I love the scary message from the State.
“In the guidance released Tuesday evening, the education agency said students, teachers or school districts participating in ‘inappropriate political activism’ could face the following consequences: […] Students being marked absent and districts losing state funding.” (source)
My brothers and sisters, big scary liberal Austin ISD done already marked kids as an unexcused absence if they walked out.
In STS 321, we were asked “What are blogs?” Below are the notes I scratched into Notepad before we started discussing it. Blogs are a forum for individuals to share ideas and thoughts on any number of interests. As with every forum, the credibility and usefulness of the ideas has to be questioned and examined.…
I’m now enrolled in STS 321: Intro to Science, Technology and Society. This is the fourth STS class I’ve taken [311, 331 (Wireless Revolutions) and 331 (Multimedia Writing-W)] and so I’m not all that worried about it. The course outline appears to be interesting and overall is looking at topics I haven’t studied much if…
I’m in my social stats class going over some very basic terms: nominal and ordinal variables. Ordinal variables are one that are ordered, or could be ranked. For example, when a poll asks “how happy are you?”, the answers are ordered: “Very happy”, “somewhat happy”, “neither”, “somewhat unhappy”, etc. The professor then shocked everyone in…
I ran into this site today, Donors Choose, a site that connects teachers who need funding with donors. Teachers can post project proposal and indicate the funding level they need in order to successfully implement it. Donors can choose from the various projects and opt to fund a project, either in part or in full.…
Alright. So I thought the problem I was having with my phone was fixed. This weekend, I find out that Vanessa and Stephanie both had this happen to them while attempting to call my phone. I call Customer Care tonight, after leaving a voicemail with the engineer who called me after the December 11 phone…
As found in the Sacramentary Supplement, this is the tradtional announcement of the date of Easter to be announced on Epiphany. It comes from a time before calendars but is still important now as a reminder of how central the Easter celebration is in the life of the faithful. Dear brothers and sisters, the glory…
