Re: way OT - school system shenanigans in Pittsburgh
Pretty much... Regards Bob... --- I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings. -- Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like typical product of left wing nut jobs trying to make the children feel inclusive. Wait till they fail later in life, inclusivity will not be an option. Sure. [skipped] Then you can blame the left some more. 'Cause that's all the left is good for is blaming. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My experience is there is two different 'Left's'. One is the honestly Socialist/Marxist types who have very solid grounded reasons for their belief. The other are folk marxists operating as 'Liberals' and 'Progressives' who seem to prefer a neo-aristocratic system of feel good measures, where everything must be right if the right people with the right attitudes are pushing the right programs, irrespective of whether there's any basis in reality for any of those three suppositions. I respect the former very much. The latter are a big problem as reality doesn't affect them much. -- I think you're over-simplifying things just a tad. :-) cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My experience is there is two different 'Left's'. One is the honestly Socialist/Marxist types who have very solid grounded reasons for their belief. The other are folk marxists operating as 'Liberals' and 'Progressives' who seem to prefer a neo-aristocratic system of feel good measures, where everything must be right if the right people with the right attitudes are pushing the right programs, irrespective of whether there's any basis in reality for any of those three suppositions. I respect the former very much. The latter are a big problem as reality doesn't affect them much. -- I think you're over-simplifying things just a tad. Absolutely. There's the Socialist Left. The Left Socialists. The Left Wing Socialists. The Socialist Left Wing. The Trotskyites. The Reformed Trotskyites. The Reformed Left Trotskyites. The Anti-Trotskyite Marxist Front. The Marxist Liberationists (Trotskyite Wing). The Militant Left Wing Anti-Marxist Leninist Front. The People's Front for Left Wing Liberation. The Anti-Nazi Left Liberationists. The Popular Front for People's Liberation Army. The Provisional Trotskyite Front for People's Freedom. The Provisional Marxist Front for Palestine. The People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Judea... And that's just the moderates... Citizen Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My experience is there is two different 'Left's'. One is the honestly Socialist/Marxist types who have very solid grounded reasons for their belief. The other are folk marxists operating as 'Liberals' and 'Progressives' who seem to prefer a neo-aristocratic system of feel good measures, where everything must be right if the right people with the right attitudes are pushing the right programs, irrespective of whether there's any basis in reality for any of those three suppositions. I respect the former very much. The latter are a big problem as reality doesn't affect them much. -- I think you're over-simplifying things just a tad. Absolutely. There's the Socialist Left. The Left Socialists. The Left Wing Socialists. The Socialist Left Wing. The Trotskyites. The Reformed Trotskyites. The Reformed Left Trotskyites. The Anti-Trotskyite Marxist Front. The Marxist Liberationists (Trotskyite Wing). The Militant Left Wing Anti-Marxist Leninist Front. The People's Front for Left Wing Liberation. The Anti-Nazi Left Liberationists. The Popular Front for People's Liberation Army. The Provisional Trotskyite Front for People's Freedom. The Provisional Marxist Front for Palestine. The People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Judea... And that's just the moderates... You forgot Ned Flanders Leftorium store. Dave Citizen Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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wow, that's retarded. imagine how it all averages outif people in the professional world knew, say, 75% of their skill, would it be ok? Would 75% of a heart surgery be good? 75% of your car fixed? Is this why the kids at the burger place only get 75% of my order right? sheesh. Why don't we just pass them all and call it good. rg2 On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so this isn't photo related at all. Try not to puke. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, PA http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I don't get what the big deal is. But then, I went to public school. CW sends his kids to public school in GA Rebekah wrote: wow, that's retarded. imagine how it all averages outif people in the professional world knew, say, 75% of their skill, would it be ok? Would 75% of a heart surgery be good? 75% of your car fixed? Is this why the kids at the burger place only get 75% of my order right? sheesh. Why don't we just pass them all and call it good. rg2 On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so this isn't photo related at all. Try not to puke. