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[MavHockey14]

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So I delved into the hotel sites for the F5 next year. First up, Holiday Inn across from the X. Zero rooms available (they pulled this trick last year for the F4). Um, I call BS, but remembering the jerking around that I went through last year, I decided not to pursue further. Went and checked out the Crowne Plaza, a couple blocks away. Nicer hotel, too. Boombooked from Wed night-Sun morn, and for a decent price (about $700 for 4 nights for a two-bed room).

Holiday Inn (that location) can kiss my rosy red arse.

Planning one of the best weekends of the year early. I like it.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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So I delved into the hotel sites for the F5 next year. First up, Holiday Inn across from the X. Zero rooms available (they pulled this trick last year for the F4). Um, I call BS, but remembering the jerking around that I went through last year, I decided not to pursue further. Went and checked out the Crowne Plaza, a couple blocks away. Nicer hotel, too. Boombooked from Wed night-Sun morn, and for a decent price (about $700 for 4 nights for a two-bed room).

Holiday Inn (that location) can kiss my rosy red arse.

So if I'm planning on attending, I take it you recommend that I book everything well in advance? As in, end of summer at the latest?

 

[The Rube]

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So if I'm planning on attending, I take it you recommend that I book everything well in advance? As in, end of summer at the latest?

General hotel rules state that you can book a room 50 weeks in advance. I have done that (approx) for the F4 and now the F5. It's highly recommended. So, you can book now, if you want (and I would). The Crowne's cancellation policy is generous, also. Something like a week in advance with no penalty or something.

 

[hockeyplayer1015]

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So somebody jumped off the I-10 bridge here in Baton Rouge tonight. The coasties are still out searching, but I'm guessing the jumper is now fish food. I didn't see it, but was probably 10 miles away when it happened. We did give the coasties a few bottles of water though when they stopped by us.

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

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Good morning to tLodge!

 

[Ralph Baer]

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Good Morning, MEUSA!


Good Morning to the rest of tLodge !

 

[goldy_331]

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Morning Lodge.

If they have you better hope he takes after Mrs. Goldy in the academic department. He'll be screwed if he takes after you.

Hey, I can try and dig out my ACT scores, if I can, I'd be happy to compare them straight up tower boy.

 

[JF_Gophers]

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Morning

Hey, I can try and dig out my ACT scores, if I can, I'd be happy to compare them straight up tower boy.

I made minimum effort on my ACT. I believe it was a 27 (of 36?). Actually I made minimum effort in HS period.

 

[MissThundercat]

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Morning, Lodge!

 

[Lady wore Black]

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Good Morning, Lodge!

 

[hockeyplayer1015]

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Pffft, ACT's? Never took 'em. Got the bare minimum required to get my tuition covered for school (appointment scholarship via NYS) on my SAT's, and that was it.

Back on the bayou now.

 

[leswp1]

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GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!! wednesday
GO DHS!!

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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Good Morning Lodge!

 

[nmupiccdiva]

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The theater program looks amazing at AHA. I like a lot about that school. I think they have a lot more options in their curriculum.

I think he'll be at BSM though. I just hope they've raised their academic standards since they gave MNS his diploma though.

Both schools have so much more support for the students than the public schools that it is not close to comparable. I've concluded that Edina students do well in spite of the teachers and administration, not because of them. I think that's probably the case with all public schools.

In defense of my friends who stayed in the teaching game, my guess is they are hogtied by the administration. Teachers care far more than people on the outside want to realize (being that they're the easiest scapegoat), but there is only so much you can do when you're in such a 5hittly funded situation.
Then again, I bet it's "easier" to "care more" when your school is completely privately funded, so you're not deciding between groceries or personally buying the supplies your classroom needs to function because the budget for that is non-existant while the superintendant got a 1% raise, and you don't have to worry that a few kids moving across town because Dad had to get a different job could be the difference between your job being there next year or not.
/hit a nerve there
//scenario #2 there is actually happening to a few of my friends from where I student taught.
///rant

So I delved into the hotel sites for the F5 next year. First up, Holiday Inn across from the X. Zero rooms available (they pulled this trick last year for the F4). Um, I call BS, but remembering the jerking around that I went through last year, I decided not to pursue further. Went and checked out the Crowne Plaza, a couple blocks away. Nicer hotel, too. Boombooked from Wed night-Sun morn, and for a decent price (about $700 for 4 nights for a two-bed room).

Holiday Inn (that location) can kiss my rosy red arse.

That's where we stayed this year for regionals. Nice place. I think F5, at least one day, is on the list for next year.

 

[Bakunin]

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Pffft, ACT's? Never took 'em.

People on the coasts take the SAT's, and people in between take the ACT's. Nowadays, I think most schools accept both, but at some point in the past, that probably was not the case.

For the record, I didn't prepare for the test at all (was at some hooker's birthday party the night before) and still got a 31.

Oh, and I'll actually attend next year's F5. It's the last one, so I pretty much have to do it, I guess. No booze for me though - I'm too old and hangover-prone for that nonsense.

 

[JF_Gophers]

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Oh, and I'll actually attend next year's F5. It's the last one, so I pretty much have to do it, I guess. No booze for me though - I'm too old and hangover-prone for that nonsense.

Hangovers are your own fault. If you don't stop drinking, there is no hangover.

 

[mookie1995]

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S'upp y'all

 

[Patman]

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Ugh... My work morale is shot... Just have to hold it together... Need to hold out hope for the future.

Doesn't help that I am fighting through a cold.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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General hotel rules state that you can book a room 50 weeks in advance. I have done that (approx) for the F4 and now the F5. It's highly recommended. So, you can book now, if you want (and I would). The Crowne's cancellation policy is generous, also. Something like a week in advance with no penalty or something.

I can get a pretty tempting package deal on flight + hotel if I take the Best Western Kelly Inn, but looking at the map, it's a 0.75 mile walk to downtown and the X (but probably doable).

The Crowne is the next best deal, but the price jumps $300+.

 

[goldy_331]

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In defense of my friends who stayed in the teaching game, my guess is they are hogtied by the administration. Teachers care far more than people on the outside want to realize (being that they're the easiest scapegoat), but there is only so much you can do when you're in such a 5hittly funded situation.
Then again, I bet it's "easier" to "care more" when your school is completely privately funded, so you're not deciding between groceries or personally buying the supplies your classroom needs to function because the budget for that is non-existant while the superintendant got a 1% raise, and you don't have to worry that a few kids moving across town because Dad had to get a different job could be the difference between your job being there next year or not.
/hit a nerve there
//scenario #2 there is actually happening to a few of my friends from where I student taught.
///rant

I'm not going to get into a whole debate about the problems with the public school system in our country, I'm sure there are political threads here in the cafe for that. I will say that none of what you say holds water in my son's case in our school district.

In our schools if the teacher is short of supplies, they simply send out an e-mail to the parents saying "all students need to bring in these supplies for the classroom " and the supplies will come in. The Edina schools are full and if they were not, they could accept more open enrolled students because there are more applying each year than they can accept.

None of what you said explains why his 8th grade math teacher is great, fully organized and on top of everything, and his 7th grade math teacher couldn't find her *** with both hands. There are great teachers at Edina. There are also many mediocre teachers and some awful teachers, many of whom have been there and known to the parents as awful for years. I don't think those teachers stick around in the privates. The teachers union makes it near impossible to get rid of the bad teachers and the principal's main job seems to be to protect the teachers, not help the kids.