silverfeatherx5's Blog

I love to take my kids to Shakey's Pizza as a quieter alternative to the place with the mouse...

I have been hearing rumors that they are planning on closing down.

Does anyone know more about this?

It is located off Lincoln Ave and National Ave and has been a wonderful family environment for me for years... I even have fond memories of the magician making me balloon animals for my birthday parties as a child.

I will really miss this place and so will my kids if the rumor has some truth to it.

(Allegedly - until I provide proof that no one will give me) A teacher at Hamilton High School in Milwaukee purchased and pays for  cell phone for my child. He has also taken him to movies and to visit various homes of girls. (changes girls faster than his underwear)

The school won't do anything because I have no proof other than the fact that my kid came clean as to where the phone came from.

The police won't do anything because they say it is not a crime for a teacher to provide a child THAT ISN"T THEIRS with a cell phone.

We as parents did not give this adult permission to take him to movies or to visit homes of girls or to have the cell phone.

In fact it was all done without our knowledge. The kid is sneaky in his own right and I wouldn't trust him further than I could throw him which isn't far.

It doesn't matter to the police that I am afraid of my own child. He acts out in violent and very attitudy (is that a word?) ways if you take things away from him or he is not getting what he wants when he wants it. This makes for a very difficult living situation.

I tried calling the cellphone company that the phone is through. They won't do anything about the fact that one of their customers is providing a phone to an underage child that is not their either.

Where else can we turn for help? This is mindboggling that everybody thinks there is nothing wrong with a teacher purchasing a phone for a child without parental permission.

Question:

How does the curfew apply to the teens that have jobs?

If the teen is scheduled to work until 10:30 but one of their parents works nights and can't pick them up and the other parent doesn't want to wake up the little ones that need their sleep for school, and are not old enough to be home alone.  Or another scenario, the parent is a single one raising more than the one teen and again needs to be responsible for those sleeping and the teen needing to get home after curfew.

Is there a grace period for those that are in uniform and can prove they are just going from work to home?

I guess I am asking as our 17 year old just got his first job and I am curious how this is going to affect either us or his job.

Is there a place to look up the ordinance governing the curfew in Milwaukee? I am specifically asking Milwaukee as we live in and he works in Milwaukee. I know different cities have slightly different guidelines.

I have never seen anyone address curfew in this way and now because of Antoine1's blog I am now seeking direction!

On January 24th you backed into my private driveway and sat in your car with it running waiting for who knows what for at least 15 minutes, but I think it was closer to 20 minutes. I called the Milwaukee Spanish Immersion School to ask for help, but no one answered the phone... the message said they were closed, but the school was a buzz with activity everywhere. I then called the police and they took the complaint but were unable to come out as they would not arrive in time to do anything helpful. After talking with the supervising sergent for 30 minutes (and the offending vehicle left during that conversation) she was as baffled as I am at how to solve the problem as my neighbors and I have done just about everything under the sun that is legal to solve the problem with no success.

The school has made a few changes, such as waving people out of our driveways, and approaching cars telling them to move.. and today they started putting out orange cones to indicate the edges of the neighboring driveways so that their students parents don't impede our access to our driveways.

The safety commission gave us a crossing guard.

Mr. Posley of Administrative Accountability said weather permitting large functions will have parents parking on the playground (apparently there was still too much snow and as the school board has a policy against plowing playgrounds the parents parked on the street). He also said that during the large functions there would be a safety aide or staff member outside directing traffic to prevent parents from blocking driveways or parking in them like the driver of the vehicle 857 GHR  did tonight. That individual was not present in any way shape or form.

MPS is only making minimal efforts to work with the neighbors surrounding it's schools.

I have been trying to see the comments on blogs... but none of them are available to see...

Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem with the program?

Martin Luther King has been and still is an important figure in the history of this nation. My question is this:

Why do the children get the day off of school for this holiday?

Wouldn't the rich history and the memory of his legacy be better served with children learning about it at school and celebrating it in an educational setting versus giving them a "free" day at home.

What do you think?

My youngest son was born on Valentine's Day in 2002. Up until last year, I was able to get away with "postponing" his birthday celebration by a few days. This year he is all excited and quite aware that his special 6th birthday is fast approaching.

Is there a way to balance his birthday, with the celebration that he will be having in school that day, along with finding alone time for my husband and myself...

Due to his deciding to arrive on Valentine's Day in 2002, I missed out on the Creed concert with my husband and we have yet to have time to ourselves on this holiday 6 years later. Needless to say my husband used the tickets and enjoyed the concert and my, well... I got to enjoy the birth of me 5th boy....

How do holiday "babies" deal with splitting their special day with the holiday festivities?

My second grader brought home fun homework this week. His class is trying to get one postcard from each state as they learn about all 50 of them.

The class is small with 15 or fewer students in it, so this should be a huge challenge for them to complete by their deadline of June 8th.

We started looking through the address book trying to find family or friends that live in other states so we could ask them for postcards... It has been refreshing contacting people that we don't normally talk to on a regular basis.

It will be fun to see if they can get one from each state!

I was driving down Cleveland Avenue this morning and ran across a sign on a front lawn on the north east corner of 49th and Cleveland Ave. It read...

Something to the affect of: "Honk if you hate Dallas".  

I wish I could have figured out how to put pictures onto my computer... another lesson for later, but then I could have included it here...

As a non-sports fan, I have to say I found the sign amusing.

With Leap year coming in 2008 I have a question that I have always wondered about.

I know we all age everday that we are on the planet. Do leap year babies really only "age" every four years as far as their birthdays go or is that just fun and games?

My other question would be: How did February become the only month to have less than 30 days in it to begin with? All the other months have 30 or 31 days, how is it that February did not get 2 more days to be a 30 day month while 2 of the 31 days months could have been shorted a day. Wouldn't that have evened things out a little?

Just curious, something that I have always wondered and never really thought to ask!

Thanks and looking forward to your answers!