JBT
Joined: 10/03/2006
Posts: 123

Recent Comments by JBT
What makes me mad in Walker County is...
11/06/2008 04:53:15 PM
Even one child molestor is too many, but it really does seem like Walker County is the capitol. That one case with the tennis coach was world famous, with inspectors from several different countries trying to hunt the molestor down. We were rather flipped out about that one, as he coached our kids a few years ago. We were always on site, but STILL.
The Watercooler
11/01/2008 08:37:33 PM
Wow, that was a racist poem, Slynay. Ignorant, too. You know good and well that Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim. Christianity, Judaism, Islam and other religions will continue to be practiced in America. We will still hear the Star Spangled Banner before ballgames, and say the Pledge of Allegiance together. The changes will be in our tax code (yours will go DOWN under Obama, since I'm guessing that like me you make well under $200,000 a year.)

I thought this part was especially ridiculous:

"Take away our right to bear arms," (Obama has explicitly stated that he favors the rights of citizens to own rifles, shotguns, handguns, etc. The only gun rights he wants to limit are those of CRIMINALS. My husband probably owns as many guns as any single person in Catoosa or Walker County, and he voted for Obama.)

And this "killing our babies before they are born," Uh, no. Obama is prochoice, which means he favors the right of a woman to decide whether she will continue a pregnancy. No one is going to kill your baby unless it is YOU.
And the winner is; Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe High School, Governor’s Cup No. 2
10/31/2008 04:47:55 PM
P.S. I will not a deny an RHS prejudice. :-)
And the winner is; Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe High School, Governor’s Cup No. 2
10/31/2008 04:47:10 PM
Fewer students taking the SAT is a bad thing, Lee. The purpose of the contest is to get the schools working with the kids to make better SAT scores -- not to get mediocre students to give up and not take the test at all. Since many scholarships and college entrance decisions are based on the SAT, it certainly is a big deal to find that some schools discourage students from taking the SAT.

iirc, LFO principal said they discouraged kids who hadn't taken upper math classes from taking the test. To me that's ironic, since I only took 3 years of math (through Alg 2) and outscored all the students who took precal and calculus. Some may have outscored me on the math section by itself, but I did as well on that as on verbal. My point is, students should be encouraged to take the SAT "early and often." It was designed to measure the education and college-readiness of individual students, NOT school systems.
And the winner is; Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe High School, Governor’s Cup No. 2
10/25/2008 10:10:58 PM
Have a look at this CCN article: http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpid=724&show=archivedetails&ArchiveID=1385401&om=1

Note that LFO SAT scores actually FELL 17 points this year! So what are we celebrating? I'm not sure.

The paper puts a spin on it by using the headline "Catoosa County exceeds state SAT average score." That is a true statement but only because the rest of the state fell further than LFO and Catoosa County.

There was bad news, but instead of giving it to us straight, we were given spin.
And the winner is; Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe High School, Governor’s Cup No. 2
10/25/2008 10:04:59 PM
I checked this out last year. Schools who won the Gov Cup for improvement had one thing in common --- Fewer kids taking the test than the year before. The principal even admitted in a newspaper interview (he thought he was bragging) something about encouraging only the upper-level kids to take the SAT.

See, the award is based on improving your AVERAGE test score. One way to do that is by getting the not-so-good test takers not to take it at all. It's a trick. It doesn't mean your SATs are actually better, just that you left some out. It also hurts those kids, because one way to improve your SAT scores is just by taking the test several times.

I wrote an article about this last year, but the paper is very protective of the schools and would only print a very anonymous version that did not name names. imho, public schools are for all students and should be striving to help them all improve rather than tricking the system to get some ridiculously fat trophy.
Larry Brooks: And then there was this -- the mind-numbingly stupid
10/16/2008 05:01:13 PM
Hey, if Obama ends the Iraq War and only requests $130 billion in new spending, we'll be doing great! What is the war up to now, something like 1.5 TRILLION?
What makes me mad in Catoosa County is...
10/16/2008 04:47:06 PM
Great information, peacetou. That really makes it simple.

voterb, that report you posted was really thorough. Maybe it's the time of day but it made my eyes glaze over! I did understand the part that said 61% of taxpayers get a break under Obama. I think it was only 20 or 21% under McCain.
Jeannie Babb Taylor: Palin pros and cons
10/16/2008 10:54:25 AM
Sounds like Bush. Didn't he claim to be a conservative before taking office and blowing the national debt through the roof? The budget hasn't been balanced since Clinton left office.

McCain and Palin have never let the truth get in their way, though. Even now Palin is claiming the Troopergate commission vindicated her of all wrong-doing. That is NOT what the report said! That mostly-Republican committee concluded that she abused her power as governor of Alaska.
What makes me mad in Catoosa County is...
10/15/2008 05:26:15 PM
Ringgoldone, I like some aspects of that idea. It seems that politics corrupt politicians, doesn't it? But we want our upper level politicians to have some experience, not just walk on. So how do they get from point A (maybe state rep or mayor) to point B (presidential ticket) without being corrupted?