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So they should not have a problem making an A or B on the CRCT, then right?
The CRCT is a marginal test ... there are others that actually have National recognition as a better barometer of how much the kids are learning in relation to all other states and even countries.
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I think most of us are saying our kids are making passing grades but everyone stresses them out so much about the crct that they don't test well. That is the problem, way to much stress on this test!!!!
I'm not sure the CRCT is a well written test. My kids have always passed, however many problems last year had much more to do with testing information that was not in text books, nor in the standards ...nor was it what other schools in our nation are concerned about for our kids to compete in a global economy.
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I personally hate it. Every state has their standardized testing, but out of the 6 states I've lived in, GA is the only one that holds a pass/fail based on the results of those tests. IMO, if the state would allow teachers to TEACH and not have to worry about teaching just what will be on the test, than our students would have higher grades. But instead, the focus is getting the students to pass these stupid state tests. It's a VERY sore subject. This year is a pass/fail year for my daughter. She's busted her a$$ all year long to get passing grades in her classes, needless to say, she's scared to death she's going to fail the CRCT and not get moved into 9th grade.
Not only is it pass fail but it is only Georgia standards. Many other better state norm tests are out there. Our kids take the ITBS test at the beginning of the year to see weaknesses; however it is a much better test to see if the kids are performing up to National standards.
The Georgia curriculum as a whole is poor. There are better tests to see how our state is doing and if our state is teaching well...and GA is not. The seniors SAT and ACT scores show that.
I know kids who pass all the Georgia stuff, and do well in their classes, however due to poor SAT/ACT scores they go into college taking REMEDIAL math and English.
Can you say ...mom and dad fork out money to teach your college age kids what they should have been taught in high school! It used to be that type of kid had to go to a Junior college and try to get caught up.... it's a lot cheeper that way!Until the state revises the curriculum ...follows a state that scores well and has kids prepared to go off to college, all the CRCT testing is going to make no difference.
Why punish the kids and hold them back for a poor curriculum.
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Even if all the information or lectures are out on the internet or on you tube, a college course takes you from the beginning to the end.
The whole point of a college education whether virtual or on a college campus is to expose the student to a well rounded exploration of material. It is to teach them to learn how to gain information, as well as expose them to new or challenging ideas. That is one of the differences between a Technical College and a University. The Technical College you learn what is needed for a trade. You do not get information to make you well rounded in many subjects you may never apply directly to your job, but adds depth to your working knowledge in work and life.
Once the Associates Degree is complete, there are upper education classes where there is in-depth study...many people love to learn for the sake of learning, but college makes a student follow a course of study. I suspect some degrees are well suited for the virtual classroom over the internet... but somehow I think I would prefer a doctor, dentist, accountant, ....fill in the blank.... who actually had formal training and accountability.
I agree that there is so much more information on the net than our crummy local libraries have, however University libraries have the reference materials and magazines that on the internet you must subscribe to if you want access to them.
There will be changes, but I bet there will still be a value to a formal college education .... even 30 years from now! Look at third world countries where they have few paths of education...the wealthy and smart attend universities in the US, Australia or Europe. They are not just plugging their I-Pod and computer to the internet.
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I find it interesting that Morgan's electoral district has the worst schools in Cobb. And her husband is the school board member for that district. Maybe a few students from that area would benefit from and recieve transfers to better schools. I doubt that many schools are going to celebrate getting kids from this district. It might spread the burden of educating these kids around tho. What I see more likely happening is outstanding athletes getting transfers and being allowed to play without the restrictions placed on them now. I see less programs being offered in the poorer schools, and even more flight away from underperforming schools instead of fixing the underperforming schools. Perhaps all of the underperforming schools should be closed, the faculties and adminsitrations fired, and the students divided equally among all the other schools in the county. Sorry, I just feel like we continue to run away from the problem.
In the long term that might happen.
If the administrators who know about teachers that parents don't want their kids to have (because they are such horrible teachers) would work to get rid of these inefficient staff members they would not have to worry they will have their school close.
