Aren't Parents wonderful?...

[AdminAssistant]

I thought I was the only one that thought that movie sucked. Hamlet and Macbeth are my two favorite works from Shakespeare. The best movie adaptation for Hamlet was the one with Glenn Close and Mel Gibson. I have yet to see a movie adaptation for Macbeth.

I really like Mel Gibson's Hamlet. Now, Zefferelli (director) mutilated the text, but Gibson really did a wonderful job with a very complex character. I call it "angry Hamlet", because he lets Hamlet get really really REALLY pissed off. (Glenn Close and Helena Bonham Carter are also fantastic.) I'm told that Branaugh's Hamlet is THE one to get, but he apparently didn't cut a blessed line, and I don't have 4 hours to watch a movie right now.

It's not a movie adaption, but there is a video, somewhere out there, of Macbeth with Judi Dench and Ian McKellan as Lord and Lady "Kill 'em All!!", with Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) in various supporting roles. If you do a imdb or Amazon search you should be able to find it. It's more like a videotaped stage production than a movie, but the performances are powerful. (The witches are especially creepy.)

[Anthony K. S.]

I also hate these people who come in who can't "type worth a sniff" and want me to type for them. The keyboard has letters, if you can read you can type. I don't have the time to type up someone's resume.

Well, there's no denying this :

People who can't type well are not going to get any better at it by having other people do the typing for them.

[mariamousie1]

I'm just imagining me as a middle-schooler, asking my parents to call a library and request that someone write a report for me. I can't see any other outcome besides my parents laughing hysterically.

[KnitShoni]

I'm just imagining me as a middle-schooler, asking my parents to call a library and request that someone write a report for me. I can't see any other outcome besides my parents laughing hysterically.

I can, and it wouldn't be something as harmless as laughing...

[venroses]

I thought I was the only one that thought that movie sucked. Hamlet and Macbeth are my two favorite works from Shakespeare. The best movie adaptation for Hamlet was the one with Glenn Close and Mel Gibson. I have yet to see a movie adaptation for Macbeth.

Watch Throne of Blood!



For the write this line 100 times thing.. My grade 5/6 teacher did the same thing. I also had to do it all the time. Everyone in my class also cheated doing that, by holding 2 or 3 pens at the same time...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

For the write this line 100 times thing.. My grade 5/6 teacher did the same thing. I also had to do it all the time. Everyone in my class also cheated doing that, by holding 2 or 3 pens at the same time...

If you have to do that on the chalkboard, look for the deal with the 5 chalks.

[RetailWorkhorse]

I can understand why some parents would pick up the books from the library for their kids. But most kids aren't in my situation.

I am a Resident of Tennessee. My grandmother is a Resident of North Carolina. I am currently working and spending the majority of my time in North Carolina, but as I am not a Resident of North Carolina, I do not have a North Carolina driver's license.

Guess what the local library want as proof of residency. A North Carlina driver's license or the local College ID. I don't go to college here, I only work here.

So I pick out what books I want to study* and send my grandmother to get them.




*I do odd things for kicks and giggles. Studying is one of them.

[Samaliel]

My dad once told me about a punishment he got when he was in high school. Apparently, using several pens at a time to shorten the time you'd spend writing all those lines is just as old as giving lines as a punishment. One of my dad's teachers knew that and devised a very smart and evil workaround.

Try holding several pens at the same time when you have to write 100 lines with vowels in red and consonants in green.

[going gaga]

I hate it when I've seen parents who've done their kids homework for them (helping no issues, but giving them the answers and writing it out for them ?) and adding further insult to injury, not even bother to hide the fact that it's them that's done it.

On a side note , just because the parents let their kids become dependent on them to do their school work, doesn't mean the kids them selves want it to happen.

I'd bluntly hide my project from my Dad as a kid, (he could never just help, he would try and take over).
Letting him do any of the work was something my sister did.(sometimes he did entire projects for her, research, typing the lot)
As a result when it came to the GCSE exams she really didn't do well.
It was all I could do not to laugh, because he was so pissed she did soo badly and couldn't understand why she was so lazy and didn't even bother to try.
I felt like saying
" Well now why do you think that happened"
(wouldn't have dared, he'd have slapped me silly)

I'd see his 'help' as an insult to my intelligence , an implication the I couldn't do it so I should let him.

I wouldn't even let him proof read it for spellings, (couldn't spell for toffee then, & still can't now ) because it would no longer be my work even if I'd written researched and typed everything I'd see it as his not mine.
I'd ratherdo it all myself with no help from anyone, & get a slightly lower grade that I felt I'd got honestly, or bluntly failed outright if it came down to it.
(what can I say, I was and still am prideful, and damned defensive about it too )

You guys are right about the fact that Dad is doing his girl no favours.
When it came down it it for collage and university my older sister couldn't hack it,
and dropped out without the grades, and I went on to graduate my BSA.

[Barefootgirl]

Far too many people still do their kids' homework for them, but most teachers are wise to it. I know lots of teachers who will put WDM in the margin of work that has CLEARLY been done by a parent...stands for "Well Done Mum" !

[Lace Neil Singer]

shakespeare as a punishment :eyes the complete shakespeare library to the left: I would've misbehaved on purpose if I had you as mom I love Shakespeare!

Same here. XD I would have said, "Ooh, really?!"

[depechemodefan]

On a side note , just because the parents let their kids become dependent on them to do their school work, doesn't mean the kids them selves want it to happen.

Yeah, I've seen that. Sometimes it's sad how parents don't want their kids to fail, but dont' give the kids a chance to. The kid might do very well. Some parents are just control freaks. Sometimes the kid standing there while dad talks is a kid that isn't allowed to talk. Then again, I have cases where dad comes up (son behind him, and son is 16) and says, "My son needs Hounds of the Baskervilles". I can't imagine how hard it would be for the son to ask that. Either too shy or dad does all the talking.

Another case, that happens a lot, mom comes in with her 20 year-old son, and she says she took off the morning to bring her son to the library.
Mom: My son needs to take his GED.
Librarian: ok, we can give a list of schools he can take the test or the classes.
Mom: Nah, he needs a book.

So we get the book, but I'm thinking, no wonder he needs to get a GED, he has mom do all the talking. How was he at school, not paying any attention? Did he attend? Did he find it all hard? If he isn't motivated to come to the library and ask himself...

[MystyGlyttyr]

Well, there's no denying this :

People who can't type well are not going to get any better at it by having other people do the typing for them.

Well, no, but then there are people like my dad and my brother who can't feel all their fingers and no matter how much typing they do, they just aren't very good at it. If someone had issues like that and needed help typing it, I certainly wouldn't turn them down.

[Ree]

On the writing out lines thing, I actually complained to the school about that policy, and they changed it.

I find it an inane exercise that doesn't teach the child a thing.

It's a complete waste of paper, and, as evidenced, most of them find a way to cheat at it anyway. Does the teacher actually sit and count the lines?
Do they read through every line to make sure they all say exactly the same thing?

My suggestion was that the child had to do an extra research project for no credit, or in the case of a "Code of Conduct" violation, they had to write out by hand the section of the code that they broke, and add a short essay on why the rule is there, and why it was wrong to break that rule.

[iradney]

At my school, you got detention. Detention would either be picking up litter or cleaning the home ec class, or if you were REALLY bad, scrubbing the toilets
Not alot of ppl tried to cheat with their projects, lemme tell you