Thanks, Scholastic!

I'm not sure how Scholastic ever got my email address, but after too many emails about clickable Expo markers, I decided to unsubscribe myself from their mailing list. Just click on this link and then hit "Submit" to cancel your membership.

If it was only possible....



Naturally, "Cancel" works just fine.

Spell Check

Are either of the other two effective? I can't get my kids to get the solution by the more contemporary method.

More Madness from our 504 Parents

A parent wanted a geometry teacher to continually create flash cards for her kid to use throughout the year. Not that the teacher requires the rest of the students to make them - the parent just thinks that if the teacher would take the time to create them for her student, then he would do better.

Perhaps if the teacher would not only create the cards, but go to his house to quiz him on them, he would even do better.

But there is some good news. Request DENIED!

Yes, I have kids that need extra help in one area or another. But for a parent to ask the teacher to be lawfully required to make flash cards for her son is a little ... no, way too much.

SOH-CAH-TOA

The teacher across the hall is reviewing right triangular trigonometry with his students. He mentions SOH-SAH-TOA and one kid, who has recently transferred from a private school, says, "Ugh - I hate this...it never works". The teacher just looks at her because of her bad attitude with the "Let's give it a chance, huh, and please, don't blurt out stupid comments?" gaze.

So the teacher begins explaining how the "SOH" is just an easy way to remember that the sine of an angle is equal to the ratio of the length of the side opposite the angle to the length of the hypotenuse of the triangle while writing "SOH" on the board.

Then the kid interrupts again. "Oh, that's how you spell it?"