Thursday, May 25, 2006
Can you breathe on your own or do you need help with that to?
I am not making this up; these are actual test questions and answers from my Senior Government final exam.
‘How many states are in the United States’; 52
‘How many states are in the United States’; 50, 51 if you count Cuba
(In all 4 got this wrong out of 18 who took the test, two 52’s, a 51 and the 50/51)
‘Serving for 8 years this man was our first president’: Jim Monroe
Now granted most of them could define bicameral and could correctly identify the brain behind Glasnost but still. Next year I plan on taking the time to teach them how many states we have.
The floor progresses slowly. I have all but one wall striped of the brown goo and about half of the room at the intermediate sanding stage. I still fight the residue every step of the way. Even with my hard learned process the paper plugs almost instantly. Holding a wire brush to the sanding drum after every pass helps but is slow and brutal on the paper. On the wire brush too for that matter. I am already planning ahead to the next trouble spot. As you can see in the picture the floor does not extend all the way to the wall. The sheetrock we put on is thinner than all of the other crap we took off. This has left us with quite a gap at the bottom. I can cut every board off and put in a filler strip, somewhat easy to do, but that will show, and it will not be running the right direction. Or I can cut off boards at random lengths and piece in strips under the wall. Depending on how random I get it would be invisible but it would require attaching the jig to the floor for every board that is to be cut. I know what I should do. I should remember that it is just a piece of crap fir floor that I have already put to much time and effort into and just do what is fastest, strip it.
‘How many states are in the United States’; 52
‘How many states are in the United States’; 50, 51 if you count Cuba
(In all 4 got this wrong out of 18 who took the test, two 52’s, a 51 and the 50/51)
‘Serving for 8 years this man was our first president’: Jim Monroe
Now granted most of them could define bicameral and could correctly identify the brain behind Glasnost but still. Next year I plan on taking the time to teach them how many states we have.
The floor progresses slowly. I have all but one wall striped of the brown goo and about half of the room at the intermediate sanding stage. I still fight the residue every step of the way. Even with my hard learned process the paper plugs almost instantly. Holding a wire brush to the sanding drum after every pass helps but is slow and brutal on the paper. On the wire brush too for that matter. I am already planning ahead to the next trouble spot. As you can see in the picture the floor does not extend all the way to the wall. The sheetrock we put on is thinner than all of the other crap we took off. This has left us with quite a gap at the bottom. I can cut every board off and put in a filler strip, somewhat easy to do, but that will show, and it will not be running the right direction. Or I can cut off boards at random lengths and piece in strips under the wall. Depending on how random I get it would be invisible but it would require attaching the jig to the floor for every board that is to be cut. I know what I should do. I should remember that it is just a piece of crap fir floor that I have already put to much time and effort into and just do what is fastest, strip it.
