Archive for August, 2010

Kindergarten Placement Test

Today I want to tell you about the Kindergarten placement test. My son has just taken this test, and it truly upsets me. The 1st thing that upsets me is they ask my son to count as high as he can, well he can count to 50 easy, when he gets to 29 he can’t remember 30. So they then mark that he does not know his 20′s…. O.K. I can see that they could mark not knowing 30′s but to say as high as he can count is 19, that’s not right. The 2nd thing they did was pointed to body parts, She pointed to her cheek, he said cheek, they marked it wrong of course cause he did not call it a jaw. She pointed to her ankle, he said foot. So it is wrong. Now he is marked saying he does not know any body parts. This again is wrong. They showed him his ABC’s on flash cards. he missed 3 lower case letters. Guess what….. It is now marked that he does not know any of his alphabet. So to all the parents with a little one going into kindergarten, beware the placement test. Also to the people and the government who made these test. This is not right. Something has to be done about the way you test our kids.

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Flight Lesson 2 – Pictures & Comments

Had my second flight lesson today from Knoxville Flight Training Center.  As with my first experience, the flight crew there is top notch, very friendly and know what they are doing.  We took up an old 1977 172 SkyHawk.  We took off from DKX, landed at GKT then after a few turns and basic plane handling/feel training headed back for a landing on runway 26 of DKX.  Most exciting part was finding out AFTER the lesson that my instructor wasn’t even assisting but just laying his hands on the yoke!!  He knows I have  several hundred simulated flight hours, but he has more confidence in my flying than I do I think :) , either way, we didn’t die, or even hit hard, no bounces and even had a slight tailwind in the final approach, although I could have hit the runway center-line a bit better.  For a second flight hour and 3rd landing, I suppose I’m already farther than most, I can’t say either way, anyone with any comments, experiences etc., for flight schools or flight in general are welcome to comment.  I am currently looking for financing if anyone has experience or advice in that area for flight training.

Enjoy the photos, working out the bugs, but hope to have thumbs here with full size on click, that probably won’t work out the way I want it yet though, I only have limited time to work on this blog right now with the kid and the girl to manage, plus finals to help her with this weekend. Hurray for Contract Law….

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