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, PA http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.7.1/1687 - Release Date: 9/23/2008 6:32 PM -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I moved a lot growing up and was exposed to a number of schools. Some gave numeric grades and others gave Grade letters. In either case, failing was failing. If you are trying to jump over a puddle of water, does it make a huge difference if you make it 50% or 20% of the way. In either case you're all wet. And so is the discussion. Regards John Graves WA1JG Cory Waters wrote: I don't get what the big deal is. But then, I went to public school. CW sends his kids to public school in GA Rebekah wrote: wow, that's retarded. imagine how it all averages outif people in the professional world knew, say, 75% of their skill, would it be ok? Would 75% of a heart surgery be good? 75% of your car fixed? Is this why the kids at the burger place only get 75% of my order right? sheesh. Why don't we just pass them all and call it good. rg2 On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so this isn't photo related at all. Try not to puke. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, PA http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.7.1/1687 - Release Date: 9/23/2008 6:32 PM No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.7.1/1688 - Release Date: 9/24/2008 6:29 AM -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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- Original Message - From: Rebekah Subject: Re: way OT - school system shenanigans in Pittsburgh wow, that's retarded. imagine how it all averages outif people in the professional world knew, say, 75% of their skill, would it be ok? Would 75% of a heart surgery be good? 75% of your car fixed? Is this why the kids at the burger place only get 75% of my order right? sheesh. Why don't we just pass them all and call it good. Wow, you get 75% of your orders right? The real problem isn't that they aren't giving failing grades anymore, the problem is that it takes away a lot of the incentive to do the work. Why do the work if you can't fail for not doing the work? William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: way OT - school system shenanigans in Pittsburgh
Based on my ten years of experience teaching in inner city Chicago high schools, I'd say it's a realistic policy. Percentages alone mean nothing. The curriculum should be based on real needs, and the success ratio has to come close to resembling a bell curve. The alternative is little or no success for any student. It's a fact of life. Doesn't make me puke. Paul On Sep 24, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Scott Loveless wrote: OK, so this isn't photo related at all. Try not to puke. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, PA http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Sounds like typical product of left wing nut jobs trying to make the children feel inclusive. Wait till they fail later in life, inclusivity will not be an option. On 9/24/08, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so this isn't photo related at all. Try not to puke. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, PA http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. - Theodore Roosevelt -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Gonz wrote: Sounds like typical product of left wing nut jobs trying to make the children feel inclusive. Wait till they fail later in life, inclusivity will not be an option. Later in life will have to incorporate the same system, just like they do now with CEOs of financial organizations. Let's hope the FAA adopts this system for pilot training. groan On 9/24/08, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so this isn't photo related at all. Try not to puke. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, PA http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Scott Loveless wrote: OK, so this isn't photo related at all. Try not to puke. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm Sad, and pathetic, yet somehow not unexpected. -- You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. --Al Capone. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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The way I read it, the article makes it clear that 50% is still failing. For that matter, up to 59% is still failing. And straight 60-69% won't get you anywhere. The only difference I can see is that if you are absolutely without any merit in a particular subject (P.E., Math, Science) for whatever reason, you will not have a 15% grade averaged against your B's and C's towards making graduation. Many great authors probably could not climb a rope. Many Olympic athletes and/or football players cannot parse a sentence. But they can get through life and be productive none the less. Anybody on this list ever get an F in anything? How about an Incomplete? An F was the same as a 50-59%. An Incomplete was the same as a 0%, and as far as I know, was never averaged in to a final grade unless it trumped all grades by being a requirement to graduate. By the way, to average letter grades, they were converted to percent before averaging. B+ = 89%, B- = 80%, B = 85%, A- = 90% etc. Add in the teacher likes me or hates me or doesn't know I exist increment to account for the fudge factor that just might make a difference. I speak on behalf of all those who, like me, had to go to summer school following the rest of the class graduating high school to get better than a 'D' in Spanish. Señora Oñate said it was because she enjoyed my sense of humor so much, she wanted to spend at least a little more time with me. I think it was because I used my sense of humor to make fun of her from time to time in class. :-) My spanish still sucks. Sounds like typical product of left wing nut jobs trying to make the children feel inclusive. Wait till they fail later in life, inclusivity will not be an option. On 9/24/08, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so this isn't photo related at all. Try not to puke. