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Tera
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08-10-2000

Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 1:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tera a private message Print Post    
Here I am again on the gripe thread for second day in a row.

This is more than a gripe. I am pissed off as hell!!!!

Some looser came through my neighborhood and sprayed graffiti!

It is a huge problem in my city (Las Vegas). Our Mayor even got national attention by threatening to cut the thumbs off the taggers. I am afraid I would do worse than that if I actually caught someone.

What makes me the most mad is that I am going to be putting my house up for sale in the next few weeks. I heard on the news that graffiti will automatically lower your house value by $10,000!!!

I was heading to the grocery store when I saw it and I burst out into tears.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 11:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Sorry for the vandalism, Tera. Hope you're able to get it cleaned and that it will NOT affect your house's resale value. Scream away!

Suz
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10-13-2005

Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 11:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Suz a private message Print Post    
Tera, some areas have a graffiti hot line you can call and they will send out someone to paint over it. Number was in my phone book.

Spitfire
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07-18-2002

Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 6:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spitfire a private message Print Post    
Tera I'm so sorry. I felt your anger reading your post. We were once robbed and I was so pissed off as well. We all work so hard to do what we do, and have what we want only to have someone who does nothing (probably) not respect anyone or anything.

These people (robbers or graffiti) must not have much of their own to learn what it means to earn and be proud of something.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 6:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Aw Tera, that is such a waste. I understand your feelings. Has the neighborhood gotten together to clean it up? Vandalism is the number one largest cost to any city, its businesses, government and its property owners. Is this a new element in your neighborhood? Maybe they will be able to clean it up before you start to sell. I hope so. (((((Tera)))))

Sillycalimomma
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11-13-2003

Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 9:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sillycalimomma a private message Print Post    
where they at Tera? Let me at em



grrrr....that is horrible. I am so sorry hon


Tera
Member

08-10-2000

Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 9:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tera a private message Print Post    
Awww.. thanks for your comments. I wasn't expecting sympathy, I just needed a place to vent (my DH can only take so much of my whining!).

I have called the hotline to clean it up. Hopefully the neighborhood will look good when I put my house up for sale.

Thanks again y'all!! TVCHers are the BEST!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 9:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I am sooo pissed..we just got a letter that Dylan's school will only go to 4th grade ...they are not going to have 5th /6th anymore!!! It comes from the Pastor of the church that runs school...I think it has to do with money and I am so pissed.

They'pretend' to care about the kids but it is always about money...if they really cared they would see how shitty it is to make kids go to a totally dif school for 1 yr...come in to a crowd that is established and have gone to same school for 5 yrs...the main reason we have stayed in CA AND struggled the lst year paying for his school is cuz we wanted to make sure he was w/same school/kids until it was time to go to jr high and now this freakin pastor has ruined everything!

I am so mad I am gonna call and go off on him tomarrow

Shadoe
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11-04-2004

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 2:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Shadoe a private message Print Post    
There may be nothing you can do about their decision to drop that last year, but you can find out from the other parents where they intend to send their children for that one year.

That way, most of them can still be together but in a different school for that one year. It may make it easier for all of them.

I always try to look on changes as a potentially good thing. I had moved around the country for work or political reasons a few times while raising Eeyore and when we moved to another province when she moved into grade 4, she informed me that she would hate me forever! The move was necessary because of the BC govt at the time destroying the education system, but you can't tell that to an 8 year old. But, kids are pretty resillient and she forgave me (I think) over time. Ask Eeyore what she remembers about it all.

Yes, change can be good or bad, depending on how you decide to look at it. Find a way to see it as a good thing and you will feel much better.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Ooh! Calling the other parents is an excellent idea! But dropping the grades does really suck, Pamy.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 10:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Yep it does but change can be good and it's good to learn that early when it's easier to adapt. I'm sure Dylan will be fine.

Sillycalimomma
Member

11-13-2003

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 10:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sillycalimomma a private message Print Post    
or you can slap me for saying-I had that experience growing up and it ruined my life.....ok, well I had parents who could care less and when they saw that I was having trouble fitting into the "rich" town they moved us to (long story short-we moved to a upper class town only because my grandparents left us a home there that my parents didn't have to pay a dime for)
anyway, back on track-when they saw that the only "friends" that would take me in and not judge me were also the other "troubled" kids they could care less. Hence my downward spiral.

I know Dylan will be fine, because his parents will stay on top of things and care. It will work out Pamy.
and if it doesn't....give me that pastors number and I'll give him my own

tee hee...I just crack myself up

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 11:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Thx ya all. I grew up in same place and went to same school because my dad had been moved alot during his childhood, he had horrible memories and he swore he would never do that to his kid...maybe that is why I am soo pissed, I don't want to do it to mine.

It's a private school and I don't even know if there is another close by. The public elementary here is horrible ..

