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[NEWS] Annoying Orange cutting budgets of public school programs by 6 billion, afterschool
ultimamax:
--- Quote from: mod-man on March 17, 2017, 11:20:36 AM ---i did get held back (which the school probably suggested, but that was 100% a choice by my parents. my mom felt like she didnt teach me well enough) but i thrived that year. i started making friends, i was getting great grades, and the rest of public school was pretty much a breeze after that (or at least as much of a breeze as public school can be)
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just a question: were you on the younger end of your grade before you went into home school?
this seems like it could be a demonstration of this interesting phenomenon where the youngest kids in a grade (i.e kids who barely qualified for the age requirement for their grade) tend to worse socially/in sports/academically because the development gap of a few months between them and the older kids is actually pretty significant since they're so young
the reason it seems that way is because once you were held back you seemed to fare a lot better
HellHound:
One of the programs that is proposed to be cut is a program that regulates pollution and invasive species in the Great Lakes. The Lakes used to be very dirty and polluted, and with the potential removal of this program, I feel like that is the state that they will return to within a few decades. As a native Michigander, this makes me pretty upset.
mod-man:
--- Quote from: ultimamax on March 17, 2017, 02:27:11 PM ---this seems like it could be a demonstration of this interesting phenomenon where the youngest kids in a grade (i.e kids who barely qualified for the age requirement for their grade) tend to worse socially/in sports/academically because the development gap of a few months between them and the older kids is actually pretty significant since they're so young
the reason it seems that way is because once you were held back you seemed to fare a lot better
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very well could have been. when i was with my original grade i cant really remember my age compared to everyone elses but i imagine i was in the middle with everyone else since when i was held back i was one of the oldest among that repeating grade
patton360:
Just hope you dont get zebra muscles
Magus:
--- Quote from: HellHound on March 17, 2017, 02:39:27 PM ---One of the programs that is proposed to be cut is a program that regulates pollution and invasive species in the Great Lakes. The Lakes used to be very dirty and polluted, and with the potential removal of this program, I feel like that is the state that they will return to within a few decades. As a native Michigander, this makes me pretty upset.
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Considering the Cuyahoga River used to catch on fire, why in captain planet's name is that getting cut?