers, but I understand why it exists. To think that some children could be in the opposite situation of Hannah, come out with straight A's in the classroom and then get a failing score on the test and be left back... Hannah was really sick when she tested. I just don't think you can get an accurate snapshot of what a child is capable of, or what a child has learned by giving them a timed test the last two weeks of school. That's insane and it's just a lot of pressure on a 9 year old.

Regardless, Hannah did test last Monday for the gifted program. I don't know how she will do, it seems like she's on the borderline for everything where the mainstream is a little too slow, so she did well with the challenge in the past. I don't know if NC will allow her to get by just with borderline though. The school seems (or at least her teacher seemed) to have it out for her and to label her as LD, BD, or one of those other alphabet montages. At least now we have the EOG score to show that she's not stupid. I never thought that, but the line was being pushed...

What a year. As I said, I'm glad it's over.

I scanned in all of the pages of my family project, but now I can't upload them here. I think I stored the file incorrectly. It took forever to do all of the pages, so I don't have the patience to go back and redo it or fix it right now. I should have looked at how I was saving it as I was going along.

First day of Hannah's summer, I had to take her to work with me (Friday). At least she got to go in the pool and had "L" to keep her company while I was meeting. The college has a sand volleyball court and she and "L" were playing in the sand too. To accommodate me, we met outside near the pool and I got a sunburn! Crazy!

So, day one, Mama's work, day two, Papa's work. Poor kid.

Yesterday I went to a new hair place. What is the proper term now? It's not a beauty parlor anymore, or a salon... but this place wasn't up to day spa standards either. Anyway, I got my hair cut and colored. It's not as dark as I would have liked, but it's not a bad color, and it's ultimately the color I picked, that I thought would "go" best with what I had going on already with the way my color fades, etc. The cut is good. I made my next appointment for before CKU. I hate to give up Donald, but it was getting too few and far between and I couldn't stand it. The new person is Libby, she's not Donald though :(

I still don't have a dentist here! I have made the change for everything now EXCEPT for finding a dentist. Pray for me! I need to find one. I took the plunge last Feb and finally had my wisdom teeth taken out. I was trying to do the right thing. Geez, I hate the dentist though.