This summer we took a week long family vacation - the first in a long while - to the Poconos.
We packed our things the week before and headed out on Saturday morning to Ken and Kate's mountain house. It only took a couple of hours to get there, and having been there before, we avoided the crazy gated entrance that had thwarted prior visits.
Hello internet.
I hope you have come here because you've seen my pleas on social media and want to know what I'm raving about. I will explain my concept to you simply:
I read a piece by Cory Doctorow called Standardized testing and schools as factories: Louis CK versus Common Core which talks about a comedian who dislikes the application of Common Core.
I'm not writing to defend Common Core, at least not fully. People around our district that talk about it seem to have a limited understanding or a skewed perspective on what it is. I think the problems with Common Core are often not what people most frequently surface.
Last Saturday, Riley and I took our car to compete at Cub Pack 32's pinewood derby race, placing 2nd among the 33 racers submitting cars.
Last year's car didn't make it out of the shaping phase. We got the car down to the shape and added weight, but I forgot to weigh it with the wheels. When I tried to take some wood out of the center with a rotary saw, it went haywire, taking out way too much wood, extremely weakening the car frame, and still coming out overweight. We had to bow out of the race. But not this year.