All the teachers and parents are pissed, that pastor is getting an earfull today......

In the letter they sent they didn't even give a reason for it

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 11:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
LOL Silly!! I think you had the same experience my dad had. How are you doing now in your adult life?

Another thing I just found out..I gotta find new school by March that is when registration is for next fall...grrrrrrr

I have held off calling cuz I am still too pissed and don't want to cuss out a pastor. LOL

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 12:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
i too had a horrible experience with school moving around, and the same thing happened to holly also pamy about the private school dropping the grades, only they did it 2 months into the school year! and it was junior high! i had less than a week to get her into a public junior high.

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Pamy me and you had the same experience. I went to the same elementary school, the same jr high and the same high school. I still have friends I went all the way throuh school with. Whereas Darren moved from school to school and only has a couple friends and me from high school. Same as you I swore we'd never move our kids like that, then at the end of Caleb's kindergarten year, they switched our school out from under us. We were ticked! We argued and fought with anyone and everyone who'd listen but had no real choice about it. The reason they moved us out? Because they had a new neighborhood with kids who had to go to that school, while our neighborhood, which had been going to that school for 35 + years (seriously some of our neighbors went to that elementary school when they were growing up in the same houses they live in now) got screwed. Caleb really didn't have that difficult of a time adjusting, but he'd only been there that one year. Some of the older kids, in their last year or two though had a really hard adjustment to make. I'm sorry you and Dylan have to go through this.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Here's the other side of the coin, I have only lived in Houston. My dh went to 5 different elementary schools before he was in 3rd grade...he thinks my childhood sounds so boring! LOL He also has a wider group of friends than I have.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 1:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
War, I too still have friends that I went to Jr High with. I graduated with kids I went to Elementary with.

If they would let the school go thru 5th that would be ok...they are screwing it up for all the new kids too cuz they will have to go to new school for 1 yr

BUT.... I think this will change in 2 yrs because this year they have 4 times the kids in preschool thru 2.....they will want all their money when they are all ready for 5th/6th!!......there are only 4 4th graders and 6 5th graders right now and the class that is closing is the 5/6 combo....

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 1:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
You've got a good point Annie. Darren has, well not really wider, but maybe a much broader spectrum of friends than I do. Also something I've noticed is that he can make friends anywhere and very easily. I took him to a work party once where he met some of the guys I worked with for the first time and by the end of the night they were planning a poker game, lol. For me, it takes longer to make new friends. I'm more than a little shy in person and it takes me awhile to get comfortable with new people. It took me a while to realize the difference between us is that he always had to work to make friends as the new kid at school and has had more experience at it, while I never really had to work that hard as a kid to make friends because they were just right there and we were always together. I seriously never had to make friends til probably jr high, up until then I'd just fallen in with friends. There was Mike when I was six, we both liked to climb the jungle gym at recess, then we'd walk home together, then he started hanging out at my house. Or Lisa when I was 8, we joined the band at the same time, and choir (and oh geez, I have not a musical bone in my body!) and then track, then she started coming over to practice music together then calling and so on. I never had to make an effort.

Sillycalimomma
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11-13-2003

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 4:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sillycalimomma a private message Print Post    
Im doing well Pamy thanks for asking. Lol.
I think my life turned out ok. I can't complain (too much).
but lets just say I too am a parent that is very concerned with dd staying put in the school she is in now and with the classmates she has (in fact she is in the kind of school/class where the entire class stays together until Junior High and then they will all go to the same jr. high and high school)

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 4:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Just got back from school.....EVERYONE is pissed!!! the coward pastor sent letter last nite and has left and not due back til Tues!!! LOL he knew he would have an angry mom mob to deal with!

The parents are gonna sch meeting with him next week...we shall see...one of the moms passed out aobut 4 email addys of the corp office for the church so we can email them and let them know and see if something can be done

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 4:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
War, I don't think being in same school makes it harder to make friends, I never have a prob, but then again I have always been a loud mouth! LOL

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 6:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Don't want to stir a boiling pot too much, but pastors are employed by the parents/parishoners. Call the board - elders - deacons - assistant pastors and tell them how you feel, too.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 7:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Yes Gracie, those are the email addys that were passed out...my email went out a few hrs ago!!!

Apparently the church doesnt get any money from the school and the pastor wants to use more of the school rooms for the ministry, he took over 1 room this year and it hasnt been used yet!!! Some parents think he wants to phase the school out all together.

I am gonna bring up in the meeting an idea to give the church 10% of school profits.....maybe that will help

Teachmichigan
Member

07-22-2001

Friday, December 02, 2005 - 9:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Pamy, I hope things work out as you want. If not, please know that with your concern and love, your DS will be fine. :-) I'm another of those who moved a LOT (I'm living in my 15th house and I'm only 36!), and I went to 5 different schools between kindergarten and 12th grade. Hang in there and keep us updated!