Jul

Governor, Frist brace for poor TCAP showing, try to lower expectations | Nashville City Paper: Nashville’s Online Source for Daily News.

So, just so we’re clear … my child took a test, upon which her entire future is based (her scores this year, the first time she ever took the test, determine where she gets to go to middle school, which determines where she goes to high school, and so on), and no one knows how to score the damn thing?!! How do you make a test without developing the standards for it?!! So basically they’re meeting later this month to “decide” how to score the test … when they will have the results right in front of them!!!

Favorite quote … our illustrious State Education Commissioner Tim Webb on the new scores … “For the first time in many, many years, we in Tennessee are being honest, truly honest with our students and our families,” Webb added, stressing the scores don’t indicate a “loss in knowledge.”

So we’ve been lied to for years with the test scores, but THIS TIME, they’re going to tell us the truth. Only, they’re not sure what the truth is, or how to find it. Are you f%#@*^! kidding me?!! No, they’re not, that’s the problem.

  

Jul

• Facebook TOTALLY feeds my ADHD, wtf?!! And does anyone still use MySpace at all? Oh, and what the hell is Tweetstalk??? http://bit.ly/a7l0EK #
• A good July 4th message… "Beware the self-righteous pimps of patriotism" ( http://bit.ly/9hxat9 ) #
• Not my proudest moment as a KY girl … "'Yup, I'm a racist' shirts sold @ Lexington July 4th Festival" ( http://bit.ly/awwzDS ) #
• This will (hopefully) be the last thing I ever do on my iPhone 3G, as my new iPhone 4 just arrived … woohoo!!! #

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Jul

• Can't WAIT for November date-night!!! … "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Trailer Is Magical — Vulture" ( http://bit.ly/cx7f6t ) #
• Start your holiday shopping early: "Repuglicans: 61 monster paintings by Pete Von Sholly – Boing Boing" ( http://bit.ly/dxf2Oy ) #
• Ordered the new iPhone 4 … hoping AT&T isn't lying abt the 7-10 shipping estimate. #

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Jul

238 presidential scholars: Bush worst president of modern era, fifth worst in US history | Raw Story.

Am visiting the ‘rents in lovely Richmond right now, so dare not speak about this outloud!