Athena's IN!!!

On Tue, 15 May 2007 14:03:35 +0930, Mummy Az <manth DeleteThis @westnet.com.au>
wrote:

>Hey guys,
>
>A couple of weeks ago, Athena was called for an interview concerning
>gifted placements for High School, which she starts in January of
>2008. I'm happy to say that they have offered her a place in the
>Gifted class! This is such wonderful news, as it puts her in a
>guaranteed Out Of Area placement to the best school in the area
>instead of being placed in the closest (and worst) school. Even
>better, it guarantees ISHTAR a place in the same school (but not the
>gifted program - she'll have to test for that next year) for High
>School.
>
>I'm so proud of my clever daughter.
>
>Az

WOO HOO!
Congratulations to Athena!
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>Hey guys,
>
>A couple of weeks ago, Athena was called for an interview concerning
>gifted placements for High School, which she starts in January of
>2008. I'm happy to say that they have offered her a place in the
>Gifted class! This is such wonderful news, as it puts her in a
>guaranteed Out Of Area placement to the best school in the area
>instead of being placed in the closest (and worst) school. Even
>better, it guarantees ISHTAR a place in the same school (but not the
>gifted program - she'll have to test for that next year) for High
>School.
>
>I'm so proud of my clever daughter.
>
>Az

I suppose naming her after a goddess of wisdom didn't hurt?

Congratulations all around!

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Mummy Az wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> A couple of weeks ago, Athena was called for an interview concerning
> gifted placements for High School, which she starts in January of
> 2008. I'm happy to say that they have offered her a place in the
> Gifted class! This is such wonderful news, as it puts her in a
> guaranteed Out Of Area placement to the best school in the area
> instead of being placed in the closest (and worst) school. Even
> better, it guarantees ISHTAR a place in the same school (but not the
> gifted program - she'll have to test for that next year) for High
> School.
>
> I'm so proud of my clever daughter.

Well, that certainly says a lot about your raising her as well.
Congrats to all of you.

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In article <9rdi43lb02mhrvltaonfi376cuu69dhidr.RemoveThis@4ax.com>,
Mummy Az <manth.RemoveThis@westnet.com.au> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> A couple of weeks ago, Athena was called for an interview concerning
> gifted placements for High School, which she starts in January of
> 2008. I'm happy to say that they have offered her a place in the
> Gifted class!
[snip]

Congrats to Athena! (And her parents too, of course)

Edna


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Mummy Az wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> A couple of weeks ago, Athena was called for an interview concerning
> gifted placements for High School, which she starts in January of
> 2008. I'm happy to say that they have offered her a place in the
> Gifted class! This is such wonderful news, as it puts her in a
> guaranteed Out Of Area placement to the best school in the area
> instead of being placed in the closest (and worst) school. Even
> better, it guarantees ISHTAR a place in the same school (but not the
> gifted program - she'll have to test for that next year) for High
> School.
>
> I'm so proud of my clever daughter.

That is great.

Today we had our primary elections. We have 5 people, among 11 total,
who are trying to reduce the school budget by eliminating things not
mandated by the state. Things like sports, music, art, computers, and
busing in students to school. If this was a card game these people would
be playing lowball - the worst hand is the 'winner'. If they get in our
entire school district will be 'the worst' school.

>
> Az


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Mummy Az wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> A couple of weeks ago, Athena was called for an interview concerning
> gifted placements for High School, which she starts in January of
> 2008. I'm happy to say that they have offered her a place in the
> Gifted class! This is such wonderful news, as it puts her in a
> guaranteed Out Of Area placement to the best school in the area
> instead of being placed in the closest (and worst) school. Even
> better, it guarantees ISHTAR a place in the same school (but not the
> gifted program - she'll have to test for that next year) for High
> School.
>
> I'm so proud of my clever daughter.

That's great!

I remember your worries about your girls getting challenging
enough schooling.

<thinking way, way, waaaaaaaaaayyyy ahead> Maybe Athena should go
for a PhD! I hear that women computer scientists are nice folks...

<eg>

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>> Hey guys,
>> A couple of weeks ago, Athena was called for an interview concerning
>> gifted placements for High School, which she starts in January of
>> 2008. I'm happy to say that they have offered her a place in the
>> Gifted class! This is such wonderful news, as it puts her in a
>> guaranteed Out Of Area placement to the best school in the area
>> instead of being placed in the closest (and worst) school. Even
>> better, it guarantees ISHTAR a place in the same school (but not the
>> gifted program - she'll have to test for that next year) for High
>> School.
>>
>> I'm so proud of my clever daughter.
>
> That's great!
>
> I remember your worries about your girls getting challenging enough
> schooling.
>
> <thinking way, way, waaaaaaaaaayyyy ahead> Maybe Athena should go for a
> PhD! I hear that women computer scientists are nice folks...

Modest, too.