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm I'm alive, solvent, have a shitload of photographic equipment, a cat, a dog (another to be adapted soon, I hope) a roof over my head. I worked doing interesting things most of my adult years, and have some good stories to tell. My only two regrets are that I have not have a woman in my life for some time, and I never had children with either of my two wonderful wives. I consider myself a success with regrets, which I think can be said of any one of those on this list. Sorry for the off topic diatribe. Joseph McAllister Pentaxian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like typical product of left wing nut jobs trying to make the children feel inclusive. Wait till they fail later in life, inclusivity will not be an option. Sure. Blame the left. I say when those punks do fail later in life, make sure there's a terrific welfare system in place to pay them a gazillion dollars a year to sit on their asses and drink beer and watch Oprah and Doctor Phil all day. When those two shows (which run back-to-back) are over, they can then - at the taxpayer's expense, mind you - go out and sell drugs to little kids to make certain that the cycle is perpetuated. Then they can get into their Cadillac Escalades and go out to night clubs and drink some more, maybe do some drugs, go home and sleep in until the afternoon. Then you can blame the left some more. 'Cause that's all the left is good for is blaming. cheers, a pinko ;-) -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 9/24/08, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like typical product of left wing nut jobs trying to make the children feel inclusive. Wait till they fail later in life, inclusivity will not be an option. Sure. Blame the left. I say when those punks do fail later in life, make sure there's a terrific welfare system in place to pay them a gazillion dollars a year to sit on their asses and drink beer and watch Oprah and Doctor Phil all day. When those two shows (which run back-to-back) are over, they can then - at the taxpayer's expense, mind you - go out and sell drugs to little kids to make certain that the cycle is perpetuated. Then they can get into their Cadillac Escalades and go out to night clubs and drink some more, maybe do some drugs, go home and sleep in until the afternoon. Then you can blame the left some more. 'Cause that's all the left is good for is blaming. cheers, a pinko ;-) LOL. No Frank, when they fail, we need to induct them into the marines, so they can help fight muslim extremists and left leaning dictatorships everywhere. If they fail at that, then we need to dump them on the streets, hope they commit a crime so we can put them in our overcrowded prisons and not have to worry about them anymore. cheers, a nazi ;-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL. No Frank, when they fail, we need to induct them into the marines, so they can help fight muslim extremists and left leaning dictatorships everywhere. If they fail at that, then we need to dump them on the streets, hope they commit a crime so we can put them in our overcrowded prisons and not have to worry about them anymore. cheers, a nazi ;-) Hope they commit a crime? If they've gone to school in Pittsburgh it's virtually assured - those are schools for crime with their commie no fail grading! ;-) (couldn't resist) cheers, the sarcastic socialist -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Later in life will have to incorporate the same system, just like they do now with CEOs of financial organizations. Let's hope the FAA adopts this system for pilot training. groan The government will buy their toxic grades: http://www.buymyshitpile.com/ On 9/24/08, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so this isn't photo related at all. Try not to puke. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:51 , frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like typical product of left wing nut jobs trying to make the children feel inclusive. Wait till they fail later in life, inclusivity will not be an option. Sure. Blame the left. I say when those punks do fail later in life, make sure there's a terrific welfare system in place to pay them a gazillion dollars a year to sit on their asses and drink beer and watch Oprah and Doctor Phil all day. When those two shows (which run back-to-back) are over, they can then - at the taxpayer's expense, mind you - go out and sell drugs to little kids to make certain that the cycle is perpetuated. Then they can get into their Cadillac Escalades and go out to night clubs and drink some more, maybe do some drugs, go home and sleep in until the afternoon. Then you can blame the left some more. 'Cause that's all the left is good for is blaming. cheers, a pinko ;-) EEwww, Good one Frank! (is that a Mark! ?) Joseph McAllister Pentaxian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Joseph McAllister wrote: Anybody on this list ever get an F in anything? How about an Incomplete? An F was the same as a 50-59%. An Incomplete was the same as a 0%, and as far as I know, was never averaged in to a final grade unless it trumped all grades by being a requirement to graduate. Not where I came from. An F counted as 0 on your GPA and /was/ included if you didn't drop the class, whether a required class or not. An Incomplete was not counted in your GPA but prevented graduation if required. Never ran into someone with a non-dropped Incomplete that wasn't required, so I don't know what happened in that case. