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So there's an interesting debate going on in our school district now. The district is proposing/moving towards a "no zero" policy for grades - oblique May 20, 06:31 21
- Ooh, I have a huge problem with that mindset. - Jim May 20, 06:45
- I've seen that around here as well, my only issue with it is..... - volnelk May 20, 06:41 4
  - Your last paragraphs are really key. I've seen my kids grades go from A to F with one missing assignment because both the weighting on the 0 and the - oblique May 20, 06:45 3
    - Correct. Formative vs. Summative. We use a program that can weigh them for you. - volnelk May 20, 06:51 2
      - Yeah, they're implementing standards across the district also so that those weightings, etc are fair between teachers, teams, schools - oblique May 20, 06:55 1
        
        It sounds like a great system. -- nm - TWuG May 20, 06:57
- and the wussification of our country continues -- nm - Strongbad May 20, 06:35 4
  - That was the reaction of many I saw to the initial article. But the question was then asked, is a grade reward/punishment or is it meant to be a - oblique May 20, 06:39 2
    - Assignments and tests should be designed to determine the level of comprehension. - Strongbad May 20, 06:56
    - I'd say giving half-credit for not doing anything seems to be failing in the latter as well. -- nm - Will Hunting May 20, 06:46
  - have no fear - the main character on DIG can get shot in the chest, have the wound packed with mud and be up and asskicking in a day. That has... - Mel Profit May 20, 06:37
- How do they enforce the requirement to make up the work? -- nm - Shaun May 20, 06:34 9
  - I don't know how it's done at kilbo's school, but the article he linked suggests students lose privileges until they hand in the assignment. - Roger More May 20, 06:56
  - How do you get a kid to do anything? 50 or 0 is still failing. They're coupling it with a stronger criteria for passing a grade level vs the current - oblique May 20, 06:36 7
    - But if I get half credit for doing nothing....I only need to have a 70% on another assignment to get back to passing. - Will Hunting May 20, 06:45 3
      - In the example of 2 data points, yes, but take 10 and missing one the assignments and 70% on the others - oblique May 20, 06:51 2
        
        1 missing, 9 75% - oblique May 20, 06:54
        
        sorry, I mistyped above but I think it illustrates the point if you use something other than the straight 70 - oblique May 20, 06:53
    - So it's just another way to keep kids moving along, that some jacktard probably got his PhD for thinking it up. - Shaun May 20, 06:39 2
      - Not sure if I misstated, it's actually the other way around. They're being stricter about NOT moving kids through -- nm - oblique May 20, 06:40 1
        
        I would think more kids would move on. It lessens the impact of missing school and assignments. -- nm - volnelk May 20, 06:44
ST Poll: Guess how many meetings Mel had on his calendar Mon and Tues? - Mel Profit May 20, 06:23 6
- What's the highest bid? I'll go with 31.251 -- nm - volnelk May 20, 06:45
- 11 -- nm - Beaker May 20, 06:30
- 7 -- nm - Shaun May 20, 06:30
- 1 bob -- nm - Epiphany May 20, 06:28
- 31.250 -- nm - oblique May 20, 06:27
- 13 -- nm - iSpam May 20, 06:23
Happy birthday to the poster formerly known as Callisto! -- nm - San Andrea May 20, 06:17 2
- Yep. HB. -- nm - Mel Profit May 20, 06:23
- Happy Birthday Ms. Kim Possible - Epiphany May 20, 06:21
I am having a totally win-win morning. I bid on two hours of an electrician at a local charity auction online (i need an electrician). - Andie May 20, 06:11 7
- Niiiice - I'm totally stealing this for our next event - great idea! -- nm - JenBro May 20, 09:03
- this is cool! -- nm - Epiphany May 20, 06:37
- The one time we needed an electrician at the house we went with the ever so careful 'whichever company actually picked up the phone' method. - Shaun May 20, 06:15 4
  - it's true. i actually KNOW an electrician (he plays on my ball team), trying to book him is impossible. -- nm - San Andrea May 20, 06:16 3
    - Plumbers can also be impossible at times. When we had the freak flood in Dec. 2010, my first cousin who owns his own company couldn't send guys. - Shaun May 20, 06:30 2
      - we have been fortunate and found a plumber who will come on Sunday. And so far he seems to be good. - Diva May 20, 06:32 1
        
