Old Dude, I feel bad for you. I do. I think the company my sibling works for (P&G) alone gave the number of bennies you named. And yes, they do give a fat severance to personnel in my siblings department and....here's the good part: you don't have to go to work sick to get it!
Wow. What a dialogue. One side cannot understand what the other is saying. They see the words. They know the words' meaning. But the words do not go to the heart. Here's a Bible quote for you: "If I speak in human or angelic tongues but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."
Paco's family, readers understand you are grieving. As for any misdeeds, hate the sins, not the sinner. But please. Yes. Judge. Judge in front of your children so that they know what right and wrong are. Dealing in heroin is murder. For users it is a quick needless death or a drawn-out life as a zombie death. You know this. This girl, this girl at 17 did not need to be found in the place she was found in. In memory of this girl, teach girls to have other goals. Please. Hear the concern. Judge. Yes. Judge the actions that lead to death.
At a discount store in Boardman that is now the HobbyLobby, I saw the store's security personnel detain a shoplifter in the funniest way possible. The shoplifter ran out the door as the bus was was approaching. He actually thought he was going to use a city bus as a get-away vehicle. Well, the bus didn't stop and open its door fast enough. He was dancing around on the curb, when the security team from the store nabbed him by the shirt collar and pulled prone on the sidewalk.
It was quite amusing. And gave the audience on the bus and in the parking lot respect for the store.
Hey, shoplifters...stay away from grocery stores, they will proscecute.
Ohio Department of Education Test results for voucher students http://education.ohio.gov/GD/Template... Note: You must click on the link for the year you want to see. The link is not in blue, but is underlined. If you are persistant, you can scroll down to county by county results.
Silence Dogood, I am a parochial AND public school teacher. It looks to me like Gerber LLC is using only the Ohio Graduation Test, which is more a test of what students know when they enter high school than where their skills are when they leave it. (Kids take it in 10th grade.) That's why the U.S. News and World Report survey is so interesting. They take multiple measures like college admissions, college tests, etc.
The OGT is a very general test, since it measures the skills of a student from K to 9th grade, it doesn't go into depth. The grade level tests from 3rd to 8th grades are more detailed, have more essay questions, and are a more specific measure of the schools' work. Those are the ones parochial schools don't take.
Chaney is closed, Silence. My students don't go there. They go to Austintown, McDonald, Ursuline, and Rayen Early College High School for the most part. If you don't know what happened to Chaney, you haven't been paying attention. The PIRS also did a study on private vs. public schools. Their results make sense. Private schools perform better IF you don't look at student demographics. Schools like St. Xavier, Western Reserve Academy enroll many affluent students with professional parents and wide experience. So PIRS looked at the students with the same backgrounds as those in public schools. When adjusted for income, the public schools performed better. You can find the parochial school scores on the ODE website if you search it hard enough. The Vindicator was being kind. Kids who stayed in the public schools outperformed students in parochial schools in every county in Ohio. Also, remember, you and I are comparing local parochial schools to the most troubled system: Youngstown. What if we compared them to the schools in the U.S. News and World Report, or to Canfield or even Struthers? As for my own decision to work in Youngstown: if everyone avoids the difficult positions, how could things get better?
Actually no, "Don't Ban This Drone". China didn't even compete. Shanghai did, Hong Kong did. But not the whole country. If Massachusetts participated separately, they would have had the best scores.
All industrialized countries have similar scores. When pundits talk about the competition in international test scores, usually citing the PISA, and talking about shades of achievement among economic leaders.
For this test, a school gets a small list of randomly chosen students to be pulled to take the test...a test that has no consequences or reward for them.
There are 49,400,000 public school students in the U.S. PISA tests a total of 470,000 students WORLDWIDE. Scroll to the bottom of this link, and pay attention to the actual numerical scores. http://ourtimes.wordpress.com/2008/04... Since the test is voluntary, a lot of countries do not participate. But the 3rd world countries who do, tend to score in the 300s. The difference between a 500 and 520 could be statistical error. In short, politicians like to imagine a crisis. So do news media. The U.S. has the best business people in the world, the best artists, and some of the best scientists and medical experts. How does that happen?
Terminated and frustrated
Disgusting.
I used to love Home Depot.
Not so much now.
Go to local growers for plants, like Chuck's Greenhouse.
May 19, 2012 at 1:06 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Public employees get their perks
Old Dude,
I feel bad for you. I do. I think the company my sibling works for (P&G) alone gave the number of bennies you named.
And yes, they do give a fat severance to personnel in my siblings department and....here's the good part: you don't have to go to work sick to get it!
May 16, 2012 at 7:56 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Double homicide in Youngstown
Wow. What a dialogue. One side cannot understand what the other is saying.
They see the words. They know the words' meaning. But the words do not go to the heart.
Here's a Bible quote for you:
"If I speak in human or angelic tongues but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."
