*blinks*

[pegkerr]

The girls brought home report cards today. A number of "excellents," "very goods," a few "needs improvement" (Fiona in terms of turning in homework, Delia in terms of class participation.) We also received the results of their standardized tests. Fiona scored in the top 20% percentile in reading and writing, and fell just outside the top 30% in math. We told her we'll work on math this summer. She's done better in the past.

Delia, um, scored in the top 1%, nationally. In both reading and math.

Yeah, they do things to remind me of this occasionally.

They're both very bright.

Workout today: Ali McGraw: Yoga Mind & Body

Comments

[mangosong.livejournal.com]

that's fabulous! go girls!

must be in part to their great mom, though. ;)

[jemyl.livejournal.com]

That is wonderful! It is such fun to have children who do well. It is also fun to have bright children. Unfortunately, today, most of our schools are set on homogenizing(sic) the student population away from the bell curve and toward a great big everybody is the same bubble. In this way, the bright children don't get stimulated or rewarded for using their brains and the slower ones get left behind so far that they drop out ---- which gives us the great big middle, what some educators want us all to have. There is even a movement to convince parents that children have no concept of the future or of consequences so we cannot expect them to learn how to behave.

Oh Pavlov, Pavlov Wherefore art thou Professor Pavlov! I told one of my daughters that even dogs could learn to avoid painful stimuli and go to pleasant stimuli that give a reward. Certainly her three-year-old has as much smarts as a dog so he can be responsible enough to learn that pulling on the cat too much will result in a scratch and sitting still and waiting for the cat to come to him will result in a purr. We use so little of our brain I hate to see it dumbed down even more.

I'm glad your girls have a mother like you who obviously keeps their brains well stimulated at home.

P.S. I can disparage educators 'cause I have been one. What is happening now is sad. If it weren't for the standardized tests, we would never know if our children learned anything or not. It should not be all this way! Yet, it is.

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

Impressive! Congratulations to them :)

[vass]

Congratulations to them both!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Yay girls! You go!

[rhiannon333.livejournal.com]

Wow, Peg, what great genes you have passed on to the girls - tops in sports and academic pursuits, and gorgeous to boot! (looking at icon). Congratulations to them both, and to the proud parents.