School foolishness again

[unixronin]

Once again, I find myself having to bitchslap gently remonstrate with the school system.  The Silly Goose has managed to get behind on her schoolwork already, barely over a month into the quarter, and the assignment which was sent home with her to complete over this coming weekend for partial credit is described on the accompanying instruction sheet as "making a rubric".

Needless to say, the assignment does not, in any way, shape or form, constitute anything consistent (without taking great liberties and stretching the definition almost beyond recognition) with any dictionary definition of the word 'rubric' with which I am familiar.  What appears, according to the assignment instruction sheet, to be meant by a 'rubric' in the assignment is a drawing which is successively refined in a series of numbered frames from the most basic, bare-bones sketch to a complete, detailed drawing.

In my note back to the teacher, I stopped short of saying "You picked a word you liked and invented a meaning for it out of whole cloth."  But I didn't stop far short.

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[ithildae.livejournal.com]

One of the more important lessons from my elementary school years was the manner of dealing with people who are stupid. Usually, that meant teachers. I am learning those lessons all over again with my children in school. While it is more personally satisfying to bite, hard, I find that it is much more effective to let the school know that I have teeth, and let them imagine how hard I bite.