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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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IamGroot! said:
Don’t know if I can do this but this is what I like to do (here’s a link to my channel)
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCpUIKVcAeBrNAK6Car67F-g
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Coaster World is your YouTube channel? I watched a live feed last week I think from Spokesmayne. I came in late and he mentioned a nice kid he had just spoken to with a channel. He was trying to get subscribers to that channel, and I swear he said Coaster World. Was that you???
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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21stamps said:
Yeah.. it’s a private school.. and apparently they share their avg SAT scores as well with families who are considering applying to the school.. I have no idea if Ohio has laws against that or not, I wouldn’t think so as the sign has been there for about 2.5 months now. I know they shared both of those when I was a kid as well, but not on a billboard.
Admissions testing for all schools is coming up next month I think, I’m assuming that’s why it’s there.

There’s a public school in Cincinnati that had 5 kids get a 36 on their ACT last year. FIVE!! It’s the number 1 public school in Ohio, and I think it’s in the top 100 in the country. You have to test to get in...but it’s still public. Crazy because that specific district- CPS, is horrible, but that school beats any other high school in any of the suburban school districts.
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As long as the school isn't sharing any private data about the student I'm sure it isn't breaking any laws. Our state's testing results are online for people to access, but there isn't any way to identify the students. Plus most of the results are just averages for the grade level, or average ACT results.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Songbird76 said:
I wasn't super into Debbie Gibson. I liked Electric Youth, but that's the only one I knew. I loved Whitney Houston....the one with The Greatest Love of All...that was the first cassette tape I bought. Then Bryan Adams - Reckless. Then Tiffany, and my first year of Junior High, my friend introduced me to NKOTB. I was a bit late with that. My mom was not at ALL into pop music....the music we listened to at home was stuff like, Oliver, Oklahoma, The King and I... I remember going to a friend's birthday party...it was a roller skating party, so we had to drive into the next town over (40 miles) and in the suburban, her mom had Michael Jackson on, and I had never heard it before, and I was the only one who didn't know the words.

I also remember hearing "Let's hear it for the boy" from Footloose when the local baton twirling class did a routine to it in the parade on the town birthday celebration. I loved that song, but didn't know it was from a movie. So my pop culture knowledge was really weak. When I got into 4th grade, we got a new music teacher, fresh out of college, and one of the things we did periodically was a singalong. She had taken all her favorites and had written out the lyrics, and every once in a while, we had a day where all we did was sing along to them. Kids would get to pick from the ones she had written out and we'd sing them along with the tapes. That's where I learned who Whitney Houston, Bryan Adams, and Tiffany were. I had never heard of White Snake, or Poison, or Bonjovi. Well, I hadn't really heard of ANYONE. It was all new to me.
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You mentioned a ton of good music there. Makes me want to turn on an 80's channel. :)
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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SteveBrickNJ said:
I know that w/ SAT, if you take it twice, you can pluck out your best math score from one and your best language score from another.....thus combining them for the best possible total score.
Hopefully the ACT is the same in that regard?
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It would be nice if it did. I don't THINK it was that way back then, but I could be wrong. But I had a 29 on English Junior year, and only 27 Senior year. And I think I got 25 on math both years, so maybe that wouldn't have mattered. But I'm dyslexic and the Science portion is ALL reading...or it was then. It was a bunch of studies and you had to read about the study and answer questions about it and interpret graphs. For me, it took so long to read that I couldn't finish those sections. So my Junior year I only got a 20 on reading. It was above average for our school, but was definitely not what I was hoping for. Senior year I bumped it up to 24.....still not great, but better than junior year. BUT, my Science went from a 22 to a 19.....pretty abysmal. Science is just not my subject, and when it involves lots of reading, I'm in trouble. I was really unhappy with it. It didn't help that my brother got a 33 overall, and my boyfriend got a 35....the only section he never scored a perfect 36 on was Math, and he got a 35 in that. It did not make me feel good about my 24 composite score, and it made me feel REALLY stupid with the 19 for Science.
I would suggest taking practices. You can get old versions of the test from previous years, with the answers, to practice. Or you could back then. Do they do anything in their classes to prepare for it? I remember doing flash cards with words that were commonly on the English section in class. And I remember doing logarithms in Math class to brush up just before the test. And I know some schools offer special classes to prepare, but we didn't have those.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I think I have won the winter watch prize. @MinnieM123 will be very jealous. Yesterday we had snow flurries. It didn't stick by us, but my husband had to drive about 40 minutes north and it started sticking to the roads. He said the road got a little slick in spots. Even some of the students at school who like snow and going snowmobiling said it was a little to early to see the snow. :oops:
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Sympathy like. We went from 80 yesterday to 52 today. It is too drastic a drop. Too quick.
 
