Proud step-papa

[Grampa]

Michelle's son Ethan competed with a team of 4th, 5th, and 6th graders last weekend at the Bakersfield City School District's Academic Pentathalon.  For those of you who are familiar with the Academic Decathalon, it's like that only for 4th - 8th graders instead of high schoolers and only five subjects are tested instead of ten.  For those of you who aren't familiar with either, Academic Pentathalon is a competition at the individual level for students who take tests in Literature, math, and science (and an essay for 6th graders).  As a team, each grade also competes in a Super Quiz (kind of like Jeopardy and the questions are all from each grade's social studies curriculum).  The individual testing was done this past week and today was the Super Quiz.

As a 4th grader, this was his first experience with Academic Pentathalon, but I have to say . . . he rocked!  He came home with 2 individual and 2 team awards.  He was awarded a silver medal for his score on the individual science test, he earned a silver in the overall category (a combination of his literature, math, and science test scores), his team earned a silver medal for the Super Quiz, and the 4th grade team won a gold medal for overall performance by all of the students (there were a bunch of individual awards for the 4th graders in addition to Ethans').  It was a lot of fun to watch the competition (even if I learned that I am NOT smarter than a 4th grader, nevermind a 5th grader!) and each of the 5th and 6th grade teams from Ethan's school also won medals for their Super Quiz performances and several individual medals.

[SacDuc]

WOOOOOOHOOOOOO!  Great Job Ethan!    Sorry we won't see you on the fourth.

And  to LM for emphasizing the school work! and  to Joel for not making the kid dumb by proxy!


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/ you know I'm just kidding you big lug 

[Grampa]

whats'a proxy?

[TiNi]

great job ethan 

congrats on having a smarty pants son michele and joel 

[SacDuc]

Joel,

You don't let that youngin' get all uppity wit' that fancy book learnin'. You get him an honest job soon as he can buck a bale of hay.

[Grampa]

we practice flip'n burgers every other evening...for 3 hours

[ducpainter]

Good for Ethan...

[LMT]

Brainiacs Rule!  Did I spell that right?   

[lilysmama]

Sorry we won't see you on the fourth.

Just FYI, the boys aren't a "no" for the 4th . . . they're an "I don't know yet."

[Ash]

that's totally awesome, man.

i'm tired of this country looking down on smarties when they're young.  make smart cool again!

[Betty Rage]

Yayyyy!!! 

[SacDuc]

Just FYI, the boys aren't a "no" for the 4th . . . they're an "I don't know yet."

  I hope they can make it!


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[Howie]

Way to go, Ethan!

[Polpetta]

Way to go Ethan!
Great job!

Our nieces and nephews will be there too 

[Drunken Monkey]

WTG!

And a proxy is the stuff you use to glue your fingers together.