Kindergarten Homework

At what point to kids become responsible enough to be able to remember and start homework without a parent's reminder? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that 5 years of age is not that point. So in effect by giving a child homework in kindergarten you are testing parents to see if they will support the education of said child.

All the studies in the world aren't going to convince me that giving homework to a 5 year old is a good idea until you can show me that it helps the latchkey kid in Chicago who's single mother works 2 full time jobs to pay the rent and put dinner on the table. You tell me that kid is getting his homework done. He's not and because my kid is the latchkey kid gets further and further behind the curve.

I'm not a supporter of forcing everyone to be treated the same so that the gifted children aren't challenged, but come on this is kindergarten.

I don't remember having homework until 8th grade. Maybe it hurt me in the long run. Maybe if I had been given homework when I was 5 I would be in a neurosurgery residency, learning how to treat the rest of the world like dirt (the only neurosurgeon I have ever know was actually a very nice man, but that doesn't play well into the stereotype).

Then again maybe I should just stop complaining and go help Spencer write his T's.

Happy anniversary LA

Now that the bums are in the playoffs I am going to tell you why we will be celebrating like it's 1988 in Corry households this year. We all know the Cubs aren't going to win anything. Seriously the Washington Generals are more likely to win than the Cubs are. The Mets aren't going to make the postseason. The Phillies aren't going to pose a challenge. The Brewers? Are you kidding me? The real reason the Dodgers are going to win is that they have given up 638 runs this year and a team ERA of 3.69. Both are second only to Toronto and since Toronto doesn't play in the NL West they won't have to be facing them. Pitching will take the Dodgers to the World Series. Nomar and Manny will get them past the Red Sox in 6 games.

How can I bet against the Dodgers on the 20th anniversary of the greatest sports memory of my life?

Taking the Morning Off

Today I get to go to Lunch!! I am so excited. I have a wonderful friend watching the kids and I get to go out and enjoy myself with other wives from the hospital. We are having this year's first meeting of the Spouse Network. (I don't know exactly what we are doing as it is our first meeting, but I assume it has something to do with interviews and the spouses that attend.) So to celebrate the occasion of having a Lunch out I decided to take the rest of the morning off. Makes sense right. We had playgroup here yesterday so I got the entire house cleaned on Wednesday. And I have gotten a lot of projects done this last week so I am feeling good about my accomplishments this week. So this morning I did manage to get Spencer to school and the kids fed breakfast and since I have had breakfast, I've have checked the menu of where we are going and picked my lunch item, (those who have been out with me know that this can take me a while.), checked all the blogs on my list, Looked at some quilt websites, and now I am off for a hot bath and my book. Every once and a while it is nice to just indulge a little.

The Ladies Man

We went to parent teacher night tonight. Aside from it being a total waste of time it wasn't too bad. That said I found out a bit about my oldest son. He is quite the ladies man. After dinner we went into the gym while waiting for the meeting to start and Spencer quickly found himself surrounded by 5 little girls. He spent the next 15 minutes chasing and being chased by said girls. Then I was informed, by Spencer, that he has a 5th grader that walks him into his class each day and she has been giving him gifts each day for the past week. I'm interested to see how that pans out.

Dollars and Health

I am disgusted by the current issues in our economy and I feel a need to elaborate on my opinions on this and other issues. Looking at the followers of this blog I understand that many of you don't care at all about what Jake thinks about finance and how wrong it is that the government is going to "fix it" with $700 billion (I could fix a lot of things with $700 billion). With that in mind I have created a new blog for my rantings. You can reach it here if you are interested.

Rest assured that any opinions not involving health care and finance will continue to be posted here. That includes most of the daily experiences that I feel a need to share as well as my views on the sporting world (just wait until the BCS standings come out).