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Post by sparklymouse on Apr 25, 2009 16:07:38 GMT -5
10:45 lunch is a little crazy. My Jr. high had four half hour lunches, starting at 11 and ending with 12:30-1. The only good thing about having one of the first two lunches was there was more food available. The lunch ladies didn't do a very good job of rationing the food. (We had hot lunch, a salad bar, and an a la carte line. I think 90% of the kids did a la carte and by the last lunch there would be, like, little bags of chips and some fruit roll-ups left.)
High school only had two half hour lunches and everyone was encouraged to leave campus and hit the fast food restaurants because there absolutely wasn't enough food for everyone.
In both schools the teachers were assigned to lunches and whatever teacher you had during lunch hour would determine what lunch you had.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Apr 27, 2009 16:34:49 GMT -5
10:45 lunch is a little crazy. My Jr. high had four half hour lunches, starting at 11 and ending with 12:30-1. The only good thing about having one of the first two lunches was there was more food available. The lunch ladies didn't do a very good job of rationing the food. (We had hot lunch, a salad bar, and an a la carte line. I think 90% of the kids did a la carte and by the last lunch there would be, like, little bags of chips and some fruit roll-ups left.) In both schools the teachers were assigned to lunches and whatever teacher you had during lunch hour would determine what lunch you had. This is what it was like in my high school too. Whatever teacher you had for fifth period determined which lunch you would have. There was B Lunch which went from like 11:47 to 12:16 (yeah, not a lot of time, like 25 minutes ) and then you would go from there to fifth period and the rest of your classes and there was C Lunch from I think 12:50-1:10, and when you had that lunch time, then you went to fifth period before that and then went to your last classes after lunch. I had B Lunch for pretty much all four years except for first semester senior year when I got put into C Lunch (A lunch was for jr. high btw, at like 11 in the morning) and I hated it. I like eating lunch around 11-12 so I was hungry the whole day and like your school sparklymouse, by the time we would get to eat lunch there would be little to no food left. I never really had a problem getting whatever food was there but on some days there would be a line out the door and the lunch ladies would actually send everyone away because there was no food left and then everyone was scrambling to find a vending machine because we weren't allowed to leave school property to get something to eat (which didn't matter because most of us didn't drive) so then the school was filled with hungry and crabby people. It sucked . I'm thankful to be in college now where there is food everywhere you turn around because most people understand how hungry we all get .
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Post by starrynight on Apr 27, 2009 16:39:59 GMT -5
We never had any kind of food shortages at any of my schools. Then again, I brought my lunch most of the time.
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Post by sparklymouse on Apr 27, 2009 16:48:24 GMT -5
^I just remember we had a wicked thunderstorm one day and nobody wanted to leave school for lunch. The lunch ladies had a look of fear in there eyes, lol. They knew they wouldn't have enough food.
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Post by oldhickory on Aug 27, 2010 10:59:56 GMT -5
i just started rereading, and i'm noticing how many excuses claudia is making. i didn't pick up on that before. i was so busy feeling sorry for her that i missed how much she is to blame. on the second page it says this:
it's october, and school's only been in session for a little over a month now. what i want to know is, how did i already become so hopelessly behind? ... but you know what? the situation is really nothing new, nothing i can't handle.
at first it sounds like she's actually worried and she KNOWS she needs to step it up. but she dismisses it, just like that! what is she thinking? she's scraped by something like 10 times now -- does she really think half assing it will work again?
then on page 8, after janine offers her help:
for a second, i was tempted. then i remembered how long-winded janine can be when it comes to math. ... anyway, i was tired of the whole protractor thing and ready to move on, even if it meant i'd be even further behind in math class.
she has an incredible resource available to her, for free, and she doesn't even have to leave her desk. but she's still making excuses. she would rather risk repeating math class than spend 10 minutes talking to janine about protractors. i don't feel sorry for her anymore. i am someone who struggled in math my whole life. i even changed my major because i couldn't keep up with the math. (i was a lot like claudia, when you think about it.) but i had enough fear that when things got REALLY bad, i worked harder. i failed because i wasn't very math-literate, not because i was lazy.
normally i really like claudia and she has been a favorite of mine since i was a kid, but i'm really disappointed in her. i'm taking this awfully hard considering she's made up and this book was published 14 years ago :] but i know claudia knows better and it never should have come to this.
