Posted on 07/08/2003 2:31:17 PM PDT by presidio9
Like I care?
"Do you seriously maintain that coffee leads to Red Bull, which leads to crank? I used to drink a pot of coffee a day when I was teaching. I have yet to drink a Red Bull, let alone do the crank."
Yes. I've seen the devastating results of addiction to Red Bull.
"Do you abstain from all caffeine for fear of becoming a crankhead?"
Yes. I've given up caffeine, and broken my addiction.
LOL, I'd say old "Action News" has lost it!
Well there, now you have it! The Last Visible Dog has confirmed that OZZY is right when he says that Pot leads to harder drugs.
Sounds like somebody had to "be the wife" last night.
LOL
Did you and I ever even talk on this thread?
And the reason that you would want to talk to this gentleman is.....................?
How could I have posted an incorrect summary? Those are all cut and paste from your posts. Don't believe me, go back and read them.
Greg Toppo USA TODAY
You wake up one morning and there are clouds on your breakfast plate. You look out the window and see stars littering the streets. Write a story, called ''The Very Unusual Day,'' about what happens. You have 25 minutes.
Faced with that task, fewer than one in five fourth-graders could write a respectable story, said a study released Thursday by the federal government.
Though U.S. students' writing has improved modestly in the past four years, few write well: Only one in four 12th-graders and fewer than one in three fourth- and eighth-graders can write stories or essays proficiently, said the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as ''the nation's report card.''
The trend mirrors the scores of NAEP math, reading and history tests in the past several years, in which students posted modest gains but demonstrated fairly low skills overall.
The test usually is administered every four years in a variety of subjects. The last time students took the writing test, slightly fewer rated ''proficient,'' or showing solid academic performance. The 2002 test also shows that a few more students scored ''basic'' or better, meaning they were at least able to make a point in writing.
Education Secretary Rod Paige noted that schools ''have to find creative ways to encourage our high school seniors,'' whose results haven't changed since 1998. Although the highest-scoring seniors did noticeably better than in 1998, the lowest scorers scored much lower.
The scores also showed that girls wrote better than boys at every grade level.
There were a few bright spots: In both fourth and eighth grade, low-income students scored higher, on average, than in 1998; 12th-graders scored about the same. In all three grades, however, the gaps in performance between low-income students and others ''remained substantial.''
Also, younger black and Hispanic students' average scores rose in 2002; those of minority 12th-graders either dropped or remained unchanged.
Education expert Gerald Bracey of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., said the test's proficiency levels have been rejected by many researchers as setting expectations that are too high. He also criticizes the way standardized writing tests are graded. They are ''scored by $7-an-hour temps who spend, at most, 30 seconds on an essay,'' he said.
Sad reading indeed.
You were the first to quote him.
You posted the article.
"jackass...retarded"
Eloquent.
I didn't spend as much time cutting and pasting as you did posting. The fact that I take time to create a meaningful post instead of jumping threads and posting one liners, lends me to think you may need the ritalin, not me.
My main point that still has never been addressed, is listed in post 414. Let me know if you have a response to it yet.
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