Comments on: back to school friday five

By: revabi

revabi — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:53:00 +0000

What a good honest post. In or out then you sure are in now. Sorry you had some of the experiences you had then. And you are right about Christendom being over.

By: sunday'schild

sunday'schild — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:33:00 +0000

Have you ever met someone who says they were always “in” in school? All the people I know felt “out” or on the periphery. I can name who I considered the “in” girls to be all through elem. school. I wonder if they look back and think of themselves as “in” or if they felt “out” sometimes too.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:49:00 +0000

I read the link to #4 on Jabberwocky. I, to this day, love spelling and can spell most any word (well except some of those pesky ones on the famous National Spelling Bee. However, I still can’t remember how to spell broccoli…. or is it brocolli .. one of these days I will figure it out.

By: Lorna

Lorna — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:06:00 +0000

trying to work out how old 4th grade is.

Do you think peer pressure is today’s way of looking at *in* and *out* circles? If so my DD struggles too.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:40:00 +0000

We all that that mean teacher. Being the guppies of the group sucked.

By: sherry

sherry — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:00:00 +0000

That pack mentality started even earlier for my daughter, third grade. It really didn’t end until she changed schools.

I dealt with it by sticking my nose in a book, but it was MUCH harder for her.

By: CGAuntie

CGAuntie — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:36:00 +0000

If I blogged, I would have a lot of responses to this Friday Five.

The most important would be that none of my teachers liked me (my mom confirms this) until fifth grade, when I had Mrs. Jane Thompson. She was really unusual (esp. for my very conservative neighborhood.) She wore long, flowing caftan-type shirts and told the kids she was a witch! She had about 2 dozen pets and once wrote down the names of all of them for me. I hung that piece of paper in my room probably until I left for college.

Re: grace. I was definitely not “in” in elementary school. One time, a friend of mine told me she’d only invited me to spend the night because no one else could come.

Now I teach at the same elementary school I attended. All of the neighborhood parents want their children to be in my class. (I even have the son of a woman with whom I had a love/hate friendship as a child.) Poetic justice, indeed.

By: spookyrach

spookyrach — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:38:00 +0000

I was a new kid in 4th grade, too. With glasses and sensible shoes.

Love what you said about holidays.

By: Cheesehead

Cheesehead — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:24:00 +0000

For 4th grade, I was the new kid–so I was hopelessly “out”, and the teacher’s pet, to boot. That was one miserable year.

By: Songbird

Songbird — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:58:00 +0000

I was never “in” in 4th grade, and I apparently blocked out most of the year!

Yes, grace, let’s hope.