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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From my own experience, an incomplete usually had a deadline by which the work needed to be done. If you didn't meet the deadline, it reverted to an F (and therefore a zero) and was included in your GPA. -p Doug Franklin wrote: Joseph McAllister wrote: Anybody on this list ever get an F in anything? How about an Incomplete? An F was the same as a 50-59%. An Incomplete was the same as a 0%, and as far as I know, was never averaged in to a final grade unless it trumped all grades by being a requirement to graduate. Not where I came from. An F counted as 0 on your GPA and /was/ included if you didn't drop the class, whether a required class or not. An Incomplete was not counted in your GPA but prevented graduation if required. Never ran into someone with a non-dropped Incomplete that wasn't required, so I don't know what happened in that case. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:06 PM, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL. No Frank, when they fail, we need to induct them into the marines, so they can help fight muslim extremists and left leaning dictatorships everywhere. If they fail at that, then we need to dump them on the streets, hope they commit a crime so we can put them in our overcrowded prisons and not have to worry about them anymore. cheers, a nazi ;-) Hope they commit a crime? If they've gone to school in Pittsburgh it's virtually assured - those are schools for crime with their commie no fail grading! I really hope i'm fully retired before they hit the aledge work force. I feel at $6.00 and hour they will not place much money into the Cpp funds. I'll have mine by then i hope.:-) People need to learn failure or they are doomed when it finally happens. Dave Dave ;-) (couldn't resist) cheers, the sarcastic socialist -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Doug Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joseph McAllister wrote: Anybody on this list ever get an F in anything? How about an Incomplete? An F was the same as a 50-59%. An Incomplete was the same as a 0%, and as far as I know, was never averaged in to a final grade unless it trumped all grades by being a requirement to graduate. Thats why i almost repeated grade 5 but did with grade 7. I smartened up, so to speak:-) in grade 10. Dave PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Doug Franklin wrote: Joseph McAllister wrote: Anybody on this list ever get an F in anything? How about an Incomplete? An F was the same as a 50-59%. An Incomplete was the same as a 0%, and as far as I know, was never averaged in to a final grade unless it trumped all grades by being a requirement to graduate. Not where I came from. An F counted as 0 on your GPA and /was/ included if you didn't drop the class, whether a required class or not. An Incomplete was not counted in your GPA but prevented graduation if required. Never ran into someone with a non-dropped Incomplete that wasn't required, so I don't know what happened in that case. Where I went an Incomplete if not completed within the following year became an F. -- You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. --Al Capone. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:27 PM, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like typical product of left wing nut jobs trying to make the children feel inclusive. Wait till they fail later in life, inclusivity will not be an option. Sure. Blame the left. I say when those punks do fail later in life, make sure there's a terrific welfare system in place to pay them a gazillion dollars a year to sit on their asses and drink beer and watch Oprah and Doctor Phil all day. When those two shows (which run back-to-back) are over, they can then - at the taxpayer's expense, mind you - go out and sell drugs to little kids to make certain that the cycle is perpetuated. Then they can get into their Cadillac Escalades and go out to night clubs and drink some more, maybe do some drugs, go home and sleep in until the afternoon. Then you can blame the left some more. 'Cause that's all the left is good for is blaming. cheers, a pinko ;-) My experience is there is two different 'Left's'. One is the honestly Socialist/Marxist types who have very solid grounded reasons for their belief. The other are folk marxists operating as 'Liberals' and 'Progressives' who seem to prefer a neo-aristocratic system of feel good measures, where everything must be right if the right people with the right attitudes are pushing the right programs, irrespective of whether there's any basis in reality for any of those three suppositions. I respect the former very much. The latter are a big problem as reality doesn't affect them much. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: way OT - school system shenanigans in Pittsburgh
- Original Message - From: Adam Maas Subject: Re: way OT - school system shenanigans in Pittsburgh My experience is there is two different 'Left's'. One is the honestly Socialist/Marxist types who have very solid grounded reasons for their belief. The other are folk marxists operating as 'Liberals' and 'Progressives' who seem to prefer a neo-aristocratic system of feel good measures, where everything must be right if the right people with the right attitudes are pushing the right programs, irrespective of whether there's any basis in reality for any of those three suppositions. I respect the former very much. The latter are a big problem as reality doesn't affect them much. So, do we vote for the latter, or the neo conservative that is somewhat to the left of Stalin? Meanwhile Jacko the whacko is going to live in the BC interior squishing pine beetles to keep them from spreading. I love this time of year. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