For some reason it seems they put the poor teachers in charge of the departments...I guess so they do not give them as many actual classes to teach? …. Instead of weeding them out due to poor performance and parents complaints that the kids are not learning.
I wonder that Paulding just went away from school of choice to try and balance the student population... then what?
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By the way, to those Pc.comer's that are receiving unemployment this year, unless the law has changed you will have to pay taxes on it next year. I found this out the hard way once very long ago.
Unless your company pays the taxes... I was laid of in 2001. When we filed the next year we claimed the income and paid taxes.
Over a year later I got a note and a check from the IRS saying my company had already paid the taxes on the unemployment! That was a great thing...found money! I guess it was part of my benefits package with my severance that the company picked it up.
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While that explanation is certainly "nice" enough, and trust me--I'm not a foil hat wearer--that still doesn't explain the number of "containers" being held. Not even.
So while I don't accept it's a mass grave being prepared for human holocaust victims, neither do I accept that it's containers for 7,600 soon-to-be-dead.
And, if they are burying folks only an inch apart, unless each person being buried weighs 300+ lbs, even then (and especially then?) it wouldn't explain the number of LARGE "containers."
Would it? I mean, really, would it?
What happened to satellite ...our expert in mortuary? I bet he could explain?
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Director Wayne Ellis, who oversees this “usually quiet” U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Cemetery told Red Dirt Report that he has been engaged in “heated” conversations with people calling his office, claiming that the government was up to something nefarious.
“One was convinced we’re digging them for all the Mexicans coming over the border or preparing for the bird flu or a pandemic,” Ellis said. “That is not the case.”
Some got that impression following a report written by Shepard Ambellas at Infowars.com, titled “Military Industrial Complex prepares mass graves for U.S. citizens,” that the mass grave digging and earth moving at the cemetery was unusual and alarming.
But a simple call to Ellis cleared up the misunderstanding.
“This is the way cemeteries do business these days,” Ellis said. “Rather than digging graves one-by-one we pre-place them in advance.”
The way Ellis explained it, the VA provides the cemeteries with money to cover the digging of the graves for up to five years in the future.
To make the most of the space available at the cemetery, he said, these ‘in-ground mausoleum’-type graves will allow for the burial of bodies that will only be an inch or so apart, rather than a foot or so.
“That way they don’t have to come back each year and dig them,” Ellis said, noting that they are preparing 7,600 gravesites at the Phoenix cemetery.
“People ask ‘why so many?’ To give you an example, last year we had 3,140 people buried at this cemetery last year,” Ellis said.
In fact, Ellis said that when he was director of the state VA cemetery in New Jersey, he used the same mass digging techniques.
Ellis then directed this reporter and readers of this story to go to www.precast.org which is the National Precast Concrete Association in Indianapolis.
That makes sense ... clearing land with a bull dozer drop them in, pre placed. The 500,000 is a much larger number that 7000, however I would think cemeteries could be used for a century or more right?
I don't think it is worthy of conspiracy.
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I'd be much more "glad" if they used that same energy to prevent it from happening in the first place.
They were doing that too... but if you have migration of infected birds to the US and an outbreak mutates to humans, I guess it is mass death...luckily it has not. I think the poultry produces have stuff they do. California has big poultry producers too.
I'm just saying there is time and money being put into all disasters. There is a full time position in Georgia under GEMA for a person in charge of Earth Quake response if we have The Big Earth Quake here in Georgia. we were joking it would be a pretty stress free job...until the big one hit, because unlike states that have a lot of active faults, Georgia's building codes do nothing to require standards to withstand earthquakes. We would have terrible problems and damage even from a 5.0.
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My husband calls that not being able for "fart with confidence."
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Several years ago I was involved in a conversation with a gal that worked for the government out in Sacramento, California for public health and education of infectious diseases.