Paco's family, readers understand you are grieving. As for any misdeeds, hate the sins, not the sinner.
But please. Yes. Judge. Judge in front of your children so that they know what right and wrong are. Dealing in heroin is murder. For users it is a quick needless death or a drawn-out life as a zombie death.
You know this.
This girl, this girl at 17 did not need to be found in the place she was found in. In memory of this girl, teach girls to have other goals.
Please. Hear the concern. Judge. Yes. Judge the actions that lead to death.
May 16, 2012 at 7:47 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Does the Valley reflect the mood of America on same-sex marriage?
Look, if homosexual couples are looking for a committed, lifelong relationship, instead of being promiscuous, how can that be construed as negative?
Do you think that if you prevent two gay men to marry, that they will relent and each marry a woman? That's not going to happen.
God created people in his image -- including homosexuals.
May 14, 2012 at 7:43 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Cancer Relays back on track
The photo of Tracy and her son was beautiful. It should be published nationally.
May 12, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Home Depot’s policy on theft puzzles Boardman police
That's ridiculous.
At a discount store in Boardman that is now the HobbyLobby, I saw the store's security personnel detain a shoplifter in the funniest way possible.
The shoplifter ran out the door as the bus was was approaching. He actually thought he was going to use a city bus as a get-away vehicle. Well, the bus didn't stop and open its door fast enough. He was dancing around on the curb, when the security team from the store nabbed him by the shirt collar and pulled prone on the sidewalk.
It was quite amusing. And gave the audience on the bus and in the parking lot respect for the store.
Hey, shoplifters...stay away from grocery stores, they will proscecute.
May 12, 2012 at 10:27 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Three Valley high schools rank in top 10% in US
Ohio Department of Education
Test results for voucher students
http://education.ohio.gov/GD/Template...
Note: You must click on the link for the year you want to see. The link is not in blue, but is underlined. If you are persistant, you can scroll down to county by county results.
May 11, 2012 at 11:46 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Three Valley high schools rank in top 10% in US
PISA report on public and private school results on their tests:
http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/6/4...
May 11, 2012 at 11:38 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Three Valley high schools rank in top 10% in US
Silence Dogood,
I am a parochial AND public school teacher.
It looks to me like Gerber LLC is using only the Ohio Graduation Test, which is more a test of what students know when they enter high school than where their skills are when they leave it. (Kids take it in 10th grade.) That's why the U.S. News and World Report survey is so interesting. They take multiple measures like college admissions, college tests, etc.
The OGT is a very general test, since it measures the skills of a student from K to 9th grade, it doesn't go into depth. The grade level tests from 3rd to 8th grades are more detailed, have more essay questions, and are a more specific measure of the schools' work. Those are the ones parochial schools don't take.
Chaney is closed, Silence. My students don't go there. They go to Austintown, McDonald, Ursuline, and Rayen Early College High School for the most part. If you don't know what happened to Chaney, you haven't been paying attention.
The PIRS also did a study on private vs. public schools. Their results make sense. Private schools perform better IF you don't look at student demographics. Schools like St. Xavier, Western Reserve Academy enroll many affluent students with professional parents and wide experience. So PIRS looked at the students with the same backgrounds as those in public schools. When adjusted for income, the public schools performed better.
You can find the parochial school scores on the ODE website if you search it hard enough. The Vindicator was being kind. Kids who stayed in the public schools outperformed students in parochial schools in every county in Ohio.
Also, remember, you and I are comparing local parochial schools to the most troubled system: Youngstown. What if we compared them to the schools in the U.S. News and World Report, or to Canfield or even Struthers?
As for my own decision to work in Youngstown: if everyone avoids the difficult positions, how could things get better?
May 11, 2012 at 10:49 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Three Valley high schools rank in top 10% in US
Actually no, "Don't Ban This Drone".
China didn't even compete. Shanghai did, Hong Kong did. But not the whole country. If Massachusetts participated separately, they would have had the best scores.
All industrialized countries have similar scores. When pundits talk about the competition in international test scores, usually citing the PISA, and talking about shades of achievement among economic leaders.
For this test, a school gets a small list of randomly chosen students to be pulled to take the test...a test that has no consequences or reward for them.
There are 49,400,000 public school students in the U.S.
PISA tests a total of 470,000 students WORLDWIDE.
Scroll to the bottom of this link, and pay attention to the actual numerical scores.
http://ourtimes.wordpress.com/2008/04...
Since the test is voluntary, a lot of countries do not participate. But the 3rd world countries who do, tend to score in the 300s. The difference between a 500 and 520 could be statistical error.
In short, politicians like to imagine a crisis. So do news media.
The U.S. has the best business people in the world, the best artists, and some of the best scientists and medical experts. How does that happen?
May 11, 2012 at 4:03 p.m. permalink suggest removal