She is Debt

She is paying about $25K per year on tuition. This is her first year in college. She will ring up to $100,000 for the degree. Is it a smart thing to do?

Student drinking

Students tell me that more than half of them drink on a regular basis on weekends especially. Do parents know? Is this not a problem?

Ouch my tooth

His tooth has been hurting for days. The top half of the tooth is not there so at least a crown is needed. How much longer is he going to wait?

Jail Bird

She has not been in class for many days. I have heard that she lost her job and was sad about that. Once a person spends time in jail, jobs are hard to come by. So you lie to get the job. Few weeks later you get fired since the security check failed to go through.

A Drop Out

He works at the mall. I am sure that he did not graduate high school. I was happy to see that he is (temporarily) OK to hold down at job and a presumably low pay to ride life through.

Unexcused absences

I have not seen her for days. She has been back in her own country visiting a sick aunt. I hope that all her teachers will allow her to make up work. The visit is classified as, "unexcused" so she might even get the credits.Why?

So sad. So many sick people in her family. So many relatives died young.

Smart math student in a bind

He is really smart and attentive at the beginning of each class. He finds out what is being tought and learns it. If I do not move on fast enough, he falls asleep. However, I can not move on too fast in algebra2 classes since almost half of the students can not add, subtract or multiply.

He has excellent knowledge of basic mathematics and is not disruptive at all. He should go to an honor's class but he does not want to due to a lack of study skills perhaps.

Poor ADHD student

Just had a parent meeting about her. She is really smart, friendly, pleasant, and good with basic mathematics. However, it has been hard for her to concentrate so her grades are not the best. Parents were upset about the bad grades and blaminging her for able but not trying.

I finally mentioned to the parents to look at her strong areas. She will graduate and find a good job. In a real job, people do what they need to do. No one need to sit all day, memorize stuff and write them down in tests during real life.

Microsoft VISTA is a killer

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