Teacher Reviews+Butthead
And so yes - Friday again.
We have the parent-teacher conferences yesterday and both Eitan and Madeleine do fine.  Mrs. Q, Madeleine's teacher, says that Madeleine is great at her times tables, has good ideas for story-writing, has improved her ability to develop story-lines and loves art.  She shows us a hand crafted Tudor chair made with styrofoam, fabric and sparkles.  Fabulous.  We are delighted with Madeleine's progress.
Eitan's teacher, Mr P, is new to the school, from Ireland, and looks exactly like Butthead from 'Beavis & Butthead.'  Seriously.   Tall and unusually thin.  Long narrow head slightly larger at the top, cropped black hair+large lower lip.  Do a Google.   Eitan tells us that the boys try to get him to say "third" because Mr P's accent says "turd."  Yet P instills our confidence as he rattles through a check list of Eitan's accomplishments - he takes a particular interest Eitan's literary abilities which is P's favorite subject.  Eitan may not be the class leader, we learn, but he is confident and independent - I think too early to call him a geek but that is there too. 
As for Butthead in "Beavis & Butthead,"  Butthead wears dental braces  has squinty eyes and a drooping nose with prominent nostrils. His top  gums exposed due to a small upper lip and he speaks nasally  with a deep voice and a slight lisp. He begins almost every statement  with "Uhhhhhh..." and ends with his short trademark laugh "Uh huh huh  huh". Calmer, though cockier, and marginally more intelligent than  Beavis, Butt-head is oblivious to subtlety of any sort and is usually  100% confident in everything he says and does no matter how ridiculous  or frivolous it is—unless it has to do with females, in which case he  either wavers or comes on too strongly. His trademark phrase when  approaching women is "hey baby". As the more dominant personality of the  duo it seems he derives pleasure from regularly abusing Beavis.  It is a total cap on the suburban teenager.