        getting a plumber is next on my list (like, in the next couple weeks). *sigh* -- nm - San Andrea May 20, 06:59
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- Though she's not wrong about - ralph wiggum May 20, 06:17 6
  - It looked like an outtake from the Prince of Persia movie. -- nm - Inigo May 20, 06:44
  - no one liked that. it was silly. -- nm - Diva May 20, 06:25
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    - I liked the quiet beach scene with *spoils* - landbeck May 20, 07:12
    - Those and. - ralph wiggum May 20, 06:24 1
      - oooo - I really liked that *spoils* - Epiphany May 20, 06:28
I'll bet even the Italians on ST have been pronouncing this wrong their entire lives. -- (link) - Shaun May 20, 05:37 3
- I saw that on reddit and had a good chuckle. -- nm - Krusty May 20, 06:32
- the answer is "whatever Giada says" -- nm - Strongbad May 20, 05:48 1
  - The answer is whatever my grandmother said. :-) -- nm - Krusty May 20, 07:04
Happy birthday, Kim! Woo hoo!!! -- nm - Krusty May 20, 05:20 16
- Happy B-Day! -- nm - JenBro May 20, 09:04
- Thanks, everyone! -- nm - Kim Pine May 20, 06:56
- Happy birthday! -- nm - Roger More May 20, 06:51
- Happy birthday -- nm - decline May 20, 06:44
- Happy Name Day! -- nm - MadCrow May 20, 06:07
- Have a great Birthday Ms. Pine -- nm - amoxy May 20, 06:05
- happy birthday!! -- nm - Diva May 20, 05:57
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- Happy Birthday! -- nm - MDH May 20, 05:53
- Hope you have a great day! -- nm - Strongbad May 20, 05:48
- Have a great one! -- nm - Inigo May 20, 05:37
- Happy BDay! -- nm - budice May 20, 05:35
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- Happy Birthday! -- nm - Shaun May 20, 05:34
- Happy birthday, 626! -- nm - iSpam May 20, 05:31
- Don Homer! -- nm - Beaker May 20, 05:27
May 20, 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. -- nm - Beaker May 20, 04:33 4
- 1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: NYC taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington St -- nm - Beaker May 20, 04:34 3
  - 1920 – Montreal radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America. -- nm - Beaker May 20, 04:35 2
    - 1927 – At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across - Beaker May 20, 04:36 1
      - 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing - Beaker May 20, 04:37
Letterman's last guest has to be Andy Kaufman ending the longest prank in history -- nm - Beaker May 20, 04:30
LA votes raise minimum wage to $15 (by 2020) -- (link) - Covington May 20, 02:15
whoa...if Bob Dylan showed up unanounced at one of the local jam nights and sang like that, they'd hustle him off the stage mid song, thanks but no -- nm - zeitgeist May 20, 00:36
And the Blackhawks seem to think own zone giveaways in the slot count for points. -- nm - Reagen May 19, 22:15
So yeah. I honestly wouldn't not have been able to tell you until 30 seconds ago that an intentional header isn't a legal goal in hockey. -- nm - Reagen May 19, 22:09 8
- here is the play -- (link) - Beaker May 20, 03:55
- If he had hit it up there with the stick, it would have been high-sticking, wouldn't it? -- nm - GregW May 19, 22:59 1
  - well above the crossbar, so yeah. if he hadn't made the 'distinct heading motion' it probably would've been fine. -- nm - mafic May 20, 01:06
- for those that weren't watching -- (link) - Reagen May 19, 22:21
- me too, but that would've been my guess. intentional contact by anything other than the stick, I'd imagine. -- nm - mafic May 19, 22:13
- That was uh, different for this sport -- nm - JD May 19, 22:11 2
  - I guarantee there was some frantic flipping through the rulebook going on. -- nm - Reagen May 19, 22:13 1
    - (though apparently Pavel Datsyuk did it a couple years ago in a KHL game with similar result) -- nm - mafic May 19, 22:16
I actually recently went back to Nike. got a pair of Nike Frees, and they're pretty great. - mafic May 19, 22:04 1
- I bought my 1st pair of Nikes in 25 years recently - love them. I'm a walker not a runner -- nm - Epiphany May 20, 06:21
Are the CC companies really sending out pin and chip cards soon? Or is it just another half-assed security measure? - tobor.2 May 19, 21:48 20
- I got my first chip card a couple months back (no pin though) -- nm - decline May 20, 06:44
- My Chase Freedom card is the only card I have with a chip and Walmart is the only retailer reading it. pointless -- nm - Epiphany May 20, 06:22 2
  - at monte carlo, the pizza place by my house (which I will still go to after I move), they have a chip reader. it's so annoying because - amanda May 20, 06:37 1
    - it seems to take longer to get an authorization - *shrug* -- nm - Epiphany May 20, 06:38
- They'll be chip cards but not PIN. They'll also have the stripe so they're not all that more secure. -- nm - iSpam May 20, 03:41 2
  - Woo! Pointless Half-Measures! -- nm - Reagen May 20, 05:28 1
