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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Jan 2, 2019 23:58:05 GMT -5
I learned that in America, sixth grade is middle school. Here, we don't have grades, we have year groups and instead of kindergarten we have Year One (which is really more like first grade so we're a year ahead of you guys), so intermediate school starts with Year Seven. What country are you from? I live in New Zealand. Our last year group is Year Thirteen.
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Post by MZ.X on Dec 28, 2023 22:15:27 GMT -5
Ann M Martin and her ghostwriters must really hate motherhood.......
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Post by oldhickory on Dec 29, 2023 9:25:44 GMT -5
On that note, I learned that you are thirteen in eighth grade. I was born in October and was 14 in the eighth and felt so off. I wanted to be the same age as the baby sitters, dammit! Very late reply, but I was born at the end of May and I was always one of the youngest in my grade. I was still 17 when I graduated and it made me feel like a prodigy being a year younger than everyone But I've said my piece about how the grades and ages don't make sense in the BSC world. Their birthdays are all in different months so there's no way they're all the same age all year.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Jan 1, 2024 20:53:03 GMT -5
My brother wanted to learn how to play the dreidel game and I was able to tell him how to play because I read a couple of baby-sitters club books.
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Post by MZ.X on Jan 8, 2024 18:20:52 GMT -5
Can we just say for the record that scatterbrained people kids/adults alike actually exist in the real world and they outnumber the almost a thousand to one, you are far more likely to interact with scatterbrained people daily than you are with organized rarely making mistakes people, it's not just secluded to women either; men have it too, and it doesn't always mean it's caused by drug abuse.... livejournal and BSCPROBOARD don't seem to realize that fact of life, and the hypocrisy for that is way out of hand. You'd think that they never so much as lost their own keys in the real world!
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Post by MZ.X on Jan 8, 2024 19:10:46 GMT -5
Can we just talk about Sharon's learning disability for a moment? If Sharon's condition was supposed to be caused by drug abuse, she would have never had full custody of Dawn and Jeff and she would never be allowed to move away with them. It's just ADHD/Hyperactivity mixed with scatterbrained tendencies, nothing sinister and it's not caused by drug abuse or too much weed during college, that's something Livejournal came up with on their own and it took off like wildfire. I mean, the Livejournal people VS The BSCPROBOARD people's take on it is really something to behold, as the Livejournal people don't so much hate Sharon as they refer to her as more of a flake than anything else, but they just harp nonstop about her abusing drugs when that really wasn't what Ann M Martin intended for Sharon's character to be about; just someone who is not perfect and divorced supposedly, that's a volatile combination. If it was meant to be a drug thing; Ann M Martin and her ghostwriters would have written a very special book [PSA] titled something like: DAWN AND THE ANTI DRUG/ALCOHOL RALLY/MARY ANNE AND DAWN SAVING SHARON FROM HERSELF/DAWN'S MOM IN REHAB/A VERY SPECIAL BABYSITTERS CLUB: LEARN TO SAY NO TO DRUGS RALLY. And so on and so forth. Both Jack and Sharon are at fault for the divorce. And the divorce was for plot contrivance at that!
Meanwhile, oddly enough, they seem to have no hate or backlash for Jack's lack of involvement in the divorce nor his kids' lives. They act like Jack couldn't just take Sharon to court to stop her from moving to CT. He could have stopped the divorce proceedings, he could have fought for full custody. Hell, failing all of that he could have at least gone to CT to visit Dawn and Jeff.....since he was still very much in their lives, they wrote letters to him everyday; he had their address even if it was just printed on a stamped envelope; meanwhile in order for Dawn to join the babysitters club, they had to first get Dawn to move from LA to Connecticut, and if she has to become Mary Anne's stepsister Dawn's mother has to be divorced so she can marry Mary Anne's father and they also don't seem to realize that Jeff and Dawn don't really miss their father, they miss the state of California and the city of Palo Alto where their father lives and they just miss the idea of their father: Every time we read the books centered on Dawn going back to California to see her dad and Jeff [and there are plenty of those books in the series] she barely mentions or interacts with them at all, it's always all about the beach and sunshine, Palo Alto, Disneyland and the food oh god, the food! [she missed all the great stuff due to her attitude] and in one book she went back to see her brother who had appendicitis and Logan mentioned that Dawn came home with a full tan! Logan, you devil! Meanwhile, Sharon lets her kids go back to Palo Alto and Dawn gets her own spin-off series and that still wasn't enough for them!
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Post by MZ.X on Jan 8, 2024 20:03:12 GMT -5
I learned the following from The Babysitters Club:
That one 13 year old girl can pretty much run the entire city on her own, or at least with her friends; two 11 year olds and nine other 13 year olds.
That your parents getting divorced and moving away isn't a way of life, it's the end of the world.
That if you're one of the popular kids in school, and your parents decide to move, they're selfish and attacked on forums like these ones. If you're unpopular and not well adjusted and your parents decide to move, nobody will give a d**n.
Why could they never center just one TV episode at Sea City?
This board just chooses a random Avatar without your consent, instead of letting the member choose what they want. I don't want Stacey McGill to be my avatar!
Fathers are better than mothers in Ann M Martin's world; she's supposed to be a feminist but in some of her writing she writes more like she's sexist towards her own gender; I didn't notice that when I was in the sixth grade, but I notice it now.
Stacey and Mary Anne can't just enjoy the luxury beach resort life that Sea City offers everyone; they just have to get caught in boy-drama and scandals.
Kristy never learned that there are more kinds of pants she can wear besides jeans/she doesn't realize that there are other types of shirts and sweaters available as well.
It's a wonder that Kristy's outfit didn't fall apart by book 17.
The Babysitters Club does more than just babysit kids, they assist the police in solving crime too!
The mystery books aren't even mysteries!
The ghost stories always have no GHOSTS!
Basically a better spin-off drama should just star Stacey and Mary Anne and take place in Sea City' no need to include Dawn, Logan, Claudia, Abby, Mallory, Jesse, Kristy, or Shannon or their parents: Just create a spin-off made for TV movie starring Stacey and Mary Anne and watch the drama unfold and the sparks fly!
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Post by oldhickory on Jan 9, 2024 11:41:55 GMT -5
What are you talking about? I assume all these guest accounts are the same person so I'm not following how you jump from "scatterbrained people are normal" to "Sharon has a learning disability and Jack didn't fight hard enough for custody"
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 9, 2024 17:14:26 GMT -5
This person had some feelings to work through yesterday. 😆 I didn’t even know that guests could post.
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