My first question is what kind of showing are you planning.  Secondly, what color is Duke?

Your outfit should be tailored to your style of riding (reining, barrels, Western Pleasure, Horsemanship, etc.) and compliment the horse's natural colors while still showing your individual flare.

For example, a neon pink saddle pad with glittered hoof polish would not go well in Horsemanship...even in your local 4-H club shows.

Jesse,  Some forum ettiqute that would be helpful to us readers,

Typing in all caps is refered to be shouting, and an annoying thing to read.

Spelling and typing style is the only thing we can judge each other by, To come across and use bad habits in these areas paints a bad image of yourself.

Spell check is built into this forum spellcheck with the "ABC" and check mark underneath. 

Also for show (at least the ones I go to) the horse has a registered paper name and that is his show name, not one I get to make up.

You can go to some of the major horse vendor websites such as schniders (www.sstack.com), state line tack,(www.statelinetack.com) and they have reccomendations on what colors to use for a show shirt based on your horses color.

Kevin 

I don't think this is an 8-10 yr old posting. I think it's a twenty-something secretary that used to work for me, and may I say, for a very short time! LOL

I am also a 4-H Advisor.  I also know that if this "kid" is in 4-H they would be talking to their leader about this.   I really don't believe this is a kid.  Especially the one response was very well worded, too articulate for an 8-10 yr old!!!  I have been involved in 4-H for over 25 years.  First of all I don't believe a kid would be asking those type of questions on a forum that is 99.9% adult discussion.  Second of all there are more "kid friendly" forums elsewhere on the net.  I did a random search and this forum doesn't automatically come up on the search engines, so as a kid they would have to be pretty intelligent to seek out this forum!  Just a couple of things to consider.  When you enter htw front page.  Your first look is at trailers, not a forum.  The forum link is very small at the top right of the page.  So someone has to be intent on entering the forum.  Working with kids, I know they have short attention spans and unless it is easy to get into most don't waste their time searching for something, especially 8-10 year olds!!!  So I my deduction is this.... in all probability this is a someone who likes to stir things up and act like a juvenile.  Also, there were other postings about helpful suggestions and you notice how this "kid" did not say thank you, nor acknowledge them? Plus most of the young kids (8-10) do not go around saying you are "dissing" me...lol.. especially ones around horses!  Big clue there. 

Do students in Chicago not get a related arts time??  Our students in TN have access to computers at different times in the day.  There is one post that was made at 7:35 a.m. that puzzles me.  I am not sure when your start times are for schools in that area.  The computers have software that prevents them from accessing certain sites with unacceptable content for minors.  I would venture to say that this site would not be blocked.   I came across a student this past year in a club meeting that typed like this and used alot of the same language.  For these reasons, I felt it could be plausible that this could be a child.  I am one to give people the benefit of doubt instead of jumping to the worse case scenario.  Just call it southern hospitality.

If this is a child she/he should be in severe remediation for obvious reasons.  In my experience this type of problem leads parents to pull their children from public school and teach at home.  The major problem with this is that the parent is not trained to deal with these needs and thus the child never learns to correct the deficiency.  This is how we end-up with adults that can't read and write well enough to hold a job.

Bad learning problems lead to education problems.

Educational problems lead to social problems.

Social problems lead to leaving the educational system.

You know the rest of this story....

Now I deserve a martini.

Scarey part is...my neighbor home schools and all of her kids have MAJOR educational issues and recieve ZERO specialized treatment and their needs go unattended.  She knows that I know exactly why she home schools and she talks for them when I am around to cover for her kids.

I wonder if home schooled kids can sue their parents for robbing them of a good education?  I ask because I have yet to meet ONE home schooled child that was even close to on-level when they hit public school or college.

ok ok ill stop just had to have a great laugh I was really bored sorry if I really mad u mad guys but the first form was the real thing then when u guys got off the subject I decided to pretend I was really dumb at school.

JesseJames,

I work with 8-10 yrs olds.  First of all they do not articulate they way you do, second of all your last posting proved to all that you are not young child.  I am haphazarding a guess of either late teens or early 20s, probably a bored college student.  I gather that from the lack of maturity of thinking by typing badly formed words it would be a good laugh.  Thank you for wasting my time and everyone elses who really did want to help.  Hope you got your laugh, Happy Valentines day.