At the time they were very concerned about the Bird Flu. She was saying they were trying to think how to manage implementation of a sort of "snow day" if you will, if the Bird Flu came into the state. To get people to buy into shutting down a city was a big task for a state that does not have seasonal times people just stay home. They would need to ask businesses and schools to close to stop the spread. It would not strictly be a quarantine of those with known exposure, but all people would need to cooperate and stay home....which would be economically expensive.
She said if it is a natural disaster, like snow or floods, it is easier to close down a city. I suspect as they were gearing up to deal with stopping an epidemic disease, there was also a plan to be able to bury mass amounts of people?
Better they plan for it, than having the only option of digging a mass grave and putting all people together? Or if they had to burn bodies in a mass pile to prevent the spread of more health issues.
I guess we should be glad there is a plan?
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Prayer said.
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I'll start. Don't you just hate it when you're watching TV at a comfortable volume, then a commercial comes on that blows you out of your chair and sends you scrambling for the remote with the volume increase?
Hate that … I think it is so when you “in theory” go to the kitchen or where ever…you still hear the commercial. Some stations ARE worse than others on volume increase.
I hate when I take a shower and get all clean, then realize I have to poop.Hey you asked
and you then realize your out of toilet paper ~ pitboss
I have an all male house hold…and this seems to be a problem for them too …especially the toilet paper THING!
None of them are adept at replacing toilet paper… no drip dry there! 
I hate when I get someone who drives 10 below the speed limit in front of me.... after they already cut me off.Or they get in front only to match the slow speed of the driver in the right lane, 10 MPH BELOW the speed limit… on 120!
who ever at the last popsicle garbage bag, roll of paper towels-you get the drift, didn't bother to mention it.I just went through the pantry, and I was shocked how many empty boxes there were! Spring break and all… I really liked the empty frosting tub!
Do the kids think I won’t notice? 
Or putting the empty juice pitcher back in the fridge! My big hate it is when people (kids/husband) don't take off thier shoes when come in the house and they have stepped in dog poop, clay, or some other mess and walk all over the carpets ....... through several rooms! UGH!
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The older I get the more...Confidence I have in myself and my own opinions. Life is more fun. That's wisdom!
I don't do things I don't want to anymore...I used to have such a hard time saying no... and not feeling guilty afterward.
I wish life was lived backwards... high school and college would have been so much more fun and exciting if I was as care free, and appreciated how simple life really was back then.
But the eye thing... not being able to read the instructions off the back of the cake mix… sucks!
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Her voice is stunning - she was stunning in her performance. But, she's definitely an example of what a great eye brow job could do for someone. It's hard to get past her eyebrows - she's definitely someone that a makeover would a world of good (and would probably get her a performance job almost instantly). She's fit, the dress looked fine on her - she just needed some "gussing up" as my granny would say.
Maybe she can borrow Michelle Obama's make up artist .... I hear she re-did Michelle's brows.
I was thinkng the same thing. She had no makeup, or grooming to her eye brows, so the results of a makeover might be dramitic.
Before going on stage, Ms. Boyle admitted some self-deprecating facts about herself (she's never been kissed and lives alone with her cat, Pebbles). For those reasons and more, audiences were expecting the female William Hung. They were wrong.
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The Mirror jumped on the story, reporting that while Ms. Boyle thought she "looked like a garage" on TV, she received a standing ovation when she showed up at her local church.
Other sources write that as a child, Ms. Boyle was the target of bullies because of a disability. But, with her newfound fame, she is getting the last laugh. In fact, she's already meeting with officials from Mr. Cowell's Sony BMG label. This may have been the first you've heard of her, but it certainly won't be the last.
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That was fun....
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yeah we have been out about 4 hours now. no phone either. I hate it i cant take a shower.................
PSA
For emergency use it is a great idea to have a plain ol' plug in phone. They require no electricity to still function. You can pick one up for less than 10 bucks for a basic model.
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I love a happy ending in a movie...and so much better in REAL life!
Way to go patriots! Gotta love our military!
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We have Pergo in our kitchen and I love it!
We put this is 18 months ago and I love it. I was worried about the seams and water, but so far it has not been a problem. And cleans so easily!
