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Pierre bunts - gets thrown out at 1st.

Carrasco Ks Ausmus. 1 down.

Restovich makes an out. Miller blows his chance at batting 1.000 by popping out. Inning over.

Ah yes, old WCW lives on forever. Vince McMahon can buy the league and dissolve it, but he can't buy our memories of it...yet.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 1, 2009 -> 09:35 AM) Any truth to the rumor it'll be called Grinders? No, that's Dave Wilder's second gay bar.

This is an updated version posted as of 2pm Chicago time. I did some tweaking of the design and added April's Spring games to the schedule.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Mar 1, 2009 -> 03:17 AM) HAVE to have kids 5 days a week. They'll learn less if you only have them two or three. You lose all flow without consecutive days of learning. Wasn't it harder to adjust during snow days in the winter? The kids would be in school 5 days a week, just not in math/science/English 5 days a week.

Absolutely. He's due if he can stay healthy. Will the Royals compete for the division this season?

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 10:47 PM) The classes in your proposed schedule are way too long for middle school students. I am proposing this for high school students grades 9-12.

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QUOTE (Linnwood @ Feb 27, 2009 -> 05:14 PM) We all know how well those groin injuries heal. He does dip into "Grady's Ladies" on occasion.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 07:45 PM) you convinced me. The mortgage is going on KC this year. Good byeeee recession! Hellooo homeless shelter!

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Feb 27, 2009 -> 12:12 PM) hopefully for their sake too(winning bidder), viciedo is the real deal lol http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...3DLVI%26ps%3D54 I'd never buy anything over $20 from overseas. Too many fraud risks.

QUOTE (smalls2598 @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 08:57 PM) My girlfriend is a middle school math teacher. She said that if this change happens, she will find a new profession. Yeah, it will suck only doing 3 lesson plans a week as opposed to 5 and finishing the school year on May 15.

Plus, there would be less homework and more homework time because the core classes would only be M-W-F, instead of every day. When you have a class on Monday, you'll have Monday and Tuesday night to do homework for it before Wednesday's class. The Tues-Thur classes would be electives, less likely to have homework.

QUOTE (3E8 @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 06:53 PM) Would the teachers' salaries increase by 33%? The teachers would have a shorter school year.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 06:49 PM) Im sorry, but unless you have gone through the pressures of today's high school experience, then you wont understand it. Too many people forget how it was for them, or dont understand the new pressures of students in today's world and only know their situation. I remember exactly how it went. I did many of those things that you mentioned. Up at 6:30am, AP classes all day, 18 hour a week job after school, homework until 11pm. Music practices on the days that I wasn't at work. National Honor Society, Quizzing, Pep Band, Marching Band, Concert Band, Choir, Drama, Musicals, Band Camp in the summer, college prep crap, writing papers without computers, working in the school for the decoration committee. My point is, you're only adding around two hours of in-school time to the schedule. Those two hours can be learning/practicing/studying/writing hours, hours that would have been used for the same thing at home without a teacher around to help.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 06:39 PM) How many sports have practice before school? How many teams only practice for an hour? In your case, even if they are given that hour to practice, then they may get out at say 5pm, then eat till 6 ish, then homework for the rest of the night. They are only given about 3 hours for homework if they are to get an appropriate amount of sleep, and I know that if you are in AP classes, honor classes etc, 3 hours is not very much. Last I checked, sports was an elective. It's not part of the curriculum. If they practice from 2:45 to 5:00, eat for 30 minutes, homework from 5:30-9, there's still 2 hours before 11pm and 7 hours of sleep witha 6am wake up. Sports are their choice. On elective days, they can practice at 1:00 if they want. Tuesday and Thurs would be Art, Music, Shop, Athletics, Computers, Business, Drama, etc.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 06:32 PM) And really, when you get home from work at 5pm or so, what other work do you have to do? Maybe once in a while you have some work to take home, but for the most part your work is done for the day. I take it that you don't have a family?

There's not much difference between 7:30/7:45 and 7:00am. They all feel way too early.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 06:27 PM) Clubs/Activites/Sports keep them out of trouble, and with college admissions now if you plan to go they're are a must as you need them on your application to compete with other applicants. With those all those after school activities some kids wont finish until 8pm and with dinner, then homework some wont end up sleeping until 1 or 2 in the morning if not later. Making it almost impossibly to get up at 6-7. There can be exemptions for athletics and music students who do after school activities. The gym hour can slide to the last hour of the day and can be used as practice time.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 06:11 PM) Ugh. We always started at like 7:30 and that was just too bloody early, even given that I was coming in for practices before school. Your brain just doesn't wake up that easy when you're a kid. Now I have coffee to help with that. You could always just do it for juniors and seniors. A bit of college prep.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 06:18 PM) Don't know where you went to high school or for how long you went but i went from 7:50-2:50...that was long enough. Mine was 7:45 to 2:20, but if the day is longer, there's less of a chance for kids to get in trouble after school and more of a chance for teachers to actually teach.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 06:11 PM) Uhhh, what college did you go to? Classes are an hour long, thats similar to a usual high school class. Plus, college you may have up to 18 hours a week of class (maybe more with labs and such) but your class hours are very different from high school hours. I changed my thought. In high school, there's no time for learning because an hour is barely enough time to cover everything. Re: tired, go to bed like an adult and you won't be tired. If there's a longer day, there's a shorter year.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Feb 28, 2009 -> 04:49 PM) When I was in High school the end of the day I just stopped caring, adding 2 hours to that day would've really made me not care at the end. Don't say well thats how life is in the real world because you don't get paid to attend high school. It would be longer classes, and a longer day. It's like that in college. Mon-W-Fr can be English for 1 1/2 hr, Science for 2 hours, History for 1 1/2 hr, Math for 1 1/2 hours, 1 hr gym, two 15 minute breaks, 1 30 minute lunch. Tu-Th can be electives.