This explains a lot....

Smart kids are more likely to be heavy drinkers

Thanks to Shan!

Stuff I learned Today

- Way more about Weird Al Yankovic's career than I wanted to know.

Did you know Prince and Coolio are the only artists to ever say no to Al doing a parody?

Well, and Michael Jackson did on the song 'Black Or White' because he didn't want to tarnish the image of the song.

Weird Al still sings the parody 'Snack All Night' in his live shows.

Oh, and Paul McCartney wouldn't let him do a a parody of 'Live And Let Die', called 'Chicken Pot Pie' because Paul's a vegetarian.

- The Samples broke up this year.

- Tel Aviv is a popular tourist destination.

- The first vending machine was invented by Hero of Alexandria around 215 BC.

When a coin was dropped into a slot, its weight would pull a cork out of a spigot and the machine would dispense a trickle of water.

Me be smart.

So according to this, my IQ is 132.

And according to this, I'm as smart as Jodie Foster.

I guess I can join Mensa now.

I like what this has to say.

Ha.

Can you imagine...

going to a school with only 20 kids?

Recess would be boring.

You couldn't cheat off of others without being noticed.

School board to explore options of dying school

'DENVER - Since last spring, the principal at Del Pueblo Elementary has been asking district leaders to close his school. He feared he would not have enough students to fill his classrooms this fall and now he may be right.

Sources tell 9NEWS the official enrollment at Del Pueblo is only 20 students, but no one is expected to show up at school for the first day of classes on August 20 at the school located on the corner of 8th and Galepago in central Denver.

At first, the school was planning to open with only two teachers. One teaching students in grades kindergarten through 2nd grade; the other working with kids in 3rd grade through 5th grade.

However, District Spokesperson Alex Sanchez confirms that over the past few weeks, Principal Dan Villescas and his staff have been telling parents that Del Pueblo could not provide full services for their kids because of the low enrollment and they should start looking at other programs.

Thursday, the school board will look at what to do with a program with little or no enrollment. One option is to suspend operations of the school and send staff members to other buildings. If this happens, Del Pueblo would be the first among a list of possibly 20 schools or more that need to close within the Denver School District.

An independent citizens panel, the A+ Committee, is studying the issue of unused building space in the district. The committee has found that 30 percent of the classroom space is being unused because Denver has lost thousands of students in the past few years to charter programs, private schools and neighboring districts. For the past year, Del Pueblo has been mentioned as an example of programs having trouble keeping students.

The A+ Committee will send a list of schools which should be closed to the school board on October 2. After six weeks of public input, the board will then vote on the final list of closures on November 19. Technically, if operations at Del Pueblo are suspended, the school would not officially close until the school board vote in November.'

Nifty

Comcast, DPS mull partnership

'Denver Public Schools officials are looking at using Comcast's on-demand video technology to train teachers and help students with classwork at home.

The cable giant has told DPS Superintendent Michael Bennet that it has the ability to give access to selected content - such as, for example, a video on best practices in teaching third-grade math - to any specified home in its service area.

"We've got a platform that people can access from any residence in town," said Scott Binder, senior vice president of Comcast Colorado. "I'm on the DPS foundation board and we've had a lot of discussions with Michael already about how do we use our technology to support DPS's reform efforts."

DPS is undertaking a series of reforms amid unspectacular academic achievement and dreadful dropout rates.

"As we move forward, we can be teaching teachers how to teach at home, whether it's during the summer they can take different courses, or whether it's during the school year, in the evenings, they can be looking at different content," said Alex Sanchez, a spokesman for DPS. "The end result is we're going to have better teachers teaching our kids."

Sanchez said there isn't a time frame for when the technology would be implemented.

Philadelphia-based Comcast, which has 820,000 customers in Colorado, would most likely offer the service free of charge to DPS, though the company said it's too early to determine.

Here's how it would work: DPS officials would provide to Comcast training videos and other teaching materials it wants its faculty to have access to at home. Comcast would upload those videos and grant access only to a list of homes specified by DPS. Teachers would be able to watch the recordings "on demand," or any time they want.

It would work the same way for students, giving them access to class materials from home.'

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