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 28, 2010 21:41:32 GMT -5
ITA about her free resource. I had one math class in college that I did really poorly in (and I didn't want to go the prof's office hours - he was scary ), but in middle school I asked my teachers for help and went for tutoring in junior high/high school. I remember as far back as fifth grade feeling really lost in math, and telling my teacher privately I had no idea how to attempt the work we were doing. You feel stupid in the moment, but you get over it. Once you start actually understanding the material, it's a weight off your shoulders. There's this part from Fright Night:
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Post by candykane on Sept 3, 2010 13:03:29 GMT -5
I just started this book (not done yet) but Claudia is really irritating me so far. I can't stand her excuses and her insistence that since she won't "need" any of this later in life, she can't see why she should care about it now. Well, sometimes we just have to do things we don't want to do, Claudia. Buck up and bear it.
I was terrible at math and struggled with it in both high school and college. But when I was in danger of failing geometry in tenth grade, I tried harder instead of sticking my head in the sand. And I HATED geometry with a passion! It was such a relief to get out and I scraped by with mostly C's.
The fact that Claudia supposedly doesn't have a learning disability makes me even less sympathetic. It would be one thing if that was the cause of her struggle, but her outright admittance that she gets bad grades just because she doesn't give a crap makes me not feel bad for her in the least bit.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 23, 2011 15:41:25 GMT -5
It's funny that the comment I had about the book, which annoyed me, was mentioned in the VERY FIRST POST. Claudia basically admits that she is lazy!
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Post by u4me on Jan 23, 2011 15:55:38 GMT -5
I loooove your rant candykane! You're SO right!
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Post by zoar3 on Jan 23, 2011 18:19:06 GMT -5
This book was set during Claudia's "9th" year of 8th Grade. Surely after 8 years she could have at least passed, if not breezed through? (Unless the teachers and materials truly changed each "year"). I think that has to be a reason why none of the girls had the same schedule as in #10. This is horrible but a storyline about Claudia throwing up her hands one day and "quitting" school would have been so much more interesting than "Whoa is me. why don't adults get I will never need school?" I truly think Claudia did feel so isolated where school was concerned and that is so sad and I can relate to just wanting to be done. I just thought the book would have been a ton more meaningful and helpful (I hope) to Claud had she been (able to, maybe) be more honest and her parents take on more of a concerned role. I did love the character Serena. ETA: If Rioko and John (Janine, too) were still taking turns at monitoring Claud's nightly homework, wouldn't they have "noticed" she was failing? More than that, shouldn't they by now have seen Claudia was not happy
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 25, 2011 22:34:27 GMT -5
Yeah, the whole thing doesn't make any sense. No school would ever pull someone back a year in October and then put her back in the 8th grade in March (I think that's when Claudia Makes Up Her Mind was written?) That means she has about 2 or 3 months back in the 8th grade and then she graduates with everyone else. How is that fair?
No one in either my elementary school or high school were sent back, even though some blantantly deserved to.
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Post by wiggir13 on Aug 3, 2011 12:35:49 GMT -5
I think I may be the only person who understands Claudia and her reasoning! Yes she kept saying she wouldn't need this etc, but I really think like others that she has some sort of learning disability. I think deep down she is so ashamed that she can't keep up or understand it that she just says she doesn't need it or care. I feel like this b/c of how she studied all night and then just still didn't get it. I can't imagine how scary it must be to just not be able to grasp something or understand it so you just dismiss it.
I like at the end how Claudia says that her friends will be her friends, but I wonder how true would that be if they all went off to High School without her (granted they will never grow old enough to do that!).
I love how she basically calls Mal and Jessi babies in this one for the silly little party that she doesn't want to go to. I think it showed how different in age they really are.
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Post by anzuhana on Sept 18, 2011 12:34:28 GMT -5
I enjoyed it when Rosa told Claudia about her horrible study habits. It's about time someone called out Claudia on her horrible study habits. The art class sounded like fun but it probably wasn't very appropiate with how badly Claudia was doing in school.
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Post by oldhickory on Sept 18, 2011 23:35:43 GMT -5
^ i am so tired of claudia bargaining with her parents. if i were them i would say enough is enough, you can take art classes when your grades are better, end of discussion. seriously, get it together kishis.
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Post by anzuhana on Sept 19, 2011 9:07:13 GMT -5
^ I think it would've been interesting to read about Claudia's parents really making her quit the club until her grades improved and to let her return once her grades improved and if she started slipping, they would make her quit the club again. I think it would've been good motivation for Claudia to keep doing well in school.
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