> <eg>

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In article <9rdi43lb02mhrvltaonfi376cuu69dhidr DeleteThis @4ax.com>, Mummy Az
<manth DeleteThis @westnet.com.au> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> A couple of weeks ago, Athena was called for an interview concerning
> gifted placements for High School, which she starts in January of
> 2008. I'm happy to say that they have offered her a place in the
> Gifted class! This is such wonderful news, as it puts her in a
> guaranteed Out Of Area placement to the best school in the area
> instead of being placed in the closest (and worst) school. Even
> better, it guarantees ISHTAR a place in the same school (but not the
> gifted program - she'll have to test for that next year) for High
> School.
>
> I'm so proud of my clever daughter.
>
> Az

Congrats!

GRF
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On Tue, 15 May 2007 23:14:52 GMT, "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
<"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Mummy Az wrote:
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> A couple of weeks ago, Athena was called for an interview concerning
>> gifted placements for High School, which she starts in January of
>> 2008. I'm happy to say that they have offered her a place in the
>> Gifted class! This is such wonderful news, as it puts her in a
>> guaranteed Out Of Area placement to the best school in the area
>> instead of being placed in the closest (and worst) school. Even
>> better, it guarantees ISHTAR a place in the same school (but not the
>> gifted program - she'll have to test for that next year) for High
>> School.
>>
>> I'm so proud of my clever daughter.
>
>That's great!
>
>I remember your worries about your girls getting challenging
>enough schooling.

<nodding> I'm lucky. My kids are self-starters and don't hesitate in
setting themselves extension work when they finish the set work. But
still - the challenge they get at school right now is not much,
compared to their ability. The gifted program is brilliant and should
give them so much more! The competition was fierce - 466 applicants
for 90 places over 3 schools - so getting a place was amazingly
wonderful.

><thinking way, way, waaaaaaaaaayyyy ahead> Maybe Athena should go
>for a PhD! I hear that women computer scientists are nice folks...
>
><eg>

PhD is very much something she is considering, but not in computer
science. Her tastes run to Engineering with plans to become a
Robotics Engineer in the future. Ishtar wants to be a Forensic
Anthropologist - those clever folks who can take a skull and build a
face back on it, aiding in identification of long-dead victims of
crime (among other things). Both of them realise that to make these
dreams will mean a lot of hard work but they think it would be
worth-while! With their Daddy (PhD in Tachyon Physics) as a example,
they know it's do-able by Real People!

I'd agree with you about women computer scientists. One of my best
friends is feverishly writing away at her dissertation. She's going
to make an Awesome Doctor.

Az
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Mummy Az wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 23:14:52 GMT, "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
> wrote:
>
>
>>Mummy Az wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hey guys,
>>>
>>>A couple of weeks ago, Athena was called for an interview concerning
>>>gifted placements for High School, which she starts in January of
>>>2008. I'm happy to say that they have offered her a place in the
<snip>
>>I remember your worries about your girls getting challenging
>>enough schooling.
>
> <nodding> I'm lucky. My kids are self-starters and don't hesitate in
> setting themselves extension work when they finish the set work. But
> still - the challenge they get at school right now is not much,
> compared to their ability. The gifted program is brilliant and should
> give them so much more! The competition was fierce - 466 applicants
> for 90 places over 3 schools - so getting a place was amazingly
> wonderful.

Whoooeeeee.

And I'm sure their teachers will enjoy them; kids who really want
to learn makes it possible to be much more ambitious about lesson
plans. ;>

>><thinking way, way, waaaaaaaaaayyyy ahead> Maybe Athena should go
>>for a PhD! I hear that women computer scientists are nice folks...
>>
>><eg>
>
> PhD is very much something she is considering, but not in computer
> science. Her tastes run to Engineering with plans to become a
> Robotics Engineer in the future. Ishtar wants to be a Forensic
> Anthropologist - those clever folks who can take a skull and build a
> face back on it, aiding in identification of long-dead victims of
> crime (among other things). Both of them realise that to make these
> dreams will mean a lot of hard work but they think it would be
> worth-while! With their Daddy (PhD in Tachyon Physics) as a example,
> they know it's do-able by Real People!

Welllllll... as a computer geek, I am, of course, bound to insist
that robots *are* computers (with, like, wheels attached), and so
the study of them falls into computer science.

I hear mechanical engineers have a different idea, but who cares
about their opinion?

[Oh, boy, am I going to get into trouble if any of my mechanical
engineer friends read that...]

I think Ishtar's ambition sounds very cool -- but I have never,
personally, been very fond of squishy things that smell bad, as
dead humans tend to do. I'll stick with my nice, clean,
smell-free computers. :>

> I'd agree with you about women computer scientists. One of my best
> friends is feverishly writing away at her dissertation. She's going
> to make an Awesome Doctor.

Good luck to her -- she'll need it!

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Mazel tov!!!! <Throws confetti>

Wait until you can no longer understand her homework.

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