MASSIVE links post

[mao4269]

To start out, I feel obligated to point out that there's currently natural disaster-caused death and destruction in Indonesia, the Philippines, Samoa and American Samoa. All other links are sorted by category and put behind relevant cuts for your convenience.

Comments

[koshiii]

Do you think you could pick up a copy of the Washingtonian for me?

[mao4269]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Guess what our mother left at David's before I arrived along with the more-than-one-person-can-possibly-eat supply of fruit (mostly varieties I don't like)? I'll bring it with me....

[mao4269]

Oh, do you want me to clip the article or take the whole magazine (or do you not care, in which case you're getting the former)?

[koshiii]

Don't care....

[mostafternoons]

great sexual assault prevention guide - I'm so tired of hearing the target-hardening approach.

[mao4269]

It really is great.

[paper_crystals]

Something that I said got mentioned in a mao4269 post about something political! (It sort of make me feel special...)

[mao4269]

Hehe :).

[esajudita]

I never believed in TJ. You all had access to things that students in the rest of Fairfax County's schools never had. I was among the two best Spanish students in Fairfax County (Amy Firestone at Ffx HS was the other) and I had to sit through the most boring AP Spanish class. You all had AP Spanish Lit...which only TJ had and which should have been taught at every other school in the county.

[mao4269]

By virtue of having a demand for AP classes TJ has them. If your high school had enough students interested in AP Spanish Lit., it would have had it. Resources don't go to where the best student is, it goes to where there are more than a handful of interested students. Of course, that's also why your neighborhood middle school had all sorts of after school and summer enrichment programs that mine lacks. The better educated and more affluent parents enroll their students in larger numbers than the less educated and less affluent so the county, which only has the resources to create programs in so many places, doe so in the richest part of the county. Frankly I have a much bigger issue with that application of the principle widening the socioeconomic gap than I do with the one you listed.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure people were only allowed to take a foreign language literature AP after having taken the general foreign language AP, so you would've had to sit through a boring AP Spanish class if you had been a student at TJ, anyway.

[koshiii]

It's also always been my understanding that TJ didn't get any more per-pupil funding from Fairfax County than any other school. All additional funding came from private donations. So TJ still had leaking roofs, crappy bathrooms, etc. just like the rest of FCPS.

[mao4269]

Yeah, the article talks about the fact that county funding is the same as any other school.