u/DrakeSavory

The entire semester I'm telling this student to get off their phone ... multiple times. Called home letting them know if their student doesn't start doing work they are going to fail. It's easy to grade zeros so the grade has been a solid F all this time. This is the students' last week of school unless they are failing. Then they have to come after Memorial Day to make up work to pass so all this week I have been dragging the student into my room from her classes she is passing to do work.

She comes up to me today to sign off on her pass. They turn this in to admin to take the rest of this week off and next week as well. But for a teacher to sign off the student needs to be guaranteed to pass the class. So the student hands me her pass and there are the string of Ds from their other teachers. I say I'm not signing this. You are nowhere close to passing. Remember all of the times I told you to put your phone away? And how you ignored me?

They start crying. But ... But ... But ... But I started the work. I said getting started is not sufficient. You need to finish it, turn it in and edit if there are any errors. And she stares at me not comprehending. "You mean you're not going to sign me out?". " No. You. Are. Not. Passing. This is because of the choice you made to be on your phone despite me telling you to get to work every day." So now they are sitting at a desk crying trying to do 60% of the semester 's work in 2 days.

Natural consequences.

Arkansas if it makes a difference. I'm looking at a beautiful parcel and if looking at roads it definitely has access but they may be private roads and one of the roads cuts off to one side of the property to a house on another lot. Who should I contact to see who has access to where?

I know that 50 states and the Feds make for 51 different laws but I'm hoping there is a general answer to this question. I have no clue when I'm going to die and I have one asset, a car, that may be more useful to one heir or the other depending on my death date. One heir is my son (and his descendants as he spawns them) and if I die tomorrow it would be very useful to him. The other heir is my step-son's daughter - my granddaughter. If I die in like 12-15 years the car would be very useful to her.

So here is the question: can I give my executor the power to decide who needs the car the most at the time and they decide who gets it? Or do I need to specify?

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At our staff meeting today starting the discussion for next year, we were hit with 2 new reasons why students are absent. And to the surprise of no one, it is the teachers' fault.

Reason number 1: Teachers are absent too. Yes a couple of teachers have used their maximum numbers of days off so why should students show up to school when teachers don't. Make sense if you ignore that 2 were out on medical leave and that almost every teacher except the couple of chronic absentees will show up sick or exhausted after staying up with the baby. Oh and yes they are comparing teachers that take 10 days off in a year with students absent 40+ days a semester.

Reason number 2: Apparently students and their parents are unaware you need to physically go to school, so what have YOU done to notify them beyond the robocalls and the attendance being available online. How many phone calls did you make? How many emails did you send? Did you do any home visits? I literally have only one time in the decade at this school where a phone call made any difference. The parent would drop off their student in the parking lot and leave. The student would then leave for the rest of the day. After the call, the parent waited until the student was physically in the building. So the parent was already doing almost everything to get their student to class and not the typical reply I get on phone calls of, "They don't want to go to school so I let them stay home."

I get that when things are complicated or new, students need some time to process. These ain't those times. I guess my students want me to be all warm and fuzzy when they can't do the most basic things. For example if they are looking up home prices I'll say, "Type in realtor.com" and they immediately try to pull up Google. I'll say, "That's not what I said. Type in realtor.com.". They hate that I repeat my direction rather than helping them. Or like in a spreadsheet I'll say, "Click on B3." And they click anywhere but B3. then I will say, "Click on B3." And trace out column B and row 3 and point directly to cell B3. They click on a different cell than the first time but still nowhere close to B3. I tap on the screen, "Click on B3.". Again they click on E7 or something. "Where am I pointing? Click on B3." At that point it is a 50/50 chance they will click on B3. They hate that so much. I guess I should be doing more to help them like facilitated mousing aka doing for them. At least they think so.