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Kappy
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06-29-2002

Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 11:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kappy a private message Print Post    
As for more minor gripes ~ I thought I was the only one tired of people who stop right in front of entrances with their entire families so that no one else can enter until they decide what to do.

And people with strollers are like the moms with vans that have stickers saying things like "careful, children on board" while they pull out of parking spaces almost killing older pedestrians in their wake. How dare we be where they want to go.

Oh boy . . . I could be on this thread for ages!

Beckie03
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07-05-2007

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 5:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beckie03 a private message Print Post    
minor gripe:

when professors make everything do at the end of the semester...

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 5:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
You know what I hate worse than smokers? People who wear really stinky perfume or cologne and plenty of it. I'd rather smell smoke than that crap. It makes me gag.

I'm a smoker, though. LOL

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 9:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Beckie professors have everything DUE later in the semester, so you have time to DO it.



Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 9:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Beekind I TOTALLY AGREE!

But I'm NOT a smoker, have never smoked, will never smoke.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Strong odors of any kind can stir up allergies, perfume being one of the offenders.

Kappy
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06-29-2002

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 5:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kappy a private message Print Post    
Beckie ~ Look at this way ~ It means the professors get no sleep for a week because they have to read and grade everything at the end. Does that help?

Beckie03
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07-05-2007

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 8:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beckie03 a private message Print Post    
yes, kappy...that does help.

i'm trying to get ahead with my papers...but...

my 17-20 page paper...i'm just staring at it. no research done yet...nothing. i'm so...terrified...i have no idea where to start. well i have an idea...but at the same time...i don't...

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 10:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Becki...once begun, the job's half done. Get to it, girl.

Kc103
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07-13-2004

Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 1:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kc103 a private message Print Post    
Boy, my gripe involves the school that I work at. (I am so glad that tomorrow is a non-attendance day because I fed up to my limit right now.) More and more violent episodes are continuing to happen and the administration deals with it by keeping everything "hush-hush."

Yesterday a student brought a bb gun to school...and was suspended for 2 days. One was counted already yesterday by him sitting outside the principal's office! Nothing further was done. Last year a student brought the same type of gun to the middle school and was expelled for that.

A student hit the teacher in the room next door to me a few days ago. What was done?? Absolutely NOTHING! He was removed from the room for a while to go with the social worker and was given an ice cream treat! Today he was breaking things in her classroom and throwing pencils at kids saying he wanted to stab them in the eye. This has been an ongoing problem in her classroom with episode upon episode that I won't go into here. Obviously this child needs a lot more help than what the classroom teacher can do at this time.

I've had three separate parents approach me recently about a student in my own classroom bullying their kids, physically and verbally, as well as trying to extort money from them (and this is first grade.) Today the Asst. Principal called three of the students down to her office, the bully included. They came walking back into my room not more than ten minutes later...each with pencil in their hands, the student who's doing the bullying included. I emailed her and told her that I would like to be informed of as to what action was taken in case parents approach me again. She told me that the boy said he was just kidding, so she told him to never ever do that again. Half a dozen incidents or more occurring at lunchtime?? This boy is smart enough. He knows what he's doing. She told me that she was going to call his parent when he was in the room with her. Of course she did not follow through with that.

I'm not sure what the entire answer is, but it seems to me like their current discipline policies are not working. Teachers are becoming very aggravated and are beginning to feel that our school is not such a safe environment anymore. Especially when the teachers are not supported by the administration. A couple of teachers who tried going last year to the superintendent with concerns about problems of this nature suffered repercussions from the building administrators, such as poor reviews, constant negative criticism and building and/or grade level changes. It's just plain frustrating!

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Friday, March 20, 2009 - 2:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
I know more people who have left the teaching profession listing this as one of the reasons.

A friend of mine taught in an inner city school in NYC. A student stomped on his hand once. He had to make photocopies of pages from the books because the kids would throw or destroy the textbooks.

Beckie03
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07-05-2007

Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 12:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beckie03 a private message Print Post    
it's more than a gripe...but

every since i have been involved with this lab rescue, i have seen so many animals that we have gotten, that...just...are emotionally battered. and we don't even have some of the worst cases.

i seriously...i do not wish people unwell usually, but anyone who has every beaten an animal...deserves, well let's just say, i don't wish them well and i won't go into details.

case in point: jeremiah

http://www.noahs-arks.net/RESCUE/JEREMIAH.html

yes it is an extreme case, but you know, if this rescue hadn't taken him in...he would be dead.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, April 06, 2009 - 5:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Petty, but puzzling gripe...i have a yahoo account. when i go to 'my yahoo' it will show i have mail. it will show various amounts too like 1, even had it say 6. go to my inbox and there is nothing there. it happens all the time!!! i have been to yahoo's main site looking for an answer and didn't really find one. it's so frustrating!

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Monday, April 06, 2009 - 2:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
That happens to me when I check my account on the Comcast.net website. But I rarely check my mail that way, I download it to Outlook/Windows Mail (depending on which computer I'm on).

Nightcrawler
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02-12-2002

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 8:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nightcrawler a private message Print Post    
ok this has been making me really MAD
I'm from Iowa and really proud of it

in Iowa if you are gay you now have the right to be married. and I think it is about time!!!!!

BUT
the religious right (or maybe they are from the left too) have been going off the wall over this on the talk shows here on radio and TV saying that this will never stand--it will be voted down by the people, the people of Iowa don't want this (what people? all the people I know think it is fine and have no problem with it)

they make the gays out like they are a lower class and on and on and on

they say that they are religious but they sure don't sound or act like it at all (love thy neighbor unless they are gay)

the God I was raised to believe in would want all his people to be as happy as they could with the one that they love in marriage, man and woman, man and man, or woman and woman. I just don't get it!!!

just leave the gays alone let them be happy

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 8:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
You rock nightcrawler!!! Iowa is better with a resident like you!!

Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 9:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
NC

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 11:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
As a former Iowan, I agree with Nightcrawler, it is about time. I lived in Nebraska when they added a marriage only between a man and a woman thing. I remember volunteering with a local group against this issue, it was very disappointing that it passed.

Shame on people who think that God made only some people worthy of love and respect.

Beckie03
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07-05-2007

Saturday, April 11, 2009 - 9:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beckie03 a private message Print Post    
cps.

how bad does it have to get before kids will get taken away?

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Saturday, April 11, 2009 - 12:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
Beckie, it depends on the situation. How bad is it?

Holly
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07-22-2001

Saturday, April 11, 2009 - 12:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
what is cps? cycles per second?

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Saturday, April 11, 2009 - 12:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
Child Protective Services

Bookworm
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12-18-2001

Saturday, April 11, 2009 - 1:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bookworm a private message Print Post    
Sometimes, pretty bad, in my experience. Though in Iowa it is DHS (Dept of Human Services). I'm sure the quality of services varies with location like the name does.

Holly
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07-22-2001

Saturday, April 11, 2009 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
DCF here.

Beckie03
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07-05-2007

Saturday, April 11, 2009 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beckie03 a private message Print Post    
merry, one girl (who's about 4) has very little teeth and what she does have has basically poisoned her system (because of the decay) that she is sick all of the time.

the other one. for a week has been complaining about a stomach ache. turns out she has tapeworm. mom told her to stop looking for attention.

sorry holly i should have made that more clear. lol.