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Funny thing is, I got onto one website that I was going to call, then looked at the number: 1-800-skyride. That's when I decided to ask for suggestions.

Not all of us get sweaty butts......

roflmao!!! I've had that happen to me in the summer time

yum yum yum it's soooo good

What the lexus doesn't have dual climate control? And who needed a/c today? brrrrrrrr!

Usually with me, it's get back up, pull foot out of mouth, and sneak away quietly.....

I had to quote it before you corrected it just to prove that you're not perfect....just to make Scott feel he's in good company.

Well, you may have a point but my daughter is only 14 so she'll be keeping her feet firmly planted inside the basket. And I'll be staying with her.

Well, good for you little buddy! (You are just taunting me, right?)

Coming from another man on dizzy I'd look for a hidden subtext there....but you're good people Scott. How do you have a ticket for a free---oh, is it that skyride thing?

I think that would scare the crap out of me!!

Not for jumping out of....I want to take my daughter on one next weekend. Anyone out there have any recommendations for the Denver/Colorado Springs/Canon City areas? Or really anywhere within a few hours' drive of Denver? I googled, but there's (surprisingly) several to choose from. Suggestions/experiences anyone?

I second that.

Nothing compares to the naturally occuring version.

As naive as this may sound, I have never heard that. That was very funny. Thanks for the laugh. He's fat, I'm old, you're naive, Turtle's horny... quite a day of enlightenment I'd say! What? None of this is news.....

Congrats!! You will hear the words, "Look at all that hair" over and over again. Lucky girl.

Hell, I'd PAY to stay there, it sounds like heaven. mmmm, jet fuel in the morning. :)

Well, it's a start.

I do!

To everyone-this has gotten way out of hand, and I sincerely apologize. There's no way in hell I meant this to be attacking teachers in general. If you read my earlier post, I try to set things straight, but nobody seems to be listening. 99% of the teachers I've run into are amazing, giving people. Even the few who are just phoning it in are at least contributing. My gripe was with this teacher who has made numerous disparaging remarks directed at the class when they don't understand what he's teaching. In no way was I encouraging people to bash teachers, and I apologize if this is how it appeared. I have said it many times before, I could not do the job you do. Plain and simple. For all the money in the world, I do not have the patience, skill set, passion to teach kids and not get completely frustrated with the troublesome ones. I admire and aspire to your characters. In the US, teachers are underpaid, underappreciated, and underrespected. Most of them put in way more of their own resources than any of the rest of us would ever think about doing with our jobs. As well as personal time. I think it's our job as parents to be involved and to help with our children's education by enforcing expectations of behavior and responsibility and completion of work assigned. I have had calls from teachers in the past regarding either a behavior or lack of effort on my daughter's part, and I have thanked them and we have worked together to get on top of things. This one jackass teacher doesn't warrant all of this hostility flying around. Again, I apologize for the way my original post may have come across, and I apologize for any disrespect offered up to any teachers. That was not my intent, and I do in fact appreciate the sometimes excruciatingly hard work that you do for our kids. Thank you for doing what you do.

To address some points: I am not one to absolve myself or my daughter of responsibility. I expect her to bring home stuff she doesn't understand and go over it with me. If she chooses not to, then she is choosing to get a poor grade, regardless of the teacher. The algebra class has prerequisites for getting into; they have a team teaching style. So as 7th graders, if they struggled with pre-algebra, they were sent on one path for 8th grade, for those that had a's and b's, they went on to Algebra. The same is true for next year, geometry. AFTER signing off on the AP students going to geometry, he gave his speech and said that many of them should repeat algebra. It's funny, everyone has their own viewpoint, but I feel I handled the situation within the confines of the system as well as I could. I get chastised by some on here for not being proactive enough, yet am considered a trouble maker by the administration at the school if I keep pressing the point. There's no pleasing everyone, and taking flack is part of posting on this forum. I can't change the entire system. I can let my voice be heard, which I did, and then teach my daughter that sometimes you have to find alternate ways to succeed. She is still on the honor roll for this final semester, she didn't pull out an A or B in algebra, but she learned to cope with a difficult teacher. We don't spend a lot of energy worrying about him, but she happened to tell me about his comments and I decided to air them for opinions. Thanks for the feedback everyone.

Had a great time with a friend I hadn't seen in a long time/I got nothin'

No responses from you today....how did it go?

Oh hunny, haven't you learned not to question stitch?! my bad. what was I thinking?