Comment Archives: Last 7 Days
Re: “Charter School Crowd and MNPS Do Different Math on Student Attrition”
Just losing the students isn't the only issue. The fact that schools like KIPP do NOT replace the students who leave with new students could allow them to manipulate the student body in a way that district schools, with students moving in and out throughout the year, could not. The question is whether the exodus of struggling students, not replaced, is what creates a high scoring, disciplined student body, and whether that is accomplished by charter schools pushing students out, rather than by them working wonders with a random assortment of kids.
Re: “Charter School Crowd and MNPS Do Different Math on Student Attrition”
And still, the question raised in the WSMV story remains...are the students moving or being moved out of the charter schools and back into the district schools right before TCAP testing and, if so, why?
Re: “WSMV Exposes Metro's Makeshift Toxic Landfill (And a Scalp for Ken Jakes!)”
@Kosh III: Blame the Aral Sea on big government because that's who interfered and caused it to dry up. Even so, if it didn't have an outlet it would have eventually became too salty to support life. You still wear shoes and clothes made by corporations. Watch TV at all? Listen to the radio? You can't get away from supporting corporations. Wear cotton? Then you support The Old South and slavery. (satire) Didn't bother to look at the link did you? Neither did that lying ass who commented at 2:27 PM.
Re: “Gladiator w/Take the Power Back and Cio Cio San and the Half-Japanese Girls Saturday at Exit/In”
If no half japanese cover band, then at least a half japanese karaoke night? please?
Re: “The Road, Episode 31: Midori Japanese & Korean Restaurant [Eating Our Way Down Nolensville Pike]”
Back in the day, when I worked in Antioch, this was our go-to lunch spot. Really great, hidden gem. Glad to hear the food is still good as ever.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
How could anyone possibly accuse donna of bigotry? She traded recipes with a hispanic woman one time. Actually had her in her house for tea. Fool proof indemnity.
Re: “The Treehouse Restaurant and Bar to Spring Up in Five Points”
Ha, I did some research and found this little gem of a legislative loophole:
"A special occasion license under this section may also be issued to a nonprofit historical society for the purpose of serving complimentary samples of homemade wine manufactured in the Swiss tradition by a society member or members, the complimentary samples not to exceed one ounce (1 oz.) per wine type per person to be served at an annual festival conducted by a society celebrating the Swiss heritage at a farm museum in any county having a population of not less than fourteen thousand three hundred (14,300) nor more than fourteen thousand four hundred (14,400), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census."
Grundy County, home of Gruetli-Laager and the annual Swiss Heritage Festival had a population of 14,332 in 2000. Glad our legislature is working for the everyman...
Re: “My Maser Challenge to The Tennessean”
The main damage to his credibility is that the Tennessean printed it.
Re: “The Treehouse Restaurant and Bar to Spring Up in Five Points”
I thought you had to have 75 seats to get a liquor license in the state of TN? Not that the application of liquor laws has ever been something I completely understand. I know there's supposedly some other "gourmet restaurant" designation and a wine-only option. Any restaurateur Bitesters have any insight on that one?
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Cite. Be specific now.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
AnglRdr is the wind beneath my wings. "...Did you ever know that you're my hero?"
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Yes, there is, Donna, which is why your naked bigotry always comes as such a shock. Most reconstructed racists know to keep their bigotry on the downlow, but you? You're just loud and proud with it.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
There's a record here, AnglRdr.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Oh Donna, forgive me! I completely forgot my place! Please pardon me as I curtsy and kiss your ring.
In your dreams. You've hate me since the first time I came here and dared challenged you on anything. You loathe being called out, and you cannot stand the thought that someone out there actually knows more about something than you do.
You don't impress me; you certainly don't intimidate me. You're nothing to me but a cranky old misanthrope who hates anybody of a darker skin tone than you, who I imagine enjoys getting a bit tipsy at the monthly Daughters of the Confederacy luncheons.
Please, don't flatter yourself that *I'm* the lucky one here.
Re: “Metro Officials on Germantown Demolition Site: Nothing to See Here”
Damn you, Hale, you violated the Garrigan Protocol!
Re: “Open Thread Asks: What Items Do You Seek Out at Farmers Markets?”
Seriously, though, I think kale rabe is my new favorite green. The leafy parts crisp up just as the thicker bits get cooked through.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
You're lucky I even answered you, AnglRdr, given your constant insults. I haven't been bothering. Seems wise, though the more you phony "liberals" talk and write, the more revealing you are. Hasn't failed yet.
Re: “Open Thread Asks: What Items Do You Seek Out at Farmers Markets?”
I go around to the markets looking for reclaimed barnwood.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Yeah, it really sounds like you haven't, though, because your claim has no relation to the show at all. But whatevs.
And I'm sure your 60+ year old second hand experience really taught you something, huh, you old grump.
Re: “WSMV Exposes Metro's Makeshift Toxic Landfill (And a Scalp for Ken Jakes!)”
>>Climate change is already ruining everything.<<
You can thank China for anything remotely close to "climate change". I guess that late snowstorm in Denver was also global warming? (huge eye roll here)