I guess that the benefit of the doubt and southern hospitality just jumped out the window.

Farmbabe, if your child needed speech therapy what would you do?

Most home school kids are taken from school by a parent that can't deal with the fact that their child isn't developmentally normal and needs "special services" like some special education course.  I have sen this more than parents bringing their child into school to get the help they need.

College brings on a whole new set of problems for the home schooled child.  Large class sizes and lack of guidance usually land these students back at home feeling like they were feed to a pack of wolves.  While socially they may survive they usually don't thrive like public school kids.  Home schooled children score lower on major tests that indicate college success.  Whether this is from the lack of "high stakes testing" or preparation is another subject unto itself.

In large Texas colleges you’ll find a higher % of home school in remediation than public and private school children.  I am comparing the % of non-credit enrollees to their % of total enrollment, in respective categories.   While home school children do get into college they are usually stopped on or before their 9^th credit hour due to failure to pass the college entrance exam TASP, now called TSI.  I have seen this last for MANY semesters while public school children continue their educational sequence on average much sooner.

[QUOTE]Originally written by HWBar on 2006-02-15 6:12 AM

So what is the prize that I get for exposing this one? A Dukes of Hazzard Shirt to WEER!!

I certainly got "Duked" on this one as well.  Oh, well, you try to stand up for someone and look what you get!!

ty for the complement my3horses i really apreshate  it. thanks again

The biggest clue that I noticed from all of this was that the prankster's misspellings were too obvious in the text.......but he didn't have any problem spelling "jessejames".

I doubt he/she is telling the truth even now.

I'm really really sorry plz forgive me.

thanks to all of the people that forgave me. :)

I keep wondering why everyone is still responding to this "JesseJames" person/kid.

Why keep fueling the fire with this one?

Wow I am gone for a short while and hehe i have to say this is the first time i have ever seen the like on this particualr forum..hehe. Jesse I have no clue about whether or not you are just unable to spell or just pretending. However I have to say that my husband when typing on a forum or anything else checks and rechecks what he has wrote. Simple reason being that he has a very difficult time spelling. WHen i first met him even some of the shortest words like where were a problem for him. He is dyslexic(sp?)  and no one ever really helped him with it. (yes public schools).  He managed to graduate HS and all then he was NOT able to go to college because most 12 year olds could spell better than he. SO please to pretend is rather insulting to those who have a viable learning disability. He has since gotten much better at his spelling courtesy of simple games and such. Please if this is just a joke to you consider that sometimes people really cannot spell correctly. Although i must say the obviosuness og the misspellings you had were just that too obvious. My 5 year old is not that obvious when he types. Well god day and please do grow up.

Well Huntseat now I'm gonna jump in. You my friend just don't know what your talking about.

Just for your Information home schooled children score much higher on average on "major tests that indicate college success" than do public school children. This would be the SAT and ACT testing. Most but not all home schooled children that go on to college do better than public schooled kids. I can't speek for Texas but in most states, colleges and Universities will try very hard to recruit home schooled children because of this fact.

Home schoolers also have local, state, and national organizations to help with special needs, books, lesson plans, legal help and much more. So if Farmbabe's child needs speech therapy she will be able to find help. As a matter of fact it may be better than she may find in the public schools. Plus she may also be able to get the special help from her local public school. You know she is a tax payer.

Today our public schools are in poor shape because of things like teachers Unions, schools board and politicians that think they know better than parents. They also think that more and more money will take care of the problems.  

What my challenge to you huntseat is this. Do a google search on "home school" Spend the next few months educating yourself about the TRUE facts about home schooling then get back to me. Please try not to be closed minded about this, just seek the truth about home schooling. The facts are all out there.

I agree with MIFarmbabe.  If JesseJames bothers people, why do they feed the fire? 

I can say these forums are informative but also entertaining on how some people react.

I don't think it's that JesseJames can't spell, I think the person is just pushing people's buttons because they can and having fun with it.

I think the names says it all "Outlaw" and they will continue to be a rebel.  We all have choices to click or not to click....  : - )