    - But they're DOING SOMETHING -- nm - iSpam May 20, 06:05
- 2 of my cards have C.H.I.P.S. -- nm - Peglegpete May 19, 22:05 1
  - Ponch? -- nm - mafic May 19, 22:10
- My most recent Citi Mastercard has a chip, no pin though - or not that I've asked for. - Meg May 19, 21:58 2
  - I carry six cards on a daily basis. two have chips. -- nm - amanda May 20, 05:53 1
    - Just got notified that two of my cards are sending chipped versions. One I just got my new card two months ago -- (edited) - iSpam May 20, 06:36
- Well if you get chips and pins you will finally be the same as Australia, NZ and most of Europe -- nm - Karl_S May 19, 21:57 7
  - I loved that I had a true Chip and PIN card in Ireland. It allowed me to buy train tickets much more easily. - spamlet May 20, 06:44
  - We too have had them for years. It amazes me that the U.S. doesn't. -- nm - San Andreas May 20, 04:14 2
    - Just wait until they get PayPass!! -- nm - Shaun May 20, 06:08
    - nice nick! -- nm - amanda May 20, 05:45
  - Unfortunately retailers are going to drag their feet on this subject too. -- nm - Qale May 19, 22:49 2
    - I do believe there is a deadline for merchants to get new readers for chips -- nm - zeitgeist May 20, 00:40
    - I think in Aus the banks said if the card has chip/pin we will take the risk of fraud, if you don't its on the store -- nm - Karl_S May 19, 23:13
nmb Pixie! LIR -- (link) - JenBro May 19, 21:32 [Backboard] 1
- my thought - professor smartbrain May 19, 21:36
I probably will not be as sad watching Dave's last show tomorrow night as I was when Johnny signed off, but I am going to miss him. - GregW May 19, 21:07 4
- I haven't watched him in years. -- nm - tobor.2 May 19, 21:40
- CBS ruined him - professor smartbrain May 19, 21:27
- Flip that and reverse it. I was with Dave from the very beginning. - Spawn May 19, 21:26 1
  - Colbert is amazingly fast, its a shame we couldn't have him go toe to toe with Robin Williams -- nm - zeitgeist May 19, 21:40
All I gotta say about the Flash finale is (spoils) - eag May 19, 20:51
Now playing: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., first episode of season 2. - ReluctantCynic May 19, 20:48 2
- the only spoiler you want to know is - Peglegpete May 19, 21:05 1
  - (spoilers) - ReluctantCynic May 19, 21:12
this week's Community is a paintball episode -- nm - professor smartbrain May 19, 20:26 3
- Is that show still on? -- nm - Spawn May 19, 21:22 2
  - no, i just made it up for no reason - professor smartbrain May 19, 21:26 1
    - But see, technically it is not still on. -- nm - Spawn May 19, 21:27
My claim to fame for today: you can see the building where I work in the Pixels trailer. - Roger More May 19, 20:20 2
- that should be good enough for a BOP piece -- nm - professor smartbrain May 19, 20:22 1
  - Suicide Squad was filming one block over on the weekend, so I'll wait until then. Timing is everything -- nm - Roger More May 19, 20:27
did anyone read today's IPO in school? - professor smartbrain May 19, 20:08 2
- Never even heard of it. -- nm - IrishStephen May 19, 21:06
- Oh wow....yeah, 6th grade maybe? -- nm - Tim May 19, 20:14
It's time for the Feud...Name the Top 6 places Americans Masturbate -- nm - amoxy May 19, 20:07 23
- library stacks! -- nm - mafic May 19, 20:35
- Here are the rest: -- (link) - amoxy May 19, 20:19 3
  - ... kitchen!?! -- nm - Spawn May 19, 21:24
  - where do you find couches? (most of the time) in f'n livingrooms.... -- nm - zeitgeist May 19, 21:07
  - LOL @ "menage a moi" -- nm - JenBro May 19, 20:28
- Parent/teacher conferences! nm - ralph wiggum May 19, 20:17 2
  - what school is this now? -- nm - professor smartbrain May 19, 20:22
  - That sounds like there is a story behind that one...(nm) - amoxy May 19, 20:19
- school -- nm - Peglegpete May 19, 20:13
- movie theatre -- nm - PeglegPeewee Herman May 19, 20:12
- in the butt, Bob -- nm - professor smartbrain May 19, 20:11
- hotel room, in front of the computer, -- nm - Peglegpete May 19, 20:10 1
  - No, no -- nm - amoxy May 19, 20:11
- work -- nm - budice May 19, 20:09 1
  - The Office #5 (7 Percent) -- nm - amoxy May 19, 20:11
- Bed, bathroom, livingroom, CAR, dressing room of some department store -- nm - zeitgeist May 19, 20:09 1
  - Bedroom #1 (80 percent) Bathroom #2 (31 percent), no, no -- nm - amoxy May 19, 20:11
- Aspen -- nm - professor smartbrain May 19, 20:09 5
  - "Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano." -- nm - Roger More May 19, 20:19
  - Heh. nm - ralph wiggum May 19, 20:12
  - Hollywood -- nm - budice May 19, 20:09 2
    - Northridge -- nm - Peglegpete May 19, 20:10
    - West -- nm - budice May 19, 20:10
that was a really fun Flash season finale. -- nm - Remlik May 19, 19:57 3
- For the most part, yes. spoils - Spawn May 19, 21:24 1
  - (spoils) - eag May 19, 22:16
- it's starting here, now. but I have to let it tape a bit so I have no commercials. -- nm - Peglegpete May 19, 20:01

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