State lawmakers appear on the verge of dumping the math and science sections of the 10th-grade Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL), and replacing them with a very different kind of test.
The idea is to do something about the fact that so few students pass the math and science sections. But the proposed remedy is [...]
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Seattle Times: 10th-grade WASL may ditch math and science
The evolution of “slut”
As with so many fraught or politically tricky words, context is everything when it comes to “slut.”
These days the word is often used as an affectionate tease among friends, especially adolescent girls. Or it has metaphorical meaning – you’re a slut for something you can’t resist.
At first it might seem that feminism and the sexual [...]
No sex please, we’re daddy’s little girls
It has all the ingredients of a wedding. The proud tuxedo-clad father, the frosted white cake, the limousines and an exchange of vows.
But there is no groom and the girl in the long gown is no bride. She’s daddy’s little girl, there to take a vow of chastity.
In what is becoming a trend among conservative [...]
Private school students banned from using myspace…AT HOME!
Students at a suburban Catholic school are being ordered to take down their photos, snappy comments, or anything else they may have posted on MySpace.com.
Today is the deadline for students at St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic School to follow orders or risk suspension. School Principal Sister Margaret Van Velzen sent letters home to [...]
Couple offered toddler for $3,000 and an SUV
OWENSBORO, Kentucky (AP) — A couple are charged with trying to sell a 15-month-old girl for $3,000 and a sport-utility vehicle.
Charles G. Hope Jr., 32, and Amber M. Revlett, 26, both of Owensboro, planned to use the money to pay off his fines for previous criminal charges, said Daviess County Sheriff’s Lt. Bill Thompson. They [...]
Man gets probation for sex with dead deer
A 20-year-old man received probation after he was convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer. The sentence also requires Bryan James Hathaway to be evaluated as a sex offender and treated at the Institute for Psychological and Sexual Health in Duluth, Minn.
“The state believes that particular place is the best to provide treatment [...]
Blind auto mechanic hires deaf assistant
Cars have been Larry Woody’s life for more than 30 years. He fixed them, he raced them, he restored them. But five years ago on Interstate 5 a truck blew across the median and drove over his tiny Toyota Celica. He almost died, and he was blinded.
But Woody, 46, still works on his 1968 El [...]
Homeowners Association outlaws gun posession by its residents
ANTIOCH, Tenn.- Some people in a Nashville neighborhood are furious over a new rule that makes it illegal to own a gun.
Residents in Nashboro Village said it’s unconstitutional and leaves them defenseless.
Two weeks ago, residents received a letter from their homeowners’ association indicating that guns are not allowed on the property.
“It thought it was [...]
March 20th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
Prison guard accused of having sex with inmate
BY DAVID OVALLE
Gustavo Coronado, a Homestead prison guard, said he grew so tired of an inmate’s advances that he had sex with her in her bunk ‘’so she would leave him alone,” according to state agents.
They were unsympathetic — and arrested him Monday.
He faces a third-degree felony charge of sexual misconduct with a detainee or [...]
Broward judge in Anna Nicole Smith case accused of smoking pot in Hollywood park
Police cited Broward Circuit Judge Lawrence Korda — one of two who made decisions recently in the Anna Nicole Smith case — for smoking marijuana in a park Sunday afternoon, a police spokesman said on Monday.
Three on-duty officers who were doing physical training in Stanley Goldman Park caught the judge about 2 p.m., said Capt. [...]
83-year-old collected cans for 30 years to build community swimming pool
An 83-year-old Kansas woman spent 30 years driving open roads, picking up aluminum cans, in a single-handed effort to raise enough money to build a community swimming pool for the children in her home town of Eskridge. For more than three decades, Maisie DeVore gathered and delivered cans, scrap metal and car parts to a [...]
March 18th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
Men Rob Restaurant After Jumping Into Drive-Through Window
Three armed, masked men robbed a Wendy’s on Tuesday after entering the restaurant through its drive-through window, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Employees of the restaurant, located at 4061 S. Goldenrod Road, told Orange County sheriff’s deputies that three black men wearing dark clothing and carrying knives and a gun jumped through the drive-through [...]
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