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  1. ivan

    Merry Christmish

    I suppose you could look at student achievement as one metric. My guess is that an inverse correlation exists. i'm sure jay would love to lend a hand and crunch what metrics exist to compare the 3 states i listed - your guess is just that, a guess - firsthand, i know that its damn easy to game a metric, and practically anybody can show progress so long as they're not total retards - but does what you're measuring even make sense? and how exactly? my last year in va i got 100% of my kids (who were 100% free and reduced lunch) to pass a state test where the passing grade was something like a 35% for a 4 question multi-choice format! i was hailed as a genius but fled the state for the promised land anyhow but seriously, tell me what meaningful analysis springs from that? how does that make for hallowed macroeconomic/political digestion? the reality of education is much more complicated and silly
  2. where's the cord-man? rock on!!!
  3. ivan

    Merry Christmish

    i've lived and taught in two states, one w/ a very strong teachers union (wa), two w/o (va & nc) - not sure as how either system shows the other up - no signficant difference between the two that i've seen as a worker, or a taxpayer
  4. too drunk too post you know yer a bird when you can't spell yer own name right!
  5. you're born for off-widths - just don't fall!
  6. too long a drive and international borders and i have lately not gone so well together
  7. i'm konfused - how did 3 comments end up before the original tr? goddammmmmmmmit! another december exactly as i desribed and the same bullshit, and this time my plan to go to zion is thwarted by a closure of hte whole fucking utardian park?!?
  8. yeah, that's bears - if doing p2 of the dutchman i think it's best to climb about 20 feet or so of bears in order to skip a therefore highly contrived bit of very thin aid - other than that, the first part of the pitch is the crux, small nuts as i recall and nothing wierder than that - there are a few fixed pins, and the 2nd half is cruiser c1
  9. so.....how'd it go?
  10. make me a chicken pot pie now beyotch!
  11. come on! all that sitting 'round in the dampn n' cold and steve don't get have his run on p2! it's a good one too, emphasis on tiny nuts for the start and take a bunch of hand sized shit for where you can zoom up bears instead of doing c2 bullshit 3 feet next to it
  12. ivan

    Eclipse

    pouring rain 'round here currently
  13. ivan

    Repeal of DADT

    it is nice to see that the "saluting n' saying yessir!" thang has it limitations, since blowing up brown people historically aint' been one of them
  14. boooooth pitches?
  15. justinp on p2 of stone soup, beacon rock's first complete ascent (along w/ midnight rager on the swiss family ledges )
  16. ivan

    Repeal of DADT

    yup - you got it all figured out - brilliant!
  17. ivan

    A Victim of War

    afghanistan became our longest war as of june
  18. ivan

    Repeal of DADT

    um...no? nice "fuzzy math" though. who cares anyhow? water under the bridge - it's done and we can move on to arguing about hte next stupid issue.
  19. man, you gave up the non-stop gray and gloom of the northwest for this?!?
  20. ivan

    A Victim of War

    condolences, senor. a shame indeed, doubly so as his death won't be accounted in the butcher's bill for these 2 pointless intrigues we've thrown ourselves into.
  21. stoopid can't die
  22. "the spice most flow"
  23. Bad example, I believe that you're totally and 100% wrong on this Matt. anecedotal evidence of course, bill, but last month i had a vet in from washougal who had half his face blown off in iraq a couple years ago and he reported he is very happy w/ the va's service - both my little bro and father are combat vets drawing disability too and, though they bitch about everything under the sun, they are positive about their gov veteran services i might add i lived the first 18 years of my life w/ military docs n' dentists n' can't complain.
  24. thread killing picture putting in billkkkoe!
  25. problem w/ trying to clean anything big on crown pt would be dumping it on the train-tracks i'd imagine
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