SteveBrickNJ

SteveBrickNJ

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Songbird76 said:
It would be nice if it did. I don't THINK it was that way back then, but I could be wrong. But I had a 29 on English Junior year, and only 27 Senior year. And I think I got 25 on math both years, so maybe that wouldn't have mattered. But I'm dyslexic and the Science portion is ALL reading...or it was then. It was a bunch of studies and you had to read about the study and answer questions about it and interpret graphs. For me, it took so long to read that I couldn't finish those sections. So my Junior year I only got a 20 on reading. It was above average for our school, but was definitely not what I was hoping for. Senior year I bumped it up to 24.....still not great, but better than junior year. BUT, my Science went from a 22 to a 19.....pretty abysmal. Science is just not my subject, and when it involves lots of reading, I'm in trouble. I was really unhappy with it. It didn't help that my brother got a 33 overall, and my boyfriend got a 35....the only section he never scored a perfect 36 on was Math, and he got a 35 in that. It did not make me feel good about my 24 composite score, and it made me feel REALLY stupid with the 19 for Science.
I would suggest taking practices. You can get old versions of the test from previous years, with the answers, to practice. Or you could back then. Do they do anything in their classes to prepare for it? I remember doing flash cards with words that were commonly on the English section in class. And I remember doing logarithms in Math class to brush up just before the test. And I know some schools offer special classes to prepare, but we didn't have those.
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The college prep HS classes probably prepare the students for the SAT/ACT . There are optional pay to learn classes that specialize in the testing preparation.
 
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wdwfan4ver

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I think I have won the winter watch prize. @MinnieM123 will be very jealous. Yesterday we had snow flurries. It didn't stick by us, but my husband had to drive about 40 minutes north and it started sticking to the roads. He said the road got a little slick in spots. Even some of the students at school who like snow and going snowmobiling said it was a little to early to see the snow. :oops:
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I read about about snow flows around your area yesterday. Good thing it didn't reach Southeastern Wisconsin because right now the Botanical Gardens in Hales Corners has China Lights from September 21st to October 21st. All the displays are outside along and all the food and drink vendors are outside also. I know China Lights run in snow according to website, but trying to drive in it would be an issue going there.

Here is a gallery of some of the china lights from last year: http://www.chinalights.org/gallery/
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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wdwfan4ver said:
I read about about snow flows around your area yesterday. Good thing it didn't reach Southeastern Wisconsin because right now the Botanical Gardens in Hales Corners has China Lights from September 21st to October 21st. All the displays are outside along and all the food and drink vendors are outside also. I know China Lights run in snow according to website, but trying to drive in it would be an issue going there.

Here is a gallery of some of the china lights from last year: http://www.chinalights.org/gallery/
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I'm glad you didn't get any snow. That China Lights looks pretty neat. I think there was something like that in the Minneapolis area last year or the year before. We didn't go but we thought about it.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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I like to watch NOVA on PBS, there are many interesting episodes. I recorded one on transplants that was on a couple weeks ago and I'm finally watching it. It is very interesting but has made me cry; transplants can give such joy to some and such sorrow. But what a beautiful gift to give. That being said if you are interested in the subject it will probably replay on PBS at some point or sometimes it can be watched on-line. It does show how a heart is transplanted and that was fascinating.
 
21stamps

21stamps

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dryerlintfan said:
I went to one about four years ago. Maybe give. It was a great time. I don't know any of their songs and never listened then as a kid, but i still had a blast. You won't regret going!
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I still know every song by heart, from when I was young. However, I don’t know any of their “comeback” music!!

I’m glad you had fun!! I need to suck it up and stop pouting.
 
21stamps

21stamps

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I like to watch NOVA on PBS, there are many interesting episodes. I recorded one on transplants that was on a couple weeks ago and I'm finally watching it. It is very interesting but has made me cry; transplants can give such joy to some and such sorrow. But what a beautiful gift to give. That being said if you are interested in the subject it will probably replay on PBS at some point or sometimes it can be watched on-line. It does show how a heart is transplanted and that was fascinating.
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I always receive emails about it, haven’t had a chance to watch yet. Will definitely try to eventually!
 

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