Old QOTW Follow Up (but relevant)
A few weeks ago (on the Spolit Brats QOTW) I posted about writing my sons homework for him (For a dream diary).

I used two of the replies that were offered from the B3tans and on Friday I found (see told you it was relevant) a letter from my sons teacher requesting a parent teacher meeting with the words HIS FATHER MUST ATTEND written in bold on the bottom of the slip.

The wife has said I am not allowed to argue my case that some happy clappy write down your dreams crap is not a decent form of homework.

Should I go there and give this teacher my opinion (and risk a week of bitching and no nookie from my other half) or should I go and mumble an apology while looking at the floor?
(mon bison powered by magnets, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 11:50, 16 replies)

For the next dream...
Write something along the lines of "I hear Mummy and Daddy arguing every night now, why won't he just tell her where he hid the bodies?"

And then see if you're still required?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 11:52, closed)

Would love to do this
but the homework was handed in just before half term.

We are doing a fitness diary this week (Yes another fucking diary it's nothing but an easy way to avoid giving the kids a different piece of homework every night).

After reading your reply I was thinking of writing the entry:

1 hours hard work: Helped dad bury two bloody sacks in local woodland, dad told me to forget about this and that the police would never find the bodies here.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 12:16, closed)

Stand your ground!
See, she may threaten you but seriously, who got more women? James Dean or Gandhi? Hmmm? Be a rebel, fight the man (or woman).

She'll be angry on the outside but inside she'll be gooier than a creme egg.
(GONEism, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 11:54, closed)

^^
Well, once you've finished
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 11:58, closed)

^^^this
has got to be the correct answer.
(dchurch bah, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 11:58, closed)

Thanks
I was planning on doing this and needed a bit of backing before going through with it.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 12:24, closed)

sorry, but
the answer's Gandhi

Exhibit A: in his later years Gandhi would routinely sleep between two naked and nubile girls 'to test his vows of celibacy' - I'll bet he failed now and then, eh readers?

Exhibit B: James Dean was a bender and 'got' no women at all...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 17:32, closed)

Which dreams did you use?
Just wondering....
(paof2 Nude might not be rude, but rude could be nude..., Mon 10 Nov 2008, 12:16, closed)

I chose to use
Evilscary's binary suggestion and I got him to copy Axeman Jims post word for word.

I actually think it was the latter that made the teacher realise I was the one writing it.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 12:22, closed)

I'm going to be boring...
...but it depends what the point of the homework was. If it was so they could all discuss their dreams, then fair enough. If it was a means to improve literacy using dreams as the subject matter for descriptive writing, then I think it's a perfectly fair homework to set.
( TheAlmightyBeev, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 13:08, closed)

Stand thy ground
Personally I don't remember my dreams, so I would have been stuffed at such a homework.
Only if your son was having trouble do you have a leg to stand on. But to be fair I always thought English was wank.
As teach if she has a sense of humour. And your bird will get over it.
(tweebianmonkey Should be known as Widget, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 13:11, closed)

"write down your dreams"
is a perfectly sensible sort of homework, if you want to get the illiterate sprogs to learn to write about something.

OK, "about your dreams" might be a bit hippy-sounding, but it's as good a topic as "about your cat/dog/quadratic equations" or whatever.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 13:11, closed)

Stand your ground, man!
I never got any such pissy homework as a wee 'un and I grew up fine. I think.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 13:24, closed)

At school
we had to write about Shakespeare plays, Dickens novels and other such classic-but-difficult-for-a-13-year-old-to-relate-to stuff.

I used to dream about being asked to write about my dreams.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 16:51, closed)

Absolutely
give the teacher your opinion. S/he sounds like a fuhrer.

I once helped my 11 year old son write a poem for school. He hated the class and almost in tears at having to make up a poem. We had a great time and laughed our assess off writing this:

Blue Fox



Suddenly, I am awake.



The curtain blows across my face.



What has woke me?



There is a Blue Fox in the window.



Where are you going, Blue Fox?

What are you doing, Blue Fox?

Why are you Blue, Fox?

Are you sad?





Nope, it's the LSD.



Note to self: Stay away from Mom's cupcakes.

I got an immediate call from the principal.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 23:41, closed)

take off and nuke the site from orbit
it's the only way to be sure
(Dangermouse., Tue 11 Nov 2008, 12:13, closed)