Testing, testing

[msjen]

This week, I am administering assessments to fourth graders in rural Georgia. Here are some things I have discovered

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[eac]

Unless you are in a major urban area, the disclaimer is lying.

My impression - based solely on driving through Atlanta - is that one out of every three streets in Georgia is named Peachtree. This is unhelpful.

#8 freaks me out, too, as my daughter is going to be dealing with this environment in a couple of years...

#10 It's hard to remember this, sometimes...

[angel_boi]

"My impression - based solely on driving through Atlanta - is that one out of every three streets in Georgia is named Peachtree. This is unhelpful"

Heh oh my god so true!
but really only in the greater atlanta area

[msjen]

Re: streets with the same name. Today we passed two intersecting streets with the same name. Good idea, people.

Re: school. There are definitely benefits to standards. Not to worry. Plus, you never know which way the pendulum will swing next (hopefully back the other way).

[jwz]

I used to live near the intersection of Beechwood Blvd and Beechwood Pl. Which was also near the intersection of Beechwood and Birchwood. And the road followed a U-shaped path, so many other streets intersected it twice. Possibly three times, I don't remember.

[ousel]

And I thought Oakland was bad for "stealing" all those SF street names. At least it's across a bay!
City planning does not intersect with creativity, it seems.

[jwz]

As far as I can tell, every town on the west coast names its streets from the exact same set of ~150 names.

[jwz]

Actually, I underestimated/underrecalled the madness -- Beechwood Blvd actually bifurcates and intersects itself. Sweet.

I had a paper route on that street, so this nonsense made the first week of that job very annoying.

[msjen]

Wow. I would have -- well, done what I did at a gas station in the lovely town of Between, Georgia on Tuesday -- completely flipped out.

[msjen]

When I first moved to SF I made a list of all the similar sounding street names that were near each other (Haight and Hayes, Polk and Post, for example). But, in retrospect, that wasn't bad at all.