In social studies, we are studying holidays and celebrations (as far as our curriculum goes, this is pretty exciting stuff!)
Anyway, we were reading about Memorial Day, and the students came across the word "veteran," which of course, somehow turned into the word "veterinarian." I corrected her and moved on, and later, as we came to a caption using the word "veteran," I heard THAT student say "veterinarian."
I was laughing inside, because as so many students do, they make the word MORE difficult to read by adding more syllables. We then had to discuss the difference between a veterinarian (most didn't know what that was either) and a veteran.
P.S. And on a totally side note, when did it become okay to have your children taken away from you and CONTINUE having children? Would someone explain that to me? OR, have your mom give up a baby for adoption a year before and be pregnant again? Grrrrr.
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ok. it is considered an unalienable right for people to breed. A parent has to be clinically proven to be incompetent as a caregiver inorder for the state to take away children that they have and any subsequent children they have--meaning, they'll find you and take the baby before you leave the hospital. Now, the catch is, if you sign away your parental rights (give the kid up of your own free will) you can have and keep as many subsequent kids as you want. Does that make sense? You have to be found COMPLETELY incompetent as a parent. This is shown through psychological testing, parenting, history of DCFS cases, neglect and abuse. Despite some of the horrible things that go in the world, it's difficult to build a good case because few family members/abused kids themselves will give the collateral information that's needed to support the case. The other problem is that the testing (the most important part, really) is EXPENSIVE and most people don't just go out and get it done. Typically, the state (DCFS/CPS) orders the testing and tax payers foot the expenditure of it--but they won't do it unless there's a substantial risk to the child. Most parents, when they realize that they may be proven incompetent and not have any children period, sign away rights just so they could potentially keep any future children--basically so the state doesn't own your ovaries/sperm. It gets really complicated when kids have different parents because both have to be found incompetent if they're both in the home inorder to be taken away... atleast that's my understanding of it.
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