One time I had too much water on the floor (sprayed out a huge cooler after cleaning it, did not realize how much over spray was on the floor as I walked out side with cooler to deal with it and other things I was cleaning up after an event. Husband found the floor wet and had a fit...a little swelling... we moped it up and within an hour it was back to normal!
A knife did drop point down and it stuck tip in, then came out, I could see the nick, but no lasting problem.
No shattered dishes if they drop ... I like how tile looks, but dishes don't survive, and canned goods will break tile if they drop.
I had wood floors in one kitchen...DISASTER... it looked bad after 3 years. Water, seams, and wood with kids dogs and a cat were a bad combo for us.
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My dad had a house in 1980 that he had to evict the tenants. Before he could get new tenants, squatters got into the house without him knowing. He found out when the fire department called to say they had to put the house out due to a fire the obvious homeless people who broke in had caused. The house had no furniture, their "belongings" were in one room, they were using another room to pee in instead of the toilet!
Without a deposit, and first and last months rent, there is no reason to just let random people occupy a home. Wear and tear, plumbing issues, damage to walls, floors, counter tops, cabinet doors ... etcetera. Tenants who know they have a deposit they may lose are hard on properties... a squatter... I bet the take what they can with them when they leave...if legally you can ever evict them after they had been "allowed" to live there.
What about liability...say they person gets hurt due to a problem with the house a bank owns... because, no one is doing maintenance...is the government liable for a law suit since it is not evicting squatters and putting them in a "dangerous" situation?
This is a nightmare!
And if anyone can live there, why not the family that was foreclosed on? Free housing for all just as Obama promised..."now I don't have to worry about my mortgage" as one elated Obama supporter jumped up and down crying. Haven't we borrowed and given the banks enough money just to outright write off the loan and let the foreclosed family be the designated squatters? <sarcasm>
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Well, I guess I'm going to catch it with you because you are exactly right. What a dumb a$$? Who the hell would do such a stupid thing? I guess the bear is in trouble now because of this idiot woman.
I'm sort of the opinion she should not be left in the Gene Pool ...if she is going to intentionally jump in the Polar Bear Pool ...there ought to be a rule!
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The first time I went to log back in with drop down bar for the internet Paulding address it said it couldn't find the website.
Twice I got "Oops.. this link broken"...or similar verbage, with click here that then took it back to pcom. I have DSL not wireless.
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He came here................ and left his famous footprints that my kids tell him every year not to do cause it makes mama mad!
How CUTE!
I thought this year I would just get my two teens a cool T-shirt and be done with it.....Weeeelllll the 13 year old said that's not fair because his older brother got Easter 17 years, why should he just get it 12 years! And, he has a point!
So I bought stuff Saturday ...I should go get the plastic eggs out of storage to fill them and hide them.... I'm sooooo not into it! They are in the very back of the storage closet!
I had the 13 year old color eggs ... I'll hide those as the sun come up this AM ...I know it's cold outside, but one year I put them out before I went to sleep....they had SLUGS on them in the morning! Gross!
Wish I had thought about the bunny prints when mine were wee young ones....that is so cool!
Okay, I’m off to the decorating….taking cute inspiration with me!
Here come years 13 and 18! -
Glad to see it wasnt' just me!!
Yeah, I thought I was going to have to undo all cookies and such... it erases all my pass words too! UGH! But if you all have had glitches too, then it's not my system! Whoo hooo!
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According to one of the fine councelors I met with at the high school ... the colleges are aware that kids are comming in now without the base they need for English, Math, and Science ... so they are basically requireing the students to take high school courses the college is teaching to get them up to speed .... because the highschools ate NOT doing their jobs. The remedial classes do not count toward units for the college degree.
I personally know two families where this is/was the case …I was actually shocked their child was accepted into the University. Shocked the University is willing to spend time with classes that used to be the relm of a Junior College. However both the students have a solid A average in school… but the ACT and SAT scores are too low?
So based on this change in the Universities, I would say there is a hole somewhere.