Covering all my bases, Jesse. I even changed my handle on another site.
am I the only one reading ita ! as ita @@.
ita ! de la @@, if you please. (Thanks, Burrell)
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2011 7:26:52 am PDT #20000 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
le nubian - Aug 10, 2011 7:30:41 am PDT #20001 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
That's a strong college-going rate. I'd like to see the 4-year/2-year going rate broken down by race and socio-economic status, but that's my kneejerk, researcher reaction.
Strix - Aug 10, 2011 7:41:04 am PDT #20002 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I think it sounds like a good mix and a good school.
My last school -- the one from hell -- bragged about a 99% acceptance rate into college, but didn't say whether it was tech schools, AA programs, or 4 years, and didn't break it down to kids who actually WENT to college. They had to take a class which was all about filling out apps (not a bad thing) and get accepted. For the marketing, ya know. I think only about 50% actually went to college, which ain't bad for an urban-core school, but they really skewed the numbers to get funding for their shitatstic adminsitration.
I've been keeping in contact with a couple of ex-co-workers there, and evidently, they let all the English staff go, terminated one science teacher the last day of school, and told another one, who had been told he'd be coming back, that he wouldn't -- in July -- and are letting a middle-school teacher not certified take over bio and physical science for high school. If she passes the PRAXIS. Although she;ll still be teaching if she doesn't; she'll just have to take it again. @@
And they implemented a new school-wide disciplinary policy aimed at elementary students for the whole school, which is K-12.
The super is a control freak, only taught 2 years of 2nd grade, and knows balls-all about high school. I am well out of that clusterfuck.
DavidS - Aug 10, 2011 7:41:56 am PDT #20003 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'd like to see the 4-year/2-year going rate broken down by race and socio-economic status, but that's my kneejerk, researcher reaction.
I bet those numbers are findable. There are so many drill-down deets and breakdowns on public schools these days. At least in SF and the Bay Area where you have to research and choose your school.
Hil R. - Aug 10, 2011 7:44:10 am PDT #20004 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My high school had similar dropout and college numbers, but we were at least 85% white, and most of the rest Asian.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2011 7:45:26 am PDT #20005 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
95% is amazing. My high school achieved close to 100% by encouraging people not going to university to switch schools at 16. Cheating, but effective. *Everyone* intended to go to university. It was like a higher education mill. Obviously I have nothing against higher education, but anyone who wanted professional training instead of a degree was strongly looked down upon.
Side business: Oxbridge. They were fucking obsessed. I fought against a lot of things in high school, and won everything except avoiding an Oxbridge application. They just wore me down and broke me. I dropped social studies and French and Christian assembly, but I couldn't get out of applying to Oxford. I'm still kinda mad.
Strix - Aug 10, 2011 7:48:07 am PDT #20006 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2011 7:48:44 am PDT #20007 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This is precisely the website of the Persian restaurant bon likes to order from near my house. Why, restaurants, why?
DavidS - Aug 10, 2011 7:52:18 am PDT #20008 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What if male superheroes were posed like Wonder Woman? [link]
How come WW is shorter than the other members of the JLA? She's supposed to be taller than Bats and Superman. At least in the Diniverse. I like my amazons Amazonian.
Strix - Aug 10, 2011 7:52:26 am PDT #20009 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, ita. I've been researching websites of other freelancers, some who claim to be very successful, and my eyes! my ears!
Shitty flash, tiny script, no white space, MUSIC.
I know a good-looking site (I'm still frothing over my theme's update that fucked my site all to hell, and destroyed a good month of work) doesn't guarantee an adept writer, but my god! If you have a website, make it at least inoffensive.