February 9th, 2006, 02:44 pm
At my high school the administrators started a new policy this year where everyonce in a while they do a hall sweep. Hall sweeps occur right after class has started (after the tardy bell). During a hall sweep, anyone who is still in the hall (late/tardy to class) goes to get lunch detention and a slip to let him/her into class.
Today at lunch I got caught in one of these. Right when it was time to head back to school after eating lunch I got a bloody nose. Of course I was late because I had to wait for my nose to stop bleeding. I went back to school, walked into class and the sbustitute teacher (I guess the real teacher was away, I really don’t know) asks me for my yellow slip. I didn’t have one and hearing yellow slip I knew a hall sweep had happened. I left the room and came home for various reasons which I’ll go over later. I had actually wanted to go to class today.
I’m don’t want lunch detetion because I had a bloody nose. I couldn’t control that. I probably could have told them thats why I was late and not have get lunch detention but I don’t like making excuses.
Like today if I have a legit reason for being late, I don’t want to get lunch detention. The other times I am late it is usually because I don’t want to go to class so I hang out in the hall. If a hall sweep is done at these times, its just an excuse for me to ditch class. If there wasn’t a hall sweep, I most likely would go to class, I’d be late but atleast I would be in class.
With hall sweeps, instead of being a couple minutes late, you have to go get a slip to get into class which makes to 10+ minutes late. In most of my classes, nothing is done in the first couple of minutes because the teacher is taking roll or getting things ready. The administrators are forcing me to miss even more class time than I normally would.
There is already a policy in place where if you get four for more tardies, you get a “U” in citizenship which needs to be made up before you can graduate. Teachers also already do bell quizzes and other things like that which you can only take if you are on time. There are plenty of ways to “punish” students who are late. In my opinion, the hall sweeps are an excuse to sluff.
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November 8th, 2005, 10:22 pm
At school I am taking a photography class which I have been scanning and uploading the pictures I have taken, developed, and printed in class. You can find those pictures here. I have different assignments like shutter speed, depth of field and things like that. Go ahead and comment on any of the pictures here. I should look into getting a picture album plugin or something like that for my blog.
Soon there will be a new relese of EasyMOD. No, this won’t be a release of the rewrite but a bug/feature release of the current codebase. We’ve had these new features committed in CVS for a while now and we decided to clean up some bugs and implement a couple new features to coincide with the release of phpBB 2.0.18 (which has been released and you should update immediately if you haven’t already!). A quick note about the rewrite, that is going along smoothly. Should be moving to a public CVS server soon so everyone can follow our progress 
Recently we, the phpBB MOD Team, were looking for new members. We have added Fountain of Apples as a validator to help out in the queue and MennoniteHobbit to help moderate the MOD forums and give support.
My cousin got World of Warcraft. It wouldn’t run on his computer (video card problems) so he brought it to my house so he could try it out. Since he can’t play it, he is letting me use his account. So far it has been a really fun game. I have enjoyed it and I am now addicted. If anyone has it, leave a comment or contact me in some way and we can play together.
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July 11th, 2005, 01:30 pm
I passed both the AP tests I took this year. I got a 3 on the US History test which I am happy I got. I wasn’t sure I was going to pass this one so it is a relief to find out that I did pass. I got a 5 on the BC Calculus test which I already knew I was going to get.
For those that don’t know, AP stands for Advanced Placement tests. They get you College credit while you are still in High School. The scoring is 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest. You need a 3 or higher to pass.
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May 25th, 2005, 09:54 am
deseretnews.com | Computer users at Y. spied on
Thats why you don’t use public computers when viewing private information.
One of my classes I have at a local Technology college instead of the highschool. At this college, the BIOS isn’t password protected and the user account that the teacher setup for me to use on the computer has administrative rights. I get the feeling these guys don’t know how to create a secure system. I could really cause a lot of damage or anyone else could.
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May 3rd, 2005, 05:27 pm
Today was the Calculus BC AP test. It wasn’t that bad although I forgot how to do some of the easier things. I felt like I will pass. I hope I do since I got a 5 on both the practice tests that we took in Class. For the readers that don’t know about AP tests, AP stands for Advanced Placement so they are harder classes. The highest you can get is a 5 and you have to get atleast a 3 to pass. AP tests are ways you can get university credit without going to a university.
Friday I take the United States History AP exam. I here this one is really hard and I am struggling with it. I really don’t feel like studying. We have take four practice tests and I have gotten three 2s and one 3. That one 3 I got was one point away from being a 2. I’m really worried that I’m not going to pass.
I have a couple of ideas for the new layout. One is a dark red and the other is a light peachy color. I may decide not to use those and go back to the old yellowish orange layout. We’ll see. It probably will be a while before I start to code it.
I am thinking about selling what I have done on XtroCMS and let someone else finish it. Thinking ahead, I don’t think I will have the time that will be required to provide support and update XtroCMS properly. If you know of anyone who would be interested, have them contact me.
<edit>XtroCMS has been sold. More information on this in a couple of weeks</edit>
I’ll be posting more later when what it involves has been made public.
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