My Own Thoughts

ALI BASE, Iraq – Airmen from the 407th Air Expeditionary Group assembled school supplies and toys for Operation Iraqi Child Sept. 5, 2009. The school supplies will be distributed to local communities in southern Iraq to prepare children for the upcoming school year. (Photo by / Airman 1st Class Tony R. Ritter) The 407th wanted [...]

from Discovery News It came from a synagogue in Galillee and was created about 2000 years ago.

After watching that last video, watch this one. Isn’t it obvious why this was a bad choice?

Eight years later. I confess to having forgotten the devastation that day brought to the United States. I am not sure I understood it that day. I am not sure I understand it now. God, please, bless the country that I love. God, bless America. For remembrance.

No, it’s not. What made me think it wasn’t? The “founded on Christian principles” thing. It sounded more like someone in the US did it than the PM of Australia. (They were begun as a penal colony.) But I still wish someone in the United States who has power would take a stand like this. [...]

I sent a paper off that wasn’t as good as I would have liked it to have been because I was under a time pressure. Well, I managed to put myself under a time pressure. I don’t expect they will accept it. I think it has potential to be good and I’m looking at somewhere [...]

Take it here. I am not autistic. But I think my eldest is. I’d like him to take the quiz without knowing what it was. I took it for him and came up with a 35. That’s less than the Common Room mom got so either 1) I don’t know E as well as I [...]

I find this particularly funny because I referenced Dragnet last week in class and none of my students knew what I was talking about. Did they really say those things, or did the guys do voice overs?

A non-believer writes Judicial Home Invasion. I read Big Lizards’ blog regularly. If this story in the Washington Times is at all accurate, a judge has just ruled that a little girl must be removed from homeschooling and sent to a government school — because the judge hoped that would cause her to lose her [...]

Core Knowledge Blog talks about schools doing well, great accountability, versus teachers doing well, no accountability. This same thing happened in Texas years ago. They had a test made up for new teachers to take. It was supposed to be rigorous, useful, accurate, etc. Then, when 90+ percent passed, they said it was to easy [...]